Humankind at war with Mother Nature: In Greenland and away from the Anthropoceneland

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: N Visual arts (General) For photography; see TR; TR Photography; NX Arts in general; Greenland
• Online Access: https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/37724/; https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/37724/1/Screen_Shot_2019-07-24_at_14.19.14_PM.png; https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/37724/2/Screen_Shot_2019-07-24_at_14.20.40_PM.png; https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/37724/3/Screen_Shot_2019-07-24_at_14.22.04_PM.png; https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/37724/4/Screen_Shot_2019-07-24_at_14.23.41_PM.png; https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/37724/5/POM_Beirut_2019_Schedule_V1.7_web.pdf; https://pombeirut.com/

POM Beirut 2019 – art/conflict The goal of this edition of POM will be to tackle art practices and the relation of art to the machine. In parallel, it will also focus on understanding the influence and relation between art and conflict. POM will tend to explore the connection between the violence of conflict and violence as a process in art production; the role of conflict in the sociopolitical environment and how it relates to the field of art, science, and technology. POM Beirut will also try for a better understanding of the engagement and responsiveness of people and organizations to conflict, exploring how art may serve as a tool for resolution and for social inclusion; or as a counter-argument, a tool for conflict and/or violence. Conflict can also be understood as a contradicting force within an artwork, artistic methods or in a subject matter, it may also push for ethical questions or reveal conflict of interests. Politics of The Machines – conference/series The POM-conference addresses the politics of the machines and the inescapable technological structures, as well as infrastructures of artistic production in-between human and non-human agency with critical and constructive perspectives. Where and when do experimental and artistic practices work beyond the human: machine and human: non-human dualisms towards biological, hybrid, cybernetic, vibrant, uncanny, overly material, darkly ecological and critical machines? How are we to analyze and contextualize alternative and experimental ontologies and epistemologies of artistic practices beyond transparent dualisms and objectification? How are the relationality and operationality of machines being negotiated into cultural and social ontologies? The 2nd POM Conference The International University of Beirut, June 11-14, 2019 In an area afflicted with multifaceted conflicts, art can become an agent for dialogue, an agent for resolution, or it can get itself involved in the clash. POM Beirut will comprise four days of conferences with multiple tracks of paper ...