POM Aachen 2024
Conference Schedule
Politics of the Machines
Lifelikeness & beyond
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The 4th POM Conference
RWTH Aachen University
KäteHamburger Kolleg:
Cultures of Research (c:o/re).
April 22-27, 2024
Day 1, Monday 22.04.24
Monday 22.04.24
8:45 – 9:15
Registration
Track 02
Panel 01 Art, Science, and Beyond.
Room Ford-Saal 1040|637
Moderator Peter Friess
Talk 2
9:45 – 10:15
The Periodic Table of Sound Art; Making Models for Transductive Practices Between Life and Lifelike.
Morten Søndergaard
Aalborg Universitet
Anna Nacher
Jagolian University Krakow
Talk 3
10:15 – 10:45
Dark Design
Matej Vakula
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Discussion: 10:45-11:00
Track 10
Panel 01 Environmental Empathy and Aesthetics.
Room Generali Sall |639
Moderator Sebastián Lomelí
Talk 1
9:15 – 9:45
Aesthetics of living: sensitivity, technology and affectivity
Jessica Romero
UNAM
Talk 2
9:45 – 10:15
Environmental empathy for cultivating more-than-human communities – a paradigm shift in environmental research and interventions
Klara Łucznik
Uniwersytet Warszawski
Lisa Hall
Bath Spa University
Ralph C. Lumbres
Independent Artist
Diego S. Maranan
University of Philippines Open University
Talk 3
10:15 – 10:45
Lunar Echoes: Tidal Flows Illuminated through Hydroacoustic Art
Mette Juhl Jessen
University of Copenhagen
Pieter Steyaert
SEADS; University of Antwerp
Discussion: 10:45-11:00
Track 08
Room Conference Room 1040 | 531 – 5.31
Moderator Laura Beloff
Talk 1
9:15 – 9:45
The parasitical metaphor
Paul Thomas
Professor Faculty of Art & Design
Talk 2
9:45 – 10:15
Algorithmic Realism: Intersections of Metaphysics, Parasitism, and Machine Intelligence
Bassam El Baroni
Aalto University
Talk 3
10:15 – 10:45
Material Intelligence: The Entanglement of Reality in the Making
Dario Amenophi Perfigli
TU Delft
Discussion: 10:45-11:00
Artworks
/Installation
At LOGOI
EZ Quality Sorter V2
Verena Friedrich
Academy of Media Arts Cologne
Emotional Machine
Yamin Xu
Bowling Green State University
CREATURES
Samantha Tiussi
the_last_film_on_earth_run_1
Andrés Isaza Giraldo
University of Lisbon
Tlalli • Conversations with soil
Azucena Sanchez
Raw Reverberation
Sanja Brkanović Šikoparija
Voronoi Halo
Alistair McClymont
Mattering Living and Non-Living Systems
Masahiko Hara
(Installation at Theaterstraße 75)
11:00 – 11:15
Short Break
Track 01
Room Ford-Saal 1040|637
Moderator Aurora del Rio, Erich Berger
Talk 1
11:15 – 11:45
Cities, Ruins and Narrating Machines
Angeliki Poulou
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Studioentropia architects – Yota Passia & Panagiotis Roupas
Talk 2
11:45 – 12:15
Landscape Machines and The Patchy Anthropocene
Erich Berger
University of Oulu
Discussion: 12:45-13:00
Track 8
Panel 02
Room Conference Room 1040 | 531 – 5.31
Moderator Laura Beloff
Talk 1
11:15 – 11:45
Open-Source Para-Structures, Commoning Spaces in the Post-Digital Condition
Gregoire Rousseau
Aalto university, Department of Arts and Design
Talk 2
11:45 – 12:15
Parasitic Interfaces: Towards a Rhetoric of Dis/Connectivity
Charlotte Lengersdorf
Discussion: 12:45-13:00
Track 10
Room Generali Saal | 639
Moderator Juan Duarte
Talk 1
11:15 – 11:45
Ritualisation, Participatory Performance and Beyond in Polycrisis
Mari Keski-Korsu
Aalto University
Talk 2
11:45 – 12:15
Dissonance: Ecosystemic Intelligence and Entropy Patterns in Contemporary Art Practices
Claudio Filho
University of Campinas
Discussion: 12:45-13:00
Track 10
/Workshop
At LOGOI
11:15 – 13:15
Sibling-cenes: Building Narratives PostAnthropocene
H C-(M)
13:00 – 15:00
Lunch Break
Track 10
Room Ford-Saal 1040|637
Moderator Juan Duarte
Talk 1
15:00 – 15:30
Kristin Bergaust
Oslo Metropolitan University OsloMet
Talk 2
15:30 – 16:00
Lake Stechlin – Lake machine?
