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• 23 nov 2020

  Holon

  Study days - Representation

  The Multidisciplinary Grid 2020 Conference

  The conference is aimed at examining the ‘grid’ as a cross-disciplinary theme with a multiplicity of expressions in terms of definitions, concepts, perceptions, representations, and histories. The ‘grid’ has played a significant role in shaping the spatial imaginaries of a wide range of fields: from Hippodamus of Miletus to the Cartesian revolution in mathematics, from the visual arts to archaeology to 'smart cities' and artificial intelligence. As the 'grid' has become an all-encompassing term, signifying a vast array of infrastructural and communication networks through which contemporary life is mediated and controlled, it is commonly viewed as a quintessential symbol of modernity. The conference strives to explore a new horizon of relationships and fusion of the ‘grids’ in these areas as manifested between humans, between machines, and between humans and machines ‒ bridging philosophical, cultural, pedagogical, technical and ethical issues.

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• 01 mar 2019

  Weimar

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Schalten und walten. Towards Operative Ontologies

  IKKM Biennial Conference 2019

  The conference will conclude the IKKM six-year research program on ‘Operative Ontologies’. A term seeming contradictory at first, it assumes that everything that exists is not simply present or given but has been called into being through media and their operations in the most general sense: The ruling (das Walten) of nature as well as the ruling of the social reside under the command of technology, which as increasingly digitized technology is based on switching operations (das Schalten) — e.g. the achievements of bioengineering or the computational models of planet Earth. When embodied operations establish ontological orders and the difference between the ontic and the ontological thus re-enters the ontic, this demands a radical remodeling of ontology. The IKKM Biennial Conference 2019 therefore investigates the given with regard to the procedures through which it has been made possible, produced, set up, brought into the world and called into being — “switched on” — in the first place.

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• 21 mar 2017

  Paris

  Study days - Sociology

  Seeing, knowledge and showing - practices, instruments and materialities of the visualisation of the body

  Pratiques, instruments, et matérialités de la visualisation de corps

  Dans le cadre des travaux du groupe de travail « Corps, techniques et société » (CETCOPRA/AFS) sur les territoires corporels des techniques, la journée d’étude « Voir, savoir, donner à voir » propose de poursuivre les réflexions du groupe, ayant donné lieu à une série de rencontres autour de l’imagerie médicale et moléculaire. Nous y reprendrons notre problématique initiale en trois questions : la question de la production des images ; la question de la construction d’un regard ; et la question du diagnostic.

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