Symposium »Dealing with Fear II«

Program

Thursday, October 30, 2008

8.00 pm
Welcome Remarks by Jean-Baptiste Joly, Director of the Akademie

8.15 pm
»›faire l'âme monstrueuse‹. Production Strategies of Fear in the Artistic Avant-garde«
(in German language)
Thomas Macho, Humboldt-University of Berlin

Moderation by Philip Ursprung, University of Zurich

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Friday, October 31, 2008

Section I: »The Artist’s Fear of Her-/Himself«
Moderated by Isabel Mundry, Zurich University of the Arts,
and Philip Ursprung, University of Zurich

9.30 am
Introduction by Jean-Baptiste Joly, Director of the Akademie

9.45 – 10.30 am
»Misreading – on a Poetic Strategy to Deal with the Anxiety of Influence«
Maren Rieger, Berne University of the Arts

10.30 – 11.15 am
»Working from Inside«
Teresa Hubbard, University of Texas at Austin and the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, New York

11.15 am Coffee Break

11.45 am – 1.00 pm
»Fear is just Another Word for Someone Left to Please«
Dennis Farber, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore
Michael Hutter, Social Science Research Center Berlin

1.00 pm Lunch

2.30 – 3.15 pm
»Am I Victim or Offender? 3 x 3 = ∞
A Musical Theater Project on the Anxieties of the Survivors«
Tina Hartmann, librettist, Stuttgart

3.15 pm Coffee Break


Section II: »Fear of New Technologies by the Public«
Moderated by Jean-Baptiste Joly and Julia Warmers, Akademie Schloss Solitude

3.45 – 4.45 pm
»Carbon Nanotube Sensors«
Christofer Hierold, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

4.45 – 5.45 pm
»Space Transportation and Dual Use of Aerospace Technology«
Nikolaus A. Adams, Technical University Munich

»Computing: An Indispensable Friend or Foe?«
Petros Koumoutsakos, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

5.45 pm Final Discussion