The change of view from allegedly passive material to »active matter« that engenders symbolic processes according to its inherent structure provokes a shift in the traditional boundaries between nature and culture. Thus, other traditional opposites (body-mind, active-passive, material-symbolic) can also be rethought as changeable polarities. In the project »Symbolic Material« we investigate the material foundations of symbolic processes in interaction with the symbolic dimension of materials from the viewpoint of philosophy, history of mathematics, physics, and neuroscience.
Conceptual work
The fundamental concepts of the Cluster – matter, activity, symbol, code, among others – present themselves as tasks and promises at the same time. Used and understood differently in the individual disciplines, they are experimentally explored and reflectively developed as common categories. One of the inquiries that stands at the center of »Symbolic Material« concerns the various interactions between materiality and processes of symbolization and conceptualization, as they come into expression in different disciplines: philosophy, mathematics, cultural theory, and the history of the sciences.
While philosophy offers methods of dealing with concept formation and analysis of terms that other disciplines cannot provide, conceptual work is not the work of philosophically trained specialists alone and certainly not merely a theoretical matter. Conceptualizations arise from practices, but they also help to clarify them. In this view, the historical and systematic reconstruction of terms and notions are no unworldly undertakings: understood not only as a means of presenting scientific results, but above all as instruments of research, they are to be judged according to which practical consequences follow from their use. This includes an understanding of their translatability, their equivalencies, ambiguities or inner contradictions as well as an awareness of their connotations, metaphorical charges, immigration and transfer of knowledge from various disciplines. The challenge is to provide conceptual orientations that comply with the Cluster’s interdisciplinary venture and consistently prove themselves in experimental practice and its material foundations.
History of Mathematics of Braids
Figure 1: Dedò, Modesto. 1950. Algebra delle trecce caratteristiche: Relazioni fondamentali e loro applicazioni. Rendiconti Istituto Lombardo 83: 227–258, p. 257.
One of the disciplines, in which one would not accept to find any of these metaphorical charges or traces of material practices, is mathematics. Mathematics, one might say, presents a wonderful kind of knowledge: it is a priori, in the sense that its truths are arrived at by reflection alone, without any sensual perception; it concerns necessary truths; and its concepts are considered to be abstract. While the above conception points towards a (problematic) presupposition that mathematics is immaterial, what is even more problematic is a possible consequence of this presupposition: the ignorance and marginalization of the role of material practices in mathematics – for example, the usage of instruments, the different notational systems or the various manual and tactile activates, from them mathematical knowledge was prompted.
Figure 2: Alexandre Théophile Vandermonde: »Remarques sur des problèmes de situation«, in: Mémoires de l’Académie Royale des Sciences, Paris 1771, p. 566-574
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The project »History of Mathematics of Braids« aims to propose a complementary, and in a certain sense opposing, claim: processes of mathematical notation and symbolization, as well as of mathematical reasoning, arise from material practices in an essential way. The project aims to examine not only how geometry of material practices is essential to conceptualize them (see also the project Weaving ), hence prompts and affords the emergence of symbolization processes; but also how the different spatial material practices – folding, knotting, braiding, crumpling, weaving, turning inside out, ridging… – prompt different and unique symbolic processes. The project starts from an investigation on the history of mathematical braids, practices and history of weaving and looms from the 17th till the 21st century and aims to inquire the how materiality of practices, diagrams and notations prompts and influences the emergence of mathematical knowledge.
Visual and Material Practice of Astral Science
Figure 3: Regiomontanus, Kalender (Nuremberg, 1474). Facsimile (Leipzig, 1937). Photo: Stefan Zieme.
The significance of visual and material practices and their influence on mathematical and astronomical knowledge is analyzed also in the framework of the history of science and knowledge. In the Renaissance life was regulated by the heavens: The stars determined favorable times for bloodletting and when to administer medicine, or even when to cut ones hair or bath. Potentates with a strong astral belief, organized their social, political, and cultural routines according to the heavens. Astronomical tables, like the Parisian Alfonsine Tables, allowed to calculate the solar position, times of eclipses, and the positions and relations of the planets. Such tables were the basis for any astronomical calculation and, thus, at the heart of nautical navigation, casting of birth horoscopes, or the determination of the days of moveable feast in the liturgical calendar. Astronomers and astrologers alike derived their ephemerides, almanacs, calendars, practicas, and nativities from astronomical tables. From the conceptional framework and understanding of »Symbolic Material« particular research questions therefore arise: What was the epistemic status of images and paper tools in the process of calculation and symbolic operation? How did the material qualities of any such visual tools relate to the astral practice? Are ubiquity, stability, transmission and tangibility of visual and material tools factors for cosmological notions and their dissemination within the corpus of vernacular and natural philosophical knowledge?
Figure 4: Regiomontanus, Kalender (Nuremberg, 1474). Facsimile (Leipzig, 1937). Photo: Stefan Zieme.
