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