[Commlist] Conference Hypernatural Forces

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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