Wednesday October 20th, 2021

The social responsibility of researchers, public trust in science and the impact on research activities

Agnieszka Jelewska at the Global Research Council Regional Meeting
The social responsibility of researchers, public trust in science and the impact on research activities

Prof. Agnieszka Jelewska will take part as an expert at the invitation of the international organization Science Europe in the Global Research Council Regional Meeting in Madrid. During the Thursday session, prof. Jelewska will present the presentation: The social responsibility of researchers, public trust in science, and the impact on research activities, which concerns the concept of the social turn of science, research ethics, and new forms of building relations between society and science.

https://www.scienceeurope.org/events/2021-grc-european-regional-meeting/

 

Sunday December 6th, 2020

Critical Media Design. Teaching as a process of social engagement.

EPICURtalk
Critical Media Design. Teaching as a process of social engagement.

Prof. Agnieszka Jelewska and dr. Michał Krawczak will be panelists at the 1st Annual EPICUR Forum “Experimental Learning & Experimental Teaching in Digital Settings”.

On Thursday 10th of December 2020 as a part of EPICURtalk  they will present a paper “Critical Media Design. Teaching as a process of social engagement.”. You can also meet panelists in Virtual Project Booth, where they will share experimental methods of teaching within and outside academia

https://epicur.education/event/epicur-annual-forum/

Critical Media Design. Teaching as a process of social engagement.

We created Humanities/Art/Technology Research Center at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań in 2010 in order to search for effective strategies for conducting research on new social and cultural phenomena associated with the data-based society, and to explore the possibilities of new didactic methods. Trans- and interdisciplinary methods, which we use extensively, are based on collaborative work involving specialists from various disciplines – including designers and artists, as well as people from outside the academy. Trans- and interdisciplinary tools and strategies developed in the framework of our research are later used in the teaching process – in university classes and workshops where researchers, artists, designers and activists are trained together. We would like to share two case studies. One is our exploration of the spectral character of the Chernobyl disaster, and the second is an ongoing project of creating a digital system for social interaction with an environment touched by cultural and historical trauma.

Sunday November 29th, 2020

SPECTRAL STORYTELLING. SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT THROUGH TECHNOLOGY IN TRAUMATIZED ENVIRONMENTS

Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University, online lecture
SPECTRAL STORYTELLING. SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT THROUGH TECHNOLOGY IN TRAUMATIZED ENVIRONMENTS

We invite you to an online lecture SPECTRAL STORYTELLING. SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT THROUGH TECHNOLOGY IN TRAUMATIZED ENVIRONMENTS by Agnieszka Jelewska and Michał Krawczak as part of the Transmedia Arts program at The Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University.

How to responsibly design open transmedia environments engaging audiences and using critical theories, speculative design, and distributed leadership? Can technology work for the benefit of excluded, both human and nonhuman actors, and reveal the essential problems of traumatized places, historically unclear and hidden events?  The lecture will be focused on the analysis of two examples from the practice of the Humanities/Art/Technology Research Center: the interactive installation Post-Apocalypsis (2015) dealing with the problem of the spectral nature of the Chernobyl disaster as a multifaceted and long-term cultural trauma, and the Ecological and Social Archive of Lake Elsensee-Rusałka (2018-2021), which is a media platform for social interaction with the historical, urban and ecological problems of this place. Lake Elsensee-Rusałka, located in Poznań, is an artificial reservoir created due to Jewish prisoners’ slave labor during World War II, rebuilt by the Polish communist authorities, currently undergoing a continuous revitalization. Through these processes and repressed stories, the lake as a place itself became a source of social emotions and tensions.