Björn Kröger
Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki
Talk 3
16:00 – 16:30
Unpredictable Atmosphere
Lucia Rebolino
Discussion: 16:30-16:45
Track 01
Room Generali Saal | 639
Moderator Aurora del Rio, Erich Berger
Talk 2
15:30 – 16:00
The lifecycles of automata: Materiality, degradation, and global narratives unwound
Pearl Agyakwa
University of Nottingham
Patrick Brundell
University of Nottingham
Talk 3
16:00 – 16:30
La Última Máquina [the Last Machine]
Santiago Cueto
Discussion: 16:30-16:45
Track 02
Room Conference Room 1040 | 531 – 5.31
Moderator Claudio Filho
Talk 1
15:00 – 15:30
Model Organisms and Modelled Organisms – A Perspective from Art & Science
Laura Beloff
Aalto University
Talk 2
15:30 – 16:00
Kin-to-kin with voice-to-voice: Post-anthropocene AI voice cloning experiments
Ada Ada Ada
IT University of Copenhagen
Stina Hasse Jørgensen
IT University of Copenhagen
Jonas Fritsch
IT University of Copenhagen
Talk 3
16:00 – 16:30
Human-AI Interaction Design (HAIID): Synthetic Personae, Shoggoths and Alignment
William Morgan
UC Berkeley
Discussion: 16:30-16:45
Track 06
Panel 01
Room LOGOI
Moderator Martina Leeker, Konstanze Schütze
15:00 – 15:20
197 – Probing Non-Anthropocentric Vulnerabilities for More-Than-Human Care.
(Closed Performative PANEL)
Martina Leeker
Universität zu Köln
Konstanze Schütze
PH Karlsruhe
16:45 – 17:00
Short Break
Track 10
Room Ford-Saal 1040|637
Moderator Sebastián Lomelí
Talk 1
17:00 – 17:30
Attunement with the nonhuman through the Medium for Luminous Bacteria
Takumi Saeki
Graduate School of Design, Kyushu University
Kazuhiro Jo
Faculty of Design, Kyushu University
Nobuhiro Masuda
Faculty of Design, Kyushu University
Talk 2
17:30 – 18:00
Onto-epistemologies of fermenting microbes
Carolin Melia Brendel
(Academy of Fine Arts Vienna)
Talk 3
18:00 – 18:30
Algae Chorus
Yan Shao
New York University
Discussion: 18:30-18:45
Track 2
Room Generali Saal | 639
Moderator Laura Beloff
Talk 1
17:00 – 17:30
Enchanted Machines that Enchant: Embodiment of Common Sense in Robotics
Andrei Korbut
KHK Cultures of Research
Talk 2
17:30 – 18:00
Archetypes and the Dream of the Radioactive Nucleus: Towards an Affective Understanding of the Agency of Radioactivity
Aurora Del Rio
Aalto University
Talk 3
18:00 – 18:30
Redefining Lifelikeness in the Age of AI
Peter Friess
Independent Researcher
Discussion: 18:30-18:45
Track 08
Room Conference Room 1040 | 531 – 5.31
Moderator Mari Keski-Korsu
Talk 1
17:00 – 17:30
Parasitism as Material for Art : The Case of Moths
Tincuta Heinzel
Loughborough University
Talk 2
17:30 – 18:00
Evolutionary Deviance: deforming the exceptional individual
Cynthia Blanchette
Aalto University
Talk 3
18:00 – 18:30
machine_in_the_middle, Dark Patterns of Human-Computer Integration
Rod Dickinson
The University of The West of England
Nathan Semertzidis
Monash University
Discussion: 18:30-18:45
19:00 – 20:00
Artworks & Installations
at LOGOI
Starting
Monday, 22.04.2024
EZ Quality Sorter V2
Verena Friedrich
Academy of Media Arts Cologne
Emotional Machine
Yamin Xu
Bowling Green State University
CREATURES
Samantha Tiussi
the_last_film_on_earth_run_1
Andrés Isaza Giraldo
University of Lisbon
Tlalli • Conversations with soil
Azucena Sanchez
Raw Reverberation
Sanja Brkanović Šikoparija
Voronoi Halo
Alistair McClymont
Mattering Living and Non-Living Systems
Masahiko Hara
(Installation at Theaterstraße 75)