When: Thursday, Oct 30, 6pm Where: HfG Lichtbrücke
Guest: Shintaro Miyazaki (HU Berlin): Endosymbiotic Computation

Conversations on Art and Media: Unconventional Computing is a new lecture series with invited guests from the expanded fields of media art and theory, co-organized by members of HfG Karlsruhe and ZKM. During winter semester 2026, the series discusses unconventional conceptions and materializations of computers as well as alternative ways of dealing with them. In the light of the quasi-monopoly of big tech companies and in view of powerful presets and standards, guest lectures and conversations will address the questions: To what extent can computers look or function differently? In which ways can we reflect on, perceive or handle computing devices differently or change them?

Further Dates

• Thursday Nov. 6, 06:00 pm, HfG Lichtbrücke: Špela Petric (Ljubljana / Amsterdam): Eeating back
• Thursday Dec. 11, 07:00 pm, ZKM Kubus, Jia Liu (Karlsruhe) & Edy Fung (Stockholm/Belfast): Superposition Composition
• Thursday Dec. 18, 06:00 pm (hybrid), HfG Lichtbrücke, Lauren Lee McCarthy (UCLA): Becoming Auto
• Thursday Jan. 22, 01.30 pm, HfG Lichtbrücke, Nolwenn Maudet (Université de Strasbourg): Digital design and its relationships with environmental sustainability