007 | Sensory Ecologies | Hsuan L. Hsu | Olfactory Futures and More-than-Human Intimacies

Описание: SYMPOSIUM SENSORY ECOLOGIES
28 APRIL 2022

With the participation of
Anicka Yi, Mόnica Bello, Jane Calvert, Harmony Holiday, Hsuan L. Hsu, Studio Klarenbeek & Dros, Barbara Mazzolai

Video: Francesco Margaroli

Sensory Ecologies is an appointment of the Public Program | Anicka Yi dedicated to the exhibition “Metaspore” that expands and develops the concepts and ideas generated by the exhibited works. The Symposium brings together an interdisciplinary panel of speakers: Mόnica Bello, Curator and Head of Arts at CERN at the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva; Jane Calvert, Sociologist of science, Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Edinburgh; Harmony Holiday, multidisciplinary artist, writer and poet; Hsuan L. Hsu, Professor of English at the University of California Davis and the author of The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics (2020); Studio Klarenbeek & Dros a design studio based on research of sustainable projects and new materials; Barbara Mazzolai, Director of the Bioinspired Soft Robotics Laboratory at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genoa.

They will address a central and urgent question of our times: can the biological sensorium (both human and non-human) be reconciled with contemporary technology?

Through diverse perspectives, the symposium seeks to build a constellation of knowledge and navigational tools, drawing from the disciplines of art and design, media studies, science and technology studies, general and synthetic biology, and literature.

During the evening a special projection of Anicka Yi’s The Flavor Genome (2016) will be screened in a 2D version, conceived as a reference point for the discussion. The Flavor Genome is a techno-sensual journey into the unexplored threshold of adaptation, mutation and hybridization of living organisms. Under the conceptual premise of the “Flavor Genome” the video performs a mapping of perceptual worlds, taking reality as matrices of perceived unique essences which could enable the potential for biodiverse intelligence sharing.

The symposium is curated by Giovanna Amadasi, Remina Greenfield and Anicka Yi.