{"id":2580,"date":"2023-05-13T13:47:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T13:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arphenotype.com\/?p=2580"},"modified":"2024-03-14T13:53:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T13:53:23","slug":"technology-art-and-the-posthuman-the-end-or-a-new-beginning-for-humanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arphenotype.com\/?p=2580","title":{"rendered":"Technology, Art and the Posthuman: The end or a New Beginning for Humanism?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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 &#8220;Avatars as Posthuman Entities&#8221; today at the John Cabot University Rome. Sneak in!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Session 1: Transhumanism<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moderator: Massimo Betello<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1) Roberto Manzocco \u2013 Posthuman Maps: Navigating the Future with Greg Egan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2) Marcin Garbowski \u2013 Expanding the Limits of Empathy in the Post-human Universe<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>3) Riccardo Campa \u2013 Anthropotechnics: The Role of Imagination<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>4) Jessica Lombard \u2013 Dasein and the Human Nature: A Phenomenological Rereading of the Question of Humanism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Session 2: Aesthetics<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moderator: Massimo Betello<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1) Philipp Wolf \u2013 Humanist Aesthetics, and a Posthumanist Aesthetics of Immersion<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2) Roman Sape\u0144ko \u2013 About the Possibility of Posthuman Aesthetics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>3) Eva Sommeregger and Dietmar K\u00f6ring \u2013 Exploring Avatars as Posthuman Entities<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>4) Gitanjaly Chhabra \u2013 Posthumanist Contemporary Art: Human and Technology Augmentation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Session 3: BioArt<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moderator: Fabrizio Conti<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1) Gabriella Calchi Novati \u2013 Rafael Lozano-Hemmer\u2019s <em>Bio Installations<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2) Maurizio Balistreri \u2013 Can a Human Embryo Be a Work of Art?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>3) Aura Elena Schussler \u2013 Patricia Piccinini\u2019s Posthuman Aesthetics or About the Symbiotic Stratifications of Coexistence and Care<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>4) Veronika Sellner \u2013 Critical Posthuman BioArt Typology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Session 4: Posthumanism<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moderator: Francesco Lapenta<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1) Jonathan Krude \u2013 Heidegger on Technology and the Role of the Human<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2) Ashley Woodward \u2013 The <em>Epoch\u00e9<\/em> of the (Post)Human<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>3) Tom Rolef Ben-Shahar \u2013 Posthumanist DNA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Session 5<\/strong>: <strong>Non-Anthropocentrism<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moderator: Fabrizio Conti<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1) Patricia MacCormack \u2013 Ahuman Activism: Posthuman&#8217;s Limit of Ethics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2) Marco Fiorletta \u2013 From Postmodernism to Posthumanism: The \u201cIn-human\u201d as Model for the Early Work of Gilles Deleuze<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>3) Joana Mazza \u2013 Non-anthropocentric Art is Possible: Other Perspectives for Curatorship<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Session 6:<\/strong> <strong>Artificial Intelligence<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moderator: Massimo Betello<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1) Oshri Bar-Gil \u2013 Art as a Service or as a Transformer \u2013 Generative AI as a Post-human Creative Process<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2) Aleksandra Lukaszewicz \u2013 Opera Up to Date. Transhuman, Transcultural and VR Opera Staging<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>3) Natalia Stanusch \u2013 AI Art \u2014 Are We There Yet? Generative AIs as Actors and Actants across the Digital Vernacular<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>4) Or Cohen-Sasson \u2013 Rethinking Innovation Incentives in the Age of Generative AI<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DAY 2 \u2013 Sunday, May 14<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Session 7: Genres<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moderator: Natalia Stanusch<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1) Natasha Beranek \u2013 Can Rock Music Be Posthuman Music?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2) Andrei Nutas \u2013 Posthuman Aesthetics of Sustainable Architecture<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>3) Marius Markuckas \u2013 Humanism vs. Posthumanism: Is Only the Human Capable of Creation?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>4) Kathleen Bryson \u2013 Impossible Animals: An Anti-Anti-Anthropomorphism Manifesto<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Session 8: Utopia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moderator: Natalia Stanusch<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1) Tamara Kamatovic \u2013 Redefining Authorship for New Writing Futures<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2) Philip Butler \u2013 Before. 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Our LMDA researchers Dietmar Koering and Eva Sommeregger present their paper on &#8220;Avatars as Posthuman Entities&#8221; today at the John Cabot University Rome. Sneak in! Session 1: Transhumanism Moderator: Massimo Betello Session 2: Aesthetics Moderator: Massimo Betello Session 3: BioArt Moderator: Fabrizio..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,35,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-lectures","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arphenotype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arphenotype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arphenotype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arphenotype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arphenotype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.arphenotype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arphenotype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arphenotype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arphenotype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arphenotype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}