Active Symbolic Brain Materials
Another question that stands at the center of the project concerns the nature of the production of symbolic activity. To give an example, certain parts of the human brain allow us to learn, process and invent a huge vocabulary of symbols connecting symbolic forms with abstract semantic knowledge about objects, actions and aspects thereof, whereas the materials of the brains of our closest relatives, monkeys and apes, do not even allow them to build small symbolic vocabularies. Here, we ask: what are the material differences between symbol-bearing and non-symbol-bearing brains, and, in particular, what are the distinctive features of neural materials that enable symbolicity? To answer these questions, simulations with brain-constrained networks will be performed to study the functional consequences of specific material properties of neuroanatomical structure and connectivity. This research will lead to neural simulators mimicking essential symbol processing functions of the healthy and neurologically impaired human brain, in collaboration with MoA projects Cutting and Weaving.
Materialism and its Vicissitudes
Returning to philosophy and to its dealing with materiality, the research departs from the contemporary materialist turn in humanities, which in its heterogeneity reacts to the ongoing innovations in natural and life sciences, most particularly to the research on brain plasticity, epigenetics and active matter. In these and other scientific frameworks the very conception of materiality is being renegotiated or reinvented, which allows philosophy not only to reflect on its epistemological present but also to reexamine and potentially rewrite the overall history of materialism. In its broader framework, the philosophical research in »Symbolic Material« will thus also return to the historical vicissitudes and metamorphoses of materialism, understood as an ontological, epistemological and, last but not least, political program.
Syntopia 1—Soma I Body. Copyright: Karola Dierichs, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, weissensee academy of art and design and Matters of Activity
Design, Gestaltung, Formatività. Philosophies of Making. Copyright: Birkhäuser, 2022
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Video Still of Presentation of Jürgen Trabant’s translation of Giambattista Vico’s New Science (1725) at the Italian Cultural Institute of Berlin with. Copyright: Italian Cultural Institute of Berlin
Gastvortrag Thomas Oehl, Juli 2023. Copyright: Matters of Activity
Poster Workshop »Intercultural Views on Matter«, June 2023, Image: DALL•E, Sabine Marienberg. Copyright: Matters of Activity
Brochures, doctoral presentations 2023. Layout: Ada Favaron. Project coordination: Franziska Wegener
Visual Bauhaus Study Rooms, International Network Meeting, 15+16 June 2023. Copyright: Bauhaus Dessau
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Driving the Human Book Launch at Matters of Activity, 10 May 2023. Copyright: Camille Blake / Driving the Human
Poster Workshop 2023. Copyright: TUM
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Chapter 13 »On the arcs between the equator and the ecliptic« from the first book of the Almagest from Gerard of Cremona’s Latin translation from Arabic (A-family). The chapter includes the table of solar declinations newly recalculated for Gerard’s translation. The parchment manuscript shown here (Paris, BnF, lat 16200, fol. 13v-14r) is an early witness, copied in December 1213. Copyright: gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France
Article »Kein Zurück zu Natur«. Copyright: FAZ
Panel Discussion Materials Matter, May 4th, 2022, Humboldt Lab. Copyright: Matters of Activity
Annual Conference »Deep Material Futures« at silent green, November 2022. Copyright: Michelle Mantel
Award of an honorary doctorate from the University of Turin to Professor Horst Bredekamp, October 2022. Copyright: Federico Vercellone, Turin.
Dissect event, »Behavioral Matter« symposium, 29/03/2019 © Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris)
Panel »Interdeterminacy and Liveliness« at MoA Annual Conference »Tipping Points« 2021. Copyright: Matters of Activity
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Vogl., J. 2020. »Oikodizee.« In Handbuch Literatur & Ökonomie, edited by Vogl. J., Wolf, B. Berlin: de Gruyter, 224-226.
Friedman, M., Krauthausen, K. 2019. »Aktive Materie.« In Materialforschung: Impulsgeber Natur. Innovationspotenzial biologisch inspirierter Materialien und Werkstoffe, edited by Fratzl, P., Jacobs, K., Möller, M., Scheibel, T., Sternberg, K. acatech DISKUSSION. München: utzverlag, 84–86.
https://www.acatech.de/publikation/materialforschung-impulsgeber-natur/
Katan-Schmid, E., Friedman, M. 2019. »Questioning dance notation: a dialogue.« In Du signe à la performance - La notation, une pensée en mouvement, edited by Journeau, V. A. Paris: Editions L'Harmattan, 405-433.
Mareis, C. 2019. »Die Zeitlichkeit des Entwerfens. Visuelle Prozessmodelle und ihre temporale Bedeutung.« In Visuelle Zeitgestaltung, edited by Blümle, C., Mareis, C., Windgätter, C. Bildwelten des Wissens. Kunsthistorisches Jahrbuch für Bildkritik, 15. Berlin/Boston: Akademie Verlag, 114–123.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110565423
Schäffner, W. 2019. »Am Nullpunkt des Wissens. Platon mit Euklid.« In Modell + Risiko. Historische Miniaturen zu dynamischen Epistemologien, edited by Laqua, A., Löffelbein, P., Lorber, M. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 36-45.
https://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/isbn_9783447112642.ahtml
Vogl, J., Wolf, B. 2019. »Angst und Prävention.« In Wörterbuch der Gegenwart, edited by Scherer B., von Schubert, O., Aue S. Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 42-51.
