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The fifth volume of Stadtklang, the UCL Urban Laboratory music night, took place on Sunday 20 March at Somerset House as part of the 'Venturing Beyond: Graffiti and the Everyday Utopias of the Street' exhibition.
Writer and theorist Kodwo Eshun of The Otolith Group was in conversation with Ayesha Hameed - co-editor of a new book ‘Visual Culture as Time Travel’ and lecturer in the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London - and Louis Moreno to discuss 'The Last Angel of History' - a video essay from the Black Audio Film Collective exploring informatics, technics, mutation, posthumanity and extraterrestriality.
The discussion centred on the film’s themes and its critical role in the production of new Afro- and other futurisms. Kodwo also played a playlist especially for Stadtklang offering his take on Afrofuturist sound. Benny Blanco and Nonsense from NTS Radio played sets inspired by cities, science-fiction and utopia.
With thanks to the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London, Approved (by) Pablo, Somerset House, and London Speaker Hire for their support.
Photography by Jacob Fairless Nicholson jacobfnphotography.com/.
Self-Construction as a methodology
performance/installation by Bruno Listopad
Performers: Aleksandra Maciejewska, Amaranta Velarde González, Angelina Deck, Eric Schrijver (Guest Artist)
Picture © Jette Schneider / Danslab
Self-Construction as a methodology
performance/installation by Bruno Listopad
Performers: Aleksandra Maciejewska, Amaranta Velarde González, Angelina Deck, Eric Schrijver (Guest Artist)
Picture © Jette Schneider / Danslab
Artist: Josh Kline
Josh Kline is an artist and curator who lives and works in New York City. Interested in posthumanism, a concept based on the increasingly complex relationships between humans and technology, he uses a wide range of media to highlight the implications of technological advancement and innovation, often drawing inspration from current events. Here, he employs 3D printing to address labor and the human condition.
Kline has said that he keeps accessibility in mind when he's working. "I'm interested in the kind of expanded field that includes audiences without expensive degrees in art or art history," he said. For a series of ultratraditional portraits, he interviewed janitors and other workers about their jobs and tools. After taking full-body scans of them, he printed selected body parts in 3D. He then placed the body parts and cleaning supplies on janitor's carts. Kline's posthumanism beliefs are evident as he blurs the lines among tools. tasks, and body parts.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Washington, DC
Garnet Hertz
Experiments in Galvanism: Frog with Implanted Webserver, 2003-2004
frog, embedded webserver, custom electronics, mineral oil
Hertz has implanted a miniature webserver in the body of a frog specimen, which is suspended in a clear glass container of mineral oil, an inert liquid that does not conduct electricity. The frog is viewable on the Internet, and on the computer monitor across the room, through a webcam placed on the wall of the gallery. Through an Ethernet cable connected to the embedded webserver, remote viewers can trigger movement in either the right or left leg of the frog, thereby updating Luigi Galvani’s original 1786 experiment causing the legs of a dead frog to twitch simply by touching muscles and nerves with metal.
Experiments in Galvanism is both a reference to the origins of electricity, one of the earliest new media, and, through Galvani’s discovery that bioelectric forces exist within living tissue, a nod to what many theorists and practitioners consider to be the new new media: bio(tech) art.
Hertz is a Fulbright Scholar and Research Fellow at the California
Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology. He is pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of California Irvine. Hertz's current artwork consists of developing hybrid insect/machine systems, taking cybernetic-inspired forms as an origin to analyze contemporary developments in "cyborg" existence: artificial life, body modification, biorobotics, genetic engineering and posthuman theory.
Self-Construction as a methodology
performance/installation by Bruno Listopad
Performers: Aleksandra Maciejewska, Amaranta Velarde González, Angelina Deck, Eric Schrijver (Guest Artist)
Picture © Jette Schneider / Danslab
The fifth volume of Stadtklang, the UCL Urban Laboratory music night, took place on Sunday 20 March at Somerset House as part of the 'Venturing Beyond: Graffiti and the Everyday Utopias of the Street' exhibition.
Writer and theorist Kodwo Eshun of The Otolith Group was in conversation with Ayesha Hameed - co-editor of a new book ‘Visual Culture as Time Travel’ and lecturer in the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London - and Louis Moreno to discuss 'The Last Angel of History' - a video essay from the Black Audio Film Collective exploring informatics, technics, mutation, posthumanity and extraterrestriality.
The discussion centred on the film’s themes and its critical role in the production of new Afro- and other futurisms. Kodwo also played a playlist especially for Stadtklang offering his take on Afrofuturist sound. Benny Blanco and Nonsense from NTS Radio played sets inspired by cities, science-fiction and utopia.
With thanks to the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London, Approved (by) Pablo, Somerset House, and London Speaker Hire for their support.
Photography by Jacob Fairless Nicholson jacobfnphotography.com/.
Mindfulness has been defined as a more holistic awareness of being in the moment and ‘reconnecting with our bodies’. It has become a key concept in tackling the pressure of modern society and the demands of the digital age. Technology is often cast as an opponent in this narrative; it distracts us, overwhelms us, brings us to a phase of being human which is no longer human.