Thursday, 3.12.2020 // 5.00 pm EST / 23.00 CEST

Instructions how to join the event

1. Have a Zoom account. 

 2. Please provide your name and email on the registration page to register to this event.

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Thursday April 18th, 2019

After Agency

international conference open call
After Agency

AFTER AGENCY / international conference open call

12-14 November 2019, Poznan, Poland

Organization:

Humanities/Art/Technology Research Center (Adam Mickiewicz University)

Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center

Venue: Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Street Jana Pawla II 10, Poznan

 

‘After Agency’ is a provocation. It seems that agency might be in trouble – what we think of it, what we make of it, what and who has it and what emerges in its unfolding or de-folding. Scholars have informed us of the more-than-human agencies of emergent worlds (Haraway, 2008; Tsing, 2015; Kirsky, 2015; Kohn, 2013) and the speculative becomings of/with agencies that alter the possibility of worlds (Morton, 2013; Taussig, 2018; Murphy, 2017; Weizman, 2012; Barad, 2007) in the context of capitalist violence, anthropogenic toxicities and the timely matter of life itself. 

‘Agency’ and the collective sensibility of agency inform the practice of research, knowledge production, methodologies and methods of situated thinking with the world at large. The posthuman and ontological turn in the wake of the Anthropocene (Braidotti, 2013; Wark, 2015; Chandler, 2018; Castro, 2009; Escobar, 2018) offers a certain opportunity to push further, conceptual questionings of what is conventionally thought of as agency. Attuned to the situatedness of each of our many political encounters – we notice the spectre of financial violence, white supremacy and capitalist injustice wound up in the figuring of our presumed times “after agency.” Does this not then call for a reimagining of our methods and methodologies?

Stream #1 Resistance 

What characterizes academic labor in the contemporary moment is a severance between scholarly research and ‘on the ground’ strategies of resistance. Given the rise of algorithmic governance (the cybernetic hypothesis) and the generational violence of deep-time environmental destruction (the Anthropocene hypothesis), we must move beyond a mere description of the situation we find ourselves in and ask – what tools are available to us? What techniques and practices of resistance can we call upon that are still viable? And how can we recognize when resistance itself becomes a hubristic normative reproduction at best, and at worst – a ‘disruptive’ capitalist ethos?

Stream #2 Speculation

The idea of speculation requires an agential and compositional inquiry. Speculation seems to form and ingrain worlds, in turbulence and beyond. Speculative acts in art, finance, knowledge production and a range of interacting and intra-acting world-making disciplines, imply becomings. Drawing from Rosi Braidotti’s notion of the posthuman and a posthuman humanities, this stream invites a conversation on speculating-with and thinking of speculation in the context of affirming bonds “that locates the subject in the flow of relations with multiple others” (Braidotti 2016, 99). What circulations can a speculative posthuman ethics speak to? What are some of the implications of this thinking on our collective practices? What are some of the challenges of this agenda? How do situated stories and ontologies speak to the project?

Recognizing the need for a more-than-human circulation in the posthuman circulation of stories, this stream is keen for a situated engagement with the HAT Research Center as a situated site of material and discourse – re-forming, re-thinking and speculating with the living, in finding allies in these precarious airs and times. We desire speculation in decolonial terms. We seek speculative assistance in-trouble and we intend on gathering a conversation on our research and practice to ask where could these speculations go?

Stream #3 Adaptation

The concept of adaptation is crucial in considering the increasing technological impact on “nature” and evolutionary changes in human behaviour. For many scientists, such as the psychologist Peter Kahn, adaptation describes an organism’s adjustment to its environment (Kahn, 2011). Thus, adaptation is not in itself normative; it is a mostly multilayered and a multidirectional set of actions. What Kahn stresses in his analysis is that the inalienable element of adaptive processes is harm. He demarcates two types of harm: direct harm, and the harm of unfulfilled flourishing. In this stream, we would like to discuss unintentional harm in the broader problematics of agential adaptation. Indirect forms of harm should push us toward re-contextualizing human and nonhuman agencies inscribed in the Anthropocene (with all the different terminological options, such as the Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene etc.). We are also interested in refiguring the common perception of the supposed ‘nonagentiality’ of human and nonhuman forces, asking about harm in post- and de-colonial research and in necropolitics (A. Mbembe 2003, 2016). From the perspective of social changes and new policies, we are going to discuss to what extent harm could be seen as a necessary and controlled condition for resilient and adaptive societies on both the local and global scale?

