Thanks Andreas for sharing the announcement. Les Immatériaux brings back
powerful memories. I saw the show in 1985 at the Pompidou, which was
largely responsible for the work I do today, it was so extraordinary. I¹ll
never forget the use of headphones and wireless audio to shift the
soundscape from gallery to gallery. I have the catalogue sitting on my
shelf and often refer to the exhibition as a model for organizing an
exhibition surrounding the impact of media & technology on culture.
Randall
On 5/6/14, 10:56 AM, "Andreas Broeckmann" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>30 Years after Les Immatériaux: Science, Art, and Theory
>
>Symposium
>
>21 22 May 2014
>
>Centre for Digital Cultures
>Leuphana University of Lüneburg
>Postoffice Building, Sülztorstr. 21-25, 2nd floor
>
>With Jean-Louis Boissier (FR), Andreas Broeckmann (DE), Francesca Gallo
>(IT), Charlie Gere (UK), Florian Hecker (DE/US), Yuk Hui (HK/DE), Robin
>MacKay (UK), Bernard Stiegler (FR), Tim Otto Roth (DE), and
>Anne-Elisabeth Sejten (DK).
>
>This symposium is dedicated to the 30th anniversary of Jean-François
>Lyotard's exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 1985, entitled
>Les Immatériaux. The exhibition wanted to demonstrate the emergence of a
>new materiality produced by the advancement in telecommunications
>technology. The prefix im- announced a break from the modern conception
>of material, language, body, science, and art. Les Immatériaux showed
>how the desire of modernity produced a negation of itself and passed on
>to a new cultural form which Lyotard named postmodern. The symposium
>traces the discourses in the exhibition and its intellectual environment
>of the late 1970s and 80s, and it reflects on the new material
>conditions brought up by digital technologies in the last 30 years. What
>kind of sensibility is appropriate for our current material condition?
>
>The symposium will be held in English. Admission is free.
>
>Programme
>
>Thursday, 21 May
>
>13:00 14:00 Registration
>
>13:00 14:00
>Film Screening: Octave au pays des Immatériaux Auteur (dir. Daniel
>Soutif; Paule Zajdermann; François Kotlarski)
>
>14:00 14:30
>Introduction (Yuk Hui, Andreas Broeckmann, CDC, Leuphana Universität)
>
>14:30 15:30
>Jean-Louis Boissier (Paris VIII, France): Scénographie et dramaturgie
>des Immatériaux (lecture in French)
>
>15:30 16:00 Break
>
>16:00 17:00
>Charlie Gere (Lancaster University, UK): Voice, Trace and Incarnation in
>Relation to Les Immatériaux
>
>17:00 18:00
>Tim Otto Roth (Artist, Germany): Shadow of a Shadow? A Physical
>Re-Orientation
>
>18:00 18:30 Break
>
>18:30 19:30
>Bernard Stiegler (Centre Pompidou, France) Les Immatériaux are not
>immaterial What does materialism do in the time of the hypermaterial?
>
>
>Friday, 22 May
>
>09:30 10:30
>Andreas Broeckmann (Leuphana University, Germany): The Materiality of
>Immaterial Art
>
>10:30 11:30
>Francesca Gallo (Rome University, Italy): Contemporary Art at Les
>Immatériaux: Yesterday and Today
>
>11:30 11:45 Break
>
>11:45 12:45
>Anne Elisabeth Sejten (Roskilde University, Denmark): Exhibiting and
>Thinking: Anamnesis of the Postmodern
>
>12:45 14:00 Lunch
>
>14:00 15:00
>Florian Hecker (Artist, Germany): Reformulation (Lecture Performace)
>
>15:00 15:15 Break
>
>15:15 16:15
>Yuk Hui (Leuphana University, Lüneburg): Anamnesis and Dis-Orient-ation
> A Discourse on Matter and Time
>
>16:15 17:15
>Robin MacKay (Urbanomics, UK): Immaterials, Between Acceleration and
>Anamnesis
>
>17:15 18:00
>Closing Discussion
>
>
>Information:
>http://cdc.leuphana.de/events
>
>Organisation & Contact:
>Dr. Andreas Broeckmann, [log in to unmask]
>Dr. Yuk Hui, [log in to unmask]
>Centre for Digital Cultures, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg,
>Scharnhorststr. 1, 21335 Lüneburg
>
>Organised by the Innovation Incubator and the Centre for Digital
>Cultures at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, in collaboration with the
>Leuphana Arts Program. The Innovation Incubator Lüneburg is an EU major
>project supported by the European Regional Development Fund and the
>federal state of Lower Saxony.
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