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transmediale: Bonnie Honig “Embodying Refusal, from the Bacchae to The Fits”

Berlin, 29.01.2021, http://transmediale.de In this cinema and gender studies talk, Honig takes up elements from three movies (A.R.Holmer, C.Chaplin, L.v.Trier) to show how the body reacts with movements to being fixated by norms and violent gazes. Especially the female body. She sketches a historical arc from the Greek “Bakchantes” to contemporary incarnations of the same…

transmediale Marshall McLuhan Lecture: Jason Edward Lewis “Expansive, Embracing, Evolving: Looking Beyond Impoverished Intelligences”

Berlin, January 29, 2021, http://transmediale.de Lewis talked about computer game workshops he conducted with indigenous Hawaiians. He talked about the importance of creating one´s own questions and narratives, instead of accepting the generous help of caretakers, who unfortunately also impose their own worldviews in the caretaking process. He pleaded for a digital emancipation of indigenous…

Transmediale: Steve Kurtz, Johannes Paul Raether “Strange Ecologies: From Necropolitics to Reproductive Revolutions”

Berlin, 6pm-8pm, February 5, 2017, https://2017.transmediale.de Johannes Paul Raether was talking first. His artwork Protektor.x.x has been also part of the transmediale exhibition. All his thought seem to be channeled through the set of colorful clown-like alter ego performances, where he addresses the questions of gender and biotechnology. He talked about witches preventing a rationalization…

22nd ISEA2016 International Symposium on Electronic Arts

Hong Kong, May 16 – 22, 2016, http://isea2016.isea-international.org/ ISEA is a conference/symposium dedicated to electronic arts. Not an exhibition or festival, but still centered on the topic of art and creation in digital art. The main difference to “usual” art events has been a certain inward-orientation of the event which has not been advertised publicly…

World Script Symposia

Seoul, October 2015, Seoul, http://scriptsymposia.org This looked like an interesting event, and it could have been, if I was able to understand what actually was going on. Unfortunately most of the “World Script Symposium” consisted of Koreans talking about something in Korean that I did not understand.  There have also been some artistic interventions in…