Important dates:

Abstract submission deadline: 30 MAY 2019  16 JUNE 2019

Abstract acceptance notification: 30 JUNE 2019  14 JULY 2019

Conference date:12-14 NOVEMBER 2019

Full paper submission deadline: 15 DECEMBER 2019

Abstract submission:

All abstracts should be submitted using the EasyChair system. Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aa19

The length of the abstract must be between 300 and 500 words (excluding title, keywords and references). All the abstracts/proposals will be peer-reviewed by two external reviewers. Please state in the abstract precisely the form of presentation and the title of the stream you are going to submit the presentation.

Presentations delivered during the conference should not be longer than 20 minutes.

There is no conference fee for the speakers. We will also be able to offer accommodation (12-14 November 2019) for the speakers; coffee and lunch during the conference days.

There will be a monograph published after the conference, with selected papers post peer review.

Organising Committee:

Agnieszka Jelewska, Humanities/Art/Technology Research Center, Adam Mickiewicz University

e-mail: jelewska@amu.edu.pl

Michał Krawczak, Humanities/Art/Technology Research Center, Adam Mickiewicz University

e-mail: michal.krawczak@amu.edu.pl

Damian Niemir, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center

e-mail: niemir@man.poznan.pl

Harshavardhan Bhat, University of Westminster 

e-mail: harsh.s.bhat@gmail.com

Brett Zehner, Brown University

e-mail: brett_zehner@brown.edu

Monday January 7th, 2019

MEDIATED ENVIRONMENTS: open call

grant / research team / open call
MEDIATED ENVIRONMENTS: open call

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Tuesday January 2nd, 2018

We are a member of Leonardo/ISAST

HAT Research Center has become a member of The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology
We are a member of Leonardo/ISAST

We would like to share with you great news: HAT Research Center has become a Leonardo Affiliate Member.

Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (Leonardo/ISAST) is a nonprofit organization that serves the global network of distinguished scholars, artists, scientists, researchers and thinkers through our programs, which focus on interdisciplinary work, creative output and innovation. From its beginnings, Leonardo has served as THE virtual community for networking, resource-sharing, disseminating best practices, supporting research and offering events in art/science/technology.

Leonardo serves as a critical content provider through our publications, which include scholarly journals and books published by The MIT Press (Leonardo, Leonardo Music Journal, Leonardo Electronic Almanac and the Leonardo Book Series), as well as ARTECA, our latest joint digital publishing project with The MIT Press.

The journal Leonardo was founded in 1968 in Paris by kinetic artist and astronautical pioneer Frank Malina. Malina saw the need for a journal that would serve as an international channel of communication among artists, with emphasis on the writings of artists who use science and developing technologies in their work. After the death of Frank Malina in 1981 and under the leadership of his son, Roger F. Malina, Leonardo moved to San Francisco, California, as the flagship journal of the newly founded nonprofit organization Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (Leonardo/ISAST). Leonardo/ISAST has grown along with its community and today is the leading organization for artists, scientists and others interested in the application of contemporary science and technology to the arts and music. (from Leonardo website)

more about Leonardo/ISAST here.

Saturday November 4th, 2017

Science as art theory, art as scientific practice

open lecture by prof. Agnieszka Jelewska and dr. Michal Krawczak
Science as art theory, art as scientific practice

You are invited to an open lecture “Science as art theory, art as scientific practice” by Agnieszka Jelewska and Michal Krawczak at Zacheta, National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, multimedia room (entrance from Burschego street).

9th November 2017, 18:00

Wednesday May 24th, 2017

Future is Now, that’s why there will be no future.

open lecture by prof. Agnieszka Jelewska
Future is Now, that’s why there will be no future.

Join us for an open lecture titled Future is Now, that’s why there will be no future by HAT Research Center’s director prof. Agnieszka Jelewska. 1st June, 18.45, Sala Sniadeckich, Collegium Maius, Adam Mickieiwcz University.

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Monday May 1st, 2017

OPEN CALL: technological lab: Hyperobjects

OPEN CALL: technological lab: Hyperobjects

HAT Research Center, Movements Factory Foundation and the Polish Dance Theatre are announcing an open call to participate in creative technological lab lead by prof. Agnieszka Jelewska and dr. Michał Krawczak.

