With his recent work, Cultural Techniques: Grids, Filters, Doors, and Other Articulations of the Real (2015), Bernhard Siegert grounds posthumanist theory both historically and technically, opening up a crucial dialogue between new German media theory and American postcybernetic discourses.
The German Department at New York University will present – at NYU’s Deutsches Haus (42 Washington Mews, New York, N.Y.) on Friday, April 17, 6:30 p.m. – a conversation with Bernhard Siegert, the Gerd Bucerius Professor of History and Theory of Cultural Techniques at the Faculty of Media of the Bauhaus-University Weimar; and co-director of the International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy (IKKM) in Weimar. Currently, Professor Siegert is the Phyllis and Gerald LeBoff Visiting Scholar in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York University. The author of Passagiere und Papiere (2006), Passage des Digitalen (2003), and Relays (1999), Bernhard Siegert is a pioneer in German media theory, media archeology, and contemporary “Cultural Techniques.”
With his recent work, Cultural Techniques: Grids, Filters, Doors, and Other Articulations of the Real (2015), he grounds posthumanist theory both historically and technically, opening up a crucial dialogue between new German media theory and American postcybernetic discourses. Please join us on Friday, April 17, when Professor Siegert will engage Avital Ronell, Christopher Wood, and Chadwick Smith in just such a dialogue about his own work and its implications for art, media, technology, and culture.
Art and Other Cultural Techniques. Bernhard Siegert in Conversation with Avital Ronell, Christopher Wood, and Chadwick Smith is a DAAD-sponsored event. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call Deutsches Haus at 212.998.8660, or email deutsches.haus@nyu.edu.