Vogl, J. 2019. »Im Innern des Bildes.« In Im Verwandeln der Zeit. Reflexionen über filmische Bilder, edited by Brückner, R., Groß, B., Rositzka, E., Grotkopp M. Vorwerk 8.
Vogl., J. 2019. »Luxus.« In Handbuch Literatur & Ökonomie, edited by Vogl., J., Wolf, B. Berlin: de Gruyter, 202-204.
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110516821
Constant, M., Pulvermüller, F., Tomasello, R. 2023. »Brain-constrained neural modeling explains fast mapping of words to meaning.« Cerebral Cortex.
https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhad007
Boux, I. P., Margiotoudi, K., Dreyer, F. R., Tomasello, R., Pulvermüller, F. 2022. »Cognitive features of indirect speech acts.« Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. 1-25.
https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2022.2077396
Henningsen-Schomers, M. R., Garagnani, M., Pulvermüller, F. 2022. »Influence of language on perception and concept formation in a brain-constrained deep neural network model.« Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 378 (1870)
https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0373
Henningsen-Schomers, M. R., Pulvermüller, F. 2022. »Modelling concrete and abstract concepts using brain-constrained deep neural networks.« Psychological Research, 86 (8): 2533-2559.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01591-6
Margiotoudi, K., Bohn, M., Schwob, N., Taglialatela, J., Pulvermüller, F., Epping, A., Schweller, K., Allritz, M. 2022. »Bo-NO-bouba-kiki: picture-word mapping but no spontaneous sound symbolic speech-shape mapping in a language trained bonobo.« Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 289 (1968)
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1717
Shebani, Z., Carota, F., Hauk, O., Rowe, J. B., Barsalou, L. W., Tomasello, R., Pulvermüller, F. 2022. »Brain correlates of action word memory revealed by fMRI.« Scientific Reports, 12 (1)
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-19416-w
Tomasello R., Grisoni L., Boux I., Sammler D., Pulvermüller F. 2022. »Instantaneous neural processing of communicative functions conveyed by speech prosody.« Cerebral Cortex, 32 (21): 4885–4901.
https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhab522
Bauer, F. 2021. »On Pristine Boxes and Primeval Huts.« Drawing Matter.
https://drawingmatter.org/on-pristine-boxes-and-primeval-huts
Bauer, F. 2021. »On the Visual Agency of Manufacturing Models.« In Medios Digitales y Arquitectura, special issue. Bitacora, 46: 130 - 139.
Boux*, I., Tomasello*, R., Grisoni, L., Pulvermüller, F. 2021. »Brain signatures predict communicative function of speech production in interaction.« *Equal contribution. Cortex, 135: 127-145.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2020.11.008
Dreyer, F. R., Doppelbauer, L., Büscher, V., Arndt, V., Stahl, B., Lucchese, G., Hauk, O., Mohr, B., Pulvermüller, F. 2021. »Increased Recruitment of Domain-General Neural Networks in Language Processing Following Intensive Language-Action Therapy: fMRI Evidence From People With Chronic Aphasia.« American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 30 (1S): 455-465.
https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_AJSLP-19-00150
Friedman, M., Muñoz Alvis, J. 2021. »Haüy, Weiß, Fröbel: the influence of nineteenth-century crystallography on the mathematics of Friedrich Fröbel’s kindergarten. Part 1: the published materials.« Paedagogica Historica. 1-21.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00309230.2020.1865424
Friedman, M., Muñoz Alvis, J. 2021. »Haüy, Weiß, Fröbel: the influence of nineteenth-century crystallography on the mathematics of Friedrich Fröbel’s Kindergarten. Part 2: new evidence from unpublished notes.« Paedagogica Historica. 1-21.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00309230.2021.1876744
Friedman, M. 2021. »On Mathematical Towers of Babel and ›Translation‹ as an Epistemic Category.« The Mathematical Intelligencer, 43: 62–73.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-020-09969-x
Garagnani, M., Kirilina, E., Pulvermüller, F. 2021. »Semantic Grounding of Novel Spoken Words in the Primary Visual Cortex.« Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 15
https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2021.581847
Grisoni, L., Tomasello, R., Pulvermüller, F. 2021. »Correlated Brain Indexes of Semantic Prediction and Prediction Error: Brain Localization and Category Specificity.« Cerebral Cortex, 31 (3): 1553–1568.
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaa308
Pulvermüller, F., Tomasello, R., Henningsen-Schomers, M. R., Wennekers, T. 2021. »Biological constraints on neural network models of cognitive function.« Nature Reviews Neuroscience.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-021-00473-5
Vogl, J. 2021. »Eine neue kapitalistische Ontologie.« Interview: Joseph Vogl im Gespräch mit Martin Bauer zu »Kapital und Ressentiment«. Soziopolis – Gesellschaft beobachten.
https://www.soziopolis.de/eine-neue-kapitalistische-ontologie/buchforum-kapital-und-ressentiment.html
Vogl, J. 2021. »Finanzregime und Plattformökonomie.« In Souveränität der Plattform. Eine Debatte mit Joseph Vogl, special issue. Behemoth. A Journal on Civilisation, 14 (1): 5-21.
