Gudrun Eriksen Havsteen-Mikkelsen (Kopenhagen)
Bront\u00eb Evans (Cambridge)
Lena von Goedeke (Longyearbyean\/Berlin)
Geist\u0117 Kin\u010dinaityt\u0117 (Vilnius)
Andra Po\u0440-Jurj (London)
Alexis Rider (Cambridge)
Anna Dilj\u00e1 Sigur\u00f0ardottir (Reykjavik)
Amelia Urry (Cambridge)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n(Conference) Aesthetics & Critique VII – Beyond Reality? Virtuality and Experience (Fribourg, 14-16.12.2023)<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
Organisation<\/strong>: Nicolas Brulhart, Alessandro De Cesaris, Federico Fantelli, Lilian Kroth<\/p>\n\n\n\n The philosophical debate concerning virtuality has so far privileged metaphysical issues, asking whether or not virtual spaces and objects should be considered as real or illusory. With this conference, we suggest bracketing such metaphysical questions for a while and focus instead on the relationship between virtuality and experience. In this framework, we would like to favour a phenomenological approach that understands virtuality as a mode of experience that is often mediated by technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The range of questions that this conference aims to address includes, but is not limited to, the following: What does it mean to experience \u2018virtuality\u2019? What is the phenomenological structure of the virtual? How does experiencing a virtual world reshape our ordinary lives? What is the relationship between the virtual and the imaginary? What role does immersivity play in virtual environments? What distinguishes VR devices from other media? What is the space for empathy in virtual interactions? How is personal identity preserved but also transformed within virtual worlds?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Organisation<\/strong>: Emmanuel Alloa, Wolfgang Br\u00fcckle, Alessandro De Cesaris, Tobias Ertl, Julia Gelshorn<\/p>\n\n\n\n Keynote Speakers<\/strong>: Ursula biemann (Zurich), Lucien Castaing-Taylor (Harvard), Camille Chamois (Bruxelles), Camille de Toledo (Berlin), Sebastian Egenhofer (Wien), Emmanuel Grimaud (Paris), V\u00e9r\u00e9na Paravel (Harvard), Susan Schuppli (London).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Full programme: (Link<\/a>) (Download<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Info & registration<\/strong>: alessandro.decesaris@unifr.ch; tobias.ertle@unifr.ch<\/p>\n\n\n\n Organisation<\/strong>: Emmanuel Alloa, Nicolas Brulhart, Alessandro De Cesaris, Christoph Haffter<\/p>\n\n\n\n Keynote Speakers<\/strong>: Sabeth Buchmann (Wien), Howard Caygill (London), Toni Hildebrandt (Bern), Federico Luisetti (St. Gallen), Pietro Montani (Rome), Pauline Nadrigny (Paris). With a presentation of Nora Kapfer’s work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Info and registration<\/strong>: alessandro.decesaris@unifr.ch<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Organisation: Prof. Emmanuel Alloa, Arianna Sforzini & Christoph Haffter<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Schedule:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 18.11.21<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n FRI ART, Petites-Rames 22, Fribourg<\/p>\n\n\n\n 14h-18h CONTEMPORANEITIES OF ART<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Jacob Lund (Aarhus University)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Peter Osborne (Kingston University London)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ludger Schwarte (Kunstakademie D\u00fcsseldorf)<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n 19.11.21<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Uni Fribourg, P\u00e9rolles, Room G230<\/p>\n\n\n\n 9h-12h HANNAH ARENDT CONTEMPORARY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Juliane Rebentisch (HfG Offenbach\/Princeton)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cecilia Sj\u00f6holm (S\u00f6dert\u00f6rn University)<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n For registration, please contact: christoph.haffter@unifr.ch<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/tube.switch.ch\/videos\/dWVpEd7EsK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ouverture <\/strong>EMMANUEL ALLOA<\/p>\n\n\n\n Contagion as a Metaphor \/ La contagion comme m\u00e9taphore \/ Ansteckung als Metapher<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n DARIO GENTILI (Universit\u00e0 