The event is part of the Artifical Entanglement, a series of lectures on art and technology in contemporary society. The event will be conducted in English.


Daphne Dragona


Technologies of care: networks, practices, infrastructures


What does the term ''technologies of care'' mean? What changes does the appearance of cute robots and artificial intelligent assistants bring to everyday life? We already live in a period when playful and tireless machines continuously learn from us and respond to our needs and desires. Providing services of an affective character, they come in perfect accordance with the neoliberal call for self-care and -optimization, and they promise to be of help on an individual and societal level. This talk will address the challenges of the affective infrastructures of our times, bringing into the discussion artistic responses and critical perspectives. Special attention will be payed to the instrumentalisation and commodification of care, with references to works and topics that were discussed in the framework of transmediale festival 2019 and the Engineering Care Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM.


Daphne Dragona is a curator and writer based in Berlin. Through her work, she engages with artistic practices and methodologies that challenge contemporary forms of power. Among her topics of interest have been: the controversies of connectivity, the promises of the commons, the challenges of artistic subversion, the instrumentalization of play, the problematics of care and empathy, and most recently the potential of kin-making technologies in the time of climate crisis. Her exhibitions have been hosted at Onassis Stegi, Laboral, Aksioma, EMST (National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens), Alta Technologia Andina, and Le Lieu Unique. Dragona was the conference curator of transmediale from 2015 until 2019. Articles of hers have been published in various books, journals, magazines, and exhibition catalogs by the likes of Springer, Sternberg Press, and Leonardo Electronic Almanac. She holds a PhD from the Faculty of Communication & Media Studies of the University of Athens.

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Margarete Jahrmann


Ludic experimental systems. Area7Lab artistic research in game arts


How we humans are influenced by neuroscientific research can be made accessible through the playful mis en scene of such lab settings in everyday life. Follow a series of initial Ludic Role plays, performed in 2019: Epicycles of Collective motion, TATE Gallery London (June 2019); Zero Gravity/Game Experiment workshops, Neurology Klinikum Munich (August 2019); Dark Matter of Play. NIFF on Tour@CERN Geneva (November 2019); [S]care Parlor Games with Androids (November 2019 - ongoing). The talk addresses researchers, artists, and contemporary players. The Area 7 Lab plays will serve as case studies of a Real Player ride.


Margarete Jahrmann, Ph.D., developed a focus on Game Art and Neuro-Epistemology experiments with a specific Ludic method. She founded the Pervasive and Urban Game design and research association Ludic Society and edited since then a peer reviewed ludicarts research journal, the Ludic Society Magazine. In her collaborative arts-projects she worked with neuroscientists, philosophers and early adopters of technologies, from Augmented Reality to AI and science theory. She exhibited her work internationally and presented at artistic research and arts events (Leonardo Laser talk Zurich 2016, Amaze2019/2018, AIL Arts Innovation Lab 2018, California NanoSystemsInstitute (CNSI), AI & Arts summit NYC 2019) and in 2019 is invited asresearch fellow at the CAS Center of Advanced studies LMU Munich and Art|Sci Center Los Angeles.


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Concept and production:


Robota / Center for Advanced Studies


Main project partner: Slovak Arts Council


Partners: Goethe Institut, Austrian Cultural Forum, City District of Bratislava-Stare Mesto.

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