Second Variantology Workshop, Cologne,
on Deep Time Relations of the Arts, Sciences and Technology
on Deep Time Relations of the Arts, Sciences and Technology
December 1-3, 2005, Academy of Arts & the Media Cologne,
Siegfried Zielinski with David Link. Office: Bettina Wengler (kmwArch@khm.de)
Siegfried Zielinski with David Link. Office: Bettina Wengler (kmwArch@khm.de)
The First Variantology Workshop in 2004 already gathered together researchers with a wide spectrum of different fields and approaches - thematically, methodically, and theoretically. These ranged from Amador Vega's philosophical interpretation of the Catalonian master of the combinatory art, Ramon Llull (1232/3-1316), to Henning Schmidgen's analysis of various machines for measuring time in nineteenth century experiments. The volume presenting the workshop results is now available and each participant of the Second Variantology Workshop will receive a copy.
Provocative diversity is an integral part of the concept, and it will also shape the Second Workshop in 2005. In addition, we are also very keen to follow through on certain thematic strands in more depth. These include the relationships between East and West as well as between North and South. It is planned that one of the next Variantology Workshops will focus on the encounter of researchers from Iran and Iraq with researchers from the West. This year, we have invited researchers from Russia and Hungary, and colleagues from Western Europe and USA, who work on developments in Eastern Europe. Here, our thematic interest centres on variants that have been shaped by the relation between strategies of formalisation in the sciences and in psycho/neurological praxes, as well as how this influenced the first avant-garde movement in the twentieth century.
Our interest in music (traditionally conceptualised as scientia subordinata to mathematics), we want to develop further; also the meta-discussion on the variantological as a possible alternative to ontologisation, a discussion that the arts appear to have great difficulty in extricating themselves from.
During the first workshop the fascinating British mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer John Dee (1527-1607) appeared in a number of connections. Unjustly and regrettably, today Dee is taken up primarily in an esoteric perspective. At the second workshop we will take a closer look at Dr. Dee. The popularisation of mathematics and geometry, which he pursued in the sixteenth century, was an important prerequisite for the later changes and modifications to their paradigms.
This are some indications giving a rough idea of the themes that we shall engage with. The decisive dimension is what happens when the participants and guests meet and enter into a process of exchange. The work processes in Variantology require intellectual flexibility and spontaneity. Our workshops provide a framework for this.
Guests: David Bychkov (New York) Kristoffer Gansing & Linda Hilfling (Copenhagen) Anthony Moore (London) Mara Mills (Cambridge/MA) Margit Rosen (Karlsruhe) Lioudmila Voropai (Moscow/Cologne) Silvia Wagnermaier (Austria) Gabor Zemplen (Budapest).
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Provocative diversity is an integral part of the concept, and it will also shape the Second Workshop in 2005. In addition, we are also very keen to follow through on certain thematic strands in more depth. These include the relationships between East and West as well as between North and South. It is planned that one of the next Variantology Workshops will focus on the encounter of researchers from Iran and Iraq with researchers from the West. This year, we have invited researchers from Russia and Hungary, and colleagues from Western Europe and USA, who work on developments in Eastern Europe. Here, our thematic interest centres on variants that have been shaped by the relation between strategies of formalisation in the sciences and in psycho/neurological praxes, as well as how this influenced the first avant-garde movement in the twentieth century.
Our interest in music (traditionally conceptualised as scientia subordinata to mathematics), we want to develop further; also the meta-discussion on the variantological as a possible alternative to ontologisation, a discussion that the arts appear to have great difficulty in extricating themselves from.
During the first workshop the fascinating British mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer John Dee (1527-1607) appeared in a number of connections. Unjustly and regrettably, today Dee is taken up primarily in an esoteric perspective. At the second workshop we will take a closer look at Dr. Dee. The popularisation of mathematics and geometry, which he pursued in the sixteenth century, was an important prerequisite for the later changes and modifications to their paradigms.
This are some indications giving a rough idea of the themes that we shall engage with. The decisive dimension is what happens when the participants and guests meet and enter into a process of exchange. The work processes in Variantology require intellectual flexibility and spontaneity. Our workshops provide a framework for this.
Planned Participants (November 05)
Amir Alexander (Los Angeles) Peter Blegvad (London) Arianna Borrelli (Berlin/Rome) Steven Vanden Broecke (Brussels) Oksana Bulgakova (Stanford) Andrea Hacker (Dublin) Sebastian Klotz (Leipzig/Berlin) Alla Mitrofanova (St. Petersburg) Miklos Peternak (Budapest) Koen Vermeir (Leuven/Ithaca) Peter Weibel (Karlsruhe/Vienna).Guests: David Bychkov (New York) Kristoffer Gansing & Linda Hilfling (Copenhagen) Anthony Moore (London) Mara Mills (Cambridge/MA) Margit Rosen (Karlsruhe) Lioudmila Voropai (Moscow/Cologne) Silvia Wagnermaier (Austria) Gabor Zemplen (Budapest).
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