[oldboys] Re: symposium in Ljubljana, fwd by Grzinic

["Marina Grzinic" <margrz@zrc-sazu.si>]

BIOTECHNOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY and SEX
Conference on Trans-sexuality, New Mediatechnologies & Gender
10-13, October 2002, Ljubljana



CONCEPT: Marina Grzinic, Maria Klonaris and Katerina Thomadaki



TOPICS: cyberfeminism, cloning, global culture/global nature, politics,
gender strategies, extraordinary bodies, aesthetics

The international conference/symposium is about philosophical and
interdisciplinary (artistic, cultural, political) re-consideration of
science and technology, biochips and organs, male and female
(trans-sexuality). The development of various forms of observation in space
in connection with very special forms of human perception tend to efface the
duality of body and mind. The relationship between the body, the machine,
the sexual and prosthetical opens an array of epistemological and
philosophical questions. Today we see a process of fostering disembodiment
within new media technologies, opening crucial questions regarding the
politics of representation and the semiotics of articulation of different
bodies in different spaces. Last but not least we will have to further
question implications concerning specific representational strategies that
focus on the human body, developing systems and paradigms, structures and
matrices of representations of historically, gender and class-determined
bodies.

PARTICIPANTS:

Marie-Luise Angerer (Germany)

Caroline Bassett (Great Britain)

Sarah Franklin (Great Britain)

Marina Grzinic (Slovenia)

Amelia Jones (USA)

Maria Klonaris/Katerina Thomadaki (France)

Marie-José Mondzain (France)

Claudia Reiche (Germany)

Karin Spaink (Netherlands)

Jackie Stacey (Great Britain)







CONFERENCE AND FILM PROGRAM

THURSDAY, 10, October, 2002

FILM PROGRAM

At 20.00, Slovenian Cinematheque, Ljubljana

A HOMAGE TO SANDRA LAHIRE (1950-2001)
Curated by Maria KLONARIS & Katerina THOMADAKI


The Sylvia Plath Trilogy by Sandra Lahire:

1. Lady Lazarus, 16 mm, colour, 25 min, 1991

2. Night Dances, 16 mm, colour, 15 min, 1995

3. Johnny Panic, 16 mm, colour, 40 min, 2000





FRIDAY, 11, October, 2002


CONFERENCE

Place: CLUB CANKARJEV DOM, Ljubljana





14.00 Welcoming note by Marina Grzinic


14.15 -15.00 Caroline Bassett: STRETCHING BEFORE AND AFTER (THE BODY OF
NARRATIVE)


15.00-15.45 Marie-Luise Angerer: THE BODY BYTES BACK



15.45-16.30 Karin Spaink: CYBORGS: BEYOND DICHOTOMIES

16.30-17.00 coffee break

17.00-17.45 Maria Klonaris/Katerina Thomadaki: DISSIDENT BODIES IN THE
DIGITAL ERA

17.45-18.30 Marie-José Mondzain: FIGURES OF OTHERNESS AND DIFFERENCE IN
KLONARIS' & THOMADAKI'S WORK




FILM PROGRAM

At 20.00, Slovenian Cinematheque, Ljubljana

Maria KLONARIS / Katerina THOMADAKI
"L'ANGE AMAZONIEN. Un portrait de Lena Vandrey " ("THE AMAZONIAN ANGEL").

>From "THE PORTRAIT SERIES," 16mm, colour & b/w, sound, 92min., France, 1992


SATURDAY, 12, October 2002

CONFERENCE

Place: GALLERY KAPELICA, Ljubljana



15.00-15.45 Marina Grzinic: RUPTURE

15.45-16.30 Amelia Jones: FLÂNEURIAL BODIES: RECIPROCAL MAPPINGS OF THE
ARTIST AND URBAN SPACE

16.30-17.00 coffee break

17.00-17.45 Claudia Reiche: THE VISIBLE HUMAN PROJECT: ACCESSING AN OBSCENE
IMAGE BODY

17.45-18.30 Jackie Stacey: IMITATION OF LIFE: HOMOEROTICISM AND THE NEW
GENETICS IN THE CINEMA

18.30-19.15 Sarah Franklin: DOLLY'S BODY: GENDER, GENETICS AND THE NEW
GENETIC CAPITAL




Marie-Luise Angerer is Professor of Gender & Media at Academy of Media Arts
in Cologne, Germany. Her teaching and research areas are New Technology,
Media and Gender Studies, Body, Psychoanalysis, Art and Philosophy.

