Dear ADA ,
Thanks to Now Future, the Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic, and AUT,
Douglas Kahn and Timothy Morton are coming soon to Dunedin and Auckland in May.
Many of you would have spent time with Douglas Kahn when he was here in
December for the Whanganui symposium. I'm thrilled to say that through the
tireless work of our good friends at Now Future, Doug (along with ecotheorist
Timothy Morton) is returning to New Zealand to continue our dialogues
surrounding energy, ecology and the experience of hyperobjects!!!
Now Future says:
We’re really pleased to announce that Dialogues with Tomorrow, the series that
links the humanities, ecology, and the arts, is back for 2011.
In 2010 the series of discussions was located at Downstage Theatre in
Wellington, and for 2011 the Dialogues will be located around different cities
around New Zealand.
Our first two events, in Dunedin and Auckland this month, provide an
extraordinary chance to hear internationally renowned authors, Sydney-based
Douglas Kahn and California-based Timothy Morton. This is a unique opportunity
to be part of the conversation with these two thinkers, made possible by their
both being in Sydney (thanks UNSW).
Their Dialogue is well timed to complement and build on the visit of leading
climate scientist James Hansen who is touring New Zealand. The Dialogues are
open to all and, thanks to our New Zealand partners (Dunedin School of Art,
Otago Polytechnic and AUT), are free to attend.
Dunedin: Monday May 23rd 6-8pm Dunedin Public Art Gallery Auditorium
Auckland: Wednesday May 25th, 10.30-12pm, Lecture room WS 114, City Campus AUT
University, 34 St Paul Street
Dark Ecologies
How do we sense and make sense of immense phenomena, such as climate change, or
radiation, which are real, but real in ways which most of us do not directly
experience? As ecotheorist Timothy Morton puts it, "It is very hard to get used
to the idea that the catastrophe, far from being imminent, has already taken
place".
Morton, together with media arts historian Douglas Kahn, will discuss ways in
which we can think about the challenges to humanity of nonsentient entities,
like climate change and radioactivity, phenomena Morton calls ‘hyperobjects’.
They ask, how can we productively respond to these challenges with the energies
available to us? How do we radically question the ways in which we understand
and interact with what used to be known as ‘nature’?
Douglas Kahn is Professor of Media and Innovation at the National Institute of
Experimental Arts (NIEA), University of New South Wales. Until recently, he was
Professor of Science and Technology Studies at University of California, Davis.
He is the editor of Source: Music of the Avant-Garde. and the author of Noise,
Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts, which has been highly influential
and remains the benchmark text concerning sound-based art. Forthcoming books
include Mainframe Experimentalism, a collection on early computing and the
arts, and Earth Sound Earth Signal, on the geophysical trade of acoustics and
electromagnetism in communications, science and the arts. www.douglaskahn.com
Timothy Morton is Professor of English (Literature and the Environment) at UC
Davis. His interests include literature and the environment, ecotheory,
philosophy, biology, physical sciences, literary theory, food studies, sound
and music, materialism, poetics, Romanticism, Buddhism, and the eighteenth
century. His two most recent books, The Ecological Thought (Harvard UP, April
2010) and Ecology Without Nature (Harvard UP, 2007; paperback 2009), have had a
wide and transformative impact on how ecology is conceived within the arts and
humanities. Tim blogs at www.ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com
Brought to you by Now Future, in conjunction with Dunedin School of Art, Otago
Polytechnic, AUT University, the ADA Network, Dunedin Public Art Gallery and
the National Institute of Experimental Arts, UNSW, Sydney.
We look forward to seeing you there or at a future event closer to you. Do pass
this around your networks!
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