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From: Joanna Griffin <joanna....@cept.ac.in>
Date: Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 10:53 PM
Subject: Creative encounters with science and technology / Kochi
Biennale India / Call for Participation
To: rma...@alum.mit.edu
Dear Roger,
Our call for participation has just gone online on the Kochi-Muziris
Biennale website:
http://kochimuzirisbiennale.org/creative-encounters/
Would be great if you could post this to your networks with the note
that the deadline is a fairly tight 18th December.
The call is below. Symposium dates 18th and 19th Feb 2017. Looking
forward to submissions.
all best,
Joanna
CREATIVE ENCOUNTERS WITH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Legacies, Imaginaries and Futures
at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016
February 18-19, 2017
Supported by
Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bengaluru
CEPT University, Ahmedabad
Transtechnology Research, Plymouth University, Plymouth UK
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
The convenors invite participants to present reflections, ongoing work
and first-hand accounts, tracing concerns and motivations within
transdisciplinary, creative encounters with science and technology. We
encourage submissions in formats that will challenge boundaries and
lend themselves to creative encounters and unconventional framings.
The broad themes around which we invite presentations are as follows:
● Experiential histories of science and technology in India (as
understood through Art/Science/Craft/Design/Technology encounters) and
their relevance now
● Aesthetics and imaginaries of Science and Technology
● Intellectual cosmopolitanism of artists, scientists, philosophers,
educators, architects, planners via collaborative forums such as
conferences, building projects and educational initiatives
● Legacies of technological/development
architecture/infrastructure/ideology from the 1960s and 1970s
● Material and visual culture of technology in scientific practice
● Philosophies of infrastructures including participatory infrastructures
● Mappings of epistemic communities across social geographies
In addition we invite contributions on other themes you consider
relevant to this framing of concerns.
CONCEPT NOTE
By focusing on creative encounters, the symposium aims to amplify
transdisciplinary negotiations of art and science via tangible
technologies and intangible infrastructures, through social domains As
a fresh wave of media ideologies enter India’s state policy, such as
in the form of the Smart Cities Mission, the symposium provides a
timely pause for reflection on the roots, legacies and consequences of
participatory technological infrastructures, in India as well as on
the global stage.
In the context of India, a thread we are interested in opening through
the symposium is the cosmopolitan, critical discourse that took place
in India through the 1960s to 1980s around the extent to which
development technologies, such as television, space technology,
farming methods and nuclear power delimited or extended agency.
Sources from this time that retrace concerns for intimacy within
large-scale infrastructure and its structural blind spots include
Johan Galtung’s ‘Violence, Peace and Peace Research’ (1969), Victor
Papanek’sDesign for the Real World (1971), Michel Foucault’s
Discipline and Punish (1977), Ivan Illich’s ‘The De-linking of Peace
and Development’ (1980), and Ashis Nandy’s ‘Counter-Statement on
Humanistic Temper’ (1981). In addition, the public discourse and
activities of key technocrats in India’s media histories, such as Yash
Pal and Vikram Sarabhai, forged connections between science,
technology, design and the arts. The notion of transdiciplinarity, as
used in recent times to describe temporary mobilisations of a range of
disciplinary perspectives in order to engage with emerging problems
(Nowotny, Scott and Gibbons, 2001), becomes a relevant analytical tool
with which to reassess less familiar patterns of creativity within
genealogies of art/science encounters.
Setting such discussions within the Kochi-Muziris Biennale draws
attention to the performance of science as experience, affect and
visuality, which marks artistic practices and intervention. It
highlights the intimate contexts in which large-scale technological
infrastructures are encountered. The symposium, as intervention, sets
out to critically re-examine historical experiences in order to better
negotiate future scenarios.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
We invite proposals for 20-minute paper presentations. Please send the
title, a 300 word abstract of your presentation and a brief biography
of the author/s.
