Über die Beziehung zwischen Kunst und Ökologie
Freitag, 02. Juni 2017 - 14:00 Uhr
Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
Timothy Morton
Hyperobjects
Timothy Morton is Professor and Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. A member of the object-oriented philosophy movement, Morton's work explores the intersection of object-oriented thought and ecological studies. Morton's use of the term 'hyperobjects' was inspired by Björk's 1996 single 'Hyperballad' although the term 'Hyper-objects' (denoting n-dimensional non-local entities) has also been used in computer science since 1967. Morton uses the term to explain objects so massively distributed in time and space as to transcend localization,
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such as climate change and styrofoam. Morton has also written extensively about the literature of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley, Romanticism, diet studies, and ecotheory.
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Boyan Manchev
The spider and the Cloud
or Preliminary Remarks on the Genealogy of Inhuman Techniques
Boyan Manchev is philosopher, Professor at the New Bulgarian University and at the HZT/UdK. He is also former Director of Program and Vice-President of the International College of Philosophy in Paris. His actual research, which advances the perspective of a dynamic ontology and transfor-mationist materialism, is focused on the fields of ontology, philosophy of art and political philosophy. In the last years Manchev collaborates often to theatre, contemporary dance and visual arts projects.
Manchev is the author of eight books and around two
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hundred book chapters, catalogues and other publications in various languages. In the last years appeared ?Clouds? (Sofia, 2017), ?Logic of the Political? (Sofia, 2012), ?Miracolo? (Milano: Lanfranchi, 2011), ?L?altération du monde? (Paris: Lignes, 2009); ?La Métamorphose et l?Instant – Désorganisation de la vie? (Paris: La Phocide, 2009). His book ?The Body- Metamorphosis? (Sofia: Altera, 2007) deals extensively with contemporary art, performance and dance