Meta.Morf 2022 conference: ECOPHILIA

Speakers and schedule for the Ecophilia Conference @ Dokkhuset May 20 & 21, 2022

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This conference is about love. About our love for nature. But what is nature really? Except for  some made up ecological dreamscapes? Ecology comes from Greek Oikos, meaning home. But in this age of man-made catastrophes, has our home become unrecognizable and alien?

ECOPHILIA
Dokkhuset May 20 & 21, 2022

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Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. They have collaborated with Laurie Anderson, Björk, Jennifer Walshe, Hrafnhildur Arnadottir, Sabrina Scott, Adam McKay, Jeff Bridges, Olafur Eliasson, Pharrell Williams and Justin Guariglia.

LET’S MAKE A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL
Dokkhuset May 20, 2022

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Miriam Simun works where bodies (human and non) collide with rapidly evolving techno-ecosystems. Trained as a sociologist, Simun spends time in communities of experts from biomedical engineers to breastfeeding mothers to farm laborers to freedivers.

LEAKING, SEEKING, BLEEDING, BLURRING, FUSING, MERGING
Dokkhuset May 21, 2022

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Eben Kirksey is an American anthropologist who writes about science and justice.  He is best known for his pioneering work in multispecies ethnography—an approach to studying human interactions with animals, plants, fungi, and microbes.

MUTANT THEORY: TECHNOPHILIA, ECOPHILIA AND POSTHUMAN POSSIBILITIES
Dokkhuset May 21, 2022

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Jens Hauser is a Paris and Copenhagen based media studies scholar and art curator focusing on the interactions between art and technology, trans-genre and hybrid aesthetics.

TOWARDS A GENERAL CHLOROPHOBIA
Dokkhuset May 20, 2022

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Pedersen’s curatorial practice has been oriented towards alternative realities, spiritualities, and knowledge systems as well as histories which seemingly have not been included in the main strains of official world narratives.

SEX ECOLOGIES: GENDER, SEX AND SEXUALITY IN THE CONTEXT OF ECOLOGY
Dokkhuset May 21, 2022

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Laura Beloff (Ph.D.) is an internationally acclaimed artist and researcher based in Finland. She functions in-between artistic production and academic research with a core in artistic methods.

THE DARK SIDE OF EVOLUTION; ON TICKS
Dokkhuset May 20, 2022

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Marius Presterud is a Norwegian artist based in Berlin and Oslo. He works across a variety of media; performance, poetry, sculpture and ecoventions.

THE SELF-HATING NATURE LOVER
Dokkhuset May 20, 2022

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Martin Howse is occupied with an investigation of the links between the earth (geological and geophysical phenomena), software and the a/human psyche (psychogeophysics) through the construction of experimental situations (performance, laboratories, walks, and workshops), material art works, instruments, fictions, texts and software.

TINY MINING: INTERIOR GEOLOGIES
Dokkhuset May 21, 2022

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Špela Petrič is a new media artist with a background in the natural sciences. Her artistic practice combines biomedia and performativity to enact strange relations that reveal the underpinnings of our (bio)technological societies.

MATTERS OF PLAY AND SESSION
Dokkhuset May 21, 2022

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Stephanie Rothenberg’s interdisciplinary art draws from digital culture, science and economics to explore symbiotic relationships between human designed systems and biological ecosystems.

AQUADISIA:
THE SCIENCE OF SENTIENCE 2.0
Dokkhuset May 20, 2022

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Let’s talk about dolphin sex features real life stories about dolphin sex and the humans they love. Told live in a one night stand sensational performance lecture.

LET’S TALK ABOUT DOLPHIN SEX
Dokkhuset May 21, 2022

Curator: ZANE CERPINA

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Thomas Thwaites is a designer interested in the social impacts of science and technology. He holds an MA in Design Interactions from the Royal College of Art, and a BSc. in Human Sciences from University College, London.

GOATMAN: HOW I TRIED AND FAILED TO TAKE A HOLIDAY FROM BEING HUMAN
Dokkhuset May 20, 2022

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