Hessen Film and Media Academy (hFMA)
address: Hermann-Steinhäuser-Straße 43-47, 2.Fl
63065 Offenbach am Main
Germany
+49 69 830 460 41
please find driving directions here
Managing director
Lucie Peetz – peetz(at)hfmakademie.de
Project managers:
Csongor Dobrotka (Wednesday) – dobrotka(at)hfmakademie.de
Celina Schimmer (Monday to Wednesday) – schimmer(at)hfmakademie.de
You can reach us from Monday to Thursday 10am - 4:30pm
Das internationale Symposium „reality <re:coded>“ wird vom 13.11.-14.11.15 im Museum Schloss Fechenbach, Dieburg in englischer Sprache abgehalten.
Keynotes werden von Monika Fleischmann (Berlin) und Malcolm Levy (Vancouver) gegeben. Ein weiterer Hauptredner ist Arjen Mulder (Amsterdam). Weitere Vorträge kommen von dem Komponisten Barry Truax (CDN), der Medientheoretikerin Michelle Bunn (USA), dem Medienkünstler Michael Iber (A) u.a.
In his seminal work
"The language of new media" (2002) Lev Manovich unfolded and
established, how digital media started to offer a collection of new
methods imposing strong effects on sense and sense-making, and
therefore
on the (re-)construction of reality. The core idea of the Schloss
Fechenbach exhibition "StadtLandFluss <re:coded>" as well as of
its related symposium is to discuss if and how digital media and its
processes of conceptualization, construction and design challenge,
question and maybe alter our notions of reality once taken for granted.
In our symposium,
we will follow diverse approaches to this topic under an umbrella which
we kept deliberately wide, in order to bring together multiple
perspectives on the theme. The symposium will deal with topics as "mixed
reality", "hybridity", "coding and recoding" "world and digital
perception", "virtuality" etc. It is up to the contributors framing the
topic from their point of view. Our overall aim is to discuss medias'
power (and not only the digital medias') as a a machinery of perception,
submitting the various aspects of our being-in-the world under its
ordering, and maybe its regime.
The contributions will be either theoretically
or practically oriented, or a mixture of both. There will be a
discussion panel at the end of the symposium involving the audience,
centering around the terms "reality
virtuality mediality".One
keynote speaker is the curator and media artist Malcolm Levy from
Vancouver, other speakers are the Canadian composer Barry Truax, the
media theorist Arjen Mulder (NL), the media artist Michael Iber
(Austria), the young scholar Michelle Bunn (USA), the young curator
Klaus Schüller (D) et al.
The symposium is attached to our exhibition "StadtLandFluss <re:coded>",
which will present young artists' media works, centering around the
topic of revealing surprising "views" of or approaches to the so-called
familiar by digital media.
