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  N.N-Zwischenliegend - a progressive investigation into errors/eine fortlaufende Untersuchung zu Fehlern (last edited: 2019) author(s): Erika Matsunami This exposition is in progress.
  In part of my artistic research in the project N.N-Zwischenliegend, namely digital photography, I am investigating the potentiality of inspiring errors and imperfection. There are three research methods. First, according to the definition, “errors” in this artistic research are not intentional, but are created in the concept by chance due to natural phenomena in the digital camera. In the concept of experimental documentary photography of N.N-Zwischenliegend I did not try to photograph things (Dinge) and objects (Gegenstände) only, but rather I tried to grasp temporal and spatial depth as well as the potentiality of the natural phenomenon; I have implemented this idea in an image with photographic techniques and double exposure, so these photographs were combined in the same documentary photo series. Second, I examine the photos for errors from the perspective of different disciplines such as photochemistry, physics, phenomenology, cognitive science, science of images, philosophy, and psychology to reflect whether there are flaws or gaps in the entire N.N-Zwischenliegend series. Thirdly, in the N.N-Zwischenliegend project, I deal with the image as an error or gap with the philosophical reflection on the theme of “Estrangement” in the photographic perspective as a narration. If the potential of the fault would open up to us, and if the error would thus contribute to an “elasticity” of consciousness, then could the fault inspire us in this sense? To answer this question, in this article I connect to the evolution of consciousness from the point of view of psychology and neuroscience. “The AST (Attention Scheme Theory) covers a lot of ground, from simple nervous systems to simulations of self and others. It provides a general framework for understanding consciousness, its many adaptive uses, and its gradual and continuing evolution.”1 At the same time, it deals with the question of experimental photography today or digital photography today, its perfection and errors both in the world of artistic photography as well as in digital culture. 1: Graziano, Michael, A New Theory Explains How Consciousness Evolved - A neuroscientist on how we came to be aware of ourselves, The Atlantic, June 2016. Ich untersuche in dem Projekt N.N-Zwischenliegend im Rahmen meiner künstlerischen Forschung, die die digitale Fotografie ist, die Potenzialität inspirierender Fehler. Es gibt drei Forschungsmethoden: Erstens: Nach der Definition sind „Fehler“ in dieser künstlerischen Forschung nicht absichtlich, sondern Fehler entstehen im Konzept durch Zufall aufgrund von natürlichen Phänomenen in der Digitalkamera. Im Konzept der experimentellen dokumentarischen Fotografie N.N-Zwischenliegend habe ich nicht nur Dinge und andere Objekte (Gegenstände) fotografiert, sondern ich habe neben der zeitlichen und räumlichen Tiefe auch versucht, die Potenzialität der natürlichen Phänomen zu erfassen; diese Idee habe ich in einem Bild mit fotografischer Technik sowie Doppelbelichtung umgesetzt, damit wurden diese Fotografien in derselben dokumentarischen Fotoserie zusammengefasst. Zweitens: Ich untersuche die Fotos auf Fehler aus der Perspektive unterschiedlicher Disziplinen wie Fotochemie, Physik, Phänomenologie, Kognitionswissenschaft, Bildwissenschaft, Philosophie und Psychologie, um zu reflektieren, ob sie Fehler oder Lücken in der ganzen Fotoserie N.N-Zwischenliegend sind. Drittens: In dem Projekt N.N-Zwischenliegend möchte ich mich mithilfe des Bildes als Fehler oder Lücke mit der philosophischen Reflexion zum Thema ,Estrangement‘ in der fotografischen Perspektive als Narration auseinandersetzen. Wenn sich uns das Potenzial der Fehler erschließen würde und Fehler somit zu einer „Elastizität“ des Bewusstseins beitragen würden, könnten uns die Fehler dann in diesem Sinne inspirieren? Um diese Frage zu beantworten, stelle ich in diesem Beitrag eine Verbindung zur Evolution des Bewusstseins aus Sicht der Psychologie und Neurowissenschaft her. „Die AST (Attention Schema Theory) deckt eine ganze Reihe von Bereichen ab, vom einfachen Nervensystem bis zur Simulation des eigenen Ich und anderer. Es bietet einen allgemeinen Rahmen für das Verständnis des Bewusstseins, seiner vielen anpassungsfähigen Anwendungen und seiner allmählichen und fortlaufenden Entwicklung. (The AST (Attention Scheme Theory) covers a lot of ground, from simple nervous systems to simulations of self and others. It provides a general framework for understanding consciousness, its many adaptive uses, and its gradual and continuing evolution.)“1 Gleichzeitig geht es um die Frage nach der experimentellen Fotografie heute bzw. der digitalen Fotografie heute, nach deren Perfektion und Fehlern sowohl in der Kunst als auch in der digitalen Kultur.
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  ALMAT - Iteration LD (last edited: 2019) author(s): Hanns Holger Rutz, Luc Döbereiner, David Pirrò, Daniele Pozzi This exposition is in progress.
  Discourse and materials pertaining to the experimental iteration with Luc Döbereiner, during the Algorithms that Matter (Almat) artistic research project.
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  Convocation - On Expanded Language-based Practices (last edited: 2019) author(s): Emma Cocker, Lena Séraphin, Cordula Daus This exposition is in progress.
