Liebe Freunde und Kolleginnen,
Hiermit möchte ich Euch alle sehr herzlich zu unserer nächsten Veranstaltung nach Den Haag einladen:
NEW EMERGENCES is proud to present event no.19 >>>>>>>>>
Power Tools > engineering [as] empowerment
In
2016, media art historian and curator Andreas Broeckmann published his
book "Machine Art in the 20th Century", an investigation of artists'
engagement with technical systems, tracing art historical lineages that
connect works of different periods (MIT Press, 2016). Andreas
Broeckmann was surprised to find comparatively few female machine
artists and raised the question how it was possible that relatively few
women were prominently present in the field.
A lecture and
discussion event about how artists relate to 'machines', and the powers
at play in the intricate world of technology and system design. Can we
learn from the way artists build, use and destroy machines? While the
'canon' is continuously being re-written to include forgotten female
scientists, inventors and artists, we want to ask how critical
engagement with new technologies can reveal existing power structures
and whether the act of engineering itself might be a tool to overcome
systemic oppression.
With lectures by Andreas Broeckmann and
Elisabeth Schimana. They will be joined on the panel by Byrke Lou and
Rebekah Wilson. The audience is explicitly invited to participate in the
discussion which will be moderated by Andrea Reyes Elizondo.
Sunday, September 29, 2019 at 15:00 – 18:00
iii Workspace – Willem Dreespark 312, 2531SX, The Hague, Netherlands
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+ Andreas Broeckmann (DE)
Andreas Broeckmann is an art historian and curator who lives in Berlin.
Currently Visiting Professor for Art History and Media Theory at the
Academy of Fine Arts, Leipzig (HGB - Hochschule für Grafik und
Buchkunst, 2017-2020) and engaged in the research and documentation
project, Les Immateriaux Research. From 2011-2016 he directed the
Leuphana Arts Program of Leuphana University Lüneburg. He was the
Founding Director of the Dortmunder U - Centre for Art and Creativity
(2009-2011) and has curated exhibitions and festivals in major European
venues, incl. transmediale and ISEA2010 RUHR. He holds a PhD in Art
History from the University of East Anglia, Norwich/UK, and lectures
internationally about the history of modern art, media theory, machine
aesthetics, and digital culture. He is the author of "MACHINE ART IN THE
TWENTIETH CENTURY" (MIT-Press, 2016).
http://www.mikro.in-berlin.dehttps://mitpress.mit.edu/books/machine-art-twentieth-century
+ Elisabeth Schimana (AT)
Since the 1980s the musician and composer Elisabeth Schimana has been
active as one of the Austrian female pioneers of electronic music with
projects marked by a radical approach and equally unconventional
aesthetics.
After completing vocal training, she earned degrees in
composition, computer music, musicology, and ethnology. She has worked
intensively with the theremin in Moscow and with the Max
Brand Synthesizer in Vienna. Not only has she created countless radio
works in cooperation with ORF Kunstradio but numerous sound
installations and interdisciplinary and performative projects as well.
Her concepts for experimental set-ups fathom the social field and put to
the test new ways of interacting musically on the Internet.
In
her artistic work, Schimana examines questions of space, communication,
or the body in its presence or absence, especially the imparting of
compositional concepts (scores), which gives rise to completely new
approaches that experimentally explore how we hear and demand a
heightened musical presence on the part of the performer.
Her
probing approach also led her to found the IMA Institute of Media
Archeology, which has dedicated itself to acoustic media at the
analogue/digital interface and to the subject of women, art, and
technology since 2005. In this capacity Elise Schimana initiated
publications such the bilingual book and online resource "Zauberhafte
Klangmaschinen", an overview of revolutionary, commercially forgotten
and successful, music machines (Schott, 2008) and her most recent
book "HIDDEN ALLIANCES – versteckt verbunden" (Hatje Cantz, 2019) about
20 female artists in the world of electronic and experimental music.
https://elise.at/elise/en
https://ima.or.at/en/
+ Byrke Lou (DE)
"For
me it all started with a curiosity for mathematics, technology and
computers. I was especially fascinated with cryptography and space
travel. I realized, if I wanted to participate in creating the future I
had to learn how computers and the internet worked and how to program
and build machines. This lead me to study physics. When studying
statistical mechanics, I was fascinated by the principle of
“universality”, which says some properties of systems can be
largely independent of their underlying structure. Thats why, in my
advanced studies, I specialized in the theoretical physics’ discipline
of complex systems."
Byrke Lou produces artistic experiences of
fundamental scientific questions. She is an expert on VR (virtual
reality), AR (augmented reality), XR (mixed reality) and AI (artificial
intelligence). Her works consist of visual art, new media art,
electronic music, dance and instruments that she designs. Byrke is based
in Berlin. She speaks six natural languages and 10+ programming
languages. Her recent album "CODE" (2019) was published on vinyl by
Research and Waves and ZCKR Records.
http://byrkelou.com/
https://researchandwaves.net/raw03.html
+ Rebekah Wilson aka Netochka Nezvanova (NZ/NL)
Rebekah
Wilson (New Zealand) studied music and taught herself computer
technology. From 2001-2003 she was Artistic Co-Director at STEIM,
Amsterdam, where her passions for music, performance and technology
became fused. Since 2004 she has been co-founder and technology director
for Chicago’s Source Elements, providing networked services for the
digital sound industry while performing and lecturing in many
international venues and festivals. Recently completing her masters in
the nascent field of networked music performance at NZSM, she has
returned to Amsterdam where she continues her work today in
dis-entangling / re-interlacing her many technical, musical
and cinematic threads.
https://ima.or.at/en/rebekah-wilson-aka-netochka-nezvanova/
https://source-elements.com/
+ Andrea Reyes Elizondo (MX/NL)
Andrea
(Mexico, the Netherlands) is a researcher and book historian based at
the University of Leiden where she works for two faculties. At Social
Sciences she carries out research on the output of scientific systems as
well as working on European projects that centre on research integrity.
At the Humanities faculty she carries out her doctoral research on
reconstructing historical possibilities of reading, by considering the
activity as a cultural technique with its particular affordances. Her
background on communication sciences as well as both of her research
lines touch upon the subjects of technologies and tools, their implied
neutrality, and their consequences both for individuals and society at
large. Andrea is member of the Huizinga Institute (the Dutch research
network for Cultural History) and co-chair of the Nederlandse
Boekhistorische Vereniging (the Dutch Book Historians Association).
https://www.leidenartsinsocietyblog.nl/contributors/andrea-reyes-elizondo
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The lectures and the discussion will take place in English.
tickets: € 5–10 sliding scale
stichting
new emergences has a limited amount of sponsored tickets available for
anyone with limited financial resources. For more information please
send an email to Anne Wellmer, your host for this event {anne
AT newemergences.com}
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+ underbelly soundartmedia will set up a small shop during the event so publications by our guests will be available
https://underbelly.nu/products/
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This
event was made possible with the generous support of the Creative
Industries Fund and the Goethe Institut in Rotterdam and with our
partners iii in Den Haag en Steim in Amsterdam.
+ Creative Industries Fund
https://stimuleringsfonds.nl/
+ Goethe Institut in Rotterdam
https://www.goethe.de/ins/nl/nl/sta/rot.html
+ iii in The Hague
https://instrumentinventors.org/
+ Steim in Amsterdam
http://steim.org/
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N E W E M E R G E N C E S
a nomadic series of events highlighting current debates around gender in electronic music
. anne wellmer ||| anne AT newemergences.com \\\
