Dear Nettimers,
tomorrow begins the Art and Speculative Futures Conference that will take place from the 27th until the 29th of October in Barcelona, at the CCCB and Arts Santa Monica centers.
The conference is organized by the the Research Groups AGI (Art, Globalization, Interculturality) and AASD (Art, Architecture and Digital Society) from the University of Barcelona (UB), and the Research Group Mediaccions from the Open University of Catalonia (UOC).
Thinking about art from the prism of speculation may involve the creation of alternative futures. Introducing doubt, babbling, the “what ifs”, counter-memory against the ideal need of a primal origin (or source of meaning where we recognise each other) and being open to discontinuity, chance and materiality in history means asking ourselves if it is possible to both make and think about art in different ways. If it is possible to envision another history from other horizons of meaning, not so much to pursuit its truth but to question the meaning and the value embedded in the stories of our truths. This conference thus proposes to speculate about futures as contemporary fables producing truth effects imbued with ethical and political significance.
The keynote speakers will be Alpesh Kantilal (Florida International University), Flavia Costa (Universidad de Buenos Aires), Rick Dolphijn (Utrecht University) and artist Ursula Biemann.
For further information, please see the program and the registration form by following this link: https://artfuturesconference.wordpress.com
PROGRAMME
DAY 1. THURSDAY, 27th OCTOBER.
Venue: CCCB: Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
8:30 – 9:30
Registration
9:30 – 10:00
Conference opening
Conference chairs: Anna Maria Guasch (UB), Lourdes Cirlot (UB), Pau Alsina (UOC)
10:00 – 11:00
Keynote
Productive failure: Writing queer transnational South Asian art histories
Alpesh Kantilal Patel
Florida International University
Chair: Christian Alonso
11:00 – 11:30
Discussion
11:30 – 12:00
Coffee break
12:00 – 14:00
SESSION A: Cosmopolitism
Chair: Christian Alonso
El arte (in)hospital. Narrativas artísticas en la era de los cosmopolitismos
Modesta di Paola (Universitat de Barcelona)
Post-Abyssing the Future: Casting a Creative Post-Underdeveloped, Post-Peripheral, Tropical Eye
Renate Dohmen (The Open University
Parafictional Artists: Speculations on Contemporary Authorship
Emma Brasó (Royal College of Arts, London)
14:00 – 16:00
Lunch
16:00 – 17:30
Keynote
Formas de vida tecnológicas. Ajustes bio-tecno- políticos y poéticas de la experimentación
Flavia Costa
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Chair: Daniel López del Rincón
17:30 – 18:00
Discussion
18:00 – 20:30
SESSION B: Divergent stories
Chair: Daniel López del Rincón y Víctor Ramírez Tur
Future as meta. Past, presence and future in the work of the Museum of American Art, Berlin
Martyna Dziekan (Jagiellonian University, Kraków / Humboldt University of Berlin)
Fábulas de la Guerra Fría. Tecnología aeroespacial e imaginación política en España (1950-1975)
Ana Fernández-Cebrián (Columbia University)
Art History Cold Cases: Art Production in the Factory
Federica Martini (Ecole Cantonale d’Art du Valais, Sierre)
Tras los duros trabajos: terapias para el nuevo milenio
Rafael Pinilla (Universitat de Barcelona)
Dataismo
Solimán López (ESAT – Escuela Superior de Arte y Tecnología, Valencia)
16.00 – 18.00
Presentation of interactive performance “Gala Daily” Fernanda Gomes, with the participation of Fabián Taranto. Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
Venue: CCCB: Pati de les Dones
DAY 2. FRIDAY, 28th OCTOBER.
Venue: CCCB: Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
10:00 – 11:30
Keynote
The Cosmopolitical Forest
Ursula Biemann
Artist, Zurich
Chair: Anna Maria Guasch
Response: Luís Guerra y Christian Alonso
11:30 – 12:00
Coffee break
12:00 – 14:00
Round table
14:00 – 16:00
Lunch
16:00 – 18:00
SESSION C.1: Time, Space, Matter
Chair: Vanina Hofman
Hacia una museología relacional
Lara Francisca Portolés Argüelles (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
Applying Documentary Frameworks to Material Literacy
Marc Kosciejew (University of Malta)
Feminist Politics of the Archive, Alternative Futures
Barbara Mahlknecht (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna)
Acknowledged Excellence, Permanent Importance, Peculiar Value:The Metropolitan Museum’s Collection of Contemporary Art, 1870–1888
Ian Wallace (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
Atomic Child und Biomachanic: HR Gigers Posthuman Creatures
Kerstin Borchhardt (Leipzig University)
18:00 – 18:30
Coffee break
18:30 – 20:30
SESSION C.2: Time, Space, Matter
Chair: Débora Lanzeni
“Speculations on Anonymous Materials”: la especulación sobre la materialidad del capitalismo artístico como respuesta crítica a la estetización de la vida cotidiana
Federica Matelli (Universitat de Barcelona)
Speculative Publication: The Design of Transformative Scenarios
Raafat Majzoub (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Materializing the Invisible Conflicts
Joana Capella Buendia and Maryia Virshych (BAU School of Design, Barcelona)
No Ghosts, No Nation :: The Remains after the Last Conference, December 28, 2042
Joachim Devillé
DAY 3. SATURDAY, 29th OCTOBER.
Venue: ASM: Arts Santa Mònica
10:00 – 11:30
Keynote
The Cracks of the Contemporary
Rick Dolphijn
Utrecht University
Chair: Pau Alsina
11:30 – 12:00
Coffee break
12:00 – 14:00
SESSION D: New Materialisms and Infrastructures
Chair: Pau Alsina
Terrestrial Post-Terrestrialism: Beyond Post Nature
Andy Gracie
“CO2GLE & DEFOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOREST
Joana Moll (HANGAR /VIT Lab in Vic, Barcelona)
A Glass of Water and the Wifi’s Password
Paola Barreto Leblanc (School of Visual Arts, Rio de Janeiro Federal University)
A Manifesto for Metallic Avant-Garde. Art as Machinic Phylum in Marek Konieczny, Raphael Rogiński and Arslanbek Sultanbekov
Radek Przedpelski (Trinity College Dublin)
Beyond animal-dystopia: exploring the artistic balance between human, animal, and machine for coexistence
Doo-Sung Yoo (Ohio State University)
Best regards,
Pau
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