[aha] in/compatible Research – Workshop/Conference

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in/compatible Research – Workshop/Conference
November 16–18, 2011
Vilém Flusser Archive, Berlin University of the Arts (UdK)


International PhD workshop and conference, organised by the Digital 
Aesthetics Research Centre/Centre for Digital Urban Living (Aarhus 
University), in collaboration with the reSource for transmedial culture 
(transmediale festival, Berlin) and Vilém Flusser Archive, Universität 
der Künste, Berlin.

In the context of developing a platform for knowledge exchange, and 
research across the arts and sciences, transmediale and the Digital 
Aesthetics Research Centre/Centre for Digital Urban Living (Aarhus 
University) have established a partnership to foster new forms of 
collaborative peer-review and knowledge dissemination. Departing from 
the theme of the upcoming transmediale festival in 2012: in/compatible, 
a PhD workshop and conference is taking place on November 16–18, at the 
Vilém Flusser Archive, Universität der Künste, Berlin.

This event addresses the theme of the transmediale festival in a number 
of ways: in/compatible interfaces, in/compatible methods, and 
in/compatible markets, focusing on the unresolved tensions in-between 
different technologies, their cultures of production and use, as well as 
the tensions between different approaches to contemporary media culture. 
The PhD workshop and the conference will lead to a collaborative 
peer-reviewed publication presented as part of the programme of the 
festival in 2012.

The actual workshop is restricted to the PhD students selected from our 
Open Call last summer. However, the conference programme will be open to 
the public. Please note that seating is limited and the language for the 
three-day conference will be English.

Conference Participants: Christian Ulrik Andersen (dk), Tatiana 
Bazzichelli (it/de), Claudia  Becker (de), Morten Breinbjerg (dk), Geoff 
Cox (uk/dk), Kristoffer Gansing (se/de), Andrew Murphie (au), Jussi 
Parikka (fi), Søren Pold  (dk), Cornelia Sollfrank (de).

Keynotes: Tiziana Terranova (it), Siegfried Zielinski (de).

Artistic Interventions: Alberto de Campo (de), Dmytri Kleiner (ca/de) & 
the Telekommunisten Network.

PhD Workshop Participants: Cesar Baio (br/de), Zach Blas (usa), Jacob 
Gaboury (usa), Baruch  Gottlieb (ca/de), Ioana Jucan (ro/usa), Tero 
Karppi (fi), Thomas Bjoernsten Kristensen (dk), Magnus Lawrie (uk), 
Aymeric Mansoux (fr/nl), Rosa Menkman (nl), Gabriel Menotti Gonring 
(br/uk), Anne Popiel (usa/de), Morten Riis (dk), Lasse Scherffig (de), 
Matthias Tarasiewicz (at), Marie Thompson (uk), Nina Wenhart (at), 
Carolin Wiedemann (de).

Conference Programme:

Day 1 - Wednesday 16 Nov
in/compatible interfaces and methods
18.00–18.10 Tatiana Bazzichelli & Christian Ulrik Andersen – introduction
18.10–19.00 Keynote: Siegfried Zielinski, moderated by Kristoffer Gansing

Panel
What methods allow for the investigation of neglected histories and 
technologies? How to use the tensions between various approaches 
productively?

19.15¬–20.30  short presentations by Cornelia Sollfrank, Morten 
Breinbjerg, Jussi Parikka, Søren Pold/Christian Ulrik Andersen and 
moderated discussion by Claudia Becker.


Day 2 - Thursday 17 Nov
in/compatible methods and markets
18.30–18.40 introduction
18.40–19.30 Keynote: Tiziana Terranova, moderated by Geoff Cox

Panel
Knowledge production relates to different economical frameworks, but how 
to avoid the deadening forces of marketisation? Can this be 
reconceptualised outside the confines of financial capitalism?

19.45–20.45  short presentations by Andrew Murphie, Tatiana Bazzichelli, 
Søren Pold/Christian Ulrik Andersen, and moderated discussion by Geoff Cox.
20.45–21.00 transmediale statement - Kristoffer Gansing
21.15–late: open interventions and VJ performances by the workshop 
participants + bar


Day 3 - Friday 18 Nov
plenary session
15.00–17.00 What next? A common reflection on in/compatible research 
practices hosted by the reSource for transmedial culture and moderated 
by Tatiana Bazzichelli, with the participants of the programme and the 
public audience.


Ongoing artistic experiments:
::R15N:: (beta-test) by Dmytri Kleiner & the Telekommunisten Network
"Varia Zoosystematica Profundorum - Experimental studies in deep sea 
communication" by Alberto de Campo


More info:
http://darc.imv.au.dk/incompatible
http://www.transmediale.de/content/resource-incompatible-research-workshop-conference