Algorithms as interfaces between art and science. Why do we recognise something we can designate in the structure of systematically arranged nanoparticles; what are the grounds for such an assessment? How is the algorithmic revolution changing the image of science and art? In short, it is a question of what we really see and hear, and what we always thought we were seeing and hearing. Symposium.
Algorithms as interfaces between art and science
Symposium at the ZKM Media Theatre
admission free
Computer technologies, mathematical methods, algorithmic procedures, machine-assisted evidence and imaging methods, structuralism, post-structuralism and visual and media studies have completely changed the way in which visual information is handled. Linguistic, visual and acoustic images are no longer created by artists. On the contrary, the 21st century world of images stems from medicine, physics, mathematics, astronomy, biology and neurology. Science can no longer operate without imaging methods and it relies on the interpretation of visual measuring data. The symposium will examine the influence exerted on perception by algorithms as interfaces between art and science. Why do we recognise something we can designate in the structure of systematically arranged nanoparticles; what are the grounds for such an assessment? How is the algorithmic revolution changing the image of science and art? In short, it is a question of what we really see and hear, and what we always thought we were seeing and hearing.
Programme:
Saturday, 30 October 2004
11.00 Opening and introduction
Wolfgang M. Heckl (t.b.c.), experimental physicist, University of Munich, Peter Weibel and Barbara Koenches, ZKM
11.15 Gislind Nabakowski, media scientist, Wiesbaden
12.00 Anne Niemetz and Andrew Pelling, media artists, Los Angeles
12.45 Hans Diebner, physicist, Karlsruhe
13.30–14.15 Break
14.15 Stephen Wolfram (t.b.c.), physicist and mathematician, Champaign, USA
15.00 Carlos Ulisses Moulines, philosopher and logician, Munich
15.45 Heinz-Otto Peitgen, mathematician, Head of MeVis, Bremen
16.30–16.45 Break
16.45 Bernd Thaller, mathematician, Graz
17.30 Hanns Ruder, astrophysicist, Tuebingen
18.15 Jochen and Oliver Ziegenbalg, mathematicians, Karlsruhe
19.00 Opening of the exhibition Algorithmic Revolution
Sunday, 31 October 2004
11.00 Thomas Keller, financial economist, Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg, Stuttgart
11.45 Thilo Hinterberger, physicist, Tuebingen
12.30 Klaus Podoll, neurologist, Aachen
13.15–14.00 Break
14.00 Florian Dombois, artist and geophysicist, Bern
14.45 Philipp Sarasin, historian, University of Zurich
15.30–15.45 Break
15.45 Olaf Breidbach, biologist and philosopher, University of Jena
16.30 Horst Bredekamp, art historian, Humboldt University, Berlin
17.15 Dagmar Gerthsen, (t.b.c.) physicist, University of Karlsruhe
18.00 Alfred Schmitt, (t.b.c.) mathematician and physicist, University of Karlsruhe
18.45–19.00 Break
19.00 Closing discussion with Horst Bredekamp, Olaf Breidbach, Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Philipp Sarasin and Peter Weibel
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