In this talk I presented the beginning of new research based on the notion of the technological unconscious in relation to early computer art. The lecture draws on research conducted in the context of my PhD on the New Tendencies movement and network, and further research in related areas done since then. The presentation was part of the Saturday seminars held in the context of the exhibition "Histories of the Post-digital", curated by Ekmel Ertan and Darko Fritz.

Bild, von links nach rechts: Gerald Nestler, Jutta Weber, Felix Stalder, Armin Medosch

Immer mehr Bereiche der menschlichen Kultur werden von technologischen Entwicklungen erfasst, die man der Automatisierung zurechnen kann. Die Technowissenschaften haben ein Niveau erreicht, das es ihnen ermöglicht, Natur nicht nur zu erforschen oder zu verstehen, sondern aktiv zu gestalten. Der Salon Technopolitics machte die post-anthropologische Kondition zum Thema, am 18.Oktober 2014 im Rahmen von Vienna Open.

This is the text of my keynote lecture for the Fields exhibition, as delivered on Friday 16th of May 2014 - The Broken Mirror, Art after the dreamworld of digital utopia. Starting from the premise that the financial crisis of 2008 made only visible a deeper, structural crisis of information society, the exhibition Fields was conceived as a survey into possibilities of renewal through art. Art used to be understood as a mirror of society. Then, in the twentieth century, media became the preferred mirror of mass society.

It is my pleasure to announce that I will present my paper Non-Aligned Modernism - the international network and art movement New Tendencies (first phase, 1961-1965) at the Postwar conference in Munich in May. My paper was submitted in response to an open call and got selected. You find the press release of Haus der Kunst below.