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.6094/behemoth.2021.14.1.1051
Eder, M., Schäffner, W., Burgert, I., Fratzl, P. 2020. »Wood and the Activity of Dead Tissue.« Advanced Materials. 2001412.
https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202001412
Giampiccolo, D., Howells, H., Bährend, I., Schneider, H., Raffa, G., Rosenstock, T., Vergani, F., Vajkoczy, P., Picht, T. 2020. »Preoperative transcranial magnetic stimulation for picture naming is reliable in mapping segments of the arcuate fasciculus.« Brain Communications, 2 (2)
https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcaa158
Grubner, B., Tomšič, S. 2020. »Trauma, Trieb und die Logik der Störung. Ein Dialog über Jenseits des Lustprinzips (1920).« Freie Assoziation, 23 (1+2): 182-194.
Mareis, C., Barrett, B. 2020. »Brainstorming Revisited: On Instrumental Creativity and Human Productivity in the Mid-Twentieth Century.« Cultural Politics, 16 (1): 50-69.
https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-8017256
Margiotoudi, K., Pulvermüller, F. 2020. »Action sound–shape congruencies explain sound symbolism.« Scientific Reports, 10 (1)
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-69528-4
Schemenz, V., Gjardy, A., Chamasemani, F. F., Roschger, A., Roschger, P., Zaslansky, P., Helfen, L., Burghammer, M., Fratzl, P., Weinkamer, R., Brunner, R., Willie, B. M., Wagermaier, W. 2020. »Heterogeneity of the osteocyte lacuno-canalicular network architecture and material characteristics across different tissue types in healing bone.« Journal of Structural Biology, 212 (2): 107616.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsb.2020.107616
Schilling, A., Tomasello, R., Henningsen-Schomers, M. R., Zankl, A., Surendra, K., Haller, M., Karl, V., Uhrig, P., Maier, A., Krauss, P. 2020. »Analysis of continuous neuronal activity evoked by natural speech with computational corpus linguistics methods.« Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 36 (2): 167-186.
https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2020.1803375
Vogl, J., Kluge, A. 2020. »Begriffskatastrophen. Wirklichkeitszerfall im April 2020.« Essay. Skype-Gespräche, geführt am 11.4.2020 und am 8.7.2020. Edited by Bauer, M. Soziopolis – Gesellschaft beobachten.
https://www.soziopolis.de/begriffskatastrophen.html
Vogl, J. 2020. »The Financial Regime.« The Nordic of Journal of Aesthetics, 29 (60): 175-182.
https://doi.org/10.7146/nja.v29i60.122847
Friedman, M., Rittberg, C. 2019. »The material reasoning of folding paper.« Synthese.
Friedman, M., Rittberg, C. J. 2019. »The material reasoning of folding paper.« Synthese.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02131-x
Friedman, M. 2019. »A plurality of (non-)visualizations: Branch points and branch curves at the turn of the 19th century.« Revue d’histoire des mathématiques, 25 (1): 109–194.
https://doi.org/10.24033/rhm.224
Friedman, M. 2019. »How to notate a crossing of strings? On Modesto Dedò’s notation of braids.« Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 74 (4): 281-312.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-019-00238-8
Friedman, M. 2019. »Mathematical formalization and diagrammatic reasoning: the case study of the braid group between 1925 and 1950.« British Journal for the History of Mathematics, 34 (1): 43-59.
https://doi.org/10.1080/17498430.2018.1533298
Margiotoudi, K., Allritz, M., Bohn, M., Pulvermüller, F. 2019. »Sound symbolic congruency detection in humans but not in great apes.« Scientific Reports, 9 (1): 12705.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-49101-4
Tomasello, R., Kim, C., Dreyer, F. R., Grisoni, L., Pulvermüller, F. 2019. »Neurophysiological evidence for rapid processing of verbal and gestural information in understanding communicative actions.« Scientific Reports, 9 (1): 16285.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-52158-w
Tomasello, R., Wennekers, T., Garagnani, M., Pulvermüller, F. 2019. »Visual cortex recruitment during language processing in blind individuals is explained by Hebbian learning.« Scientific Reports, 9 (1): 3579.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-39864-1
Vogl, J. 2019. »Lebens-Form bei Kafka.« Hiyoshi-Studien zur Germanistik, (58): 1-17.
Vogl, J. 2019. »Ökonomie, Markt und Kapital als politische Kräfte begreifen.« Interview: Joseph Vogl im Gespräch mit Ivan Boldyrev. Soziopolis – Gesellschaft beobachten.
https://www.soziopolis.de/oekonomie-markt-und-kapital-als-politische-kraefte-begreifen.html
Vogl., J. 2019. »The Age of »Amok«.« October, (168): 83-91.
https://doi.org/10.1162/octo_a_00350
Weinkamer, R., Kollmannsberger, P., Fratzl, P. 2019. »Towards a Connectomic Description of the Osteocyte Lacunocanalicular Network in Bone.« Current Osteoporosis Reports, 17 (4): 186-194.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11914-019-00515-z
Friedman, M. 2020. »Friedrich Fröbel’s conception of crystallography and the mathematical education at the 19th century kindergartens.« Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on the History of Mathematics Education, Barbin, E., Bjarnadóttir, K., Furinghetti, F., Karp, A., Moussard, G., Prytz, J., Schubring, G. (Eds). WTM-Verlag, 303–316.
https://doi.org/10.37626/GA9783959871686.0
Vogl, J. 2019. Review of Michel Foucault: Les aveux de la chair. Riss – Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse, (90): 171-173.
