FUTURE MANIFESTOS – Konferanse
DIGS, Krambugata 2 / 10. & 11. APRIL, 10:00 – 14:30
Gratis inngang.
Kurator: Zane Cerpina
Artistic Intelligence, a panel on manifesting futures through human-made meaning
Languages, styles, symbols are codifications of meaning that existences, human or non-human, share with each other in the hope that those they aim to communicate with decode the same information from them that was intended to be inscripted into them upon sending. This is a long sentence that tries to say: When we express something, we hope that it is understood by others, and both the we and the others can be computers or people (or other living things). This is a different sentence, using different symbols and a different style than the first one, trying to say something similar.
This panel brings together three human creators and one Young-Girl, who will all share their perspectives on various vehicles of conveying information and meaning, on meaning and medium and message and all of that discourse that we and you all know so well (or, let’s be honest, not at all). After all, how can we know that you hear what we mean when we speak (or write or make pictures or blow something up)? You can mine our languages, styles, symbols, but can you mine our meanings? On Grey’s Anatomy, ending an existence is usually referred to as “unplugging” them, so watch out.
Vanessa Hannesschläger [AT/BE]
Vanessa Hannesschläger is head of European Collaboration at Ars Electronica, steering the company’s engagement in numerous pan-European partnerships. She holds a PhD in literature from the University of Vienna, and teaches courses on digital humanities, research policy frameworks, and digital legal literacy at universities across Europe. Fields of expertise and practice include digital editing, physical and digital archives, Open Science, and copyright. Vanessa’s current research focuses on narratives and experimental form in contemporary performance and text, a topic she explores at Ars Electronica in projects around digital theatre and new approaches to XR. She is particularly interested in integrating philosophical thought in art-science approaches, as well as intersectional feminism, gender philosophy, and theory of capitalism. Vanessa finds it easier to imagine the end of patriarchy than the end of the world.
