Talk by Prof. Orit Halpern on March 20th at Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte: Black Hole | Black Box: Limits, Opacity, and the Unknown Across Art, Science, and Media

Black Hole | Black Box: Limits, Opacity, and the Unknown Across Art, Science, and Media

Conference

• Public event without registration
• Beginn: 19.03.2026 13:30
• Ende: 20.03.2026 18:00
• Vortragende(r): Conference
• Ort: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
• Kontakt: 
• This conference examines limits, opacity, and the unknown by bringing together two notions from very different domains: the black hole of astrophysics, where empirical and theoretical boundaries are reached, and the black box of computation and technology, whose inner workings are inaccessible even as they produce observable effects. Rather than treating them simply as objects of absence, the conference approaches black holes and black boxes as conceptual, aesthetic, and methodological frameworks for exploring what is partly unseeable, partly generative, and always challenging the thresholds of knowledge and perception. By juxtaposing perspectives from art, media, and science, we want to investigate how these frameworks allow us to study, imagine, and engage with phenomena that elude us.

Please follow the event also online through the platform ZOOM :

20.03.2026 https://eu02web.zoom-x.de/j/67042030958?pwd=jRXF7TnOfuQPeSQnPX3UeoOCeRO7iQ.1

Friday, 20 March 2025

10:45 – 11:15 Orit Halpern (Dresden University of Technology, online), The Planetary Experiment

More details