Zieme, S. 2019. Review of Image, Imagination, and Cognition: Medieval and Early Modern Theory and Practice. (Intersections, 55.). Lüthy, C., Swan, C., Bakker, P., Zittel, C. (Eds.), Isis, 110 (4): 801-802.
https://doi.org/10.1086/706883
Vogl, J. 2021. Informationen über Geld sind wichtiger als Geld selbst geworden. Interview. Philosophie Magazin,
https://www.philomag.de/artikel/joseph-vogl-informationen-ueber-geld-sind-wichtiger-als-geld-selbst-geworden
Vogl, J. 2019. (History of) Economic Knowledge Freed from Determinism. An Interview with Joseph Vogl. Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 12 (1), 73-92.
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.23941/ejpe.v12i1.409
Friedman, Michael, Krauthausen, Karin, »Active Materials«. Talk at the Technical University of Darmstadt (ZOOM with Berlin). Talk on active materials and the research presented in »Active Materials« (eds. Peter Fratzl, Michael Friedman, Karin Krauthausen, Wolfgang Schäffner). In the frame of the seminar on BioRobotics by Marco Tamborini. Hybrid. 14 June 2022.
Krauthausen, K., Rau, M. Performance und Politik – Gespräch mit Milo Rau. Gespräch at the Mosse Lectures: Theater der Gegenwart, Institut für deutsche Literatur, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Hybrid. 13 January 2022.
Highlighted by https://www.mosse-lectures.de/.
Krauthausen, Karin, Aktive Materialien. Talk at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Invited talk on the emergence and activity of structures - a research presented in the publications »Active Materials« (eds. Peter Fratzl, Michael Friedman, Karin Krauthausen, Wolfgang Schäffner) and »Modell Hütte« (eds. Karin Krauthausen and Rebekka Ladewig). Invitation by Henning Schmidgen (Professur medialer Welten). Hybrid. 10 May 2022.
https://www.uni-weimar.de/en/media/chairs/media-studies/theorie-medialer-welten/aktuelles/titel/aktive-materialien/
Ramirez Gallegos, R., Schäffner, W. Materialismo biocéntrico. Talk at the Conversatorio: Trazos biomateriales. Sesión DOS, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires. 2 December 2022.
http://www.centroculturalrecoleta.org/agenda/trazos-biomateriales
Schäffner, W. Agua y energía en biomateriales. Más allá de la electrificación. Escuela de Diseño Industrial, Facultad de Artes, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. 12 August 2022.
Schäffner, W. Construir con materiales activos. Hacia arquitecturas adaptativas. Talk at the Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. 10 August 2022.
Schäffner, W. Epistemología de lo analógico. Una revolución material en la era digital. Keynote at the XII ENCUENTRO DE FILOSOFÍA E HISTORIA DE LA CIENCIA DEL CONO SUR 2022, Keynote Lecture. Universidad del Cauce, Cali (Colombia). 5 August 2022.
http://www.afhic.com/es/encuentro-afhic/
Schäffner, W. Getting to the Point. Genealogies of the Analog Code. Talk at the Program in Media and Modernity, Princeton University. 1 November 2022.
https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/getting-to-the-point-genealogies-of-the-analog-code-2/
Schäffner, W. Hardware, Everywhere. An Invitation to a New Field of Media Materialism. Princeton University. 2 November 2022.
https://german.princeton.edu/whats-on/events/past/hardware-everywherean-invitation-new-field-media-materialism
Staudacher, M. »Cube of Physics«. Talk at the Long Night of the Sciences, Department of Physics, IRIS Adlershof, Belin. Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 2 July 2022.
Tomšič, S. Das soziale Band zwischen Emergenz und Auflösung. Talk at the »Die Apokalypse enttäuscht«, Universität der Künste Berlin. 6 May 2022.
Tomšič, S. Gescheiterte Begegnungen? Psychoanalyse, Philosophie & Politik. Talk at the Leuphana Universität Lüneburg. 6 July 2022.
Tomšič, S. No Such thing as Society? On Neoliberal Political Denialism. Talk at the »Denial: Approaching Cultures of ›Denialism‹«, Södertörn University, Stockholm/Huddinge. 11 March 2022.
Tomšič, S. On the Psychosocial. Panel Presentation at the Parapraxis Conversations: On the Psychosocial, The Psychosocial Foundation, San Francisco. Virtual. 21 May 2022.
Tomšič, S. Solidarität und das soziale Band. Talk at the Szenen der Kritik, Europa Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder). Virtual. 23 July 2022.
