Call for Participation
Technology, Art and the Posthuman: The End or a New Beginning for Humanism
A (free) transdisciplinary conference
May 13, 2023 & May 14, 2023
John Cabot University, Guarini Campus, Rome, Italy
https://calendar.johncabot.edu/event/technology-art-and-the-posthuman-the-end-or-a-new-beginning-for-humanism-1/
Submission deadline: March 6, 2023
A transdisciplinary conference seeks to foster transdisciplinary and intercultural conversations among artists, technologists, humanists, and natural scientists presenting their work in areas such as literature, philosophy, ethics, psychology, music, fine arts, bodywork, and intercultural knowledge. The conference accepts papers and art works that encourage scholars, artists, intellectuals, scientists, and technologists to reflect on the emerging cultural and humanist paradigm that views the “human” (in its various forms) as a part of a larger interconnected system and an emerging posthuman era. Is life evolving beyond humanism? To a non-dualist view of humans as part of a systemic view of nature, life, technology, science, and humanity.
The conference is designed to actively break down traditional barriers, prejudices, and misunderstandings between these different fields of human expertise. A chance to foster a complex systemic understanding of life, nature, humanity, technology, and science, as well as to engage with some of the most powerful voices in art, science, philosophy, and medicine on issues concerning life, the environment, culture, and their mutual relationships.
Artists who use biotechnological, digital, electronic, or robotic tools to alter entities in the lifeworld, as well as cryptoart, bioart, deep learning generated music, and cyborg performances. Scholars and artists, technologists and performers are encouraged to present their work at the conference and bring it to life in a shared human, living, or digital space. All contributing to a new understanding of human beings as non-dualist entities and parts of a bigger systemic thinking of nature, life, science, and humanity and to reflect on the role of a novel form of humanism in the era of Technology, Art and the PostHuman.
The conference will host two unique events:
- Keynote by Prof. Stefan Lorenz Sorgner together with composer Sven Helbig
- Final concert to close the conference by Sven Helbig and Choir
Abstracts for presentations, artworks, performances, concerts should be sent to futureandinnovation@johncabot.edu.
Deadline: March 6, 2023
If you are interested in attending the event, please send an email to futureandinnovation@johncabot.edu. Participation is free of charge.
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https://calendar.johncabot.edu/event/technology-art-and-the-posthuman-the-end-or-a-new-beginning-for-humanism-1/