Alien Life: between brains, bacteria and matter (CANCELLED)

Co-Corporeality presenters: Daniela Mitterberger, Tiziano Derme (project Co-Corporeality, Angewandte)
Ray LC (Artist, designer, neuroscientist) (https://www.raylc.org)
Margarete Jahrmann ( Media artist ) (http://www.margaretejahrmann.net)
Moderation: Barbara Imhof

Alien life: between brains, bacteria and matter is about exploring new practices and an as yet unknown sensitivity towards building bonds between people, machines and living matter. We would like to encourage the view that all matter is part of one world and is not separate from one another. Further, we would like to foster communication across different scales and beyond living material, making kin in other worlds not tangible and visible to humans at first sight. We imagine the rise of new types of vocabularies to speak a language whose semantics challenge the traditional distinction between inanimate technology and living nature. We are interested in designing spatial arrangements within our terrestrial environment and creating theoretical components through conversations that go beyond the Anthropocene.

Co-Corporeality team University of Applied Arts: Barbara Imhof, Daniela Mitterberger, Tiziano Derme, Waltraut Hoheneder, Damjan Minovski, Kyle Koops, Patricia Tibu (https://cocorporeality.net)
 
- Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence ( OFAI ): Martin Gasser
- Polymer and Composites Engineering (PaCE) Group, University of Vienna: Alexander Bismarck, Andreas Mautner, Neptun Yousefi, Kathrin Weiland




Alien Life: between brains, bacteria and matter
Symposium