During the last decades, the field of artistic research has taken on the task of bringing art, science, technology and philosophy closer together and uncovering new productive interfaces. In this context, thinking is increasingly understood as a creative and artistic practice capable of connecting diverse fields of knowledge. The focus of the Masterclass is to open up post-anthropocentric ways of rethinking the world; to pace a worldview that reflects the sustainable coexistence of human and non-human species and habitats on planet Earth.
Such a worldview is based on the paradigm shift reflected by the speculative turn in contemporary philosophy. New materialist and new realist perspectives have long since found their continuation in the artistic fields. In particular, critical posthumanism offers the conceptual tools for a "critical aesthetic turn": to develop new ways of thinking, narrating, speculating, knowing, and subject-forming, and to exploit this change of perspective in the field of aesthetic practice, such as artistic research in film and digital media. Of particular relevance for this artistic-philosophical Masterclass will be, among others, the method of "SF" (SF = Speculative Fabulation / String Figures) coined by Donna Haraway, as well as the concept of intraactivity coined by Karen Barad, which has developed into a key concept of speculative thinking in the context of an agentive realism.
Information on how to participate will follow in the spring 2021.
Chair: Prof Dr. phil. Christine Reeh-Peters, Junior professor for theory and practice of artistic research in digital media at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
