Meta.Morf 2024 – Conference

Speakers and schedule for the [up]Loaded Bodies conference /
Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst, April 19 & 20, 2024

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Zane Cerpina (LV/NO)
Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst, April 19-20 /
The Meta.Morf 2024 – [up]Loaded Bodies Conference explores the physical and technological body caught between virtual ecstasy and digital obesity. 

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Marco Donnarumma (DE)
Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst, April 19 /
It is the year 2024. Climate catastrophe is – let us admit it clearly for once – inevitable.

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Alessandro Ludovico (IT)
Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst, April 20 /
The 30th anniversary of Neural, the renowned journal for critical digital culture and media art, is not intended as self-celebrating but as an opportunity to celebrate and nourish the support of an ecology of international interdependent networks.

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Arts and Culture Norway (Kulturdirektoratet) invites you to a panel discussion on the balance between artistic freedom and the regulation of technology.
Birgitte Aga / Sarah Cook / Andre Holzapfel / Anders Hofseth / Magnus Aspli / Ståle Stenslie

The political debate surrounding artificial intelligence, particularly generative artificial intelligence, often revolves around how this groundbreaking technology should be regulated to safeguard democratic values. However, overregulation of the technology may come at the expense of freedom of expression and artistic freedom, whether one considers the technology as a tool and/or as an artistic medium.

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Špela Petrič (SI)
Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst, April 19 /
While the idea that regimes of quantification are essential elements of biopolitics is over half a century old, the technological advances of recent decades have propelled population data collection from the confines of traditional institutions of normalisation (medicine, law enforcement, education, factories) into all spheres of society.

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Boris Eldagsen (DE)
Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst, April 19 /
“Prompted Flesh: AI Imaging and the Era of Uploaded Bodies” delves into the transformative landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) imaging, focusing on its capacity to generate images through text and image prompts, the proliferation of deep fakes, and the emergence of mutated bodies.

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Sunčica Ostoić (HR)
Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst, April 20 /
The lecture presents a conceptual framework of ‘intensity’ and its properties in connection to bodies in interaction with the extreme, excessive, radical, and extravagant (EERE) contemporary visual art practices at the intersection of the body and technology.

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Cadie Desbiens-Desmeules (CA/PT)
Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst, April 19 /
UNMATCHED and I’M NOT A ROBOT is two interactive installations that examine the pervasiveness of algorithmic bias and its potential for discrimination.

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Daniel Rourke (UK)
Kjømannsgata Ung Kunst, April 20 /
Hans Moravec, in a flourish of 1980s techno-optimism, suggested that all we needed to live forever was to render ourselves computable.

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Marietta Radomska (PL/SE)
Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst, April 20 /
What does resurrection mean in the digital era and beyond religious associations or sentimentality?

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Marnix de Nijs (NL)
Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst, April 19 /
This presentation will focus on Marnix de Nijs’ full body installations that allow for different kinds of perception; installations that break away from the stable image we hold of reality and recalibrate our senses and our orientation in time and space. 

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Martinus Suijkerbuijk (NL/NO)
Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst, April 20 /
At still the nascent phase of the evolution of Large Language Models (LLM), it has already captivated the minds of CEO’s and politicians, shaken up institutional infrastructures, and skyrocketed the valuation of startups and enterprises. 

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Paula Strunden (DE)
Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst, April 19 /
This talk explores the intricacies of embodied spatial perception within the realm of extended reality (XR).

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