Events

These seminars will be built around two distinct but related art projects that channel ecological philosophy, and ecological questioning, through creative practice.  The first project began as a companion essay/artist’s statement for a photographic triptych based on a small, primitive hut on a clear-cut site in the mountains of Colorado, and evolved into a companion […]

Race, Equity and Diversity in Art and Design, an Undergraduate Fellowship:   This fellowship provides support to a student enrolled in an undergraduate degree in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. The fellowship offers professional development support in the amount of $1500. Recipients must: – Be enrolled full-time (at least 12 hours) when […]

In her timely novel Tender is the Flesh, the prizewinning Argentinian author Augustina Bazterrica tells the grim tale of Marcos who runs a factory that slaughters humans for their meat after a global pandemic has wiped out animals. If the horrific reality of factory farming is the overt message of the novel, then there is […]

From mutated genes in cancer cells to viral memes invading our brains, we are more vulnerable than we like to think. In this talk, I explain how cannibalistic forces can arise in the meat of our bodies and electrical signals of our brains, slowly eating us from the inside out. First, we look at cancer […]

Symposium organized by the Center for Philosophical Technologies, hosted by Human Economies Group at the Global Futures Laboratory at Arizona State University.   Our speakers guests are: Sean Maliehe, Sibel Kusimba, AbdouMaliq Simone.   If you would like to participate, you can obtain a free ticket to the event, by clicking this link.  

A Symposium by the Center for Philosophical Technologies. The event is free. Click this Zoom link to participate.   Here is the talks schedule:   1:00 pm – Greetings   1:05 pm – Margret Grebowicz – Techniques in the Lurking 1:25 pm – Silvia Neretti – Ambivalent Anesthesia – Relationships of_____ 1:45 pm – Ron […]

Design Transfigured / Waste reimagined exhibition recognizes a fresh approach to addressing the current state of our depleted and polluted environment, an extreme and inventive kind of upcycling.

In occasion of the itinerant exhibition of the exhibition by Dutch Invertuals, SMoCA and CPT co-host a series of events.

In occasion of the itinerant exhibition of the exhibition by Dutch Invertuals, SMoCA and CPT co-host a series of events.

First lecture from (Techniques: Bordering) speaker series. During specially developed public presentation format “Desktop Exhibition”, curator clicks through files on the desktop, in a manner akin to walking through a physical space and guiding visitors through an exhibition.

For the past century, expedition doctors have been coming to the Himalayas in order to solve the mystery of altitude: is summitting the highest peaks without oxygen possible for the human body? A conclusive answer continues to elude them, despite over 200 no-oxygen ascents of Mt. Everest.

This talk is based on a phrase by Hanna Arendt in The Human Condition, which seems to point to a potential Western-Eurocentric-Arendtian bias. I use this phrase as a pretext to approach those troublesome design practices that are outside of the design field, and that would generally not be called design, although from the perspective […]

While acknowledging the complex conditions of crisis in the present, politics at multiple levels, remains preoccupied with extending its power, national interests, economic growth and greater productivity. There is a fundamental disjuncture between the complexity of the combined critical conditions that are now putting life on Earth at risk, and the divisions and theories of […]

This research project is trying to understand the interrelation between the rise of secular categories for the study of “religion” and the imposition of an entire mode of being on a planetary scale. When an object like Capitalism must be understood as a global order that is permanently in flux, examining such mutability through different […]

Feminist and queer architectural theorists and practitioners have challenged the omnipresent binary of public and private in architectural discourses. While some designers have sought to replace the hard limit with a gradient of public to private, others have attempted to completely do away with it. However, most designers have had to develop these projects in […]

While acknowledging the complex conditions of crisis in the present, politics at multiple levels, remains preoccupied with extending its power, national interests, economic growth and greater productivity. There is a fundamental disjuncture between the complexity of the combined critical conditions that are now putting life on Earth at risk, and the divisions and theories of […]

Plastic is becoming a bigger problem because it does not end and slowly takes over our world. Even our wardrobe!

