keynote talk by Orit Halpern and Nelly Pinkrah at Terms of Media Conference at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna on Nov. 20th

In Terms of Media… 

On Data Materialism, Techno Poetics, Atmospheres of Conflict, and Planetary Interfaces 

Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab

Presented by The Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures

With its 2024 symposium, the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures continues its ongoing examination of the logics of digital cultures. The symposium takes on current debates and integrates them with(in) other fields of research, cultural practices, and the arts.

Our present is heavily influenced by machine learning processes, technological infrastructures, newly emerging data worlds as well as their material paradigms. In turn, this urges us to rethink the agency we are afforded as we navigate these techno-social systems and ecologies.

What are the conditions, potentials, and limits defining media environments and digital cultures today? What are the current conditions that technological agents produce and are produced by? And how do they relate to concepts such as data materialism, techno aesthetics and poetics, infrastructures of conflict, and planetary interfaces?
With a commitment to ongoing discourse, social and environmental matters, our discussions will explore how digital cultures are evolving beyond the limitations of current data-centric paradigms.

In line with the ‘Terms of Media’-project organised by Leuphana University & Brown University, the symposium aims to re-examine fundamental questions in media theory and history while integrating them in the interdisciplinary research conducted at the Weibel Institute.

Speakers: Asia Bazdyrieva, DeForrest Brown Jr, Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Steve Goodman/Kode9, Orit Halpern, Thomas Lamarre, Lukás Likavčan, Margarida Mendes, Elisa Giardina Papa, Luciana Parisi, Alex Quicho, Patricia Reed. Moderators: Clemens Apprich, Nelly Y. Pinkrah, Sophie Publig, Lisa Stuckey

Opening Event:
20 November 2024, 18:00
Live Performances Ghost in the Cog by Kenneth Constance Loe and Moritz Nahold (Subletvis) EXTC by Joanna Coleman and Martina Moro

Symposium:
21–22 Nov, 15:00–19:00

Performance: 21 Nov, 19:30
Live performance by Speaker Music (DeForrest Brown Jr.)

In addition to the symposium, the Weibel Institute will present the exhibition Data Doom Desire and performances.

The Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures is a space for intervention, investigation, and experimentation within the expansive disciplines of arts, science, and technologies. Based at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the institute critically engages digital and algorithmic cultures. Building on the rich heritage of Viennese investigations into cybernetics, net cultures, media art, and tactical media, the institute serves as a vital node within a global network of research institutions on digital cultures. (More info)

Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab (AIL) is an experimental space and a platform for projects at the intersection of art, science and artistic research, run by the University of Applied Arts Vienna. AIL is located in the Otto Wagner-Postsparkasse and home of Café Exchange (Free entry)

https://ail.angewandte.at/program/media-symposium