N. Katherine Hayles, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emerita of Literature, Duke University
Terramorphosis II: Patterns Symposium
Deadline Expired on January 26, 2024
Friday, January 264:30 AM New York l 9:30 AM Vienna
This day-long symposium at Birkbeck College in London from the Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network features leading scholars in the digital humanities, who will explore the intersection of the biological, the geological, and the digital. Through concepts of morphogenesis (the biological development of form) and pattern formation, the symposium will invite a cross-disciplinary group of scholars to discuss overlapping histories and theories of computation, materiality, and information in both Western and non-Western contexts.
The symposium will consider forms of life, intelligence and communication that extend beyond fixed boundaries of the human, the organic, and the machine. It will explore questions of biological and computation neural networks; human and plant communication; geological and architectural structures; ecological and social systems.
The event brings together leading scholars in the Digital Humanities (N. Katherine Hayles, Wolfgang Ernst, Mark Hansen); the Sciences (Peter Fratzl, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Giuseppe Longo, Paco Calvo) and Art and Design Theory (Olga Goriunova, Patricia Ribault).
The symposium is organized by EHCN member Joel McKim (Birkbeck), Scott Lash (Goldsmiths) and Shiqiao Li (University of Virginia). It is supported by OSUN's Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network; the Vasari Research Centre for Art and Technology; Theory, Culture & Society; the University of Virginia School of Architecture; and the Birkbeck Strategic Research Fund.
Cross Reference: Conference,Opportunities,Experimental Humanities