[spectre] Mertins, Spuybroek, Caygill, Marres, van Heeswijk

[V2_]

As part of the Dutch Electronic Art Festival (www.deaf07.nl), V2_ presents:

DEAF07 Symposium: Interact or Die! The Search for a Living Art

The symposium will discuss the ways organization and structure come 
about, and become effective, through interaction within networks. We 
will consider this question from artistic, architectonic, social, 
political, biological and cognitive perspectives. The program, to be 
held at Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi) at April 14, will be as 
follows:

- On Bioconstructivism

11:00 - 12:00: Detlef Mertens (professor and chair, department of 
Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, USA)

- On the Aesthetics of Variation

12:00 - 13:00: Lars Spuybroek (professor and chair, department of 
Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

- Lunch break

13:00 - 14:00

- On Energy and Information

14:00 - 15:00: Howard Caygill (professor, department of Cultural 
History, Goldsmiths College, University of London),

- On Public Involvement in Politics and Technological Societies

15:00 - 16:00: Noortje Marres (research fellow, department of sociology, 
Goldsmiths College, University of London)

- On Interactive Public Art Works

16:00 - 17:00: Jeanne van Heeswijk (artist)

- Informal chat with the speakers

17:00 - 18:00

Interaction is a defining characteristic of every living being. Bodies 
and objects build connections, form networks, and then, through 
interaction, achieve organization, structure, memory and heredity. The 
only selection criterion for interaction is whether it works, that is, 
whether it is operational. Interactivity is on the other hand both a 
method of bringing something into being – a form, a structure, an 
organization, a body, an institute, a work of art – and on the other 
hand a way of dealing with it.

Admission: € 50,-/€ 35,- for students

Reservations and payment via www.deaf07.nl or kassa at v2.nl

Location: Netherlands Architecture Institute

K.P.C. de Bazelzaal (auditorium)

Museumpark 25

3015 CB Rotterdam