This online lecture will be held in English.
Enacted by digitalSSM, the project entitled “VARIANT. Documenting New Media Art” presents an online lecture by Prof. Siegfried Zielinski (the European Graduate School). Zielinski's lecture moderated by Osman Serhat Karaman, will consist of six topics that are listed below.
Topics:
1. What do we talk about in terms of encounters with art, given that we are dealing with machines as museum visitors?
2. The originality of a work of art in the age of its infinite (re)producibility is a chimera and a phantasm to which the global art market clings because it wants to protect itself from becoming superfluous.
3. Art through Media is an extravagant journey in a time machine.
4. Variantology and its projection surface: the dynamic network of relations between Art, Sciences, Technologies and its constant historical changes.
5. On the intersection of ethics & aesthetics. The responsibility of the transformers and translators.
6. Prospective Archaeology, some examples and principles for re-activating the past.
Siegfried Zielinski is Michel Foucault Professor of Media Archaeology and Techno-Culture at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee (CH), honorary doctor and professor of the Budapest University of Arts. He was chair of media theory at Berlin University of the Arts, and director of the Vilém Flusser Archive (till 2016). He was founding rector (1994–2000) of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and rector of the Karlsruhe University of Arts & Design (2016-2018). Zielinski has published numerous books and essays mainly focusing on the archaeology and variantology of the relations between art and media. In cooperation with Peter Weibel he is also a curator of large format exhibitions at the ZKM Karlsruhe, such as ‘Vilém Flusser and the Arts’, ‘Allah’s Automata’ (both 2015), ‘Dia_Logos - Ramon Llull and the Combinatorial Arts’, ‘Art in Motion - 100 Masterpieces with and through Media’ (both 2018). Zielinski is a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts and the North-Rhine-Westfalia Academy of Sciences and Arts.
