Internationale Tagung 2021
Other(ing) Sensing. Practices, Politics and Ethics of Sensitive Media
Conference by the research group „SENSING: The Knowledge of Sensitive Media“
Abstract
Sensing, in its more-than-human, technological, as well as human dimension, is often understood as an element of transmission or connection. It encompasses practices of (ostensibly) making the imperceptible perceivable, of turning formerly opaque processes into data or of ‚accessing‘ other subjectivities. But as much as sensitive media are an attempt to bridge difference, they are also responsible for the constitution of otherness. Their intention to connect can also turn into a violent erasure of difference. Our 2021 conference aims to look at the practices, politics and ethics of sensing in relation to alterity. How do entities sense one another? What in- and exclusions are constituted through sensitive media? In which ways can sensing become a violent act of appropriation? But also, what is the subversive opening of ‚other‘ sensing practices?
Date:
17–18 June 2021, Online (Zoom, CEST)
Conference report by Irina Raskin available here.
Program
DAY 1 – THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 20211
3:00 – 4:15pm
Welcome & Introduction
4:15 – 5:00pm
Break
5:00 – 6:00pm
Talk & Discussion with Wendy Chun
with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
by Jan Distelmeyer, Christian Schwinghammer
6:00 – 6:30pm
Listening Session I: Nomadic Listening
with Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
by Kate Donovan
6:30 – 7:30pm
Break
7:30 – 9:50pm
Panel I: Other(ed) Sensibilities
with Christopher Brown, Erica Fretwell, Kyla Schuller, Sachi Sekimoto
by Anja Breljak, Vanessa Oberin
DAY 2 – FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 2021
3:00 – 5:00pm
Panel II: Sensing Technology Narratives
with Orit Halpern, Melissa Littlefield, Ashley Shew
by Nicole Schimkus, Alice Soiné, Daniel Stoecker
5:00 – 5:30pm
Listening Session II: Parasites
with Janna Holmstedt
by Kate Donovan
5:30 – 6:30pm
Break
6:30 – 8:30pm
Panel III: More-than-human Sensing
with Ally Bisshop, Elaine Gan, Deboleena Roy
by Kate Donovan, Christian Schwinghammer
8:30 – 8:40pm
Short Break
8:40 – 09:10pm
Closing Discussion
All times CEST (Central European Summer Time)
Artists, Panelists, Speakers:
Ally Bishop (Panelist), Christopher Brown (Panelist), Budhaditya Chattopadhyay (Artist), Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (Speaker), Erica Fretwell (Panelist), Elaine Gan (Panelist), Orit Halpern (Panelist), Janna Holmstedt (Artist), Melissa M. Littlefield (Panelist), Deboleena Roy (Panelist), Kyla Schuller (Panelist), Sachi Sekimoto (Panelist), Ashley Shew (Panelist)