30 Years after Les Immatériaux: Science, Art, and Theory
Symposium
21 – 22 May 2014
Centre for Digital Cultures
Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Postoffice Building, Sülztorstr. 21-25, 2nd floor
With Jean-Louis Boissier (FR), Andreas Broeckmann (DE), Francesca Gallo
(IT), Charlie Gere (UK), Florian Hecker (DE/US), Yuk Hui (HK/DE), Robin
MacKay (UK), Bernard Stiegler (FR), Tim Otto Roth (DE), and
Anne-Elisabeth Sejten (DK).
This symposium is dedicated to the 30th anniversary of Jean-François
Lyotard’s exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 1985, entitled
Les Immatériaux. The exhibition wanted to demonstrate the emergence of a
new materiality produced by the advancement in telecommunications
technology. The prefix im- announced a break from the modern conception
of material, language, body, science, and art. Les Immatériaux showed
how the desire of modernity produced a negation of itself and passed on
to a new cultural form which Lyotard named postmodern. The symposium
traces the discourses in the exhibition and its intellectual environment
of the late 1970s and 80s, and it reflects on the new material
conditions brought up by digital technologies in the last 30 years. What
kind of sensibility is appropriate for our current material condition?
The symposium will be held in English. Admission is free.
Programme
Thursday, 21 May
13:00 – 14:00 Registration
13:00 – 14:00
Film Screening: Octave au pays des Immatériaux Auteur (dir. Daniel
Soutif; Paule Zajdermann; François Kotlarski)
14:00 – 14:30
Introduction (Yuk Hui, Andreas Broeckmann, CDC, Leuphana Universität)
14:30 – 15:30
Jean-Louis Boissier (Paris VIII, France): Scénographie et dramaturgie
des Immatériaux (lecture in French)
15:30 – 16:00 Break
16:00 – 17:00
Charlie Gere (Lancaster University, UK): Voice, Trace and Incarnation in
Relation to Les Immatériaux
17:00 – 18:00
Tim Otto Roth (Artist, Germany): Shadow of a Shadow? – A Physical
Re-Orientation
18:00 – 18:30 Break
18:30 – 19:30
Bernard Stiegler (Centre Pompidou, France) Les Immatériaux are not
immaterial – What does materialism do in the time of the hypermaterial?
Friday, 22 May
09:30 – 10:30
Andreas Broeckmann (Leuphana University, Germany): The Materiality of
Immaterial Art
10:30 – 11:30
Francesca Gallo (Rome University, Italy): Contemporary Art at Les
Immatériaux: Yesterday and Today
11:30 – 11:45 Break
11:45 – 12:45
Anne Elisabeth Sejten (Roskilde University, Denmark): Exhibiting and
Thinking: Anamnesis of the Postmodern
12:45 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00
Florian Hecker (Artist, Germany): Reformulation (Lecture Performace)
15:00 – 15:15 Break
15:15 – 16:15
Yuk Hui (Leuphana University, Lüneburg): Anamnesis and Dis-Orient-ation
– A Discourse on Matter and Time
16:15 – 17:15
Robin MacKay (Urbanomics, UK): Immaterials, Between Acceleration and
Anamnesis
17:15 – 18:00
Closing Discussion
Information:
http://cdc.leuphana.de/events
Organisation & Contact:
Dr. Andreas Broeckmann, broeckmann@inkubator.leuphana.de
Dr. Yuk Hui, yuk.hui@inkubator.leuphana.de
Centre for Digital Cultures, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg,
Scharnhorststr. 1, 21335 Lüneburg
Organised by the Innovation Incubator and the Centre for Digital
Cultures at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, in collaboration with the
Leuphana Arts Program. The Innovation Incubator Lüneburg is an EU major
project supported by the European Regional Development Fund and the
federal state of Lower Saxony.
