Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019
1.30–2.00 pm
Welcome Address, Lorenz Engell & Bernhard Siegert
Panel “Media Technologies”
2.00–3.00 pm
Symbolic Material Operations: Towards the Re- Invention of Analog Code, Wolfgang Schäffner (Berlin)
3.00–4.00 pm
Media and Mathematics, Alexander R. Galloway (New York)
4.00–4.30 pm Break
4.30–5.30 pm
Reoccupations in Collecting Living Beings – from Isolating/Cultivating towards Digitizing/Synthesizing, Nicole Karafyllis & Alexander Waszynski (Braunschweig)
5.30 pm Welcome Reception
Thursday, October 24th, 2019
Panel “Cybernetics”
10.00–11.00 am
Predicting and Shaping. Rhetoric, Technologies, and Social Networks of Behavioral Design, Christina Vagt (Santa Barbara)
11.00–12.00 noon
Predicting and Explaining, Elena Esposito (Bologna)
12.00–1.30 pm Lunch Break
1.30–2.30 pm
The Invisible Hand. On the Political Theology of Cybernetic Management, Emmanuel Alloa (Fribourg)
2.30–3.00 pm Break
Panel “Philosophy”
3.00–4.00 pm
The Switch Image, Lorenz Engell (Weimar)
4.00–5.00 pm
Flipping Heidegger's Switches: Force, Violence and the Administration of Thinking, Adam Knowles (Drexel/Marbach)
5.00–5.30 pm Break
5.30–7.00 pm
Keynote: The Différance of a Future to Come as an Operative Bifurcation in Becoming, Bernard Stiegler (Paris)
Friday, October 25th, 2019
Panel “Culturing”
10.00–11.00 am
Recording and Reacting: Coexistence of Perceptions in Digital Media, Pauline Chasseray-Peraldi (Paris)
11.00–12.00 noon
Invading/Inviting. From Surveillance to Byzantium, Ulrich Meurer (Wien)
12.00–12.15 pm Break
12.15–1.15 pm
On, Off, Between: A Modest Proposal to Add Some More Propositions to the Practical Grammar of Switching by Taking a Look at Terraforming (not only) on Mars, Michael Cuntz (Weimar)
1.15–1.45 pm
Conclusion, Lorenz Engell & Bernhard Siegert