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Coming out of what the New York Times has called a long tradition of innovation and impunity that marks the Silicon Valley, how can one understand the entrepreneurial and territorial politics of the Metaverse and related developments in the digital sphere?

With Simon Denny, Svitlana Matviyenko, and Fred Turner

Organized by the Centre for Digital Cultures of Leuphana University Lüneburg in cooperation with the ICI Berlin, in conjunction with the Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy 2023

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In-person: Registration required

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This lecture will present the bridge as a structure of interconnectivity by which one passes from one form or familiarity to another. The bridge is a model of communication. By locking two into the space of one, it enables thought and the experience of the social. Interdisciplinarity and transculturality also depend on bridges, approachable with lesser or greater degrees of enthusiasm.

Part of the ICI Lecture Series Models

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In-person: Registration opens on 20 June 2023

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The artist has long been understood in conventional Western art history, art criticism, and curatorial practice as the site of active agency, as the origin of the meaning and value of the work of art. By the later 20th century, during a period of social crisis across Europe and North America, however, theorists such as Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida put pressure on this model.

Organized by Anna Kipke, Iryna Kovalenko, Laura Rogalski, Beate Söntgen, Simon Teune, Annette Werberger and Mimmi Woisnitza

An event of the Collaborative Research Centre 1512 ’Intervening Arts‘ and the DFG-research training group ’Cultures of Critique‘ in cooperation with ICI Berlin

In-person: Registration opens on 20 June 2023

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What is the relationship between the content of an idea and its shape on the page? To examine such questions, Maggie Nelson will read from a variety of her works and think about how they relate (or don't) to poet Robert Creeley's famous contention, 'form is never more than an extension of content'.

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In-person: Registration opens on 20 June 2023

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The keyword for this year’s World Picture Conference is ‘models’. It stages a collaboration with the current ICI Research Project, which reflects upon modelling practices across different fields, with a particular focus on the role of reduction and its critical potentials.

For further details of that project, please see https://www.ici-berlin.org/projects/models.

Papers to be delivered should be 20 minutes in length. Please email an abstract (250–500 words) and a short bio to worldpicturejournal@gmail.com by 30 June 2023. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by mid-July.

Keynote Lecture: Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky (Bochum/ICI Berlin)
Keynote Performance Lecture: Vaginal Davis (Berlin)

World Picture Conference in cooperation with ICI Berlin

Organized by Veronica Fitzpatrick (co-editor, World Picture/Brown University), Manuele Gragnolati (Sorbonne Université/ICI Berlin), Christoph Holzhey (ICI Berlin), Jules O’Dwyer (co-editor, World Picture/Cambridge), Brian Price (co-editor, World Picture/University of Toronto), John David Rhodes (co-editor, World Picture/Cambridge), and Meghan Sutherland (co-editor, World Picture/University of Toronto), Elizabeth Wijaya (co-editor, World Picture/University of Toronto)

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