Time’s Attack on the Rest of Life: Laboratory

Biographies

Jimena Canales is the author of The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time (Princeton University Press) and A Tenth of a Second: A History (University of Chicago Press). She currently holds the Thomas M. Siebel Chair in the History of Science at the University of Illinois-UC and was previously an Assistant and Associate Professor in History of Science at Harvard University and a senior fellow at the IKKM (Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie). She also writes for wider audiences in WIRED magazine, for the BBC, for Aperture and Artforum.

Stephan Geene is a Berlin filmmaker and co-owner of the bookstore and publishing house b_books. His most recent films include Umsonst (2014) and After Effect (2008). Many of his theater plays have been staged in productions around the world, including at Theaterfestival München, Kunstverein München, Dramatisches Zentrum Wien and at Steirischer Herbst. Geene has curated exhibitions, organized film festivals and has written articles for Spex, Jungle World, Springerin, Texte zur Kunst and Tageszeitung. He teaches the theory and history of television at Beuth Hochschule Berlin.

Henning Schmidgen is professor for the theory of media worlds at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. He studied psychology, philosophy, and linguistics in Berlin and Paris, was a researcher at the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, and professor for media aesthetics at Universität Regensburg. He has written numerous publications on the history of experimental life sciences, the philosophy and aesthetics of machines and actor-network theory. Recently publications include: Hirn und Zeit. Die Geschichte eines Experiments, 1800-1950 (Berlin, 2014) and Bruno Latour in Pieces. An Intellectual Biography (New York, 2015).