Researching the Future

Researching the Future: Art and Design in Transmodal Transition 2006 is a symposium about: Media Art, Phenomenology, Cognitive architectures and consciousness, Transmodalities, Psycotechnologies, Virtual Reality, Enhanced Reality, Freud and Dream Science, Radical Thought.
Now more than ever artists work through cultural interfaces, the ways and means, turning to evocations of both science and mythology, technology and tradition.
The legacy of postmodernism has transformed itself in this “transmodal” transition. Today man is molded by images, hyperlinks, processors and networks. Our senses are redefined, or rather, re-oriented from a collision with emerging realities, generated by new models of our world and of our subjectivity.
New art is linked to means that introduce it to a new praxis of production that is instantly pragmatic and philosophical. It (What? Art or the praxis?) generates interactivity and the transformation of common sense, both socially and aesthetically, while reflecting on the changing nature of perception, of connectivity and of conscience.
Works produced, both concretely and mentally, are made of a stratum of conscious associations, of unconscious sensitivity, of historic scientific data, of multiform unity and gripping discourse, fully interwoven in new telematic environments. These environments can be digital or natural and biological, furnishing us with new experiences and original creative visions.

Researching the Future: art and design in transmodal transition 2006 Milano, NABA february 8-9, 2006

Topics-Themes:
Media Art, Phenomenology, Cognitive architectures and consciousness, Transmodalities, Psycotechnologies, Virtual Reality, Enhanced Reality, Freud and Dream Science, Radical Thought

Submissions on all topics related to consciousness are welcome. Abstracts submitted by February 5, 2006 will be considered for talks or posters.

For abstract submission, program, registration and location email: inforesearchingthefuture@gmail.com

NABA, Via Darwin, 20 20143 Milano, Ed 20 AMARANTO di Carlo Mo – Aula SPAZIO ELASTICO
8/02/2006 9/02/2006
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