Aesthetics of Transformation

Discussion Series

Curated by School for Transformation and in collaboration with AIL

There are many productive synergies between artistic and transdisciplinary strategies, and quite often they overlap. Artistic strategies, just like transdisciplinary approaches, do not start from fixed onto-epistemic positions, but draw on a multiplicity of registers and perceptions to disrupt hegemonic knowledge regimes.

Likewise, both reject disciplinary boundaries in favor of transversal approaches, aiming to undo rigid distinctions between thinking and practice, embodied knowledge and scientific expertise. Based on a heterogenous mix of theoretical and practice-based interventions the lecture series asks:
 
To what extent can artistic strategies be transferred to other contexts? And is that indeed desirable, given the situated, open-ended, and speculative nature of arts-based research? Where do we need to insist on the autonomy of aesthetic practice to stay clear from the demands of transferability, valorisation and impact?
 
Together with a distinguished group of guests we explore what artistic strategies and aesthetics bring to the field of transdisciplinary research.
 
All events will be held in English.
 
 
1 Apr, 12:00, Auditorium, VZA 7, 1030 Vienna
György Kepes. Interthinking Art + Science (Film screening)
Márton Orosz 
 
11 Apr, 18:00, AIL, GCP 2, 1010 Vienna
Performing Transformation
McKenzie Wark and Ariadne Randall with Nanna Heidenreich
 
29 Apr, 18:00, AIL, GCP 2, 1010 Vienna
The Influencing Machine: Latent Moods, Emergent Bias and Distributed Ontologies
Sonia Bernac with Monika Halkort
 
6 May, 16:00, Zirkus des Wissens, JKU Campus, 4040 Linz
Correlation and the ‚breeding’ of better Futures
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
 
13 May, 12:00, Lecture Room 1, School for Transformation, GCP 2, 1010 Vienna
Counter-research and the Arts: A Thousand Other Ways of Knowing
Daniela Zyman
 
27 May, 18:00, AIL, GCP 2, 1010 Vienna
Synthetic Images | Dynamic Maps
Svitlana Matviyenko with Ramon Reichert
 
10 Jun, 18:00, AIL, GCP 2, 1010 Vienna
Diaspora Aesthetics
Noit Banai with Amanda Holmes
 
17 Jun, 18:00, AIL, GCP 2, 1010 Vienna
Plastic Aesthetics
Heather Davis with Monika Halkort
 
24 Jun, 13:00, Lecture Room 1, School for Transformation, GCP 2, 1010 Vienna
Transvaluation: Reclaiming Time
Miya Yoshida
 
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