Room 137 Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths
Monday 18 June 2018, 4.30-6.30 PM
Organised by the Centre for Invention and Social Process (CISP)
Public Talk, Free Attendance
Speaker: Chris Salter, Concordia University / Hexagram / Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology
Abstract: How does one make art with techno-scientific procedures and stuff? Alien Agency is a book that I wrote in 2015 that explores what happens in creative practice when the materials of art and research behave and perform in ways beyond the creators’ intentions. In a weird mix between theory, biography, history and ethnography, the book aimed both to make links between art, design, STS, performance and media studies as well to understand how researcher-creators organize the conditions for new experimental, performative assemblages that mix art, technoscience and sociological construction–assemblages that sidestep dichotomies between subjects and objects, human and nonhuman, mind and body, knowing and experiencing.… Continue reading