Applications are accepted between 15.05. and 26.06.2017

The labs will be held between 14.08. and 19.08.2017 at the Polish Dance Theatre, Kozia 4 / Poznań and at the Adam Mickiewicz University / Poznań

How do I take part in the labs?
All you need to do is to apply by emailing a.krolica@ptt-poznan.pl. Those selected to apply will be notified by email by 1 July 2017. The labs are free as long as the participant is present at all the sessions (a 100 PLN fee is charged but is returned upon completion of the lab as long as the participant has attended all sessions).

What should I include in my application?
The application should include a covering letter, a CV, and information about the expectations of the applicant.

What is a creative lab? 
Creative labs are based on process work in integrated transdisciplinary artistic activities. We envisage the labs as a space to acquire new competences, to pursue artistic explorations, to gain new skills and knowledge. This project is an attempt to open up to a new model of the functioning of culture, where shared practice is often research and/or lab work.

What are main topics of technological lab:

molecular aesthetics and sound ecology //psychobiology and biocommunication // hyperobjects theory

 

Wednesday November 18th, 2015

Art as Laboratory of New Society

open lecture

art as laboratory lecture

You are invited to an open lecture “Art as Laboratory of New Society” by Agnieszka Jelewska and Michal Krawczak at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) and Emerson College (Boston, MA).

Harvard University (Cambridge, MA), 3:00 pm

Emerson College (Boston, MA), 4:00 pm

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Open lectures will be also a presentation of the project founded by Polish National Science Center / project no. UMO-2014/13/B/HS2/00508 /

Monday September 14th, 2015

Post-Apocalypsis in Wroclaw

interactive installation / Gold Medal / PQ2015

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An installation Post-Apocalypsis the winner of the Gold Medal in the National Exhibition Section at the 13th Prague Quadriennale will be presented in Grotowski Institute in Wroclaw.

Wed–Mon 16–21 September 2015

Laboratory Theatre Space
Admission free
The installation will be open daily from 11am to 5pm.

http://www.grotowski-institute.art.pl

Curator Agnieska Jelewska

Experience designer Michał Krawczak
Sound designer
 Rafał Zapała
Interaction designer Paweł Janicki
Interactive system engineer
 Michał Cichy
Space design Jerzy Gurawski and ARPA (Jerzy Gurawski’s architecture studio)
Executive producer Anna Galas-Kosil (Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute)
Co-ordinator Edyta Zielnik (Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute)

Tuesday June 23rd, 2015

Gold Medal PQ2015 for Post-Apocalypsis

gold medal / PQ2015 / sound design

The Polish national exhibition Post-Apocalypsis curated by Agnieszka Jelewska has been awarded the Gold Medal of the 13th Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space festival.

The Gold Medal PQ 2015 for Sound Design went to the Polish team for its project Post-Apocalypsis, which the jury appreciated for its clever use of sound – the sensitive and interactive sound design reflects contemporary ideas relating to the relationship between man, nature and technology as part of a hybrid communications system.

postapocalypsis gold medal

Before Post-Apocalypsis’ success, works by Polish artists had been awarded gold at the Prague Quadrennial only three times. In 1967, the award was given to Andrzej Kreutz Majewski, 4 years later Jerzy Gurawski, Józef Szajna, Leokadia Serafinowicz and Zofia Wierchowicz. The last Polish representatives to be presented with the Gold Medal were Jan Berdyszak, Adam Kilian, Kazimierz Mikulski, Zofia Pietrusińska, Leokadia Serafinowicz, Zygmunt Smandzik, Zofia Stanisławska-Howrukowa and Jerzy Zitzman in 1979.

http://www.pq.cz/en/news/2015/6/23/prague-quadrennial-2015-awards

Sunday November 9th, 2014

Emotional Urban Weather

workshop

Next week (14-15.11.2014) dr. Agnieszka Jelewska and dr. Michal Krawczak will lead workshop “Emotional Urban Weather” for artists and researchers in Theatre Institute in Warsaw. Project is a part of program: Shared Space: Music, Weather, Politics 2013-1016 //PQ 2015

more info about workshops: here

Thursday October 9th, 2014

post-technological experiences

international conference /23.10-27.10.2014/
post-technological experiences

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