Wolfgang Schäffner La formación de una nueva cultura de lo material: Conocimientos, prácticas, animaciones. Talk at the Jornada: Conocer, saber y narrar. Puentes, diálogos e intercambios, Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM), Ciudad de México. Virtual. 18 February 2022.
https://www.iis.unam.mx/event/conocer-saber-y-narrar-puentes-dialogos-e-intercambios-2/
Bauer, F., Kim, Y. Points in Making. Talk at the 2nd Annual Conference »Tipping Points: Plastic, Contingent and Unstable Matters«, Contingent Matters. Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Hybrid. 17 November 2021.
Bauer, F. Constraint-driven Design. Talk at the Histories and Habitations Lectures. Design for Manufacture MArch. The Bartlett (UCL), London. 25 February 2021.
Bauer, F. Rebuild Curve. On the Materialisation of Virtual Models in Contemporary Art Fabrication. Panel Presentation at the Association for Art History Annual Conference 2021, Matter (Im)materials and Materiality: On the life of digital artworks. University of Birmingham. 14 April 2021.
Bauer, F. Situating CAD/CAM. Panel Presentation at the 11th International New Materialisms Conference: New Materialist Informatics. Computing and Worldmaking, Transdisciplinary Methodologies and Interventions. 24 March 2021.
Bauer, F. Technologische Möglichkeits- und Bedingungsräume. Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Online Teaching Working Group, Berlin University of the Arts. Virtual. 21 April 2021.
Beyer, B., Cubasch, A., Fratzl, P., Hengge, R., Mareis, C., Perraudin, L., Sauer, C., Schäffner, W., for the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«. Can Bacteria Spin a Yarn? We Need a New Culture of Materials. Panel Presentation at the »Can Bacteria Spin a Yarn? We Need a New Culture of Materials«, Humboldt Forum Berlin. Hybrid. 29 April 2021.
https://www.humboldtforum.org/en/programm/termin/science-humanities/do-bacteria-spin-a-yarn-20472/
Fratzl, P. Active Matter. Keynote at the Engineering Life – Active Matter Across Scales, Steigenberger Hotel de Saxe, Dresden. Center for Molecular Bioengineering (B CUBE) of the Technische Universität Dresden. Hybrid. 27 September 2021.
https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/events/2022/06/27/engineering-life-active-matter-across-scales
Friedman, M. Medieval Hebrew mathematical manuscripts left in mediis rebus. Talk at the Seminar »Histoire des sciences, histoire du texte«, Université de Paris, France. Virtual. 7 May 2021.
Grubner, B., Tomšič, S. Kultur als Symptom. Talk at the Institut für Deutsche und Niederländische Philologie, Free University Berlin. Virtual. 18 February 2021.
Hengge, R. Spatialization of living systems across the scales. Talk at the the Conference 'Activity II: Space and Materiality' of the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Virtual. 19 March 2021.
Krauthausen, K. Hubert Fichtes »ethnologische Form«. Panel Presentation at the GSA - German Studies Association Annual Conference, Hubert Fichte and the Poetics of Syncretism I. Indianapolis, USA. Hybrid. 1 October 2021.
Marienberg, S. Articulating Vagueness. Talk at the 2nd Annual Conference »Tipping Points. Plastic, Contingent and Unstable Matters«, Indeterminacy and Liveliness. Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Hybrid. 16 November 2021.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/de/activities/6581/tipping-points-plastic-contingent-and-unstable-matters
Marienberg, S. Die Sprache und die Sprachen. Sprachenvielfalt als Strafe und Geschenk. Talk at the Course Theologie/Philosophie, Stadtakademie Düsseldorf. Hybrid. 22 September 2021.
https://estadus.info/kurs/die-sprache-und-die-sprachen-60a7a1ae5a4bb02d22b1db41/
Marienberg, S. Ist der Mensch nur Mensch durch Sprache? Sprachursprungstheorien im Wandel der Zeiten. Talk at the Course/Colloquium, Stadtakademie Düsseldorf. Virtual. 4 May 2021.
Schäffner, W. From Digital Humanities to Material Humanities. Talk at the 25th Annual DRHA Conference »Digital Matters: Designing/Performing Agency for the Anthropocene«, Anthropocene Across Media Borders. Heilig-Geist Kapelle, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In cooperation with the Cluster of Excellence EXC 2020 »Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective«, Freie Universität Berlin, and the practice-based research project »Viral Theatres«. Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Hybrid. 5 September 2021.
https://www.drha.uk/2021/program-2/
Tomšič, S. Capital Hate. Panel Presentation at the »The Psychic Life of International Politics«, Capital Love. Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. Virtual. 28 April 2021.
Tomšič, S. Der Wachstumszwang. Talk at the »Temperatures:« Eine Online-Reihe des Bonner Kunstverein, Kunstverein München und Kunstverein Nürnberg, Temperatures I. Virtual. 23 February 2021.
https://vimeo.com/519535325
Tomšič, S. From the Orderly World to the Polluted Unworld. Talk at the Research Colloquium in Practical Philosophy 2020/21, Session 8, University of Lisabon. Virtual. 2 March 2021.
https://cful.letras.ulisboa.pt/praxis/praxis-seminar-2020-21-s8/
Tomšič, S. Sexismus, Rassismus und ursprüngliche Akkumulation. Talk at the Stiftungsuniversität Hildesheim. Virtual. 22 January 2021.