Critical reflections on ‘the human’ are certainly not new, neither is the health benefit of ‘mindfulness’ for teenagers and young adults. What is original to this project is the connection between the posthuman condition and mindfulness. Posthumanism is an emerging field of study, which has the entanglement of ‘being human’ with another entity (in this case, technology) at its core. Yet there have only been a handful of studies concerned with the effects of mobile or wearable technology on mindfulness. In particular, the now commercially available EEG headbands claim ‘to bring us a calmer mind’ and educate us in reconnecting with our nature. Through this materialised point of contact, we can learn more about the (perceived) interaction between human and technology; how it mediates and transforms our experience of being human.
Entry by: Dr Caroline Stockman (Senior Lecturer in Education Studies, University of Winchester)
More information on The University of Winchester Research:
Self-Construction as a methodology
performance/installation by Bruno Listopad
Performers: Aleksandra Maciejewska, Amaranta Velarde González, Angelina Deck, Eric Schrijver (Guest Artist)
Picture © Jette Schneider / Danslab
Self-Construction as a methodology
performance/installation by Bruno Listopad
Performers: Aleksandra Maciejewska, Amaranta Velarde González, Angelina Deck, Eric Schrijver (Guest Artist)
Picture © Jette Schneider / Danslab
Self-Construction as a methodology
performance/installation by Bruno Listopad
Performers: Aleksandra Maciejewska, Amaranta Velarde González, Angelina Deck, Eric Schrijver (Guest Artist)
Picture © Jette Schneider / Danslab
Self-Construction as a methodology
performance/installation by Bruno Listopad
Performers: Aleksandra Maciejewska, Amaranta Velarde González, Angelina Deck, Eric Schrijver (Guest Artist)
Picture © Jette Schneider / Danslab
Artist: Josh Kline
Josh Kline is an artist and curator who lives and works in New York City. Interested in posthumanism, a concept based on the increasingly complex relationships between humans and technology, he uses a wide range of media to highlight the implications of technological advancement and innovation, often drawing inspration from current events. Here, he employs 3D printing to address labor and the human condition.
Kline has said that he keeps accessibility in mind when he's working. "I'm interested in the kind of expanded field that includes audiences without expensive degrees in art or art history," he said. For a series of ultratraditional portraits, he interviewed janitors and other workers about their jobs and tools. After taking full-body scans of them, he printed selected body parts in 3D. He then placed the body parts and cleaning supplies on janitor's carts. Kline's posthumanism beliefs are evident as he blurs the lines among tools. tasks, and body parts.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Washington, DC
The fifth volume of Stadtklang, the UCL Urban Laboratory music night, took place on Sunday 20 March at Somerset House as part of the 'Venturing Beyond: Graffiti and the Everyday Utopias of the Street' exhibition.
Writer and theorist Kodwo Eshun of The Otolith Group was in conversation with Ayesha Hameed - co-editor of a new book ‘Visual Culture as Time Travel’ and lecturer in the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London - and Louis Moreno to discuss 'The Last Angel of History' - a video essay from the Black Audio Film Collective exploring informatics, technics, mutation, posthumanity and extraterrestriality.
The discussion centred on the film’s themes and its critical role in the production of new Afro- and other futurisms. Kodwo also played a playlist especially for Stadtklang offering his take on Afrofuturist sound. Benny Blanco and Nonsense from NTS Radio played sets inspired by cities, science-fiction and utopia.
With thanks to the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London, Approved (by) Pablo, Somerset House, and London Speaker Hire for their support.
Photography by Jacob Fairless Nicholson jacobfnphotography.com/.
Self-Construction as a methodology
performance/installation by Bruno Listopad
Performers: Aleksandra Maciejewska, Amaranta Velarde González, Angelina Deck, Eric Schrijver (Guest Artist)
Picture © Jette Schneider / Danslab
The fifth volume of Stadtklang, the UCL Urban Laboratory music night, took place on Sunday 20 March at Somerset House as part of the 'Venturing Beyond: Graffiti and the Everyday Utopias of the Street' exhibition.
Writer and theorist Kodwo Eshun of The Otolith Group was in conversation with Ayesha Hameed - co-editor of a new book ‘Visual Culture as Time Travel’ and lecturer in the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London - and Louis Moreno to discuss 'The Last Angel of History' - a video essay from the Black Audio Film Collective exploring informatics, technics, mutation, posthumanity and extraterrestriality.
The discussion centred on the film’s themes and its critical role in the production of new Afro- and other futurisms. Kodwo also played a playlist especially for Stadtklang offering his take on Afrofuturist sound. Benny Blanco and Nonsense from NTS Radio played sets inspired by cities, science-fiction and utopia.
With thanks to the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London, Approved (by) Pablo, Somerset House, and London Speaker Hire for their support.
Photography by Jacob Fairless Nicholson jacobfnphotography.com/.