POM Aachen 2024

Conference Schedule

Politics of the Machines
Lifelikeness & beyond
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The 4th POM Conference
RWTH Aachen University
KäteHamburger Kolleg:
Cultures of Research (c:o/re).
April 22-27, 2024

Day 1, Monday 22.04.24

Monday 22.04.24

8:45 – 9:15

Registration

9:00 – 9:15
Welcome (Generali Saal | 639)

Track 02

Panel 01 Art, Science, and Beyond.
Room Ford-Saal 1040|637
Moderator Peter Friess

Talk 2
9:45 – 10:15

The Periodic Table of Sound Art; Making Models for Transductive Practices Between Life and Lifelike.

Morten Søndergaard
Aalborg Universitet
Anna Nacher
Jagolian University Krakow

Talk 3
10:15 – 10:45

Dark Design

Matej Vakula
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Discussion: 10:45-11:00

Track 10

Panel 01 Environmental Empathy and Aesthetics.
Room Generali Sall |639
Moderator Sebastián Lomelí

Talk 1
9:15 – 9:45

Aesthetics of living: sensitivity, technology and affectivity

Jessica Romero
UNAM

Talk 2
9:45 – 10:15

Environmental empathy for cultivating more-than-human communities – a paradigm shift in environmental research and interventions

Klara Łucznik
Uniwersytet Warszawski
Lisa Hall
Bath Spa University
Ralph C. Lumbres
Independent Artist
Diego S. Maranan
University of Philippines Open University

Talk 3
10:15 – 10:45

Lunar Echoes: Tidal Flows Illuminated through Hydroacoustic Art

Mette Juhl Jessen
University of Copenhagen
Pieter Steyaert
SEADS; University of Antwerp

Discussion: 10:45-11:00

Track 08

Panel 05 Untitled
Room Conference Room 1040 | 531 – 5.31
Moderator Laura Beloff

Talk 1
9:15 – 9:45

The parasitical metaphor

Paul Thomas
Professor Faculty of Art & Design

Talk 2
9:45 – 10:15

Algorithmic Realism: Intersections of Metaphysics, Parasitism, and Machine Intelligence

Bassam El Baroni
Aalto University

Talk 3
10:15 – 10:45

Material Intelligence: The Entanglement of Reality in the Making

Dario Amenophi Perfigli
TU Delft

Discussion: 10:45-11:00

Artworks
/Installation

At LOGOI

EZ Quality Sorter V2
Verena Friedrich
Academy of Media Arts Cologne

Emotional Machine
Yamin Xu
Bowling Green State University

CREATURES
Samantha Tiussi

the_last_film_on_earth_run_1
Andrés Isaza Giraldo
University of Lisbon

Tlalli • Conversations with soil
Azucena Sanchez

Raw Reverberation
Sanja Brkanović Šikoparija

Voronoi Halo
Alistair McClymont

Mattering Living and Non-Living Systems
Masahiko Hara
(Installation at Theaterstraße 75)

11:00 – 11:15

Short Break

Track 01

Panel 01 Machinic Environments.
Room Ford-Saal 1040|637
Moderator Aurora del Rio, Erich Berger

Talk 1
11:15 – 11:45

Cities, Ruins and Narrating Machines

Angeliki Poulou
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Studioentropia architects – Yota Passia & Panagiotis Roupas

Talk 2
11:45 – 12:15

Landscape Machines and The Patchy Anthropocene

Erich Berger
University of Oulu

Discussion: 12:45-13:00

Track 8

Panel 02
Room Conference Room 1040 | 531 – 5.31
Moderator Laura Beloff

Talk 1
11:15 – 11:45

Open-Source Para-Structures, Commoning Spaces in the Post-Digital Condition

Gregoire Rousseau
Aalto university, Department of Arts and Design

Talk 2
11:45 – 12:15

Parasitic Interfaces: Towards a Rhetoric of Dis/Connectivity

Charlotte Lengersdorf

Discussion: 12:45-13:00

Track 10

Panel 02 Technologies, Performance and Dissonance in Environmental Art
Room Generali Saal | 639
Moderator Juan Duarte

Talk 1
11:15 – 11:45

Ritualisation, Participatory Performance and Beyond in Polycrisis

Mari Keski-Korsu
Aalto University

Talk 2
11:45 – 12:15

Dissonance: Ecosystemic Intelligence and Entropy Patterns in Contemporary Art Practices

Claudio Filho
University of Campinas

Discussion: 12:45-13:00

Track 10
/Workshop

At LOGOI

11:15 – 13:15

Sibling-cenes: Building Narratives PostAnthropocene
H C-(M)

13:00 – 15:00

Lunch Break

Track 10

Panel 03 Atmospheric and Aquatic Mediations
Room Ford-Saal 1040|637
Moderator Juan Duarte

Talk 1
15:00 – 15:30

Ocean Connections- connecting to the Oslofjord’s ugly duckling by mathematical modeling

Kristin Bergaust
Oslo Metropolitan University OsloMet

Talk 2
15:30 – 16:00

Lake Stechlin – Lake machine?

