Seminar: Co-evolutionary Perspectives
On the Technosphere
Viewed from a co-evolutionary perspective, categorical distinctions between humans, culture, technology, and nature disappear. Instead we have to focus on the multiple interactions and relations between nodes within networks, if we want to understand the past, present, and future of our constructed world.
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Prologue
“To really understand the Anthropocene concept we have to go far back into history to understand the dynamics of human interventions in their environment.”
Manfred Laubichler, Jürgen Renn, Masahiro Terada, and Daniel Niles on the big history of the technosphere and why they want their seminar to be a collision of perspectives.
- contributionDaniel Niles
Sputnik of our Time
Technology can no longer be regarded a tool as it rather presents an integral part of our social world today. An introductory reflection on the seminar by Daniel Niles.
Technoscience, Technosphere, Evolution, Complexity
- contributionMasahiro Terada
The Reed, Slime Mold, and Sprout
From being to becoming: a historical perspective on the dynamics of change.
Reflection, Knowledge transformation, Evolution, Naturecultures
- contributionDaniel Falb
Isle of Man
A poetic reflection on co-evolutions towards the Holocene Museum.
Reflection, Aesthetics, Epistemology, Knowledge transformation, Local knowledge
- contributionRohini Devasher, Caroline Picard
The Video is Basket Is a Telescope
Caroline Picard and Rohini Devasher in conversation about patterns, noise, chaos, and the contemporary conditions of wonder.
Conversation, Perception, Pollution, Life
- contribution
Fragments of Thoughts
A collage of thoughts about co-evolutionary perspectives on the technosphere.
Human-environment relations, Complexity, Evolution, Time, Network, Scale, Naturecultures
- contributionToshiaki Hicosaka, Eiko Honda
Newspaper Sketches of Ocean Waves
A look into the history of the globalization of knowledge.
Conversation, Knowledge transformation, Aesthetics, Ocean, Water, Language
- contributionCaroline Picard
A Circumnutation of Thought
An exercise in entanglement of Caroline Picard
Biosphere, Evolution, Naturecultures
- contributionJenni Nurmenniemi, Caroline Picard
Considering Coexistence
A conversation between Caroline Picard and Jenni Nurmenniemi on how the Helsinki International Artist Programm creates a space for complexity.
Conversation, Naturecultures, Ecology, Aesthetics
- contributionJoseph Pfender
Prestidigital Behemoth
What can we learn by re-newing historical art? A sonic work of cause-and-effect interpretation in the footsteps of cybernetic arts.
Sound, Human-environment relations, Cybernetics
- contributionRohini Devasher
Deep Time
What drives amateur astronomers? Artist Rohini Devasher on the power of projection.
Mapping, Human-environment relations, Deep time
- contributionChristopher Reznich
13,000 Years of Messing Around with the Holocene
From mega-fauna extinction to atombic bomb: mapping the history of anthropogenic transformations of Earth.
Naturecultures, Deep time, Extinction
- contributionSimone Schleper
Perspectives and Politics
A look into the emergence of the technosphere concept and its implications for environmental governance.
Reflection, Evolution, Technosphere, Biosphere, History
Participants
Caitlin Berrigan
Thomas Bruhn
Benjamin Casper
Jonathan Cohrs
Cecilia Costella
Rohini Devasher
Maria Paula Diogo
Daniel Falb
Aurelién Faravelon
Marc Herbst
Cyrus Hester
Eiko Honda
Yuk Hui
Pierre de Jouvancourt
Maya Kóvskaya
Maximilian Lau
Ivo Louro
Enrico Giustiniano Micheli
Manjana Milkoreit
Paschal Mugabe
Finn Müller-Hansen
Jenni Nurmenniemi
Mahé Perrette
Joseph Pfender
Daniel Phiffer
Caroline Picard
David Potocnik
Jürgen Renn
Christopher Reznich
Manuel Rivera
Davide Scarso
Imanuel Schipper
Simone Schleper
Axel Schmidt
Isabell Schrickel
Stefan Schäfer
Laila Seewang
Ana Simões
Mario de Vega
Miriam Wiesel