Roma Tre) : From Contagion to Contagion, from Crisis to Crisis<\/p>\n\n\n\n VANESSA LEMM (Deakin U, Melbourne) : Contagion and Community of Life<\/p>\n\n\n\n Discussion<\/p>\n\n\n\n ELIZABETH POVINELLI (Columbia U, NYC) : Cumulative and Coming Catastrophes. Feeling & Figuring the Difference<\/p>\n\n\n\n SLAVOJ ZIZEK (Birkbeck College London) : Non-Thinking in Pandemic Times<\/p>\n\n\n\n Discussion<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/tube.switch.ch\/videos\/O7o4MSPAWe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Keynote: WJT MITCHELL (Chicago) : Present Tense 2020. An Iconology of Time<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/tube.switch.ch\/videos\/CQvJKURU5G<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Is there Art Behind the Screen ? Virtualized Aesthetic Practices in Pandemic Times<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Vincent Baudriller (Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Vidy) <\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/tube.switch.ch\/videos\/96AQ85ZQ6Y<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n JEAN-LUC NANCY (Strasbourg) : \u00catre souffl\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/tube.switch.ch\/videos\/pm4OPCkIam<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n In Uncertain Times. On Improvisational Practices \/ En des temps incertains. Sur les pratiques improvisationnelles \/ In ungewisser Stunde. \u00dcber Improvisationspraktiken<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Presentation<\/p>\n\n\n\n DANIEL FEIGE (ABK Stuttgart) : The Aesthetic Temporality of Musical Improvisation<\/p>\n\n\n\n LYDIA GOEHR (Columbia U, NYC) : IMPUT \u2014 UNTITLED<\/p>\n\n\n\n Discussion<\/p>\n\n\n\n ALESSANDRO BERTINETTO (U Torino) : Aesthetics of Improvisation as Artistic Grammar of Contingency<\/p>\n\n\n\n GEORG BERTRAM (FU Berlin) : Improvisation as Paradigm of Art?<\/p>\n\n\n\n SARA RAMSHAW (U Victoria, Canada) : Justice as Improvisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Discussion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (Conference) Aesthetics&Critique VIII – Sensing Ice. Artistic, Technological, and Theoretical Encouters with the Cryosphere (Fribourg, 30-31st July 2025) SpeakersGudrun Eriksen Havsteen-Mikkelsen (Kopenhagen)Bront\u00eb Evans (Cambridge)Lena von Goedeke (Longyearbyean\/Berlin)Geist\u0117 Kin\u010dinaityt\u0117 (Vilnius)Andra Po\u0440-Jurj (London)Alexis Rider (Cambridge)Anna Dilj\u00e1 Sigur\u00f0ardottir (Reykjavik)Amelia Urry (Cambridge) (Conference) Aesthetics & Critique VII – Beyond Reality? 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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nAesthetics & Critique VI : Realism in Perspective \/ Perspektiven des Realismus \/ R\u00e9alisme en perspective<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n
26-27.05.2023 University of Fribourg<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nAesthetics & Critique V : After Nature \/ Nach der Natur \/ (D’)Apr\u00e8s Nature<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n
26.11.2022 FriArt Kunsthalle<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nAesthetics & Critique IV : Contemporaneity \/ Zeitgenossenschaft \/ Le contemporain<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n
18.-19.11. University of Fribourg \/ FriArt Kunsthalle<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Aesthetics & Critique III : Thinking in Pandemic Times<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
Schedule<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nRecordings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Part 1\/5 | Introduction & First Panel: Contagion as a Metaphor<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Part 2\/5 | Key Note by W.J.T. Mitchell: Present Tense 2020<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Part 3\/5 | Second Panel: Is there Art Behind the Screen ?<\/strong> <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Marta Ponsa (Jeu de Paume, Paris)
Nicolas Brulhart (Fri Art, Fribourg)
Vinzenz Hediger (Frankfurt\/M)
Bastian Zimmermann (Munich\/Berlin)
Julie Beauvais (SONIC MATTER Z\u00fcrich)<\/p>\n\n\n\nPart 4\/5 | Key Note by J.-L. Nancy: \u00catre souffl\u00e9<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Part 5\/5 | Third Panel: In Uncertain Times<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n