Video documentation: Nonhuman Agents in Art, Culture and Theory - 2nd panel

Fungal Perspectives. From the Viewpoint of a Mushroom
#mycelium #Internet of trees # wood wide web #yeasts
Moderator: Eliot Morrison

In her talk,  'Mycohuman Relationships. Fungi as Interspecies Connectors, Companion Species and Human Symbionts' Saša Spačal proposes that Mycohuman relationships are entangled with mycorrhizal extensions that transgress both fungi and humans as species and form an extensive rhizomatic network, so vast that transcends several planes of existence: material, immaterial, organic, technological, social and planetary. 

 Saša Spačal (Artist, Ljubljana)  Mycohuman Relationships. Fungi as Interspecies Connectors, Companion Species and Human Symbionts.

Mirjan Švagelj (Microbiologist, Aceis Bio, Ljubljana) Mushrooms as Teachers. Mushrooms in Human Societies

Vera Meyer (Applied and Molecular Microbiology, Institute of Biotechnology, Technical University Berlin) Fungal Biotechnology – What We Do with Fungi (and What Fungi Do With Us)

This third video also includes the panel discussion, moderated by Eliot Morrison (Biochemist, Free University, Berlin)

  

Video documentation: Nonhuman Agents in Art, Culture and Theory - 1st Panel

We are happy to announce the first videos from our Interdisciplinary conference Nonhuman Agents in Art, Culture and Theory are now being put online starting with the first panel from Friday 24 November, 2017: Other Subjectivities. Redefining Intelligence, Agency and Sentience

Here is the first speaker on the panel Rahma Khazam with her talk When the sardine can looks back... which really set the theoretical tone for the conference:

Rahma Khazam When the sardine can looks back...
(https://youtu.be/KGjyhEhZ-NU)


The next talk by Desiree Förster explored a new aesthetic of human/nonhuman relation through architecture and installations that extend human responsiveness to environmental stimuli, often by creating a symbiotic relationship between human and nonhuman entities:

Desiree Förster (Media Ecology, Institute for Arts and Media, University of Potsdam)
Environments of Shared Concern




The Panel Other Subjectivities Redefining Intelligence, Agency and Sentience finished with a fascinating talk by Golden Nica Winner Maja Smrekar on her project K-9 Typologies:

Maja Smrekar (Artist, Ljubljana)
The Wolf-human-dog Continuum 

Plus a panel discussion with Rahma Khazam, Desiree Förster and Regine Rapp (moderator) 


More coming soon!
For more information please go to http://www.artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-event-40.htm