Hexagram|CIAM is pleased to present Edging Over & Into Something Else, the 4th edition of our international seminar series Syncretic Transcodings, with academics, artists, and members of the research centre participating. The seminar\u2019s objective is to reflect on the transformational events at the limits of materiality, whether physical, residual, biological or electronic. The seminar is held on May 7th, 2014 at the Phi Centre, in collaboration with the second edition of the Biennale internationale d\u2019art num\u00e9rique\/International Digital Arts Biennial (BIAN).<\/p>\n
Unprecedented changes are taking place at the limits of materiality, through the diverse relations that bind non-humans, technology, humans and natures. Connections are happening at the boundaries of art, feminist perspectives, sociology and in analyses of the environmental impact of the digital, which provoke pluralistic conditions for a differential emergence of materiality in a network of distributed agency. How does matter \u201ceventualize\u201d when processes encompass working with the paradoxical life of viruses and the harvest of mushrooms (Bardini), defunct electronics (Dallett), relations between people, pollution and urban space (Hansen), feminine corporeality (Lynes), media archaelogy and geology (Parikka), physical, liquid and atmospheric residues (Trudel) and nuclear power as existential crisis of real and imaginary worlds (W\u00fcst)?<\/p>\n
Participants in this seminar will trace a cartography of inquiry into the fascinating transitional capacities of networked materiality. Impossible to predict or know beforehand, valences emerge in rhythmic distribution, changing as they collide, as liable to collapse as to transform themselves entirely.<\/p>\n
Thierry Bardini \u2013 Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al
Tim Dallett \u2013 artist, Montr\u00e9al
Heiko Hansen \u2013 artist, Paris
Krista Genevi\u00e8ve Lynes \u2013 Concordia University
Jussi Parikka \u2013 University of Southampton, UK
Gis\u00e8le Trudel \u2013 UQAM
Florian W\u00fcst \u2013 artist and independent film curator, Berlin<\/p>\n
Moderator: Nina Czegledy \u2013 Independent curator and Senior Fellow, KMDI, University of Toronto<\/p>\n
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