Björn Kröger
Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki

Talk 3
16:00 – 16:30

Unpredictable Atmosphere

Lucia Rebolino

Discussion: 16:30-16:45

Track 01

Panel 02 The Machinic Beyond.
Room Generali Saal | 639
Moderator Aurora del Rio, Erich Berger

Talk 2
15:30 – 16:00

The lifecycles of automata: Materiality, degradation, and global narratives unwound

Pearl Agyakwa
University of Nottingham
Patrick Brundell
University of Nottingham

Talk 3
16:00 – 16:30

La Última Máquina [the Last Machine]

Santiago Cueto

Discussion: 16:30-16:45

Track 02

Panel 02 Synthetic Interactions
Room Conference Room 1040 | 531 – 5.31
Moderator Claudio Filho

Talk 1
15:00 – 15:30

Model Organisms and Modelled Organisms – A Perspective from Art & Science

Laura Beloff
Aalto University

Talk 2
15:30 – 16:00

Kin-to-kin with voice-to-voice: Post-anthropocene AI voice cloning experiments

Ada Ada Ada
IT University of Copenhagen
Stina Hasse Jørgensen
IT University of Copenhagen
Jonas Fritsch
IT University of Copenhagen

Talk 3
16:00 – 16:30

Human-AI Interaction Design (HAIID): Synthetic Personae, Shoggoths and Alignment

William Morgan
UC Berkeley

Discussion: 16:30-16:45

Track 06

Panel 01
Room LOGOI
Moderator Martina Leeker, Konstanze Schütze

15:00 – 15:20

197 – Probing Non-Anthropocentric Vulnerabilities for More-Than-Human Care.

(Closed Performative PANEL)

Martina Leeker
Universität zu Köln
Konstanze Schütze
PH Karlsruhe

16:45 – 17:00

Short Break

Track 10

Panel 04 Attunement to non-humans
Room Ford-Saal 1040|637
Moderator Sebastián Lomelí

Talk 1
17:00 – 17:30

Attunement with the nonhuman through the Medium for Luminous Bacteria

Takumi Saeki
Graduate School of Design, Kyushu University
Kazuhiro Jo
Faculty of Design, Kyushu University
Nobuhiro Masuda
Faculty of Design, Kyushu University

Talk 2
17:30 – 18:00

Onto-epistemologies of fermenting microbes

Carolin Melia Brendel
(Academy of Fine Arts Vienna)

Talk 3
18:00 – 18:30

Algae Chorus

Yan Shao
New York University

Discussion: 18:30-18:45

Track 2

Panel 03 Enchantment and Lifelikeness
Room Generali Saal | 639
Moderator Laura Beloff

Talk 1
17:00 – 17:30

Enchanted Machines that Enchant: Embodiment of Common Sense in Robotics

Andrei Korbut
KHK Cultures of Research

Talk 2
17:30 – 18:00

Archetypes and the Dream of the Radioactive Nucleus: Towards an Affective Understanding of the Agency of Radioactivity

Aurora Del Rio
Aalto University

Talk 3
18:00 – 18:30

Redefining Lifelikeness in the Age of AI

Peter Friess
Independent Researcher

Discussion: 18:30-18:45

Track 08

Panel 03
Room Conference Room 1040 | 531 – 5.31
Moderator Mari Keski-Korsu

Talk 1
17:00 – 17:30

Parasitism as Material for Art : The Case of Moths

Tincuta Heinzel
Loughborough University

Talk 2
17:30 – 18:00

Evolutionary Deviance: deforming the exceptional individual

Cynthia Blanchette
Aalto University

Talk 3
18:00 – 18:30

machine_in_the_middle, Dark Patterns of Human-Computer Integration

Rod Dickinson
The University of The West of England
Nathan Semertzidis
Monash University

Discussion: 18:30-18:45

Evening Program
19:00 – 20:00
Dead People Are Liking Things On Facebook (Performance)
Chris Dupuis

Artworks & Installations
at LOGOI 

Starting
Monday, 22.04.2024

EZ Quality Sorter V2
Verena Friedrich
Academy of Media Arts Cologne

Emotional Machine
Yamin Xu
Bowling Green State University

CREATURES
Samantha Tiussi

the_last_film_on_earth_run_1
Andrés Isaza Giraldo
University of Lisbon

Tlalli • Conversations with soil
Azucena Sanchez

Raw Reverberation
Sanja Brkanović Šikoparija

Voronoi Halo
Alistair McClymont

Mattering Living and Non-Living Systems
Masahiko Hara
(Installation at Theaterstraße 75)