The mail should be sent to: muth...@srishti.ac.in and joanna....@cept.ac.in
Last date for submission: December 18, 2016
If you would like to submit a creative work (e.g. film, performance,
other format) please also provide a web link and details of technical
and space requirements. There will be scope to present work at Mill
Hall, Mattancheri (a large warehouse building that includes a Fab Lab
maker space) on the evening of Feb 18, 2016, as well within the
symposium.
We hope to be able to offer travel bursaries to participants not
attached to institutions. Please indicate in your submission whether
you would require funding to attend.
CONVENORS
Dr Joanna Griffin is a UK artist who is currently a Teaching Fellow
conducting postdoctoral research at CEPT University, Ahmedabad in the
Faculty of Design. She is also Associate Researcher with
Transtechnology Research, Plymouth University and former
Artist-in-Residence at Srishti Institute of Art, Design and
Technology, where she led a three-year project called Moon Vehicle
that brought together space scientists, design students and children.
As an artist she has held an International Artist Fellowship at the
NASA Space Science Lab, UC Berkeley and devised a performance with
scientists from the Mullard Space Science Lab in the UK. Her current
research focuses on collaboration between the Indian space agency and
the National Institute of Design that took place in the 1970s in
Ahmedabad. She has presented in space industry conferences
internationally and writes about the motivations behind
transdisciplinary activities between artists and scientists.
Dr Muthatha Ramanathan is a human geographer who has conducted
extensive ethnographic research into the use of remote sensing
technologies by NGOs in Karnataka. In her dissertation research she
developed a place-based critique of technocratic spatial planning in
India. She is Faculty at Srishti Institute of Art, Design and
Technology leading the postgraduate programme in Land and Livelihood
Studies. Her current interests are centred around researching and
teaching across disciplinary boundaries, specifically working with
design students to historicise design and thereby develop connections
between the politics of place and difference, and art and design
practices.
--
Dr Joanna Griffin
Teaching Fellow, Faculty of Design, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India
http://cept.ac.in/
Associate Researcher, Transtechnology Research, Plymouth University,
United Kingdom http://www.trans-techresearch.net
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of interest - though far from the mediterranean
roger
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Joanna Griffin <joanna....@cept.ac.in>
Date: Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 10:53 PM
Subject: Creative encounters with science and technology / Kochi
Biennale India / Call for Participation
To: rma...@alum.mit.edu
Dear Roger,
Our call for participation has just gone online on the Kochi-Muziris
Biennale website:
http://kochimuzirisbiennale.org/creative-encounters/
Would be great if you could post this to your networks with the note
that the deadline is a fairly tight 18th December.
The call is below. Symposium dates 18th and 19th Feb 2017. Looking
forward to submissions.
all best,
Joanna
CREATIVE ENCOUNTERS WITH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Legacies, Imaginaries and Futures
at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016
February 18-19, 2017
Supported by
Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bengaluru
CEPT University, Ahmedabad
Transtechnology Research, Plymouth University, Plymouth UK
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
The convenors invite participants to present reflections, ongoing work
and first-hand accounts, tracing concerns and motivations within
transdisciplinary, creative encounters with science and technology. We
encourage submissions in formats that will challenge boundaries and
lend themselves to creative encounters and unconventional framings.
The broad themes around which we invite presentations are as follows:
● Experiential histories of science and technology in India (as
understood through Art/Science/Craft/Design/Technology encounters) and
their relevance now
● Aesthetics and imaginaries of Science and Technology
● Intellectual cosmopolitanism of artists, scientists, philosophers,
educators, architects, planners via collaborative forums such as
conferences, building projects and educational initiatives
● Legacies of technological/development
architecture/infrastructure/ideology from the 1960s and 1970s
● Material and visual culture of technology in scientific practice
● Philosophies of infrastructures including participatory infrastructures
● Mappings of epistemic communities across social geographies
In addition we invite contributions on other themes you consider
relevant to this framing of concerns.
CONCEPT NOTE
By focusing on creative encounters, the symposium aims to amplify
transdisciplinary negotiations of art and science via tangible
technologies and intangible infrastructures, through social domains As
a fresh wave of media ideologies enter India’s state policy, such as
in the form of the Smart Cities Mission, the symposium provides a
timely pause for reflection on the roots, legacies and consequences of
participatory technological infrastructures, in India as well as on
the global stage.
