Nervous Systems | Alien Horizons

Nervous Systems |
Talk with Antonia Majaca (art historian, curator) and Luciana Parisi (media philosopher)

Sun, May 1, 2016, 3 pm
In English

Antonia Majaca is a researcher and curator and the Visiting Professor at the IZK Institute for Contemporary Art at the Graz University of Technology, where her work focuses on the art-based transdisciplinary investigation and the epistemology of art in the age of algorithmic governmentality.

Her three-year research and publishing project The Incomputable, funded by FWF - Austrian Science Fund, is currently being developed through an international platform involving Graz University of Technology, Goldsmiths University of London and the Department of Human and Social Sciences at the University of Naples. She recently curated Knowledge Forms and Forming Knowledge - Limits and Horizons of Transdisciplinary Art-Based Research (with Patricia Reed and Mohammad Salemy) at the Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz and Memorial For(u)ms – Histories of Possibility for DAAD and HAU, Berlin.

Luciana Parisi is Reader in Cultural Theory, Chair of the PhD programme at the Centre for Cultural Studies, and co-director of the Digital Culture Unit, Goldsmiths University of London. Her research is a philosophical investigation of the ontological and epistemological functions of technology in culture, aesthetics and politics. She is interested in cybernetics, information theory and computation, complexity and evolutionary theories and in the technocapitalist investment in artificial intelligence, biotechnology, nanotechnology. In 2004, she published Abstract Sex: Philosophy, Biotechnology and the Mutations of Desire. In 2013, she published Contagious Architecture. Computation, Aesthetics and Space. She is currently researching the history of automation and the philosophical consequences of logical thinking in machines.