When: Thursday Nov 6, 7pm
Where: HfG Lichtbrücke
Guest: Špela Petric (Ljubljana / Amsterdam) mit dem Talk "Eeating back"

Free Entry
The talk will be held in Englisch

'Eating Back‘ – Infrastructures are notoriously difficult to grasp as they are designed to be reliable and unseen, taken for granted unless they break. Taking the Dutch horticultural sector as a case in point, Petrič's recent artistic research project examines the digital infrastructures and automation used in the production of/care for living bodies. In response, she performs a series of interventions into the horticultural sector, each geared towards a critical aspect of agribusiness.

Conversations on Art and Media: Unconventional Computing is an ongoing 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?

About Špela Petric:
Špela Petrič is a Slovenian hybrid media artist with a background in the natural sciences. Her artistic research and practice combines biomedia and performativity to enact strange relations between bodies that question the underpinnings of our (bio)technological societies. Recently she has been busy with looking closely at automation of care in agriculture and medicine.

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