Symposium: Bridging Bodies, Technology, Theory, and AI for Civic Resistance

In an increasingly digital and interconnected world, the intersection of bodies, technology, theory, and artificial intelligence (AI) presents an engaging and thought-provoking topic for a performative conference. This conference aims to explore the connections between these domains and delve into their transformative potential for contemporary societies.

Additionally, it seeks to examine the power of civic resistance and the embodied fugitive intelligence of those made marginalized and outcast bodies, embracing how their resistance can align with new technologies and AI algorithms.

This conference will bring together researchers, activists, artists to explore the convergence of bodies, technology, theory, and AI in the context of civic resistance. It will delve into the ways in which marginalized bodies, historically framed as disposable and outcast, have employed embodied fugitive resistance as a means to survive and effect change. This means that the relationship between body and gender through technology and super-digitalized machines can also be a thought-provoking area of discussion. (Grzinic and Jahrmann)

A cooperation of EXPERIMENTAL GAME Cultures/ University of Applied Arts Vienna and Academy for Fine Arts Vienna, Studio for Post-conceptual Art Practices/IBK.

This symposium is part of the LUDIC METHOD lecture series/book project. It is an emanation of the research projects Neuromatic Game Art: Critical Play with Neurointerfaces (FWF/PEEK) AR581 and Conviviality as Potentiality (2021-2025), funded by Austrian Science Fund FWF: AR 679.