NEW YORK MAGAZINE OF CONTEMPORARY ART AND THEORY

Issue 1.5. Scenes of Knowledge

2011-04-29T10:27:00.000-07:00

Editorial; by Alwin Franke

Alwin Franke studies Comparative Literature, History and Philosophy at Freie University in Berlin. He was invited by New York Magazine of Contemporary Art and Theory as the first external guest editor.

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Issue 1.5. Scenes of Knowledge

2011-04-29T10:25:00.000-07:00

The Stage of Philosophy. A conversation between Michel Foucault and Moriaki Watanabe

Michel Foucault was a French historian of systems of thought. He described his theoretical project as the attempt to write a Critical History of Thought. Amongst his most important publications rank History of Madness, The Birth of the Clinic, The Order of Things, Discipline and Punish and History of Sexuality. Michel Foucault died in 1984.

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Issue 1.5. Scenes of Knowledge

2011-04-29T10:23:00.000-07:00

The Scene of (Media-) Technological Superiority, by Erhard Schüttpelz

Erhard Schüttpelz is Professor of Media Theory at the University of Siegen. His latest publications include Die Moderne im Spiegel des Primitiven. Weltliteratur und Ethnologie 1870-1960, Paderborn 2005, Bruno Latours Kollektive (ed. with Georg Kneer and Marcus Schroer), Frankfurt/Main 2008, Trancemedien und Neue Medien um 1900 (ed. with Marcus Hahn), Bielefeld 2009. Next publication: Akteur-Medien-Theorie (ed. with Tristan Thielmann), Bielefeld 2011.

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Issue 1.5. Scenes of Knowledge

2011-04-29T10:16:00.000-07:00

Mimesis and Suspicion. Towards a Poetology of Knowledge; by Joseph Vogl

The Black Swan; by Joseph Vogl

The shamefacedness of functional elements; A conversation with Joseph Vogl

Joseph Vogl is Professor of German Literature, Cultural and Media Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin and permanent visiting professor at Princeton University. His latest books include Kalkül und Leidenschaft. Poetik des ökonomischen Menschen, München 2002, Über das Zaudern, Berlin 2007, Politische Zoologie (ed. with Anne von der Heiden), Berlin 2007, Das Gespenst des Kapitals, Berlin 2010.

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Issue 1.5. Scenes of Knowledge

2011-04-29T09:53:00.001-07:00

Rete Mirabile. The Circulation of Voices in Philip Scheffner's Halfmoon Files; by Friedrich Balke

Friedrich Balke is Professor for History and Theory of Artificial Worlds at the Media Faculty, Bauhaus-University Weimar and spokesperson of the graduate school “Media of History, History of History”.

His areas of teaching and research focus on the cultural history of political sovereignty and legal theory, governmentality and modern biopolitics, interrelations of media and forms of knowledge, aesthetic theory and French philosophy. He has held visiting professorships at Columbia University, New York and at the University of Konstanz. His books and essays include Der Staat nach seinem Ende. Die Versuchung Carl Schmitts, Munich 1996; Gilles Deleuze (Frankfurt/New York 1997), Ästhetische Regime um 1800 (co-edited with Harun Maye & Leander Scholz), Munich 2008, and Figuren der Souveränität, Munich 2009; “From a Biopolitical Point of View: Nietzsche's Philosophy of Crime”, in: Peter Goodrich, Mariana Valverde (Hg.): Nietzsche and Legal Theory. Half-Written Laws, New York, London: Routledge 2005, S. 49-65; “Governmentalization of the State: Rousseau’s Contribution to the Modern History of Governmentality”, in: Ulrich Bröckling/Susanne Krasmann/Thomas Lemke (Hg.): Governmentality. Current Issues and Future Challenges, New York: Routledge 2011, S. 74-92.

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Issue 1.4. Zones of Happening; by Federica Bueti

2011-01-24T09:28:00.000-08:00

Born in Scilla, Italy, 1982. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Federica Bueti is an independent curator and writer interested in performance art practice, time based or ephemeral and temporary activities. Bueti founded the online magazine PIANOmagazine.org, and less/express, commissioned by the American Academy in Rome and exhibited at The Building, the e-flux space in Berlin, Germany. She is co-editor of MENT, a quarterly online journal for contemporary culture, art and politics (www.journalment.org). Bueti contributed to Flash Art, Exibart, Artandeducation-paper, Arte e Critica, Artslant, and Fantom Magazine. The essay "Nothing to see in the mirror-On the perpetual movement of sound", has been included in a recent publication about sound and public sphere edited by Errant Bodies and Atelier Nord. She worked as exhibition assistant at the Alighiero e Boetti Foundation in Rome, Italy. Since 2008 she regularly collaborates with the Radio Arte Mobile-Rome, a non-profit organization active in the promotion and experimentation on sound.

Bueti completed her BA in Media Theory and Communication Studies at Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione, IULM, Milan. In 2007 the MA in Curating Contemporary Art at the Brera Academy, Milan, and in 2009 the first Gwangju Biennale Curatorial Course, an annual curatorial course organized by Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea. Federica Bueti is member of IKT, International Association of curators of contemporary art.

