International symposium:
The Artist as Ecologist
Liveable environments in the age of media
Stadtverordneten-Saal at the Rathaus (Town
Hall) Dieburg, Marktplatz 8
Nov 14 (14.00 –18.00h) – Nov 15 (10.00 –18.00h)
Hochschule
Darmstadt/Faculty of Media: International
symposium
in
collaboration with the Museum Schloss Fechenbach, supported by the
network of Hessian Film and Media Academy hFMA
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The notion that media are
merely machines to transmit information from
A to B ist now obsolete. Media are no longer to be frontally "read" and
understood as "pipelines" for forwarding messages: They have become
environments which coin and configure their players, users, makers. In
this way, such a media environment "structures what we can see and say
and, therefore, do. It assigns roles to us and insists on our playing
them. It specifies what we are permitted to do and what we are not."
(Neil Postman, 1980) Today, in the age of mobile telephones, Facebook,
the" Internet of Things" and numerous other media phenomena, this
supposition has gained a special topicality.
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Actually, the creators of
media find themselves positioned within a complex tension between
technological development, social desiderata, economic utilisation,
aesthetic innovation and political role attributions. McLuhan initiated
focus upon the interrelation between these and other factors thus
allowing for the emergence of the term "media ecology". In connection,
the dictum of the film scientist and media activist Gene Youngblood
became popular: “The artist as ecologist”. (Youngblood, 1970)
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Based on this idea, this
symposium aims to explore an ecological approach to media in its
diversity, by dialogue and discussion, involving international experts:
scholars, scientists, artists, practitioners. All are active within the
field of media, culture, societey, technology as they offer and
exchange varied perspectives on the ecology of media.
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The symposium is held in
English.
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Four international keynotes by
Derrick de Kerckhove (Canada)
Helmi Järviluoma (Finland)
Antoine Schmitt (France)
Raitis Smits (Latvia)
Impulses
by
Kai Buchholz (Darmstadt/Germany)
Bettina Oppermann (Hannover/Germany)
Hannes Raffaseder (St. Pölten/Austria)
Birte Frommer (Darmstadt/Germany)
Klaus Schüller (Groß Umstadt/Germany)
Michelle Bunn (USA)
Sabine Breitsameter (Darmstadt/Germany)
Hans-Ulrich Werner (Offenburg/Germany)
Michael Iber (St. Pölten/Austria)
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The public is invited to the
following two lectures. These lectures are held in English with an
option for translation into German.
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Friday, November 14. 2014 at
17.00h:
Prof. Dr. Helmi Järviluoma (Finland), Soundscape Ethnography, Culture
and Sustainability. Explorations to senses and culture
(Klanglandschafts-Ethnographie, Kultur und Nachhaltigkeit.
Untersuchungen zum Verhältnis der Sinne zur Kultur)
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Saturday, November 15, 2014
at 11.45 h
Antoine Schmitt (France), An Ecology of Being. Dynamic interactions
between human nature and the nature of reality (Eine Ökologie des
Seins. Dynamische Interaktionen zwischen der menschlichen Natur und der
Natur der Realität)
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For interested listeners who
like to experience the entire symposium, there are still a limited
number of places available. A timely registration is strongly
recommended. Please register at info@museum-schloss-fechenbach.de
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In cooperation with the Hessian
Film and Media Academy hFMA.
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