The Seminar of Aesthetics
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Hand Photogram, 1925
The Seminar of Aesthetics is an interdisciplinary forum for new research at the intersection of aesthetic theory, philosophy and art.
Since 1988 the seminar has presented a long series of guest lecturers from all over the world, among them Paul Ricoeur, Jacques Derrida, Norman Bryson, Jean Starobinski, Julia Kristeva, Gayatri Spivak, Arthur Danto, Thierry de Duve, Sarat Maharaj, Michael Fried, John Rajchman, Boris Groys, Andrew Benjamin, Gianni Vattimo, Martin Seel, Hélène Cixous, Gottfried Boehm, Mieke Bal, Peter Brooks, Eric Alliez, Wolfgang Ernst, WJT Mitchell, Hal Foster, Mark B. Hansen, Matthew Fuller, Lorraine Daston, Luciana Parisi, McKenzie Wark, Mark Wigley, Sianne Ngai, Catherine Malabou, Julia Bryan-Wilson and Fred Moten.
The Seminar organizes a series of open public lectures every semester and is a collaboration between IFIKK, ILOS, IMV and IMK. Chairs: Ina Blom, Andreas Nilsen Ervik, Christian Refsum, Liv Hausken, Eivind Røssaak, Knut Stene-Johansen, Ingvild Torsen, Nanette Nielsen and Peter Edwards.
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In this lecture, Juliane Rebentisch (Hochscule für bildende Künste Hamburg / Princeton University) will discuss imaginaries of the future in a time of ecological crisis.
In this lecture, Timotheus Vermeulen will outline the need for a new theory of "plastic time" in order to account for the significance of gestures in recent screen media.
In this lecture, Antonio Somaini (Sorbonne) will discuss how artificial intelligence transforms our relation to history and memory, among other by looking at how AI is perspectivized in a number of contemporary artworks.
In this lecture, Dr. Genevieve Liveley (University of Bristol) will discuss whether narratologists and futurists might mutually benefit from a critical toolkit for understanding foretelling as a narrative practice.
In this lecture, Christina Kiaer (Northwestern University) will discuss the complex conditions of art and art historical research in Russia during the 30-year window between the fall of the Soviet Union and the restrictions imposed at start of the current war.
In this lecture, Seth Brodsky (University of Chicago) will discuss what happens when we question standard psychoanalytic accounts of the "silence of the drives" and instead see it as a point of departure for a new theory of music.
I anledning Arnfinn Bø-Ryggs nyskrevne Estetisk leksikon på Pax forlag, Oslo, arrangeres det et åpent seminar på Blindern. Seminaret avsluttes med boklansering og forelesning.
In this lecture Amanda Wasielewski (University of Uppsala) will discuss how text and images interact within AI-models, and what AI-generated images are pictures of.