Call for Application I Deadline: May 6

Anthropocene River Campus in New Orleans

The year-long research and cultural project Mississippi. An Anthropocene River will culminate in the Anthropocene River Campus: The Human Delta in New Orleans, taking place from November 10-16, 2019. International researchers, artists and activists are invited to apply until May 6.

• More about the campus and to register on anthropocene-curriculum.org
• More about “Mississippi. An Anthropocene River”

Online journal

Technosphere Magazine: Substances

Opium, oxytocin, and artificial hormones: Whether acting as catalysts of evolutionary shifts or hormonal enhancers, substances have always played a major role in human civilizations. They regulate the infrastructures of the biosphere, forming a direct interface between biological life and technology. This dossier explores how they reorganize the boundaries of biochemical life on Earth.

• The dossier on technosphere-magazine.hkw.de
• More about the Technosphere Magazine

Journal 100 Years of Now

Global Resonance Spaces

How, one hundred years after the founding of the Bauhaus, can culture be rethought as a social project? The curators of bauhaus imaginista Marion von Osten and Grant Watson discuss with art historian Mona Schieren the design school’s relevance for an art, design, and education of the future.

• To article on journal.hkw.de
• To the exhibition “bauhaus imaginista”

Director Bernd Scherer on the program May/June

Dear Guests,
We recently opened our long-term project The New Alphabet: The present becomes tangible amid speaking, writing and reading. Literature now plays a major role in our program. The Internationale Literaturpreis will be awarded at HKW for the eleventh time. The award – unique in Germany – honors both author and translator. The New Alphabet School, by contrast, takes an analytical look at translating. On a boat tour, Floating Alphabet brings poetry to the Spree and the art book festival Miss Read extends an invitation to browse. Last but not least, bauhaus imaginista proposes a new interpretation of a classic of modernity to you – contrary to the canon. I am looking forward to shared readings with you.

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100 Years of Now Journal

The journal explores ideas generated during the course of the transdisciplinary project 100 Years of Now (2015-2019) in greater depth. Artists, scientists, and observers will throw new light on global political conflicts, supposed side scenes of history, and on the planetary entanglement of technological, human, and natural forces.

• journal.hkw.de
• More about “100 Years of Now”

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bauhaus imaginista Journal

The online scientific publishing platform bauhaus-imaginista.org is home to details of the research processes and results of bauhaus imaginista.

• bauhaus-imaginista.org
• More about “bauhaus imaginista”

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Technosphere Magazine

Research pieces, essays, artistic and experimental approaches to the technosphere: Which are its organizing principles? How is it inscribed into individuals and how does it shape entire societies?

• technosphere-magazine.hkw.de
• More about Technosphere

Online journal

Hubert Fichte: Love and Ethnology

The international exhibition project Hubert Fichte: Love and Ethnology is being accompanied by the web journal projectfichte.org. It offers insights into the writing of Hubert Fichte (1935 –1986) in German, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Wolof and English. The writer and ethnologist is considered a poetic and documentarian realist precursor for new disciplines in Germany such as Queer Studies and Postcolonial Studies.

• projectfichte.org
• More about “Hubert Fichte: Love and Ethnology”

Website

Anthropocene-Curriculum.org

As a collaborative experiment the Anthropocene Curriculum explores the novel epistemic, aesthetic, and educational challenges of the age of humankind. Its online platform Anthropocene-Curriculum.org gives voice to an evolving worldwide network of researchers, artists, and local communities, while inviting engagement and participation in transforming our common knowledge baselines.

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• More about “Anthropocene Curriculum”

Blog

Afro-Sonic Mapping

What musical patterns have been preserved in the sounds of the African Diaspora, thus defying time and forced migration? Satch Hoyt follows their traces in today’s metropolises Luanda, Kinshasa, Salvador de Bahia, and Lisbon. He documents his research in an English-language blog.

• More about the project