ART SCIENCE dialogues: Natural Technologies
VU ART SCIENCE gallery and the Environmental Humanities Center present:
ART SCIENCE dialogues about Natural Technologies
The current exhibition features artworks that explore how technology mimics or interacts with biological, psychological, or physical processes. In a series of podcasts accompanying the exhibition, VU researchers from astrophysics, literature studies, law, and anthropology engage with the works from their scientific perspective. Today, the artists and researchers come together to discuss the potentials and insights to gain from ‘natural technologies’ and ‘multispecies cooperation’.
15:00-15:15 VU ARTSCIENCE gallery*: welcome
welcome and visit of the exhibition
15:15-15:30 NU Theatre 3*: introductions
Wende Wallert: ARTSCIENCE dialogues at the VU gallery
Sem Bannenberg: Welcome to the Symbiocene
15:30-16:15 NU Theatre 3: natural technologies / technological natures
Conversations with VU scholars and exhibiting artists, moderated by Katja Kwastek
Kristine Steenbergh & Vasilis Kokkoris: emotions & communication of non-human animals
Wanda Tuerlinckx & Rob van den Hoven van Genderen: identity and intelligence of robots
Raoul Frese & Christian Zwanikken: evolution and adaptation of plants
16:30-17:30 VU ARTSCIENCE gallery: reception
Reception with fresh spring rolls and cold drinks
*Both locations are in the NU building of VU Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1111
Please register by sending an e-mail to artsciencegallery@vu.nl
This event is part of a public programme of the exhibition NATURAL TECHNOLOGY. Welcome to the Symbiocene.