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[Commlist] Conference Hypernatural Forces

Thu May 18 22:20:44 GMT 2023





Hypernatural Forces Conference at NEW NOW Festival (Essen, 2 Jun 23)

Location: UNESCO World Heritage Site Zeche Zollverein, Essen, Germany, 02.06.2023

A conference on “Hypernatural Forces” will take place on June 2nd as a discursive element of NEW NOW Festival for digital arts.

Can the digital be considered a hypernatural force? How are digital technologies changing our understanding of nature? And what are the ecological effects of digitalisation? These questions are at the centre of the NEW NOW conference. Without computer models knowledge about the climate crisis would be limited. And with the help of artificial intelligence biological organisms can be recombined and speculative worlds created. Concurrently, digital technologies are increasingly criticised for their role in destroying ecosystems and exacerbating the climate crisis.

We want to discuss how the digital arts are exploring new natures and images of nature. Part of the conference is a symposium by the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (KWI) entitled “Digital Relations and New Environments”, which will analyse novel and unfinished processes of negotiation between humans, nature, and technology. A performative evening programme explores ‘hypernatures’ in artistic ways. The conference can be experienced both on site and as a livestream online and will be available with English and German translation.

10 – 13h Phase 1: Welcome to hypernature

We go in search of ‘hypernatures’ in the here and now. How do digital arts explore nature? Where do hypernatural phenomena show up in art, science and everyday life?

With Sam Balfus, diffrakt - zentrum für theoretische peripherie, Daniel Franke, Daniel Hengst, Eva Papamargariti, Sabrina Ratté, Lex Rütten and Jana Kerima Stolzer, Tabitha Swanson, Lyndsey Walsh

14 – 17h Phase 2: Digital relations and new environments (KWI Symposium)

We dive into the world of science. How does the relationship between forces of nature and machines reconfigure itself in the face of digital technology and a nature that has become speculative?

With Franziska Barth, Manischa Eichwalder, Mona Leinung, Markus Rautzenberg, Annette Urban, Manuel van der Veen; Curated and moderated by: Anja Schürmann, Kathrin Yacavone

17:30 – 20h Phase 3: The ends of exploitation

We are trying to imagine a digitalisation that breaks with the logic of exploitation of nature. What new relationships characterise life in ‘hypernature’?

With Geert Lovink, Felix Maschewski, Anna-Verena Nosthoff, Rafaël Rozendaal, Pınar Yoldaş, Hannah Wallenfels

20:00 – 22h Phase 4: Everything becomes, generated

We let ourselves be carried into the night by hypernatural images, sounds and movements.

With MONOM Studios, Total Refusal

Register here: https://newnow-festival.com/en/programm/konferenz <https://newnow-festival.com/en/programm/konferenz>


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