Bacteria, Art and other Incommodities

An interdisciplinary conference in cooperation with Goethe-Institut Dänemark and Medical Museion Copenhagen

The conference Bacteria, Art and other Incommodities: Bacteria in Arts, Sciences and Humanities is also a pre-kick-off meeting for the project Big Bacteria containing the establishment of a research collaboration between natural and health sciences and the humanities, and thereby enhances the latter in relation to the violent biotechnological advances that have occurred in recent times, and the consequent development of our world.

Read more on https://kunstogkulturvidenskab.ku.dk/kalender/2015/bacteria/ & https://artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/research/focus/bigbacteria/

Programme outline

9:00 – Arrival, coffee

9:15 – Greeting and brief Introduction: Agency & Selfhood

9:30 – 9:50   Some historical perspectives about agent models and the role of
                    biotechnology
                     Thobias Cheung (Berlin)

9:50 – 10:10  Bacillopoetics. Language pure and infectious
                     Jens Lohfert Jørgensen (Aalborg)

10:10 – 10:30  Discussion

10:30 – 11:00  Coffee break

Size & Sensing

11:00 – 11:20  The complex relationship between bacteria and art
                       Trudy Wassenaar (Zotzenheim)

11:20 – 11:40  GRAM/ART. Bacteria as art media. From breeding containers to actors
                       Jens Hauser (Copenhagen/Paris)

11:40 – 12:00  Discussion

12:00 – 13:30  Lunch

Form & Growth

13:30 – 13:50  Biofilm analysis in health research
                       Thomas Bjarnsholt (Copenhagen)

13:50 – 14:10  Big Bacteria for Micro Humans. Bacteria as archeological
                       - ecological nexus for an integrative health & heritage research
                       Slavko and Sabine Kacunko (Copenhagen/Berlin)

14:10 – 14:30  Discussion

14:30 – 15:00  Coffee break

Diversity & Productivity

15:00 – 15:20  Multi-drug resistant bacteria: game over for science?
                       Markus Schmidt (Vienna)

15:20 – 15:40  You are the swarm. Engaging micro biome research on bacteria brain
                       interaction
                       Adam Bencard (Copenhagen)

15:40 – 16:00 Discussion

16:00 – 16:30  Coffee, cocktail

Art Performance by Sabine Kacunko (Berlin) – Looping Life: Corpuscles

19:30+  Dinner