Conference: The Aesthetics of Bio-Machines and the Question of Life

Over the course of two days, we will bring together a wide range of scholars, researchers and artists who explore life-simulating technologies from an aesthetic perspective.

THE PERCEPTION MACHINE: OUR PHOTOGRAPHIC FUTURE BETWEEN THE EYE AND AI by Joanna Zylinska

New book by Joanna Zylinska. Thanks to MIT Press’s Direct to Open program, The Perception Machine is freely available to download - read more here

Call for Papers: The Aesthetics of Bio-Machines and the Question of Life

The core group “Bio-Machines and the Question of Life” (The Velux Foundations) seeks paper proposal for conference in June 13-14, 2024! See the full call for papers here

Kathrin Maurer: The Sensorium of the Drone and Communities

Kathrin Maurer’s book "The Sensorium of the Drone and Communities" has been released with MIT PRESS! And it is open Access!

Theme Issue on Machinic Visions of the Planetary

Our Theme Issue on Machinic Visions of the Planetary is finally out! At a time of increasing challenges that concern our relationship to the environment, we address how new forms of vision and visuality brought forth through technologies reconfigure planetary relations

Book launch: Kathrin Maurer, The Sensorium of the Drone and Communities

Invitation to book launch on November 16, 2023 at 14:00-16:00 (Danish Time, CET) at the University of Southern Denmark

Workshop on Robots in Science Fiction

Workshop on October 26, 2023; 14:00-16:00 (CEST) (HYBRID)

Book Launch: Dominique Routhier, With and Against: The Situationist International in the Age of Automation

October 24 2023 at 7:00 PM

PhD fellowship in literature and AI at SDU

The Department of Culture and Language at the University of Southern Denmark SDU (Odense, Denmark) is offering a fully funded 3-year PhD fellowship commencing February 1, 2024

Two post doc positions at SDU

We are looking for TWO postdocs for our newly started project on “The Aesthetics of Bio-Machines and the Question of Life” funded by The Velux Foundations

New grant from the Velux Foundations

Kathrin Maurer (SDU) and Kristin Veel (KU) have been awarded a core-group program grant from the Velux Foundation with the project “The Aesthetics of Bio-Machines and the Question of Life”

Film Screening and discussion with film director Hans Christian Post (on Zoom) 12 April

The documentary Best in the World takes stock of Copenhagen’s evolution through the eyes of architects, activists and writers to assess what is at stake. A cautionary tale for cities across the world. City leaders and urban planners have in recent years come up with evermore concepts as to how our cities can become better, smarter and more attractive to live in and launched large-scale redevelopment programs in order to achieve this.

The Emerging Horizontality of Desakota Urbanity in Hilly Regions in Southwest China: A Utopia Strategy of The Urban-Rural Sustainable Development in Chongqing

Hongxia Pu

Terraforming Planets, Geoengineering Earth

Jim Fleming

Das Unheimliche in Natur und Technik, untersucht anhand von dänischer und deutscher Gegenwartsliteratur

Sophie Wennerscheid

“Common Good Governance in the Age of Military Artificial Intelligence” Professor Denise Garcia from Northeastern University, Boston

“Aesthetics of Machine Vision” Conference

Automating Visuality: New special issue of MAST The Journal of Media Art

Podcast on Artificial Intelligence and Society

DIAS Assistant Professor in Humanistic aspects of ICT

Postdoctoral position in Ethnography and Cognition

The Department of Language and Communication, University of Southern Denmark (SDU) invites applications for a 3-year postdoctoral research position starting 1 May 2022. The deadline for applications is 28 February 2022.

Dræbermaskiner er noget, vi leger med

Read article on drones and toys by Dominique Routhier

Why Has Capitalism Run Out of Steam?

Review essay about Smart Machines and Service Work in Los Angeles Review of Books

Drone Imaginaries: The Power of Remote Vision

Read about the new publication "Drone Imaginaries: The Power of Remote Vision" by Andreas Immanuel Graae and Kathrin Maurer.

Value-Sensitive Design of Unmanned Aerial Systems: Using Action Research to Bridge the Theory-Practice Gap

Read Dylan Cawthornes article "Value-Sensitive Design of Unmanned Aerial Systems: Using Action Research to Bridge the Theory-Practice Gap" in International Journal of Technoethics.

Full Automation in its Infancy: The Situationist Avantgarde Book Fin de Copenhague

Dominique Routhier's new article “Full Automation in its Infancy: The Situationist Avantgarde Book Fin de Copenhague” has been published in The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics.

Centre for Culture and Technology

Syddansk Universitet har åbnet sit nye tværfaglige Centre for Culture and Technology. Centret skal se på, hvordan teknologien former kulturen, og kulturen former teknologien. techst har talt med leder af det nye center, Kathrin Maurer, og været til åbningsseminar med Mercedes Bunz fra King's College London.

SDU opretter center for kultur og teknologi

Teknologierne forandrer vores samfund og kultur, og det er der brug for at tale om, undersøge og debattere langt mere, skriver Syddansk Universitet i en pressemeddelelse. Professor MSO Kathrin Maurer leder SDU’s nye Centre for Culture and Technology.

SDU opretter nyt center for kultur og teknologi

Teknologier former vores kultur og samfund – og det skal vi debattere og undersøge langt mere. Det er udgangspunktet for SDU’s nye Centre for Culture and Technology, der åbner 6. november.

Introduction to the Sensorial Experience of the Drone

The members of the DFF project on Drone Imaginaries and Community as well as the DFF research network on Drones and Aesthetics are happy to present their latest theme issue The Sensorial Experience of the Drone published in the journal The Senses and Society.

Achille Mbembe: Den brutale kapitalismes

Publication on Achille Mbembe’s work with a drone-related perspective about the reorganization of modern warfare by Dominque Routhier. This text analyses the relationship between Achille Mbembe’s work, the necropolitics of the drone, and modern warfare.

Games of Drones

Games of Drones is a new Anthology about Drones. In German and English. Publications are based on conference about drones in the Zeppelin Museum in 2019. Chapter by Kathrin Maurer about the aerial view of drones.