<nettime-ann> Aesthetics in the Wild -- Autonomy and /Weltbezug/

On Friday 18 November, Dr. Michel van Dartel and Dr. Sebastian Olma will
deliver their inaugural lectures at Avans University of Applied
Sciences. Professors Van Dartel and Olma both joined the university in
2015. They respectively lead research groups in Human-Centred Creation
and Autonomous Creation, both focusing on art and design practice. Each
has developed a specific research programme and recruited fellow
instructors and students to participate in the work of the Avans
Expertise Centre for Art and Design.

*Aesthetics in the Wild: Art and Design Practices and Pedagogies after
the Situated Turn – Dr. Michel van Dartel

*Now that technological advances have made the relationship between
people and their environments unprecedentedly complex, as Professor Van
Dartel will argue in this lecture, there exists a greater need than ever
for artists and designers to help us understand our relationship to our
surroundings. If they are to respond to this exigency, however, artists
and designers cannot limit themselves to creation in studio spaces and
presentation in museums or galleries. To enable them to move beyond such
confinement, we must consider aesthetics “in the wild”, and doing so
will have important consequences for art and design practice and education.

*Autonomy and /Weltbezug/: Toward an Aesthetic of Performative Defiance
– Dr. Sebastian Olma

*In this lecture, Professor Olma will explore the possibility of
reformulating a notion of aesthetic autonomy for our time. A cursory
look at the history of aesthetics reveals that the question of artistic
autonomy has always been related to that of /Weltbezug/, i.e., art’s
relationship to the world. By linking current debates around art and
aesthetic practice to the ideas of important thinkers of the aesthetic
revolution at the turn of the 19th century, Professor Olma will search
for the contours of a timely configuration of the relationship between
autonomy and /Weltbezug/. He will find them in what he calls an
“aesthetic of performative defiance”. This aesthetic is performative in
the sense of going along with the movement of the world while defiantly
rejecting the temptations of linearity and predictability.

*Programme
*2.30 pm – Arrival of guests
3 pm – Welcome by Diederik Zijderveld, member of Executive Board, Avans
University of Applied Sciences
3.10 pm – Inaugural lecture: “Aesthetics in the Wild”, Dr. Michel van
Dartel
4 pm – Coffee and tea break
4.15 pm – Inaugural lecture: “Autonomy and /Weltbezug/”, Dr. Sebastian Olma
5 pm – Inaugural ceremony
5.15 pm – Reception and drinks
6 pm – End

*Sign up
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