Bauer, F. On a Convergence of Artist, Instrument Maker, and Fabricator. Panel Presentation at the The Multidisciplinary Grid 2020, Holon Institute of Technology, Tel Aviv. 23 November 2020.
Bauer, F. On Hammers, Robots and Cannons. On the Ontologies of Computational Research in Architecture. Panel Presentation at the AHRA 16th Annual PhD Student Symposium, Conveying. Architectural Humanities Research Association, Newcastle University. 22 April 2020.
Bredekamp, H. Die materielle Metaphysik des Filzes / The Material Metaphysics of Felt. Talk at the 1st Annual Conference »The Analog in the Digital Age«. Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Virtual. 11 November 2020.
https://www.virtualspace.matters-of-activity.de/annualconference/?id=9
Bredekamp, H. Die rückstürzende Metaphysik der Bildwissenschaft. Talk at the Lecture Series »Art and Visual Theory« of the Department of Art and Visual History, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 22 January 2020.
Friedman, M. Changes of the Architectural Metaphor in Mathematics during the 19th and the 20th century. Talk at the Conference »Architecture_Metaphor«, LOEWE Research Cluster Architectures of Order, Frankfurt am Main. Virtual. 6 November 2020.
Friedman, M. How to notate a crossing of a braid? Notation as epistemic and/or as a hindrance. Talk at the APMP Fifth International Meeting, Zurich. 18 January 2020.
Friedman, M. Material models of braids: Exploration with materiality as a dead end? Talk at the Workshop »Exploratory Modelling and Exploratory Models in Science«, Technische Universität Berlin. Virtual. 19 November 2020.
Friedman, M. Metaphorical reactions to the »crisis of intuition«. Talk at the Joint Conference of the British Society for the History of Mathematics and the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics »Mathematics in Times of Crisis«. Virtual. 6 July 2020.
Guiducci, L., Kycia, A. Self-shaping textiles. How geometric design weaves-in 3D shapes into textiles. Talk at the »Past and Present in Mathematical Weaving«, Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Virtual. 25 September 2020.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/de/activities/2241/past-and-present-in-mathematical-weaving
Pulvermüller, F. Meaning – Object – Action. Talk at the 9th Cluster Day, Meaning – Object – Action. Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Virtual. 26 May 2020.
Schäffner, W. Die Arbeit des Material. Talk at the »Coworking Materials. Für einen aktiven Materialismus« Joint Conference of the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the International Research Center for Cultural Studies, University of Art and Design Linz, Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the International Research Center for Cultural Studies, University of Art and Design Linz. Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, International Research Center for Cultural Studies, University of Art and Design Linz. Virtual. 8 October 2020.
Schäffner, W. Material Energy Information: Towards an Analog Code. Talk at the 1st Annual Conference »The Analog in the Digital Age«. Virtual. 11 November 2020.
https://www.virtualspace.matters-of-activity.de/annualconference/?id=12
Schäffner, W. Resetear CTS en el siglo XXI. Talk at the »Foro Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad«, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá. 14 February 2020.
Tomšič, S. Psychoanalysis and Critical Theory: Past, Present and Future. Colloquium, University of Ljubljana. Virtual. 1 December 2020.
Tomšič, S. »Ex-«: Ontology, Topology, Psychoanalysis. Talk at the Extimacy: Authority, Anxiety and the Desire for Revolution in a Time of Austerity, American University of Beirut. 20 February 2020.
Wegener, M., Tomšič, S. Psychoanalyse und Politik. Dialogue at the Psychoanalytischer Salon, Antiquariat Fundus, Berlin. 24 February 2020.
Zieme, S. Knowledge Cultures and Translations: Latin-Arabic Traditions of the Almagest. Panel Presentation at the 9th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science, Changing relation between visual representations and theoretical frameworks. Bologna. Virtual. 1 September 2020.
https://sites.google.com/view/eshsbologna2020/home
Chukhrov, K., Tomšič, S. Marxism and Psychoanalysis: Alliance or Conflict? From Soviet Psychology to the Present. Keynote at the ∑orkshop of the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought, Goldsmiths College, London. 31 May 2019.
https://cpct.uk/2019/05/01/chukrov-and-tomsic-on-marxism-and-psychoanalysis-may-31/
Friedman, M. Braids in Germany and Italy in the 20th century: material practices of strings. Talk at the Institute of Mathematics, University of Rostock. 22 March 2019.
Friedman, M. Duality and the implicit introduction of ramification curves between 1830 and 1860. Talk at the CIRM, Marseille. 6 May 2019.
Friedman, M. Friedrich Fröbel’s crystallography and the mathematical education at the 19th century Kindergartens. Talk at the Sixth International Conference on the History of Mathematics Education, CIRM, Marseille, France. 16 September 2019.
Friedman, M. Heterogeneous mathematical practices: Complementing or translation? Talk at the 16th International Congress on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Czech Technical University, Prague. 6 August 2019.
Friedman, M. On branch points and branch curves at the turn of the 19th century. Talk at the Pitzer College, Claremont, California. 2 December 2019.
Friedman, M. On narratives regarding mathematics and the concept of »translation«. Talk at the Workshop »Narrative and Mathematical Argument«, London School of Economics. 28 September 2019.
