Program

Performing Transformation: Shifting Landscape in Art, Science, and Technology

Conference at the TU Dresden

Andreas-Pfitzmann-Bau, Nöthnitzer Str. 46, 01187 Dresden

The detailed program with abstracts and information on the artistic showings can be found here.

Sept 29, 2025, Monday

10:30-11:00 Welcome and Introduction (E023)
Introduction: Özgün Eylül İşcen
Words of Welcome: Orit Halpern, Moritz Ingwersen, Christian Prunitsch, Kirsten Vincenz
Organizational Notes: Clara Jacobi

11:00-12:00 Artist Talk (E023) "Skeletal Images of a Vegetal Body: On Nuclear Afterlife" by Susanne Kriemann
Moderation: Gwendolin Kremer

12:00-13:00 Lunch on Site (E08)

13:00-14:30 Parallel Panel Sessions
1- Performing Encounters: Science, Arts, & Public Engagement in Saxony (E023)
* In German
New Large Landscape Theater - Shiftings and Landings (Julia Gabler & Stefan Nolte)
How to work in public space with municipalities/communities through participation in transformation processes? An Approach from Artistic Practice and Participatory Research (Nica Junker) 
Pop-up Science for the Innovative Transfer between Administration and Society (Arne Petersen, Anne Heinze, and Oliver Jokisch)
Moderation: Lucas von Ramin

2- Performing Art-Science at the Limits of Ecological Uncertainty (E05)
Performing Ecological Thought: The Artist as Adventurer (Michael Klipphahn-Karge)
We are Your Primates (Emanuel Mathias) andSpeculative Performativity in Algae-Based Art-Science Installations (Emre Sünter)
Moderation: Robert Fischer

14:30-15:00 Coffee Break

15:00-16:15 Parallel Workshop Sessions
1- Transformation | A Collaborative Artistic Exploration of the Coal, Solar Power and Hydrogen Transition in Hamburg-Moorburg (E023)
(Screening and discussion led by Axel Dürkop, Vlatko Kučan, Leonie Sens)

2- Beyond the Human Hand - Robotic Painting and Posthuman (Re-)Embodiment (E05) (Applied workshop led by Yvonne Förster & Liat Grayver)

16:15-16:45 Coffee Break (E08)

16:45-18:00 Panel Session - Performing Transmedial Histories in Germany's Post-Industrial Landscapes (E023)
The Field as Method: Artistic-Scientific Experiments in Post-Industrial Spaces ( Michaela Büsse) and Researching Radio Mende by Fragmente & Frequenzen (Ronja Sommer and Robert Schmock) in conversation with Su Yu Hsin
Moderation: Nelly Saibel

17:30-18:00 Performative Lecture "✨ THE SPECTACULAR TURN ✨ - or - Academics 🧐 vs The Spectacle! 🤩 Who's Winning?!" by Gabriel S Moses (E05)

18:00-18:30 Break with Refreshments (E08)

18:30-20:00 Keynote Lecture (E023) "Counterhegemonic Epistemology of Speculative Relations in the Ruins of Extractive Modernity" by Antonia Majaca
Moderation: Özgün Eylül İşcen

Sept 30, 2025, Tuesday

9:00-12:00 Parallel Workshop Sessions *in German & English; with pre-registration
1- Susanne Kriemann site-specific workshop "Skeletal Images of a Vegetal Body: On Nuclear Afterlife" with Bernd Richter at Coschütz-Gittersee

2- Detlef Schweiger workshop with Tobias Antrack "Silberscheiben im Wandel - Wissenschaft trifft Kunst" at Andreas-Pfitzmann-Bau (E23 & E07)

12:00-13:00 Lunch at Alte Mensa

13:00-14:00 Parallel Sessions: Meet the Artists
1- Performing Earth, Space, Planetary (Görges-Bau)
Exhibition Visit "Celestial Classrooms" with Sophie Lindner
Performing Lecture "Supraspectives - Orbiting Powers on Stage" by Quadrature (Juliane Götz & Sebastian Neitsch) 

2- Ongoing Showing in Andreas-Pfitzmann-Bau with artists on site
Screenings: Carolin Melia Brendel, Su Yu Hsin, Monika Huber, Philipp Schmitt
Posters: Martin Kriemann, Stephanie Freide, Petra Mattheis
Interactive Installations: Małgorzata Łuczyna & Jacek Złoczowski, CIDS Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Sciences , Against Catastrophe

14:00-14:30 Coffee Break (E08)

14:30-16:00 Parallel Panel Sessions
1- Performing Deep Times of Image and Archive (E05) * In English & German
Convenient Truths: Photography and the Performativity of (Social) Reality in the Post-Factual Era (Kata Katz) and Hypervisual Historical Knowledge: AI-Generated Social Media Content as a Challenge for Digital Public History (Roman Smirnov) in conversation with Monika Huber; Moderation and Discussion: Till Ansgar Baumhauer

2- Metabolic entanglements and performativities of Technology (E023)
Deep Time Relations of Arts, Sciences and Technologies: Transcultural, Diachronic and Interdisciplinary Manifestations of 'Indra's Net' (Isabel Seliger) and Vaginal cycle (un)written: Microbiome as Method and Metaphor (Mehrta Shirzadian) in conversation with Carolin Melia Brendel & Philipp Schmitt
Moderation: Clara Jacobi

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break (E08)

16:30-17:30 Roundtable (E023) "Art is not a Soft Drink" with S+T+ARTS Residency Artists: Johanna Bruckner, Carolyn Kirschner, Theda Nilsson-Eicke in conversation with Pauline Hohn and Gwendolin Kremer

17:30-18:00 Break with Refreshments

18:00-19:00 Film Screening and Q&A (E023): Approximation in the Digital Age to a Humanity Condemned to Disappear (2014-2015) with Mario Pfeifer, Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden 2025