thursday, january 10
8 – 9:30 pm, auditorium
10 – 11 pm, auditorium
VISUAL POSITIONS
IS THE ANTHROPOCENE … A COSMOLOGY?
presentations by Harun Farocki (filmmaker and artist, Berlin) Gloria Meynen (Lehrstuhl für Medientheorie & Kulturgeschichte, Zeppelin Universität Friedrichshafen) and smudge studio: Elizabeth Ellsworth (School of Media Studies, The New School, New York) and Jamie Kruse (artist and designer, New York); moderation: Karin Harrasser (Institut für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften, Kunsthochschule für Medien, Köln) visual positions presents three interrelated positions, each critically approaching the significant role images and visual representations play in our world-forming processes. Harun Farocki shows and discusses his film Parallele (2012), an investigation into the representation of nature within digital animation, documenting reality-effects and the evolutionary history of a “virtual” second nature. Media theorist Gloria Meynen presents her ongoing research on the image-worlds scientific representations are historically based on, examining geometric, cartographic and artistic practices. smudge studio, a collaboration between Elizabeth Ellsworth and Jamie Kruse, contributes with a transdisciplinary approach to encounters between the human and the geologic, sharing a multimedia-based inquiry into sites situated in “deep time,” moments that may provide new perspectives to the complex terrain of contemporary geo-culture.
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dialogue between John Tresch (Department of History and Sociology of Science at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia) and Jan Zalasiewicz (Department of Geology, University of Leicester); introduction: Cecelia Watson (Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin) Cosmologies explain how the world was created, what order keeps it intact, and how it will all come to an end. The Anthropocene, earth scientists argue, is the age when we create the earth. Does the idea of the Anthropocene blur the boundaries between “facts” and “fiction” within our modern routines of scientific explanation? With what “cosmic” practices and materials do we maintain the order of our world? To what extent does the Anthropocene influence our beliefs, values, and principles? Is it a cult of planetary elites, a naturalization of religion, or a mythology of the anthropos? 11 – 11:30 pm, foyer
METABOLIC KITCHEN: TIME TO CLEAN culinary intervention by raumlaborberlin
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