幸运飞艇计划

The 2021 Electronic Literature Organization Conference and Festival - Platform (Post?) Pandemic debuts the聽first in a series of virtual and physical exhibitions this Thursday, March 4th: "Posthuman."

"Posthuman" features digital art and electronic literature that engages with the posthuman condition: enactments of complex human-technical assemblages in which cognition and decision-making powers are distributed in both aesthetic and literary systems -- what Hayles describes as "cognitive assemblages"聽and what Laura Shackelford and Louise Economides call "surreal entanglements."聽During the 2020-2021 pandemic, several聽conceptions of the posthuman have felt particularly material: the co-evolved relationship of humans and technology has perhaps never been so apparent as during long stretches of lockdown time, when for many of us technologically mediated human relationships became the only kind we had.聽

The works in "Posthuman"聽showcase a variety of different media formats and types of artistic interventions interpreting the posthuman condition, from a work of recombinant cinema about machine intelligence attempting to process, narrate, and mimic sentient being (Luers'聽Distant Affinities) to聽a web app that autonomously prays for people by searching Twitter for expressions of need (Booten's聽To Pray Without Ceasing). Pieces with indefinite virtual presences are presented alongside limited-time聽installations (like Montfort's聽Book Post, where聽computer-generated books by himself, Bertram, L盲ufer, and Parrish are chained to a table and projected onto a screen in the Humanities library -- a meditation upon the functional yet obsolete) and performances聽(like Mustatea's聽Voidopolis, a loose retelling of聽Dante's Inferno聽informed by the grim experience of wandering through NYC during a pandemic, currently unfolding over Instagram and set to be deleted after its completion). Explore the interconnections between Auden, Ashbery, and Stevens using a cutting-edge machine learning-based poetry generator (Gallagher's聽Gnarly Posthuman Conversations), create an uncanny new language using a text of your choice聽and a little help from artificial intelligence (Donnachie &聽Simionato's聽A.I. seems to be a verb), and grapple with the phenomenology of聽algorithmic, authoritarian censorship in real-time (Soon's聽Unerasable Characters II) -- among many others.

Together this group of artworks comprise a posthuman portrait --聽a snapshot of our present moment situated between human subjectivity and whatever comes afterwards. We聽hope that you will enjoy reading and experiencing these compelling works of electronic literature as much as we have in the process of assembling them for this show.

Physical exhibitions can be found at the聽KMD JOY Forum, Rom 61 and the Humanities Library (HF), University of Bergen. Please note that the library exhibition is only accessible to 幸运飞艇计划 students and staff due to COVID-19 restrictions.

Opening hours:
KMD -聽M酶llendalsveien 61, 4-6 March - 12.00-16.00
HF Library - Haakon Sheteligs plass 7, 幸运飞艇计划, M-F, 4-31 March 10.00-14.00