Symposium: Human- Nonhuman Networks
HUMAN-NON-HUMAN NETWORKS
a symposium organized by Giovanni Aloi, David Getsy, and Andrew Yang taking place at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
on Saturday the 12th of March 2016
SAIC Ballroom, 112 S. Michigan Ave.
From 10am
What is at stake in the re-imagining of disciplinary boundaries through the pursing of new epistemic strategies involving multispecies networks? What may the aesthetic repercussions of such new directions be? How can art produced within these new parameters impact on everyday life?
The reconfiguration of anthropocentrism taken on by queer theory, animal-studies, and posthumanism, has now given over to the emerging methodological approaches of speculative realism, new materialism, and object-oriented ontology. Building upon the established framework of posthumanism, this symposium aims at exploring the productive opportunities these new approaches provide in specific relation to contemporary art. Moving beyond the growing zoöcentrism that characterizes current animal studies, the focus of this event will be centered on the possibilities of reconceiving ethicalities, methodologies, and aesthetic strategies as inscribed in the biotechnological, biocapitalist, and "deep time" frameworks of the proposed Anthropocene. In search of new epistemological opportunities that try to make equal sense of different life-forms within shared and interwoven ecosystems, we will appraise the role art may play in shifting naturalized anthropocentric mind-frames into a more expansive space. From bacteria to fungi, invertebrates to plants, beings that can return the gaze and those who do not, this symposium will contribute to the mapping of new opportunities for considering the role art can play in triggering societal changes.
List of speakers:
Giovanni Aloi
James Elkins
Lindsey French
Marissa Lee Benedict
Marlena Novak and Jay Alan Yim
Andrew Yang
With a Keynote from:
Eva Hayward
(University of Arizona)
Dr. Giovanni Aloi
Editor in Chief of Antennae Project
Lecturer in Visual Culture:
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Sotheby's Institute of Art
Tate Galleries
www.antennae.org.uk
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