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The PhD dissertation takes art as enactments of different theories of materialism – both new materialism(s) and historical materialism, to provide conceptual tools through which both material agents and socio-political processes could be understood in emergent, relational and dynamic ways. The dissertation examines the politics of language and how the materiality of language could transgress political boundaries by focusing on Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s works. The problematisation of language as a signifier continues with bioart works engaging with DNA technology from Paul Vanouse and Spiess/Strecker, which also challenge organic death and the capture of life under necropolitics with hypernature. This is followed by an analysis of Geumhyung Jeong’s choreographic works with machines, which highlight the relational co-emergence with the man-machine assemblage. The dissertation ends with Ho Tzu Nyen and Royce Ng’s transhistorical works on Southeast and East Asian modernity, with the figures of the tiger and the vampire embodying the free flow of desire in capitalism. Traversing different histories and geographies while interweaving diverse topics including animism, technology, colonialism and Confucianism, the core question remains the same throughout the dissertation: to locate the agency in the material and the (in)dividual bodies.
This text was performed at Royal College of Art, Visual Cultures Lecture Series: Entanglement
Research Group. 25 January 2018 | 6.30pm – 9pm with Leo Costner / Amir George / Manu
Luksch / Martin Reinhart / UBERMORGEN. Organised by: Johnny Golding, Aura Satz, Margarita
Gluzberg and Nigel Rolfe.
The Lecture is based on a Invocation by UBERMORGEN, held at HKW Berlin for the ‘1948
Unbound’ Conference, Nov 30–Dec 2, 2017, Switches Discursive installation, Thursday, Nov 30,
7 pm, with Morehshin Allahyari, Marie-Luise Angerer, Elie Ayache, Anna Echterhölter, Thomas
Feuerstein, Alexander R. Galloway, Johnny Golding, Orit Halpern, Marian Kaiser, Giuseppe
Longo, Gerald Nestler, Julian Oliver, Sophia Roosth, Sarah Sharma, Felix Stalder,
UBERMORGEN
During its long history from antique hand-operated instruments to modern information processing automata the notion of the machine has several times received a shift in meaning. Today the concept of the machine has completely lost its attachment to any concrete material and is instead characterized by its functional behavior. Symbolic machines, i.e. the mathematical idea to mechanically operate with symbols, became a fundamental skill in many different scientific disciplines. In this paper we take a look on synthetic biology from the computational point of view and especially address the question whether it will once more challenge the notion of the machine. One obvious consequence of future biotechnologies is that we cannot any longer draw a strict line between technique and life. In the past machines did not assemble, maintain and reproduce themselves, they had to be fabricated by man and required human monitoring and directing. Through the technical use of biological processes this hallmark of the living becomes untenable. Self-strategies and especially self-referential functional descriptions like self-assembly, self-reproduction, and self-modification are at the center of the convergence of the natural and the artificial. Conversely the adoption of life-like qualities by technical artifacts will also challenge our image of life and organisms and our understanding of what aliveness could mean.
The Myth of Media Art
(2007)
The Myth of Media Art: the aesthetics of the techno/imaginary and an art theory of virtual realities.
"The Myth of Media Art" deals with key issues of contemporary media art. In the second part of the book, "Media Contexts: Key Topics, Arguments, Examples", art-related fields and significant media issues illustrate the inter-relationship between poetic creation and labor, and artistic practice and economy. Furthermore, the book provides an analysis of fragmentation and totality as diametric poles of a utopian renewal of art, as well as prospects of a media Mannerism, i.e., a renewal of art developed to a meta-level awareness of form in the era of advanced media machines. The book concludes with a careful examination of several works by important artists.
This PhD dissertation addresses the open and collaborative mode of production in software. Specifically, it examines how various practices in the software culture have evolved and their relevance in the construct of the network society. It begins with a philosophical discussion in which a modern philosophy of technology points to technology as a system of thought and software as a technical culture. Not unlike the open and collaborative mode of production, software is source of metaphors. Upon these foundations, it undertakes the evolution of open practices from a historical and structural position. The historical account follows the premise that open collaborative practices of software precede the well-known Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS). It presents some examples, first, related to the history of software and then to computer networks to track the motives and transformation of the open collaboration metaphor. The structural approach presents
modern open collaboration in software as the result of a sociotechnical network composed of actants (node/artifacts), executed, in turn, by a collective made up of a human community and technical developments, in which textual machines for coding and communication are highlighted. Finally, the conclusion posits the findings and three modes of agency in software (algorithmic, interactive, and distributive). It also and suggests hybridization as the means to overcomes some shortcomings of the software open metaphor rhetoric.
Diese Dissertation befasst sich mit der offenen und kollaborativen Produktionsweise von Software. Insbesondere wird untersucht, wie sich verschiedene Praktiken in der Softwarekultur entwickelt haben und welche Bedeutung sie im Konstrukt der Netzwerkgesellschaft haben. Es beginnt mit einer philosophischen Diskussion, in der eine moderne Technikphilosophie auf Technik als Denksystem und Software als technische Kultur hinweist. Nicht anders als die offene und kollaborative Produktionsweise ist Software eine Quelle von Metaphern. Auf diesen Grundlagen wird die Entwicklung offener Praktiken aus einer historischen und strukturellen Position betrachtet. Die historische Darstellung folgt der Prämisse, dass offene kollaborative Praktiken von Software der bekannten Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) vorausgehen. Es werden einige Beispiele vorgestellt, die sich zunächst auf die Geschichte der Software und dann auf Computernetzwerke beziehen, um die Motive und den Wandel der Metapher der offenen Zusammenarbeit zu verfolgen. Der strukturelle Ansatz stellt die moderne offene Kollaboration in Software als Ergebnis eines soziotechnischen Netzwerks dar, das aus Actants (Knoten/Artefakten) besteht, die wiederum von einem Kollektiv ausgeführt werden, das aus einer menschlichen Gemeinschaft und technischen Entwicklungen besteht, wobei textuelle Maschinen zur Codierung und Kommunikation hervorgehoben werden. Abschließend werden in der Schlussfolgerung die Erkenntnisse und drei Modi von Agency in Software (algorithmisch, interaktiv und distributiv) dargestellt. Außerdem wird die Hybridisierung als Mittel zur Überwindung einiger Unzulänglichkeiten der Rhetorik der offenen Software-Metapher angezeigt.
IN THE MAKING
(2022)
In the Making is an interim report on a series of ongoing dissertation projects at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. The essays and experiments presented by nine doctoral candidates all deal with various questions of poiesis, that is, the forms of knowledge that become active when we make, create, invent, or produce something. While the authors come from different artistic creative fields, their questions and topics reach deep into various scientific disciplines. This book offers a closer look at this transdisciplinary nexus and its cultural implications.
Authors:
Tobias Bieseke, Konstantin Butz, Christian Heck, Karin Lingnau, Steffen Mitschelen, Zahra Mohammadganjee, Tiago Ive Rubini, Christian Rust, Somayyeh Shahhoseiny, Georg Trogemann, Natalie Weinmann