The lateral problem is fundamentally different from the horizontal problem that characterizes the classical knowledge of 18th century — what Foucault calls “horizontal deployments,” such as the table and the grid.

Spring field trip, part of Dust and Shadows project.

Like others working in other times and other places, this crew of biotechnologists is in search of the power to bend fate: to take from the dead the secrets needed to remake the living—to achieve a different sort of animation.

How can the imagination of designers contribute to the ‘re-mythologisation’ of an embittered reality? Can non-scientific, magical thinking help us better understand different parallel time scales?

How might design, philosophy, science and mythology inform each other, while producing fresh and imaginative multi-species responses to address the genesis and future of ecological devastation?

The interdisciplinary conference that explores the use of computational technology to support and understand human movement practice, as well as movement as a means of interacting with computers.

With all their different operating systems, how can we share and exchange knowledge, skills and production means between fashion, technology and philosophy? And if we are aiming to thrive – both as humans and as makers – how can we do so responsibly?

Installation, ASU library

Installment of the Synthetic Times series: a collaborative and iterative design project that critiques and reimagines human and nonhuman time in relation to modern and future technologies.

Gilles Deleuze has transformed a broad range of academic fields. Where is Deleuze studies today and what are its frontiers? Join us for this conversation.

Join us for our November Speaker Series Talk! Animation, or the careful whispers of eating between life and death.

FoAM’s co-founders, will discuss their interstitial techniques for living with uncertainty, combining experiential futures, generative technologies, labcraft, and the ephemeral tools of panpsychism.

How can the arts and art research help to address global issues related to ecological change and natural disasters? During this evening event, the speakers will give three examples of the way in which the use of raw materials (such as oil or wood) has cultural, political and social consequences.

Symposium related to Ontogenetics Process Group – a research group is animated by the growing consensus in the sciences and the humanities that the living world in all its modes—biological, semiotic, economic, affective, social, etc.—escapes finite schema of description.

Second fieldtrip part of the Dust and Shadows project. A collaborative art and design project that reimagines how the mythic and ritualistic past of the desert southwest might be inherited and reinvigorated to intervene in how humans and nonhumans dwell in the rapidly urbanizing desert.

The symposium is animated by the growing consensus in the sciences and the humanities that the living world in all its modes—biological, semiotic, economic, affective, social, etc.—escapes finite schema of description.

Symposium related to Ontogenetics Process Group, a research group is animated by the growing consensus in the sciences and the humanities that the living world in all its modes—biological, semiotic, economic, affective, social, etc.—escapes finite schema of description.

Symposium related to Ontogenetics Process Group, New Mexico edition.

Spring field trip as a part of the Dust and Shadows project.

Summer field trip, part of Dust and Shadows project. A collaborative art and design project that reimagines how the mythic and ritualistic past of the desert southwest might be inherited and reinvigorated to intervene in how humans and nonhumans dwell in the rapidly urbanizing desert.

What can we learn about contemporary geological processes and the role of humans therein by looking at media objects and digital culture? The symposium Geo Mediations celebrates the entanglements of media and geological events. The evening program brings together a wide ensemble of voices in both talks and artwork presentations.

An invasion of space by re-recycling matter. The fashion industry: a beautiful but polluting business. The fast pace of clothing production accounts for devastating amounts of material and immaterial consumption, resulting in the misuse of water, chemicals and (child) labour. How to deal with this tempting but harmful situation? Conny Groenewegen sets out to visualise its enormity by transforming fashion’s leftovers into art that takes over our immediate habitat.

This installation transports participants to an archeological dig in the desert southwest. We ask that you take time to dig in the sand, manipulate and play with the rocks and debris. This responsive media installation encourages you to experience the different scales of time that are hidden from view. The materials on the gallery floor […]

Symposium related to Ontogenetics Process Group – a research group is animated by the growing consensus in the sciences and the humanities that the living world in all its modes—biological, semiotic, economic, affective, social, etc.—escapes finite schema of description.

Fieldtrip II related to Dust and Shadows project

Culminating in a multimedia exhibition in downtown Phoenix, the project invites participants to challenge their assumptions about how to situate human history within incomprehensible scales of time in the desert.