SYMPOSIUM »PHAENOMENOTECHNIQUES«

In »The New Scientific Spirit« (1988), French philosopher of science Gaston Bachelard outlines a new method and concept for the formation of scientific knowledge, which he terms »phenomenotechnique«.

Thus, laboratory techniques, for instance, and technology produce new knowledge and become theorems in themselves; they form a precondition of knowledge acquisition. It is through technological experiments and their experiential surplus that new phenomena, in e. g. science, are disclosed – not merely by perception or observation.

In the arts – and in the visual arts in particular – Bachelard’s experimental technoscientific method of a »phenomenotechnique« has hardly been scrutinized and probed yet. In light of the current interest in artistic research and the material turn in art theory and beyond, in which more than often art and science are interrelated, Bachelard’s dynamic concept and methodology discloses new poetic configurations of knowledge.

This symposium has been organized by Rania Gafaar, a former fellow of the Akademie Schloss Solitude’s art, science & business program. It will elaborate on Bachelard’s poetic as well as technoscientific reflections and experimental theory in contemporary media theory, the visual arts and philosophy.

Speakers:

Keynote: Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin

Prof. Dr. Marie-Luise Angerer, Academy of Media Arts Cologne
Prof. Dr. Elke Bippus, Zurich University of the Arts

Prof. Dr. Kathrin Busch, Berlin University of the Arts
Rohini Devasher, artist, Glasgow/Delhi
Prof. Dr. Knut Ebeling, weißensee kunsthochschule berlin
Dr. Marc Jongen, University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe
Prof. Isaac Julien, London, University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe (tbc)
Angela Melitopoulos, artist, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Erhard Schüttpelz, University of Siegen
Dr. Katrin Solhdju, ZfL, Berlin (tbc)  

Program:

Friday, October 18, HfG, Großes Studio

2 pm:  Reception/introduction (Rania Gaafar / Sophie-Charlotte Thieroff)

2.20 pm: MARC JONGEN (KARLSRUHE), Surrationalismus und Hyperimagination. Zur Forschungskompetenz von Kunst (Surrationalism and Hyper Imagination. On the Research Expertise of Art)
3.10 pm:  ERHARD SCHÜTTPELZ (SIEGEN), Der Ort der Geschicklichkeiten (skills) (The Place of Skills) 
4 pm:  Break

4.15 pm: ROHINI DEVASHER (GLASGOW/DELHI), Strange Loops – Explorations in Complexity, Emergence and Morphology
5.10 pm:  HANS-JÖRG RHEINBERGER (BERLIN), Infra-Experimentalität (Infra-experimentality)

6.10 pm:  Film Screening ASSEMBLAGE (Angela Melitopoulos, Maurizio Lazzarato)
7 pm:  ANGELA MELITOPOULOS (Berlin), Assemblages – Félix Guattari and the Concept of »Machinic Animism«

Saturday, October 19, HfG, Großes Studio (Ground Floor)

9.30 am: MARIE LUISE ANGERER (COLOGNE), Vom zupackenden Griff auf die Welt. Situated Knowledge and Embodiment (Grasping the World. Situated Knowledge and Embodiment)
10.20 am: KATHRIN BUSCH (BERLIN), Vom Dunklen (On the Dark)
11.10 am: Break
11.30 am:  KNUT EBELING (BERLIN), Die Ekstase der malenden Hand (The Ecstasy of the Painting Hand)

12.20 pm:  KATRIN SOLHDJU (BERLIN), »Wahrheit passiert«. Fabulative Arbeit am Phänomen (»Truth Happens«. Fabulative Work on the Phenomenon)
1.10  pm: Break
2.30 pm: ELKE BIPPUS (ZURICH), Poiesis des Forschens: Beschreiben, Bestimmen, Konfigurieren. Reflexionen des Forschungsprojekts TBDWBAJ (Poiesis of Research: Writing, Determining, Configuring. Reflections on the Research Project: TBDWBAJ)
3.20 pm: N.N.

The symposium takes place at Karlsruhe University of the Arts (HfG) 
Lorenzstr. 15
76135 Karlsruhe
Großes Studio (Ground Floor)

Please register for the symposium with Patrick Ritter until October 10, 2013
par@akademie-solitude.de, +49 (0)711 99619134

Free entry!