Mikkel Rørbo
Mikkel Rørbo is an interdisciplinary researcher and, sometimes, artist and curator. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Peter Weibel Research Institute for Digital Cultures and holds degrees in philosophy and cultural studies from University of Copenhagen. His work focuses on the philosophical dimensions of living with machine intelligences and speculative methods for critical engagement with emerging technologies. As an artist and curator, he has performed, released and exhibited internationally as well as collaborated with institutions, festivals and art spaces. He has written about and presented work on technology, philosophy and contemporary experiments in music.
Contact
Office Hours: by Appointment
Email: mikkel.rorbo[at]uni-ak.ac.at
Showroom: Mikkel Rørbo
- title
- Digital Occultism
- type
- Symposium
- keywords
- Esotericism, Occultism, Digital Cultures, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Digital Arts
- texts
- Description
- In a post-vibe shift era where technology and esotericism converge, Digital Occultism explores the ways occult traditions permeate our understanding of the mediated technological present. The histories of both the occult and technology have long been intertwined, meddling with our political imaginaries and peddling knowledge from beyond. From the algorithmic depths of social media to the viral logic of memes, the language of the occult has become an unspoken grammar for interpreting technologies, politics, and culture in an era marked as post-truth. As final puzzle piece to the Digital Occultism class investigating how esoteric ideas and language resurface as both content and tools to navigate the contradictions of contemporary digital environments, the symposium combines presentations, lectures, a panel and a collborative session with Urbanomic on CCRU‘s Numogram. Doin it for the ’Gram: A Numogram Workshop in collaboration with Urbanomic Rediscovered by Ccru in at the terminus of the last century, today the Numogram circulates as a memetic token locked on to the vaguely occultural murkmare of a world that has finally caught up with it, in an age of epistemic breakdown, digital contagion, weird theory, schizoposting, and network spirituality. It is also the object of intensive nummological research, and continues to be employed as an instrument for divination and magic(k)al practice. With contributions from multiple perspectives, this hybrid irl/online workshop aims to plot out the numogram in its differential relations with the Western esoteric tradition, occultism, philosophy, mathematics, cybertheory, and more… Online participation for the Numogram session via Urbanomic’s Discord.
- Description
- 10:00-12:30h: Student presentations Anka Stieber Ronnie Danaher Pascal Stütz & Lukas Liszka Regina Fuchs Charlotte Kuoi Lisa-Maria Schmidt Chiara Kristler & Marcin Ratajczyk Eliška Jahelková Maximilian Marcus Mulholland-Licht Nicoletta Gulisek, Rubina Hellmich, Matthäus Jandl, Markus Leb 12:30-13:15h: Lunch break 13:15-14:30h: Presentations by S()fia Braga & Shaka McGlotten followed by discussion/Q&A with Mikkel Rørbo & Sophie Publig 14:30-15:00: Break 15:00-19:00: Numogram Session in collaboration with Urbanomic (stream via Urbanomic Discord) · 15:00: Lendl Barcelos, Amy Ireland: Counting for Meat Puppets · 15:45: Mer/Maggie Roberts (0(rphan)d(rift>): IIS Murmur Xes Katak Spl/ce: 0rphan Drift’s SYZYGY Demon Avatars · 16:30: Lucía Morales (Colectiva Tzitzimiyotl): General Numogrammatics: Retrospective of an Absent Field · 17.00: Workshop contributions · 17:45: Maya B. Kronic: Numogram vs Esotericism
- organisers/management
- Mikkel Rørbo, Sophie Publig, Maya B. Kronic, Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures, Amy Ireland, Urbanomic
- lecturers
- Mikkel Rørbo, Sophie Publig, S()fia Braga, Lendl Barcelos, Amy Ireland, Lucía Morales, Maggie Roberts, Maya B. Kronic, Anka Stieber, Shaka McGlotten, Ronnie Danaher, Pascal Stüz, Lukas Liszka, Regina Fuchs, Charlotte Kuoi, Lisa-Maria Schmidt, Chiara Kristler, Marcin Ratajczyk, Eliška Jahelková, Maximilian Marcus Mulholland-Licht
- date, time and location
- date
- 2025-06-10
- location
- Universität für angewandte Kunst in Wien, Wien, Österreich
- URL
- https://www.urbanomic.com/event/doin-it-for-the-gram/
