During the next summer term in 2019 artist Günter Seyfried will give a course on “Understanding Biomedia” (SE, 3 WST., 4 ECTS) in English that comes along with a lab class. The course will scrutinise the so-called biomedia in their constitutive artistic, technical, cultural, epistemological, and political dimensions. It will introduce and examine key approaches […]
On January 25, 2019 Ingeborg Reichle and Günter Seyfried will participate in a round table discussion about art and 21st century citizen science, invited by eutema – Technology Management in Vienna: Recently, programmes in the arts, in science, and to a limited extent in technology include actions targeting the interaction of artists with research projects. […]
On January 11, 2019 Ingeborg Reichle will contribute to the Open University Symposium „Art in Motion“ at the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe with a lecture on “New(Bio)Media Art: Speculating about the 21st Century Art Museum” as part of the exhibition “Art in Motion. 100 Masterpieces with and through Media”. The symposium takes the […]
On February 8, Ingeborg Reichle will present a keynote on art and science at the Biennial City and Science (Ciència i Ciutat) in Barcelona, Spain (February 7-11, 2019). The panel will host speakers like Marta de Menezes, Gunalan Nadarajan and Karin Ohlenschläger. It will focus on the fact that to talk about art and science […]
Am 15. Jänner wird der Kulturschaffende und Kurator Davis O. Nejo einen Vortrag halten über Afrika im Umbruch: Wie die Digitalisierung die Kunst verändert . Kunstkenner und Trendanalysten weltweit sind sich einig: Afrikanische Kunst ist angesagt wie nie zuvor. Internationale Messen ersten Ranges, etwa die Art Basel Miami Beach, haben den Puls der Zeit erkannt […]
On December 18, Tokyo-based Austrian artist Georg Tremmel (BCL; Laboratory of DNA Information Analysis / University of Tokyo; metaPhorest biological/biomedia art platform, Waseda University) will give at talk on „Dolly, Lulu and Nana: Or – Control and CRISPR in the human and in the machine” and will offer insights into the body of his current […]
On December 14, Ingeborg Reichle will present a paper on Designing the Molecular Self: New Media Ecologies and the Commodification of Life in a Bioscience-based Economy at the AIL symposium Applied Microperformativity: Live Arts for a Radical Socio-Economic Turn. The event will ask how does the agency of genes or cell fragments, proteins or enzymes, […]
Mid November Ingeborg Reichle and Günter Seyfried will join the international TTT2018 conference on Taboo – Transgression – Transcendence in Art & Science in Mexico City (November 11-13, 2018) and present papers at the conference. The third TTT conference will be hosted by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and the Centro de Cultura […]
Like in 2017, Günter Seyfried is also in 2018 invited to join the Community Biotechnology Initiative at MIT Media Lab in Boston, USA. The second annual Global Summit on Community Biotechnology running from October 26 till October 28, is providing a vital space for the global community of DIY biologists, community biologists, biohackers, biomakers and […]
On October 30, 2018, the department of Media Theory will host a workshop on The Molecular Self: The Artist’s Self-portrait in the Age of Genome Editing with Asimina Kaniari (Athens School of Fine Arts) and Frank Rösl (German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg): For centuries the art of portraiture concentrated above all on the face, a […]
