Conference Program
THURSDAY, November 20
16:00-18:00 Registration
ZKM Foyer
19:00-21:30 Reception
Restaurant Mediterane
FRIDAY, November 21
Session: Belief Systems Under Construction (10:00-12:30)
Chair: Misha Bielicky, ZKM
10:00-10:40 Contemporary Christian Arts in China
Yiyi Chen, Beijing University
10:40-11:00 BREAK
11:00-11:40 Astronomical Creation Myths and the Mathematical Universe
Wayne Horowitz, Hebrew University
11:40-12:30 Do You Believe in the User?
Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied, Merz Akademie Stuttgart
12:30-13:30 LUNCH BREAK
Session: DIY Belief Systems (13:30-16:30)
Chair: Theo J.H. Krispijn, Leiden University
13:30-14:10 A Culture of Technological Obsolescence
Marcin Ramocki, New Jersey City University
14:10-14:50 K. Marx and the Destiny of Classical Art
Dmitry Gutov, Lifshitz Institute Moscow
14:50-15:00 BREAK
15:00-15:40 Pataphysics: The Science of Imaginary Solutions
Joey Skaggs, Joey Skaggs Presentations
15:40-16:30 From (music) Minimalism to (media) Maximalism
Barbara London, MoMA NYC
16:30-18:00 Explore ZKM Media Museum: Exhibition YOU-ser:
Walk through with: Anja Gossens, ZKM & Barbara London, MoMA NYC & Misha Bielicky, ZKM
18:00-20:00 DINNER BREAK
20:00-21:30 Film: 8bit
Marcin Ramocki, Director of 8bit
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22
Session: Belief Systems, The Musical (10:00-12:30)
Chair: Marcin Ramocki, New Jersey City University
10:00-10:40 Animals Making Music
Bo Lawergren, Hunter College NYC
10:40-11:00 BREAK
11:00-11:40 The New Raw Unconsciousness
Luke Murphy, Lukelab NYC
11:40-12:30 Sumerian Cultic Songs and Music
Theo J.H. Krispijn, Leiden University
12:30-13:30 LUNCH BREAK
Session: Architecture, Design, and Tradition (13:30-16:30)
Chair: Wayne Horowitz, Hebrew University
13:30-14:10 Sinan’s Sculptural Architecture in Istanbul
Muzaffer Ozgules, METU Ankara
14:10- 14:50 Race, Language, and Culture in Nineteenth Century Science
Netanel Anor, Hebrew University
14:50- 15:10 BREAK
15:10-15:50 Adoration of the King’s Image
Naomi May, Freie Universitat Berlin
15:50-16:30 Medicine: where religion and science meet
Irene Sibbing, Leiden University
16:30-17:10 Avantgarde is nur das
Bazon Brock, Wuppertal University
18:00-22:00 ZKM EXHIBITION “MEDIUM RELIGION”
Opening 18:00-19:30
Reception (Buffet) 19:30-22:00
SUNDAY, November 23
Session: An Old New Perspective (10:00-12:30)
Chair: Yiyi Chen, Peking University
10:00-10:40 Talmud Design and the Internet
Mel Alexenberg, Emunah College Israel
10:40-11:00 BREAK
11:00-11:40 The future will never be what it used to be
Misha Bielicky, ZKM
11:40-12:30 Reflections on Modern Belief Systems
Discussion: Chasm between Contemporary Art and Ancient History
FAREWELL