[NetBehaviour] Reading Room #13 - Becoming Monstrous - The Hague - this 6th October

[Marco Donnarumma]

[sorry for x-posting]

You're cordially invited:

October 6th 2016
17-19h
Location:  Stroom Den Haag
Guest Readers:  Maciej Ozog, Marco Donnarumma

Texts: Rosi Braidotti, Joanna Zylinska, Vivian Sobchack, Rafael
Lozano-Hemmer

Followed by: The Reading Room #14 – Becoming Monstrous part II
<http://iiinitiative.org/event/the-reading-room-13-becoming-monstrous-part-ii/>

*Becoming Monstrous – **A Species for Which We Do Not Yet Have a Name*

The concept of the technological body, a term originally coined by Donna
Haraway, refers to an amalgam of biology and technology which co-constitute
an individual subject. This notion has by and large invaded and submitted
to the mainstream cultural imagination. Through the celebration of
body-machines, cell-machines, and bio-systems of the future the
technological body, a very real thing, has become an object of spectacle
and of horror. Simultaneously, as forces of thought within queer-, gender-
and bio-politics engage in a highly critical investigation of these
systems, artistic practice potentially offers another way of thinking,
navigating both aesthetic and critical dimensions to draw out the fault
lines between body, prosthetics and power; becoming cyborg and becoming
monstrous. But how to proceed?

For this cluster of reading rooms we are happy to be joined by two guest
readers whose research lies at the cutting edge of these themes, and will
guide us in thinking through tools for artists to consider prostheses,
technological extensions and biosystems beyond the self-perpetuating tropes
of the sensational, spectacular and dystopian.

*Please reserve a spot by sending an email to platformtm at gmail.com
<platformtm at gmail.com>. We will also provide you with a copy of the texts.*

Invited Guests:

*Dr. Maciej Ożóg* is a sound artist and media theorist who has authored
numerous articles concerning aesthetics of new media art, critical art,
avant-garde film, video, and experimental music. His research focuses on
surveillance studies, information and network society, tactical media, bio
art and posthumanism. He is a lecturer at the Department of Electronic
Media, University of Lodz, Poland, and in 2007 received a postdoctoral
grant from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for the project
“Surveillance as Theme and Method of New Media Art”, with a book of the
same title will published in 2015. In 2012 he received a grant from the
National Science Centre for the research project “New Media Art as Critical
Praxis”. Ozog is a member of Art & Science Meeting Project in the Centre
for Contemporary Art in Gdansk, and is a member of the Inter-Society for
Electronic Art, and Polish Society of Cultural Studies.

*Marco Donnarumma* is a unique presence in contemporary performance,
distinguishing himself by his use of emerging technology to deliver body
performances that are at once intimate and powerful, oneiric and
uncompromising, sensual and confrontational. Working with biotechnology,
biophysical sensing, and more recently artificial intelligence and
neurorobotics, Donnarumma expresses the chimerical nature of the body with
a new and unsettling intensity. He is renown for his skill in using sound,
whose physicality and depth he exploits to create experiences of
instability, awe, shock and entrainment.

Donnarumma holds a PhD in Computing from Goldsmiths, University of London
and presently is a Research Fellow at the Universität der Künste Berlin. He
is the editor of the first audiovisual anthology of biophysical music,
published by the *Computer Music Journal* (MIT Press), and *Biotechnological
Performance Practice* (*eContact!* 14.2), a comprehensive journal
publication on biotech and the performing arts. Forthcoming books chapters
will appear in the *Oxford Handbook of Music and the Body* (Oxford Univ.
Press with Atau Tanaka) and in *Unconventional Computing for Music*
(Springer).

*The Reading Room <http://iiinitiative.org/production/the-reading-room/> is
a series of reading groups revolving around short texts provided by invited
guests – contemporary researchers, cultural theorists, philosophers and
artists – who join us to provide insight and context to the topics at hand.
The Reading Room is a joint cooperation between the artist-initiatives
Platform for Thought in Motion and iii.*


*This edition of The Reading Room is made possible as part of the artist
residency program <http://iiinitiative.org/residencies/> hosted by iii in
partnership with DCR guest studios <http://www.gueststudio.com/> and with
the financial support of Stroom Den Haag <http://www.stroom.nl/> and the
Creative Industries Fund NL <http://www.creativeindustriesfund.nl/>.*



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Marco Donnarumma, Ph.D

*Performing bodies, sound and machines**Universität der Künste Berlin*
http://marcodonnarumma.com



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