Friedman, M. On visualizations and non-visualizations of branch points and curves. Talk at the Centre Atlantique de Philosophie, Université de Nantes, France. 22 November 2019.
Marienberg, S. Images of Death and Forms of Liveliness. Talk at the Brown Bag Brunch, Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Berlin. Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 15 October 2019.
Mayer, K., Tomšič, S. Institution und Begehren. Conversation at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. 26 June 2019.
Tomšič, S., Proctor, H., Hoens, D. Conversation: Psychoanalysis and the Critique of Capitalism. Talk at the »Libidinal Economies of Crises«, Panel #3. ACUD, Berlin. 27 September 2019.
https://libidinaleconomyberlin.tumblr.com/
Tomšič, S. Marx as a Thinker of Catastrophe. Keynote at the Marx 200 Years, Södertörn University, Stockholm. 4 April 2019.
Tomšič, S. »Rhegelez-vous«: Hegel, Mai 68 und das Nachleben des Strukturalismus. Talk at the 50 Jahre Theorie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 11 February 2019.
Zieme, S. Adam Elsheimer and the Renaissance Night Sky. Talk at the 14th Biennial History of Astronomy Workshop, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame (USA). 21 June 2019.
https://www3.nd.edu/~histast/workshops/2019ndxiv/index.shtml
Zieme, S. Astrology and Comets: Earthly Signs and Celestial Signifiers. Panel Presentation at the 2019 Annual Meeting, History of Science Society, As above so below: Astrology, Comets, Volcanoes and Earthquakes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Utrecht University, Utrecht. 27 July 2019.
https://hss2019.hssonline.org/meeting-program/program/131/as-above-so-below-astrology-comets-volcanoes-and-earthquakes-in-medieval-and-early-modern-europe
Perone, U., Trabant, J., Marienberg, S. Giambattista Vico und die Italianità der Philosophie. ICI Berlin. Colloquium »Giambattista Vico und die Italianità der Philosophie«. Hybrid. 22 October 2020.
Friedman, M., Zetti, D. Paper(s) as Epistemic Carrier of Knowledge. Deutsches Museum München. In cooperation with the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity. Image Space Material« at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University, History of Technology at Technical University Munich. 22 February 2023 - 23 February 2023.
https://www.mcts.tum.de/research/papers-as-epistemic-carrier-of-knowledge/
Friedman, Michael, Krauthausen, Karin, »Materials Matter«. Humboldt Labor, Seminar Room. Workshop with lectures of Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Thomas Speck, Peter Fratzl and Wolfgang Schäffner, a commentary of Christian Reiß and an introduction of the organizers (Michael Friedman and Karin Krauthausen). 5 May 2022.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/7782/materials-matter
Friedman, Michael, Krauthausen, Karin, »Perspectives on Materials«. Humboldt Labor in the Humboldt Forum Berlin. A conversation between Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Michaela Eder, Peter Fratzl, Richard Weinkamer and the organizers and moderators Michael Friedman and Karin Krauthausen. The panel discussion is meant as a public kick-off for the workshop »Material Matters«. 4 May 2022 - 4 September 2022.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/7782/materials-matter
Bauer, F., Kim, Y., Wegener, F. Share Your Toolbox. at the Brown Bag Brunch, Cluster »Matters of Activity«. Virtual. 16 March 2021.
Bauer, F., Schneider, M. Constraints as Chance. 11th International New Materialisms Conference: New Materialist Informatics, Computing and Worldmaking. University of Kassel. Virtual. 22 March 2021.
Friedman, M., Tomšič, S. On Activity II: Space and Materiality. Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Virtual. 19 March 2021.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/3760/on-activity-ii-space-and-materiality
Friedman, M., Krauthausen, K. On Activity. Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 7 February 2020.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/1240/on-activity
Friedman, M. Past and Present in Mathematical Weaving. Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Virtual. 25 September 2020.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/de/activities/2241/past-and-present-in-mathematical-weaving
Harrasser, K., Macho, T., Schäffner, W. »Coworking Materials. Für einen aktiven Materialismus«. Joint conference. Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, International Research Center for Cultural Studies, University of Art and Design Linz. Virtual. 8 October 2020 - 9 October 2020.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/2328/coworking-materials-fr-einen-aktiven-materialismus
Bredekamp, H., Schäffner, W. Material Agencies. Moderation of the panel at the Deutscher Kunsthistorikertag, Universität Göttingen. 30 March 2019.
Löffler, P., Ribault, P, Müller, M. im/Perfection, Im/ perfect Figurations in Nature. Department of Cultural History and Theory, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. With contributions by Löffler, P., Ribault, P, Müller, M., Bublitz, H., Tikka, E., Kassung, C., De Visscher, E., Quinz, E., Schäffner, W., Bruns, C., Wehrli, P., Allen, J., Lang, C. 18 April 2019 - 11 July 2019.
Ribault, P., Fratzl, P., Schäffner, W., et al. Behavioral Matter: Composer avec le vivant. Centre Pompidou, Paris. In cooperation with Ensadlab (École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris) and the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 29 March 2019.
https://fonds-perspektive.de/fr/behavioralmatter/