Symposien, Vorträge, Lesungen, Konzerte, Performances: die Spanne an Veranstaltungen im ZKM ist breit! Thematisch bewegen wir uns zwischen Kunst und Philosophie, Wissenschaft und Technologie sowie Wirtschaft und Politik. Gemeinsam mit unseren ReferentInnen, KünstlerInnen, PerformerInnen und MusikerInnen aus verschiedensten Kulturkreisen und Disziplinen hinterfragen und diskutieren wir die Auswirkungen von Medialisierung, Digitalisierung und Globalisierung auf unsere Gesellschaft. /// Symposia, lectures, readings, concerts, performances: the range of events offered at the ZKM is broad! Thematically we move between art and philosophy, science and technology as well as economy and politics. Together with our speakers, artists, performers and musicians from various cultures and disciplines, we question and discuss the effects of medialization, digitization and globalization on our society.
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Luke Murphy: The New Raw Unconscious
What was Old is New Again. A Meeting of Art and Scholarship | Conference
Fri, 21.11.2008 – Sun, 23.11.2008
While many artists have employed aleatory elements in their work including ceramic effects, Chinese ink blot drawing and Cozens' blot technique, it has been in the 20th century that chance has become an overt aesthetic or anti-aesthetic strategy. At first with Duchamp, dada and Surrealism's psychic automatism and later with John Cage, chance and randomness have become part of the standard new tool box. But it is the use of random number generation that marks the dividing line between traditional art and digital work. Generative programs, sims, data visualization and other mimetic digital work represent the fountain head of the artist encountering the ability to simulate nature through computer generated random numbers. But to move further we need to examine what is the difference between computer generated random numbers, which are themselves a simulation and what it is to tap into the ultimate source of randomness. Concentrating on the clicks from a Geiger counter brings us into direct communion with the fabric of time and space. It is the sound of the raw material unconscious.
Every religion, political ideology, philosophy, and scientific theory embodies a set of structured beliefs. These belief systems maintain a symbiotic liaison with the arts. Throughout history, communal beliefs have relied on music, theater, painting, and dance in order to propagate accepted doctrines, and the arts in turn have shaped the articles of faith.
The conference brings together artists and scholars in an unusual forum. The arts addressed deal primarily with media, the major art form that has only come to the fore in recent decades. The scholarship concerns antique matters, such as Sumerian music, early Egyptian medicine, and the omens, codes of law, and creation myths of Mesopotamia. The divergent perspectives of the participants augur well for innovative ideas emerging from this close encounter between scholarship, the arts, and the belief systems of early and modern times.