Center for Culture and Technology

Workshop

13.06.2025

Workshop at the Technische Universität Dresden: Biomachines

The research group on Biomachines (The Velux Foubdations) conducts a workshop with the Technische Universität Dresden on June 20, 2025.

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30.01.2025

Guest Lecture: Unworlding: Trans* Architectures

March 5 in Room U46, SDU Campus Odense. Join us for at guest lecture with Professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University, Jack Halberstam, on transness, aesthetics, and the dismantling of worlds.

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Seminar

18.12.2024

Seminar on Representation in/of AI with Fabian Offert

Thursday, February 27, 2025, 19.00-20.30 on Zoom

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Seminar

15.11.2024

Science Facts/Fictions (SFF): Science Fiction, Robotics Engineering and Policy

SFF invites discussion on the interchange between AI, robot science, and science fiction.

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Workshop

18.09.2024

Half-day workshop: “Robot Touch // Touching Robotics”

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Robot-Human Touch

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Conference

28.08.2024

Conference: DATA LIFE

Conference Theme: Exploring the multiple dimensions of data life through critical data studies. 5 Nov. 2024

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Call for Papers

27.08.2024

Culture Machine Vol. 24 Call for Papers: The Aesthetics of Biomachines

Culture Machine Vol. 24 Call for Papers: The Aesthetics of Biomachines. Guest editors: Johan Lau Munkholm, Naja Grundtmann, Kathrin Maurer & Kristin Veel

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Conference

12.04.2024

Conference: The Aesthetics of Bio-Machines and the Question of Life

Over the course of two days, we will bring together a wide range of scholars, researchers and artists who explore life-simulating technologies from an aesthetic perspective.

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Book release

29.11.2023

THE PERCEPTION MACHINE: OUR PHOTOGRAPHIC FUTURE BETWEEN THE EYE AND AI by Joanna Zylinska

New book by Joanna Zylinska. Thanks to MIT Press’s Direct to Open program, The Perception Machine is freely available to download - read more here

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Call for papers

23.11.2023

Call for Papers: The Aesthetics of Bio-Machines and the Question of Life

The core group “Bio-Machines and the Question of Life” (The Velux Foundations) seeks paper proposal for conference in June 13-14, 2024! See the full call for papers here

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Book release

22.11.2023

Kathrin Maurer: The Sensorium of the Drone and Communities

Kathrin Maurer’s book "The Sensorium of the Drone and Communities" has been released with MIT PRESS! And it is open Access!

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Journal issue

22.11.2023

Theme Issue on Machinic Visions of the Planetary

Our Theme Issue on Machinic Visions of the Planetary is finally out! At a time of increasing challenges that concern our relationship to the environment, we address how new forms of vision and visuality brought forth through technologies reconfigure planetary relations

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Book launch

16.11.2023

Book launch: Kathrin Maurer, The Sensorium of the Drone and Communities

Invitation to book launch on November 16, 2023 at 14:00-16:00 (Danish Time, CET) at the University of Southern Denmark

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Workshop

26.10.2023

Workshop on Robots in Science Fiction

Workshop on October 26, 2023; 14:00-16:00 (CEST) (HYBRID)

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Book launch

25.09.2023

Book Launch: Dominique Routhier, With and Against: The Situationist International in the Age of Automation

October 24 2023 at 7:00 PM

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Open positions

29.08.2023

PhD fellowship in literature and AI at SDU

The Department of Culture and Language at the University of Southern Denmark SDU (Odense, Denmark) is offering a fully funded 3-year PhD fellowship commencing February 1, 2024

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Open positions

29.08.2023

Two post doc positions at SDU

We are looking for TWO postdocs for our newly started project on “The Aesthetics of Bio-Machines and the Question of Life” funded by The Velux Foundations

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Research grant

03.07.2023

New grant from the Velux Foundations

Kathrin Maurer (SDU) and Kristin Veel (KU) have been awarded a core-group program grant from the Velux Foundation with the project “The Aesthetics of Bio-Machines and the Question of Life”

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Film Screening

03.03.2023

Film Screening and discussion with film director Hans Christian Post (on Zoom) 12 April

The documentary Best in the World takes stock of Copenhagen’s evolution through the eyes of architects, activists and writers to assess what is at stake. A cautionary tale for cities across the world. City leaders and urban planners have in recent years come up with evermore concepts as to how our cities can become better, smarter and more attractive to live in and launched large-scale redevelopment programs in order to achieve this.

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Lecture

02.12.2022

The Emerging Horizontality of Desakota Urbanity in Hilly Regions in Southwest China: A Utopia Strategy of The Urban-Rural Sustainable Development in Chongqing

Hongxia Pu

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