May 13, 2023 General News, Lectures, Universities

Technology, Art and the Posthuman: The end or a New Beginning for Humanism?

Technology, Art and the Posthuman: The end or a New Beginning for Humanism?

Technology, Art and the Posthuman: The End or a New Beginning for Humanism? Our LMDA researchers Dietmar Koering and Eva Sommeregger present their paper on “Avatars as Posthuman Entities” today at the John Cabot University Rome. Sneak in!

Session 1: Transhumanism

Moderator: Massimo Betello

  • 1) Roberto Manzocco – Posthuman Maps: Navigating the Future with Greg Egan
  • 2) Marcin Garbowski – Expanding the Limits of Empathy in the Post-human Universe
  • 3) Riccardo Campa – Anthropotechnics: The Role of Imagination
  • 4) Jessica Lombard – Dasein and the Human Nature: A Phenomenological Rereading of the Question of Humanism

Session 2: Aesthetics

Moderator: Massimo Betello

  • 1) Philipp Wolf – Humanist Aesthetics, and a Posthumanist Aesthetics of Immersion
  • 2) Roman Sapeńko – About the Possibility of Posthuman Aesthetics
  • 3) Eva Sommeregger and Dietmar Köring – Exploring Avatars as Posthuman Entities
  • 4) Gitanjaly Chhabra – Posthumanist Contemporary Art: Human and Technology Augmentation

Session 3: BioArt

Moderator: Fabrizio Conti

  • 1) Gabriella Calchi Novati – Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Bio Installations
  • 2) Maurizio Balistreri – Can a Human Embryo Be a Work of Art?
  • 3) Aura Elena Schussler – Patricia Piccinini’s Posthuman Aesthetics or About the Symbiotic Stratifications of Coexistence and Care
  • 4) Veronika Sellner – Critical Posthuman BioArt Typology

Session 4: Posthumanism

Moderator: Francesco Lapenta

  • 1) Jonathan Krude – Heidegger on Technology and the Role of the Human
  • 2) Ashley Woodward – The Epoché of the (Post)Human
  • 3) Tom Rolef Ben-Shahar – Posthumanist DNA

Session 5: Non-Anthropocentrism

Moderator: Fabrizio Conti

  • 1) Patricia MacCormack – Ahuman Activism: Posthuman’s Limit of Ethics
  • 2) Marco Fiorletta – From Postmodernism to Posthumanism: The “In-human” as Model for the Early Work of Gilles Deleuze
  • 3) Joana Mazza – Non-anthropocentric Art is Possible: Other Perspectives for Curatorship

Session 6: Artificial Intelligence

Moderator: Massimo Betello

  • 1) Oshri Bar-Gil – Art as a Service or as a Transformer – Generative AI as a Post-human Creative Process
  • 2) Aleksandra Lukaszewicz – Opera Up to Date. Transhuman, Transcultural and VR Opera Staging
  • 3) Natalia Stanusch – AI Art — Are We There Yet? Generative AIs as Actors and Actants across the Digital Vernacular
  • 4) Or Cohen-Sasson – Rethinking Innovation Incentives in the Age of Generative AI

DAY 2 – Sunday, May 14

Session 7: Genres

Moderator: Natalia Stanusch

  • 1) Natasha Beranek – Can Rock Music Be Posthuman Music?
  • 2) Andrei Nutas – Posthuman Aesthetics of Sustainable Architecture
  • 3) Marius Markuckas – Humanism vs. Posthumanism: Is Only the Human Capable of Creation?
  • 4) Kathleen Bryson – Impossible Animals: An Anti-Anti-Anthropomorphism Manifesto

Session 8: Utopia

Moderator: Natalia Stanusch

  • 1) Tamara Kamatovic – Redefining Authorship for New Writing Futures
  • 2) Philip Butler – Before. Or, questions of Posthuman Utopia(s)
  • 3) Mirko Daniel Garasic – Outer Space Colonization and Posthumanism
  • 4) Laila Bouziane – Becoming Techno-Utopian in Posthuman Fiction

Session 9: Artists

Moderator: Andrei Nutas

  • 1) Maicol Borghetti and Antonino Bove – Immortality and Portraits from the Future
  • 2) Stefano Rozzoni – Challenging (Traditional) Pastoral Aesthetics in Contemporary Digital Environments: Human-nonhuman Relationality in the Minecraft and the Sandbox Metaverses
  • 3) Cornelia Lauf – Art of the Telephone and After

Session 10: Literature

Moderator: Marcin Garbowski

  • 1) Andrea Raso – Biomothers and Technobodies: A Posthumanist Cartography of Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein and its Techno-soma-subjectivities  
  • 2) Ponzoodi-Literature Environment
  • 3) Githin Gigi Mannakunnil – Chimeras as Eco-Protectors: A Reading of Krishand’s Aavasavyuham: The Arbit Documentation of An Amphibian Hunt as Dystopian Eco-Cinema
  • 4) Aathira A.S. – Eco Trauma and the Altered Corporeal: A Reading of Animal’s People by Indra Sinha as an Environmental Discourse

Session 11: Non-duality & Relationality

Moderator: Andrei Nutas

  • 1) Adam Lovasz – Bruno Latour, Graham Harman and Nonmodern Alternatives to Anthropocentrism
  • 2) Yaara Rosolio – Forgetting to Forget: A Posthumanist Critical Approach
  • 3) Veronika Sinyanskaya – Overcoming Exceptionalism: Creative Agency of the Nonhuman and the Problem of Authorship
  • 4) Kaush Kalidindi – Expressive Neural Nets: Towards an “Active” Conception of AI

Session 12: Challenges

Moderator: Fabrizio Conti

  • 1) Joel Patomäki – Risk as Assemblages, The Case of Basel Bank Limiting Policies as Discourses
  • 2) Ewa Zaborowska – Art as a Unifying Force
  • 3) Alessandro Signorini – Will AI Be the New Consumer Persona?
  • 4) Michael Baggot – Book Presentation by the Author Enhancement Fit for Humanity: Perspectives on Emerging Technologies