Marie Briese, Jasmin Höning and Andrew Erickson at the 5th TUDiSC joint conference ‘Disrupting Scientific Boundaries’

Three Research Associates of the Schaufler Kolleg@TU Dresden will give lectures on disruptions of science in the fields of society, art and activism as part of the 5th TUDiSC conference on September 25, 2024 at TU Dresden.

Fellow Marie Briese will give a lightning talk on the limits of activist science and the instrumentalisation of education by right-wing populists. She will discuss her own experiences, which show that right-wing populist actors use the Duden dictionary and the Bible to spread hostility towards science. She reveals the contradiction therein using the heuristics developed by the DFG Collaborative Research Centre 1472 at the University of Siegen.

In her lightning talk ‘Reframing Faces’, Jasmin Höning discusses the means by which artists criticise AI technologies, applications and their effects. A presentation of three strategies of disruptive criticism will show how AI art influences the reception of AI technologies and thus blurs supposedly existing boundaries between technology policy, art and activism.

Andrew Erickson will present in the ‘World Cafe’ on ‘The Science Fiction Fact of Dark Matter and/as Transformation.’ The talk will focus on W. E. B. Du Bois's 1920 short story “The Comet,” in which the main characters are able to survive the end of the world due to their proximity to the “dark matter” of blackness and are transformed through the experience. Erickson investigates this powerful but limited metaphor to highlight the disruptive potential of this recurring narrative in speculative fiction.

To the conference program