  Convocation – from com ‘with, together’ and vocare ‘to call’. We call for a gathering of language-based practices: from the wordless corporeality of body language to the virtuality of digital text, from the voicing of spoken utterance to the textility of words on a page. Textorium – a notion that etymologically pertains to weaving and braiding, the weaver and the woven. For phenomenologist Max van Manen the term refers to the writerly space of reflection, the experiential world of the text as it opens up for the receptive writer and reader. But how can the ‘taken-for-grantedness’ of language be put into question? How can language-based practices enable us to encounter ‘things’ anew? From textorium to sensorium, a reciprocal space for coming together through a material encounter with language experienced in its diversity. How do we experience language’s activity, affectivity, ambiguity, capacity, corporeality, density, elasticity, ephemerality, fluidity, fragility, illegibility, instability, intensity, inter-subjectivity, hybridity, materiality, multiplicity, musicality, occasionality, opacity, performativity, physicality, plasticity, porosity, potentiality, relationality, simultaneity, sensibility, sensitivity, sonority, spatiality, syn¬chronicity, tonality, temporality, visuality, vitality? Convocation invites exploration of the how-ness of language within practices of: Addressing | Calling | Conversing | Describing | Dialoguing | Disrupting | Drawing | Echoing | Effacing | Evoking | Fictioning | Invoking | Listening | Misunderstanding | Moving | Muting | Naming | Questioning | Reading | Redacting | Spacing | Speaking | Summoning | Transcribing | Translating | Voicing | Wording | Writing | ____ ing Convocation is a 3-day event on expanded language-based practices taking place within the frame of the Research Pavilion, Venice, 16 - 18 June 2019. Hosted by Emma Cocker, Cordula Daus and Lena Séraphin in co-operation with Alex Arteaga. A collaboration between research cells Through Phenomena Themselves, Disruptive Processes and AIRA. 16 – 18 June 2019 10.00 – 20.00 Sala del Camino + theatre, Giudecca, Venice Within the frame of the Research Pavilion http://www.researchpavilion.fi/
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  What's it like? (2019) author(s): Daniela Pascual published in: University of the Arts Helsinki
  I don’t know when a thesis begins, but I hope it ends somewhere. For Episodi, I've prepared "What’s it like?" – a juxtaposition of plans, thoughts, desires, and concerns. I suspect you will find contradictions I might not be aware of, and there are many choices left to make. Indeed, while I hope this exposition will help me throughout my thesis, I'm not trying to come to terms with my shortcomings, at least not yet.
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  THE BLACK MANA AND THE EVIL SPIRIT OF THE COBBLESTONES (2019) author(s): Gian Luigi Biagini published in: Ruukku Studies in Artistic Research
  This hyperstitional text describes the Disturbanist practice of the Anartist, that consists in subversive urban interventions on the edge of politics and counter-sorcery. Drawing on the theory of post-structuralist philosophers, it focuses particularly on artworks made with black cobblestones. This material, taken as symbolic concentrate of "black mana", evil spirits and spectral antagonist mythology is remodulated in provocative installations and interventions. The text shows also how the intensification of repetition of gestures, materials, symbols and forms can generate a singular territory-refrain based on a transpersona that - at its hyperstitional limit-unfolding - could resist, infect and counter-attack the Integrated Spectacle of Capitalism.
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  The event of disorientation: artistic methods of immanent critique (2019) author(s): Scott Andrew Elliott published in: Ruukku Studies in Artistic Research
  Through stories recounting experiences of disorientation and the process of reorientation, potentials are found for rethinking our relation to built surroundings. Engaging with art historical examples of architectural art installations that use methods repetition and replication, disorientation is approached as a catalyst for a process of ‘immanent critique’. This presents a way to critically engage with and inflect what is happening in the moment while remaining within the immediacy of that moment. This holds the potential for a participant in the event to inflect the event with one’s own implicated agency. The unfolding event is redirected, and novelty can emerge. The artworks of Mike Nelson, Gregor Schneider and Glenn Seator are discussed as sharing methods of artistic practice that catalyse immanent critique through their disorienting installations. Through a discussion of a selection of art installations, this paper proposes how employing methods of architectural repetition or doppelgängers can result in a catalytic disorientation. It is within this experience or event of disorientation that an immanent critique can take place, and where potentials for change can be taken up.
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Phil Sawdon
United Kingdom (residence)

Håkon Mørch Stene
Germany, Norway (residence), Norway (citizenship)

Sepideh Karami
Sweden (residence), Iran, Sweden (citizenship)

Hanns Holger Rutz
Austria (residence), Germany (citizenship)

Jennifer Torrence
Norway (residence), United States (citizenship)

Adrian Artacho

Michelle Teran
Germany, Netherlands (residence), Canada (citizenship)

Bilge Aktaş
Finland (residence), Turkey (citizenship)

Carlo Diaz
United Kingdom (residence), Italy, United States (citizenship)