23.06.22 // Onlinestream
24 – 25.06.22 // Onlinestream und Vorort
NRW-Forum Düsseldorf
Ehrenhof 2, 40479 Düsseldorf
www.design-and-philosophy.com
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The conference »Improvisation, Ecology and Digital Technology« invites renowned artists and researchers to reflect together on the topic artistically and scientifically. The conference therefore includes both artistic and scientific contributions. The artistic contributions will include music, dance, sculpture, video art and sound art. The conference will focus on the artistic practice of improvisation, which can be considered a collective, emergent organizational process. The ecological, economic and technological crisis we are currently confronted with raises the urgent question of an alternative model of action. The conference will explore the question of whether improvisation can enable a new paradigm in dealing with technology, society and nature in the age of digitaliza- tion and AI. Can improvisation offer a practical and theoretical model that meets the challenges of the digital age and reinterprets human-machine interaction through the practice of improvisation? Can an ecological paradigm be derived from improvisation that can replace the classical concept of control and the dualism of mind and matter, technology and nature, subject and object, etc., with a new relationship? Is it possible to derive a new paradigm from improvisation that does not start from separation, exclusion and control, but from relation, inclu- sion and solidarity? New theoretical impulses from the fields of actor-network theory, new materialism, posthu- manism, cybernetics, organization theory, human computer interaction, etc. will be used to take a new look at improvisation research. Among other things, the focus will be on these topics:
• Agency in the improvisation
• Human-computer interaction
• Embodied and expanded cognition
• Concept of time in improvisation and digital technology – Improvisation as a social model
The confirmed speakers and artists are:
Hyun Kang Kim // Düsseldorf
Andrew Pickering // Exeter
Chris Chafe & Fernando Lopez-Lezcano &
Constantin Basica // Stanford
Marcel Cobussen // Leiden
Sara Ramshaw // Victoria
Daniel Martin Feige // Stuttgart
Markus Rautzenberg // Essen
Eric Lewis // Montreal
Miya Masaoka // New York
Paul Stapleton // Belfast
Max Eastley // London
Simon Rose, Ingo Reulecke, Federico Visi
und Nicola L. Hein // Berlin
Claudia Robles // Cologne
Claudia Schmitz // Berlin
Andrea Parkins // Berlin
Tomomi Adachi // Berlin
Christian Jendreiko // Düsseldorf
Suzanne Thorpe // New York
