Adam Bencard

Så er der en uge til at vi her på Medicinsk Museion lancerer vores nye række af aftenarrangementer – Krop | Medicin | Ting: nærkontakt af den materielle slags. Det første arrangement, Kroppen i balance: Fra igler til piller, finder sted torsdag den 22. marts, kl 19.30. Arrangementet tager udgangspunkt i udstillingen Balance og Stofskifte […]

The gaming industry is monstrously big business. But it is also infested with much love and enthusiasm, both by those in the industry itself, and from those who use its products. One example of this is an interesting venture by the established gaming developer Double Fine Productions. The company started this drive on the innovation/crowdsourcing […]

I recently gave a small talk on aesthetics in didactic contexts at the Department for Science Education. As part of the research for the talk, I spent some time reading up on the history of aesthetic philosophy and particularly on the contribution of the founder of the discipline, Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten. Being interested in new […]

I started writing some comments on Thomas’ stimulating and interesting post on why museums are so apolitical, but it turned into something lengthier so I thought I would post it separately. There is a deep and interesting fissure in how some of the questions in the post are articulated. The division that is mapped out […]

Philosopher Ian Bogost recently posted this lecture that he gave a month ago at the Third Object Oriented Ontology symposium held at The New School in New York. In the talk, he discusses the photographer Garry Winogrand, who is famous as a street photographer, documenting life in mid-20th century America through hundreds of thousands of […]

V2_ , the Institute for the Unstable Media is, in their own words an interdisciplinary center for art and media technology in Rotterdam (the Netherlands). V2_’s activities include organizing presentations, exhibitions and workshops, research and development of artworks in its own media lab, distributing artworks through its Agency, publishing in the field of art and […]

A quick quote from Isabelle Stengers interesting book Cosmopolitics I (published in the series Posthumanities), which I feel sums up some of what we try to do at the Museion when we integrate aesthetics, politics, science communication and material culture: “The sciences, as they are taught, that is, as they are presented once their results […]

Even more thoughts after reading How We Became Posthuman (other posts are here and here). I think part of my fascination with the book is that it inadvertently articulates what I see to be a watershed change that has happened in the past ten years or so – the change from an informational paradigm to […]

Some more ramblings inspired by How We Became Posthuman (other post is here). The interface that was to transform us turned out not to be the human/machine coupling, but instead the human/biology coupling, in which the transformation of biological life inside and outside of us is the key. The Technicolor wonder of the man-as-machine has […]

Part of my summer reading has been N. Katherine Hayles very interesting and stimulating book, How We Became Posthuman – Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics. The book details the rise of the informational logic of life from the rise of the cybernetic paradigm in the late 1940s and onwards. Hayles writes the book […]