In the context of India, a thread we are interested in opening through
the symposium is the cosmopolitan, critical discourse that took place
in India through the 1960s to 1980s around the extent to which
development technologies, such as television, space technology,
farming methods and nuclear power delimited or extended agency.
Sources from this time that retrace concerns for intimacy within
large-scale infrastructure and its structural blind spots include
Johan Galtung’s ‘Violence, Peace and Peace Research’ (1969), Victor
Papanek’sDesign for the Real World (1971), Michel Foucault’s
Discipline and Punish (1977), Ivan Illich’s ‘The De-linking of Peace
and Development’ (1980), and Ashis Nandy’s ‘Counter-Statement on
Humanistic Temper’ (1981). In addition, the public discourse and
activities of key technocrats in India’s media histories, such as Yash
Pal and Vikram Sarabhai, forged connections between science,
technology, design and the arts. The notion of transdiciplinarity, as
used in recent times to describe temporary mobilisations of a range of
disciplinary perspectives in order to engage with emerging problems
(Nowotny, Scott and Gibbons, 2001), becomes a relevant analytical tool
with which to reassess less familiar patterns of creativity within
genealogies of art/science encounters.
Setting such discussions within the Kochi-Muziris Biennale draws
attention to the performance of science as experience, affect and
visuality, which marks artistic practices and intervention. It
highlights the intimate contexts in which large-scale technological
infrastructures are encountered. The symposium, as intervention, sets
out to critically re-examine historical experiences in order to better
negotiate future scenarios.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
We invite proposals for 20-minute paper presentations. Please send the
title, a 300 word abstract of your presentation and a brief biography
of the author/s.
The mail should be sent to: muth...@srishti.ac.in and joanna....@cept.ac.in
Last date for submission: December 18, 2016
If you would like to submit a creative work (e.g. film, performance,
other format) please also provide a web link and details of technical
and space requirements. There will be scope to present work at Mill
Hall, Mattancheri (a large warehouse building that includes a Fab Lab
maker space) on the evening of Feb 18, 2016, as well within the
symposium.
We hope to be able to offer travel bursaries to participants not
attached to institutions. Please indicate in your submission whether
you would require funding to attend.
CONVENORS
Dr Joanna Griffin is a UK artist who is currently a Teaching Fellow
conducting postdoctoral research at CEPT University, Ahmedabad in the
Faculty of Design. She is also Associate Researcher with
Transtechnology Research, Plymouth University and former
Artist-in-Residence at Srishti Institute of Art, Design and
Technology, where she led a three-year project called Moon Vehicle
that brought together space scientists, design students and children.
As an artist she has held an International Artist Fellowship at the
NASA Space Science Lab, UC Berkeley and devised a performance with
scientists from the Mullard Space Science Lab in the UK. Her current
research focuses on collaboration between the Indian space agency and
the National Institute of Design that took place in the 1970s in
Ahmedabad. She has presented in space industry conferences
internationally and writes about the motivations behind
transdisciplinary activities between artists and scientists.
Dr Muthatha Ramanathan is a human geographer who has conducted
extensive ethnographic research into the use of remote sensing
technologies by NGOs in Karnataka. In her dissertation research she
developed a place-based critique of technocratic spatial planning in
India. She is Faculty at Srishti Institute of Art, Design and
Technology leading the postgraduate programme in Land and Livelihood
Studies. Her current interests are centred around researching and
teaching across disciplinary boundaries, specifically working with
design students to historicise design and thereby develop connections
between the politics of place and difference, and art and design
practices.
--
Dr Joanna Griffin
Teaching Fellow, Faculty of Design, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India
http://cept.ac.in/
Associate Researcher, Transtechnology Research, Plymouth University,
United Kingdom http://www.trans-techresearch.net
Disclaimer : The information transmitted with this email is intended
only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain
confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission,
dissemination or other use of this information by persons or entities
other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this
in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any
computer.
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