The symposium, Disobedience and Complex Systems: Art, Design and Media and the Political, exploring the value and the limitations of Hannah Arendt’s work for understanding the relationship between contemporary art, design and media practices and the political, will take place on … Continue reading Disobedience and Complex Systems, a Symposium
Call for Papers Disobedience and Complex Systems: Art, Design and Media and the Political A symposium organised by the Informed Matters Community of Practice, University of the Arts London to be held at Iklectik Arts Lab on 29 September 2017. … Continue reading CFP: Disobedience and Complex Systems
NB. The notes below are a continuation of my previous post: Ranciere and the Politics of Aesthetics I. They too have been made in relation to Ranciere’s essay ‘The Aesthetic Revolution and its Outcome’ from Jacques Ranciere (2010) Dissensus: On … Continue reading Jacques Ranciere and the Politics of Aesthetics II
The following notes made in relation to Jacques Ranciere’s essay ‘The Aesthetic Revolution and its Outcome’ address a particular question, namely: what is the relation between Art and Action? This question has become explicit in Informed Matters’ exploration of Action, … Continue reading Jacques Ranciere and the Politics of Aesthetics I
On the evening of Thursday 16 March and the morning of Friday 17 March, the Informed Matters Community of Practice (CoP) held two events as part of the University of the Arts’ Research Fortnight, where the community continued to explore … Continue reading Reviewing Recent Events
The writing of Hannah Arendt, particularly her conception of action as a ’space of appearance’, continues to have relevance for art, design, media and communication as socially engaged practices. As part of the UAL Research Fortnight, this panel, which is … Continue reading Panel + Discussion: Modes of Action
Dear Amanda and Andrew, I was intrigued by your suggestion, Amanda, of setting up a ‘Haraway meets Arendt meets Butler kinda thing’, creating cross-cutting dialogues among Donna Haraway, Judith Butler and Hannah Arendt on the topic of Arendt’s notion of … Continue reading Haraway meets Arendt meets Butler meets Laclau
In a typescript paper entitled “Immaterialism”, Vilem Flusser comments that immaterialism used to mean a philosophical tendency to deny the reality of matter, as for example in the philosophy of Berkeley. It now often means a form of art which … Continue reading Flusser on Immaterialism
After a long discussion, three terms emerged as initial guiding threads for the Informed Matters CoP in 2016-2017. They are: Complex systems; Disobedience; and Action. Below is a first approximation or sketch of the topos constituted by these three terms. … Continue reading Emergent themes
On Friday 30 September 2016, at the Iklectic Art Lab near Waterloo, London, the Informed Matters community of practice held its first symposium. It was entitled “Material Others and Other Materialities”. A Storify-cation of the Symposium can be found at https://storify.com/anotherwindle/informed-matters-flusser-and-bec … Continue reading The virtual is not the immaterial
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