Caroline Bassett is a member of faculty in department of media and cultural
studies at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. She has written
extensively on digital technology, as a journalist and now as an academic.
She is currently working on The Arc and The Machine, a book on narrative and
new media.

Sarah Franklin is Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology of
Science at the Lancaster University, Great Britain, and as well as
researcher at the Centre for Science Studies, at Lancaster University. In
2001 she was the recipient of a Leverhulme Fellowship to complete a project
on cloning, Dolly Mixtures, which extends her interests in theories of
kinship and gender, the embodiment of progress, and new forms of genetic
capital.

Marina Grzinic Mauhler is researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the
ZRC SAZU (Scientific and Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Science
and Art) in Ljubljana. She also works as a freelance media theorist, art
critic and curator.

Amelia Jones is associate professor of art history at the University of
California at Riverside. Her last book is Body Art/Performing the Subject
(2001) which represents a reconception of the subjectivity of the artist and
the historian calling into question both the production and interpretation
of art.

Maria Klonaris and Katerina Thomadaki are media artists and filmmakers,
curators and theorists of Greek origin. Established in Paris since 1975,
they produce films, videos, multi-media installations, performances,
photographic pieces, sound and texts. Katerina Thomadaki is Maître de
conférences associé at the department of Visual Arts and Aesthetics,
University Paris I-Sorbonne and a researcher at the Collcge Iconique
(Inathcque de France), and at the Centre de Recherche sur l'Image (Ecole
doctorale, University Paris I-Sorbonne). http://mkangel.cjb.net

Marie-José Mondzain is a writer and a philosopher. Director of Research at
the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), she was also the
co-founder, with Régis Debray and Francis Denel, of the research center
"Collcge Iconique" at the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA).


Claudia Reiche is culture and media theorist, artist, curator and member of
the Women's Culture House Thealit Bremen. Reiche research is focused on
medical visualisation, artificial life and electronic entertainment and
especially on the Visible Human Project
(http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/koerperbilder).

Karin Spaink is a writer and essayist. She's fascinated by the intersection
between physical presence (bodies) and social and technological
surroundings. She has written about the Internet, cyborgs, gender,
pornography and trans-sexuality. Other important subjects are the right to
suicide, the relief that horror films provides, and the overall importance
of freedom of speech. www.spaink.net



Jackie Stacey is Professor in Women's Studies and Cultural Studies,
Department of Sociology, Lancaster University. She is Co-Editor of the film
and television studies journal Screen. Her recent book is Global Nature,
Global Culture (written with Sarah Franklin and Celia Lury, Sage
Publications, 2000).

Sandra Lahire (1950-2001), a major British avant-garde filmmaker, died
unexpectedly in July 2001. A deep thinker and a delicate imagist, brilliant
and vibrant, she left a cinematic legacy culminating in the Sylvia Plath
Trilogy.


PRODUCTION: MASKA, Ljubljana within the Seminar for contemporary performing
arts in collaboration with Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana


PARTNERS:
Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana and the Department for Humanity and Education at CD
(Barbara Rogelj)

CITY OF WOMEN, Ljubljana (Koen van Daele)
CNVOS - Fundation Center for information, collaboration and development of
the non-govermental organisations, Ljubljana (Natasa Sukic)

Gallery Kapelica, Ljubljana (Jurij Krpan)
Slovenian Cinematheque

ZRC SAZU- Scientific and Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Science
and Arts (dr. Oto Luthar, Director)

FI ZRC SAZU- Institute for philosophy ZRC SAZU

L'Institut Français Charles Nodier/French Institute Charles Nodier,
Ljubljana (Bernard Micaud, Director )

AFAA, Paris

Ministry for Information Society of Republic of Slovenia

Ministry of Education, Science and Sports of Republic of Slovenia

Goethe Institute, Zagreb

The Netherlands Embassy, Ljubljana

Maska
Metelkova 6
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
phone/fax +386 1 4313122
www.maska.si



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