XR Lunch: Shifting Cosmologies
Organised by V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media in the frame of Realities in Transition, Shifting Cosmologies: More Than Human XR is a series of presentations and interviews that instigates a discursive conversation about XR technologies and their place in our default anthropocentric world.
Organised by V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media in the frame of Realities in Transition, Shifting Cosmologies: More Than Human XR is a series of presentations and interviews that instigates a discursive conversation about XR technologies and their place in our default anthropocentric world.
We consider how XR technology may be used as a theoretical framework and navigational toolkit to reimagine our shifting cosmologies from an anthropocentric reality to one encompassing ecocentrism realities beyond the human experience.
We see this as a first step in generating sustained conversations about non-human-centric XR and the intersection with the areas of philosophy, critical theory, and creative practice in collaboration with the humanities, sciences, and technology in the future.
XR Lunch: Shifting Cosmologies I
The first session of a discursive conversation about XR technologies and their place in our default anthropocentric world.
This talk took place on March 10th, 2023 with Klaas Kuitenbrouwer.
Klaas Kuitenbrouwer is a researcher at Het Nieuwe instituut in Rotterdam. After studying history and developing an art practice, he worked at the intersections of culture, technology and ecology since the late 1990ies. At Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, he is currently developing the zoöp project, a legal format for collaboration between humans and collective bodies of nonhumans. He has been teaching media and other theory at the Rietveld Academy since 2002. A consistent element in his work is the intersection of different knowledge practices: technological, artistic, legal, scientific, and nonhuman.
XR Lunch: Shifting Cosmologies II
The second session of a discursive conversation about XR technologies and their place in our default anthropocentric world.
His talk took place on April 28th, 2023 with Mia Yu – Curator & Art Historian, Clarissa Ribeiro – Architect, Media Artist & Researcher, Jo Wei – Curator & Researcher.
For this workshop, a modified Oxford-style debate format was used. This format focuses on discussing ideas instead of debating or arguing a position.
Each guest starts with 15-minute opening remarks followed by an intra-panel discussion.
Q/A and closing remarks are left for the end of the session.
XR Lunch: Shifting Cosmologies III
The third session of a discursive conversation about XR technologies and their place in our default anthropocentric world.
This talk took place on March 4th, 2023 with Joost Rekveld.
Joost Rekveld is an artist and researcher who likes to wonder what humans can learn from a dialogue with the machines they have constructed. In a form of media archeology he investigates modes of material engagement with devices from forgotten corners in the history of science and technology. The outcomes of these investigations often take the shape of abstract films that function like alien phenomenologies. He has a long-running interest in sensory augmentation and degradation as ways to empathize with our non-human environment. His films have been shown worldwide in a wide range of venues, and since 1996 he has been teaching interdisciplinary art at the intersection with the exact sciences. He is finishing his PhD at the Ghent University of the Arts, and he is currently a guest teacher at the Université Panthéon-Sorbonne in Paris and the Theaterschool in Amsterdam.
Dates
3/10/2023
Number of participants
82
Workshop leader(s)
Shifting Cosmologies I – Klaas Kuitenbrouwer
Shifting Cosmologies II – Mia Yu, Clarissa Ribeiro, Jo Wei
Shifting Cosmologies III – Joost Rekveld
Hosting partner
V2_