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Issue 1.4. Thoughts on Photography and Consciousness; by Philip Heying

2011-01-23T06:29:00.000-08:00

Photo credit: Ryan McGeeney, 2010

Philip Heying is a photographer living in Lawrence, Kansas. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, he acquired a passion for photography at a young age, and learned the craft of black & white film and print development while in middle school. Heying graduated with a BFA in Painting in 1983 from the University of Kansas.

While studying art at KU, Heying received the Sterling Scholarship, an Undergraduate Research Award, and sold a number of paintings. During his time in Lawrence, Kansas, Heying met William S. Burroughs and began a friendship that endured until Burroughs’s death in 1997. Burroughs’s circle of friends, from Albert Hoffman and Allen Ginsberg, to Brion Gysin and Timothy Leary provided artistic insight and guidance for Heying, and during this time his focus shifted from painting to photography exclusively.

Soon after college, curiosity to experience another culture led Heying to France, via coal freighter. Paris not only offered him the possibility of learning a new language, but also a new way of looking at the world and building on his photographic sensibilities.

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Issue 1.3. Transgression, difference, and the non-sense of the outside, by Ben Overlaet

2010-09-07T10:26:00.000-07:00

Ben Overlaet is Master in Philosophy, Master in Visual Research, writer and musician. He studied philosophy and literature at the university of Ghent and the university of Antwerp, and completed his academic studies with a dissertation on Derrida’s thoughts on difference and the topicality of deconstruction, with distinctive attention to the deconstructive character of irony and the deconstruction of the term ‘terror’.

He just finished the postgraduate program Visual Research at St. Lucas in Antwerp with honors, and will start his doctoral study at the University of Brussels in the Fall of 2010. This study will involve a critique on the metaphysical contents in art and theory, i.e. dualism, the problem of presence, interpretation and meaning.

Ben Overlaet is also author of several essays that discuss topics that act on the metaphysical idea of presence and the dualistic character of art interpretation.

He is also founder and editor-in-chief of (Con)text. An internet-run magazine for art and philosophy, through which he ambitions to establish an even more differentiated image as an answer to the modernistic desire for unambiguous presence and singularity.

Ben Overlaet is a member of the experimental, noise-grunge band Tithonus.

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Issue 1.2 Baudelaire in Cyberspace; Dialogue 4: Violence, Transgression, and Modernity; by Antoon Van den Braembussche & Angelo Vermeulen

2009-07-19T05:21:00.000-07:00

Photo: Tom Van Laere

Baudelaire in Cyberspace. Dialogue 4: Violence, Transgression, and Modernity

In this dialogue between art philosopher Antoon Van den Braembussche and artist Angelo Vermeulen, the contemporary fascination with violence and cruelty is explored. The mechanisms in which extreme violence is represented in modern media are discussed, while making multiple references to philosophical theory and historical events. The authors identify transgression as a core component of modernity, and go on to discuss terrorism and religion in this light. Awareness of hypermediality is seen as empowerment in dealing with media's depiction of extreme degrees of violence, in particular, computer games.

Antoon Van den Braembussche (1946) has taught philosophy of history and philosophy of art at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam from 1980 until 2007. He currently teaches, on a part time basis, art criticism at the Free University of Brussels. Van den Braembussche was Visiting Professor at the University of Bielefeld, Calcutta University, Javdapour University, the University of Amsterdam, and the Universities of Turku and Helsinki. He is currently preparing a publication, titled The Silenced Past, which embodies the first systematic inquiry into the nature of historical taboos and traumas in history and art. His most successful book Thinking Art will be published in its first English edition in the fall of 2009 by Springer (New York).

Angelo Vermeulen’s (1971) past research in ecology, environmental pollution and teratology informs his art, which includes bio installations, experimental setups incorporating living organisms and sci-fi references. From 2002 till 2005 he worked on SKANNER, a new media project on human fear in collaboration with Tamuraj, musician and mathematics researcher. Biomodd is his worldwide series of cross-cultural, symbiotic installations fusing game culture, ecology and social interaction. He is currently developing a new Biomodd iteration in Los Baños and Manila in the Philippines. He also works on Translucent Futures, an artistic research project that deals with ubiquitous technology and the attrition of civil rights and privacy. Vermeulen has lectured internationally, and during the past few years has given over 60 talks throughout Europe, the US and Asia.

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Issue 1.2 The demonic is not privilege of the night; by Philipp Kleinmichel

2009-07-19T05:15:00.000-07:00

Philipp Kleinmichel lives and works in Berlin. Currently he is working on his dissertation about the Politics of Art, analyzing the epistemic condition of how politics and criticality have become central topics for contemporary art and why they will disappear.

Recent publications appeared amongst others in Landings Journal, Shifter Magazine and the reader Philosophie des Raums. He has studied Art and Critical Theory, New German Literature, Philosophy and Media Art at University Freiburg, University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe/ZKM, Bard College New York and at the Whitney Independent Study Program and has lectured amongst others at berlinbiennale 2008, the Whitney Museum and Fondazione Catella Milan.

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Issue 1.1 The Loneliness of the Project, by Boris Groys

2009-03-18T08:36:00.000-07:00

Image © Lev Manovich

Boris Groys is Professor of Aesthetics, Art History, and Media Theory at the Center for Art and Media Technology in Karlsruhe, Germany, and Global Distinguished Professor at New York University.

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Lectures:
March 23rd, 2009, at SFAI

April 10th, 2009, at EXHIBITION

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2009-01-24T09:32:00.000-08:00

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