The book MEDIA: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry ed. by Janet Wasko and Jeremy Swartz with the University of Chicago Press: Chicago 2021, explores evolving definitions of media and interrogates how media technologies are transforming media theory and practice. The collection addresses the emerging roles of media across a wide range of disciplines, featuring contributions from an […]
From September 2, 2020 till Novermber 1, 2020 Ljubljana’s City Art Gallery will show the bioart group exhibition LIVING OBJECT, curated by Alenka Trebušak. Artists presented at the exhibition are Špela Petrič, Maja Smrekar, Saša Spačal, Robertina Šebjanič, and Polona Tratnik: As modern technologies penetrate all pores of life, societies and cultures, the consequences of […]
In the context of this year’s Berlin-based re:publica festival, which is coming along with a new hybrid format called #rpCampus, Ingeborg Reichle will be talking on September 23, 2020 with Mexican Philosopher María Antonia González Valerio about the production of maize and GMOs in Mexico and how this problem has been critically addressed in Biotech […]
For more than three decades artists and designers have been responding in most diverse and innovative ways to how we will eat tomorrow. Our current dominant food system is based, to a large extent, on the growth of modern agribusiness – with disastrous effects. It is estimated that agribusiness, as one of the world’s largest […]
Am 17. September 2020 wird Ingeborg Reichle im Kontext des interdisziplinären Workshops Die Gegenwärtigkeit der Urzeit: Bilder und Visionen prähistorischen Lebens vom 19. bis ins frühe 20. Jahrhundert an der Universität Basel (CH) über die Rezeption prähistorischer Kunst in der Kunsttheorie um 1900 sprechen. Die Veranstaltung wird von Brigitte Röder (Universität Basel) und Jutta Teutenberg […]
On this year’s Ars Electronica festival the project Fermenting Futures will be presented: Fermenting Futures is an art and science project developed by the Institute for Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnology at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), and conducted in collaboration with the Department as outreach for arts-based research. The project […]
On September 10, 2020 Ingeborg Reichle will talk with BOKU scientist Michael Sauer and Slovenian bioartist Robertina Šebjanič about plastic pollution in our oceans at Ars Electronica, Meet the S+T+ARTS Community: Art & Science Collaborations: When artists, scientists and scientific research institutions join forces on collaborative projects, the collision of methods often leads to new […]
During the Winter term in 2020/21 artist Günter Seyfried will again offer the course “Understanding Biomedia” (SE, 2 WST., 4 ECTS), which is coming along with hands-on lab experiences. Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic the modalities of the seminar and the hands-on experiences will be adapted to safety regulations, if needed. Please see base […]
ArtSci PARTICLES are interviews by US-American media artist Victoria Vesna (UCLA) with members of the UCLA concentric network. In this episode (no 18) the community is joined by María Antonia González Valerio a Mexican philosopher and professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), who invites us to take a closer look at and […]
West cost LASER Talk on Online Art for the Age of Plague will bring together on June 25, 2020 four scholars to reflect on the consequences of COVID-19 for contemporary art: Piero Scaruffi will talk with Jiabao Li, Alex Reben and Craig Hobbs. Jiabao Li is a well known media artist who graduated from Harvard […]
