In Terms of Media...

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With its 2024 symposium, the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures continues its ongoing examination of the logics of digital cultures. The symposium takes on current debates and integrates them with(in) other fields of research, cultural practices, and the arts. Our present is heavily influenced by machine learning processes, technological infrastructures, newly emerging data worlds as well as their material paradigms. In turn, this urges us to rethink the agency we are afforded as we navigate these techno-social systems and ecologies. What are the conditions, potentials, and limits defining media environments and digital cultures today? What are the current conditions that technological agents produce and are produced by? And how do they relate to concepts such as data materialism, techno aesthetics and poetics, infrastructures of conflict, and planetary interfaces? With a commitment to ongoing discourse, social and environmental matters, our discussions will explore how digital cultures are evolving beyond the limitations of current data-centric paradigms. In line with the ‘Terms of Media’-project organised by Leuphana University & Brown University, the symposium aims to re-examine fundamental questions in media theory and history while integrating them in the interdisciplinary research conducted at the Weibel Institute. Symposium Program: 21–22 Nov, 15:00–19:00 Opening: 20 Nov, 18:00 Wednesday 18:00 Welcome w/ Clemens Apprich 19:00—19:30 Live Performance: Ghost in the Cog w/ Kenneth Constance Loe/Moritz Nahold (Subletvis) 20:00—21:00 Live Performance: EXTC w/ Joanna Coleman/Martina Moro Thursday Techno-Poetics (15:00—16:30) 15:00—15:15 Budhaditya Chattopadhyay 15:15—15:30 DeForrest Brown Jr. 15:30—15:45 Margarida Mendes 15:45—16:30 Q&A moderated by Nelly Y. Pinkrah Data Materialism (17:00—18:30) 17:00—17:15 Orit Halpern 17:15—17:30 Elisa Giardina Papa 17:30—17:45 Luciana Parisi 17:45—18:30 Q&A moderated by Clemens Apprich 19:30—20:30 Performance w/ Speaker Music Friday Planetary Interfaces (15:00—16:30) 15:00—15:15 Thomas Lamarre 15:15—15:30 Patricia Reed 15:30—15:45 Lukáš Likavčan 15:45—16:30 Q&A moderated by Sophie Publig Atmospheres of Conflict (17:00—18:30) 17:00—17:15 Alex Quicho 17:15—17:30 Steve Goodman 17:30—17:45 Asia Bazdyrieva 17:45—18:30 Q&A moderated by Lisa Stuckey

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