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Symposium: Bridging Bodies, Technology, Theory, and AI for Civic Resistance Studio EXPERIMENTAL GAME CULTURES A cooperation of EXPERIMENTAL GAME Cultures/ University of Applied Arts Vienna and Academy for Fine Arts Vienna, Studio for Post-conceptual Art Practices/IBK. In an increasingly digital and interconnected world, the intersection of bodies, technology, theory, and artificial intelligence (AI) presents an engaging and thought-provoking topic for a performative conference. This conference aims to explore the connections between these domains and delve into their transformative potential for contemporary societies. Additionally, it seeks to examine the power of civic resistance and the embodied fugitive intelligence of those made marginalized and outcast bodies, embracing how their resistance can align with new technologies and AI algorithms. This conference will bring together researchers, activists, artists to explore the convergence of bodies, technology, theory, and AI in the context of civic resistance. It will delve into the ways in which marginalized bodies, historically framed as disposable and outcast, have employed embodied fugitive resistance as a means to survive and effect change. This means that the relationship between body and gender through technology and super-digitalized machines can also be a thought-provoking area of discussion. (Grzinic and Jahrmann) This symposium is part of the LUDIC METHOD lecture series/book project. It is an emanation of the research projects Neuromatic Game Art: Critical Play with Neurointerfaces (FWF/PEEK) AR581 and Conviviality as Potentiality (2021-2025), funded by Austrian Science Fund FWF: AR 679. Speakers & Topics: Opening words by Univ.-Prof. Mag. phil. Eva Maria Stadler, head of Institute of Arts and Society at the Angewandte. Jill H. Casid (US) - Trembling the Necrocene Casid explores melancholy as an urgent praxis for negotiating abandonment in the Necrocene. Casid discusses the potential of antiphonic performance as a technology to convoke collectivities beyond identarian bounds and across earth, humanimal, and plant bodies. Elisabeth Bakambamba Tambwe (AT/DC) - The Body Beyond All Boundaries As one of the most influential performers in contemporary art, Tambwe takes the body beyond all boundaries, exploring identity, gender, and cultural heritage in her artistic practice. Her work focuses on the body as a site of expression, storytelling, and political resistance. Marina Gržinić (AT) - Convivial Drama in the Heart of Necropolitics Grzinic explores cinematic performative expressions that challenge necropolitics. It proposes filmmaking that creates spaces of resistance, critique, and alternative narratives against the framework of necropolitics. Margarete Jahrmann (AT) - LUDIC Bridging: Role Play, Roles & Gender Switching Jahrmann examines the creative potential of AI in the context of games and the possibilities of AI as a tool for artistic expression, storytelling, player activity, political activism, and role and gender.
