Technisierung/Ästhetisierung - Technological and Aesthetic (Trans)Formations of Society

Darmstadt Technical University, October 12 to 14, 2005
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For the past nine years, the interdisciplinary graduate college “Technisierung und Gesellschaft” considered the technological (trans)formation of society. As the last cohort of doctoral students concludes its studies, the final conference widens the perspective and brings past researches to bear on the interplay of technological and aesthetic dimensions of formative processes in contemporary societies.

By foregrounding process, the conference goes beyond the iconic turn in science and technology studies. Rather than focus on images, it will explore the work that goes into producing self and society in the image of technology. This work involves constructions of time and space, it negotiates forces of globalization and localization, it construes self and nature as subject and object of technological shaping. This work also produces tensions between and among aesthetic and technological ideals.

Plenary Speakers:

Michael Hagner (Zürich, Switzerland)
A Brief History of Picturing Thoughts
Wolfgang Krohn (Bielefeld, Germany)
Aesthetics of Technology as Forms of Life
Jeffrey Meikle (Austin, USA)
Shifting Signifiers: Design as Mediator of Technology, Art, and Society
Thomas Sieverts (Bonn, Germany)
The role of aesthetics in designing on a scale of the city regions
Christa Sommerer (Gifu, Japan)
Interface Culture - the Art and Science of Invention
Gernot Böhme (Darmstadt, Germany)
Technical Gadgetery. Technology in the Context of Aesthetic Economy



There will be panels on:

Aesthetic Anticipation

Art, Technosciences, and Social Criticism

Metaphors in Science and Technology

The Aesthetic Dimensions of Warfare

Urban Spaces and Private Quarters

Lifeworlds - Natural or Artificial?

Technologies of Visualization

Normalizing by Images – Imaging Normalization

Design between Technology and Aesthetics

Technology as a Medium in the Arts

Normalizing and Cultural Technology Assessment

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Graduiertenkolleg 'Technisierung und Gesellschaft'

TU Darmstadt
Magdalenenstr. 10
TU-Kraftwerk
64283 Darmstadt
Tel.: 06151-164986

tagung-graduiertenkolleg [at] ifs-tu-darmstadt.de

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