Conference ///\\\ Exhibition
5 – 6 February 2015
Two day, single session conference
Hosted by the National Institute for Experimental Arts(NIEA) UNSW, Sydney, Australia Keynote Speakers:Reza Negarestani and Mohammad Salemy.
This conference and exhibition address the problem of a non-, post-, trans- or inhuman aesthetics: an ‘aesthetics after finitude’ that is capable of investigating the cultural, technological and ecological demands of a rapidly dehumanising present. As well as being formulated in response to the urgency of the human situation at the beginning of the twenty-first century, this call to develop new trajectories for artistic, poetic, and sonic practice arises alongside the recent and profound shift in contemporary philosophy attributed to thinkers such as Quentin Meillassoux, Ray Brassier, and Reza Negarestani, whose work seeks to divest philosophical writing of its critical and subject-bound dimensions, while giving full weight to a politicised aesthetic: a rigorous, speculative modality of thought.
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