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KEYNOTE TALK UNIVERSITY KLAGENFURT 2024 * International Conference * Aesthetics of Digital Images Syntheses: Genealogies, Styles, Practices * 07.-08. November 2024 * Universität Klagenfurt Institut für Kulturanalyse. Abteilung Visuelle Kultur.

The conference relates the research fileds of visual studies, art history, art science and aesthetics to artificial intelligence. Current approaches to image science and artistic research in these fields will be examined in relation to current phenomena of digital image generation by AI in popular visual culture and art. In addition to the production and the aesthetic manifestation, the reception and the situations in which images created in this way are used will also be discussed. | Registration for the conference: Sabine.Pfeiffer@aau.at | https://www.aau.at/kulturanalyse/abteilungen/abteilung-visuelle-kultur/veranstaltungen-und-vortraege-visuelle-kultur/

This summer seminar gathers researchers who have been working on the concepts of nature and technology in idealist thinkers such as Kant, Hegel, and Schelling, as well as the impact of these concepts beyond the European context, for example, in the Kyoto School. It aims to reflect on the implications of this historical discourse in light of contemporary discussions on the Anthropocene and Planetarization. With Marie Louise Krogh (Leiden), Norihito Nakamura (Tübingen), Katharina D. Martin (Rotterdam), and Arata Nakashima (Bonn). https://www.k-virus.de/allgemein/summer-seminar-rotterdam-2024

**Moderator Deleuze & Guattari Studies Camp * Fr.** 5 July 2024

The Camp will be devoted to the themes of Intelligence, Instituting and Archiving, allowing however significant room for broad interpretations and experimentation. To foster these experimentations, every day will be structured in four 90-minute plateus, each corresponding to Code, Flow and Stock respectively. The Code instructor will give a kick-off lecture under the broad topic of the day (Instituting/Intelligence/Archiving). The Flow instructors will curate their 90-minute plateau as they see fit (workshop, single long lecture, double short lectures, performance, screening, gaming, etc.). At the end of the day, the Stock instructor will moderate a 90-minute discussion between all the instructors and the participants. https://www.dgs2024.nl/camp

Camp instructors: Agnieszka Wolodzko / Arun Saldanha / Asli Ozgen Havekotte / Betti Marenko / Dulmini Perera / Enrique Gomezllata / Erik Bordeleau / Georgios Tsagdis / Gokhan Kodalak / Ian Buchanan / Katharina D. Martin / Marc Boumeester / Patricia Pisters / Renske Maria van Dam / Rick Dolphijn / Setareh Noorani / Sjoerd van Tuinen / Sonia de Jager

**TECHNOLOGY – EXPRESSION – INDIVIDUATION * CLUSTER OF EXCELLENCE BERLIN**
22. January 2024 * 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm * Central Laboratory, Sophienstraße 22a, 10178 Berlin

PRESENTATIONS & DISCUSSION with Sjoerd van Tuinen, Samo Tomšič, Claudia Blümle and Katharina D. Martin. An event in the light of the recently published monograph by Katharina D. Martin »Technik als Problem des Ausdrucks, Über die naturphilosophischen Implikationen technikphilosophischer Theorien« (Bielefeld transcript, 2023) https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/13054/technology-expression-individuation

PAPER PUBLICATION * TRÓPOS V. 15 N. 1; 2023 * OPEN ACCESS

Art and Artworks in the Digital Age. Philosophical Perspectives, Artistic Practices, ed. by Alice Iacobone
'Ein Streifzug durch die Abstraktionsebenen digitaler Formen' by Katharina D. Martin * Abstract: The binary system as presented by Leibniz owes its metaphysical appeal to a mathematical universality which is also often incorrectly attributed to digital operationality. The article draws on Friedrich Kittler and Umberto Eco to remind us that digital functionality is based on the conjunction of the binary system and mathematical logic. Strictly speaking, digital machines are part of a complex information technology, based on translation processes and dependent on a code (Joseph Weizenbaum). However, this essay not only explains the underlying operational principle of digital machines, but also introduces digital forms (Yuk Hui) that are existentially linked to our discourses, our way of thinking, and our modes of behaviour. The article does not answer the ontological question of whether the binary/logical machines develop creatively and intellectually – a notion that Dieter Mersch clearly contradicts – but gives us a form-theoretical investigation that visualises digital productivity. https://ojs.unito.it/index.php/tropos/article/view/9033

BOOK PUBLICATION 2023

MONOGRAPHIE * K.D. Martin: Technik als Problem des Ausdrucks. Über die naturphilosophischen Implikationen technikphilosophischer Theorien, Bielefeld transcript.
Formwerdung, als Vorgang des Ausdrückens, ist eine der Natur inhärente technische Dimension – so eine These über den Zusammenhang von Technik- und Naturphilosophie. Demnach überzeugen die techniktheoretischen Überlegungen von Kapp, Deleuze-Guattari und Simondon insbesondere, weil dort Technik als ein Problem des Ausdrucks behandelt wird. Um diesen Gedanken auszuführen, spannt Katharina D. Martin einen Bogen von Lamarck über Schelling und Uexküll bis zu Deleuze. Dabei gelingt es ihr nicht nur, die vielfältigen Diskurse transdisziplinär zu vermitteln, sie führt uns auch zu einem ökologischen und topologischen Denken, das in der Lage ist, die problematische Dimension der Technologisierung unserer Umwelt zu erfassen. * ISBN: 978-3-8376-6763-9 * voraussichtlicher Erscheinungstermin: September 2023 * https://www.transcript-verlag.de

PUBLICATION BOOK CHAPTER 2020

K. D. Martin: »Organisation und Konkretion: Technik als das Problem des Ausdrucks in der Philosophie« in Ladewig/Seppi (Eds.) Milieu Fragmente: Technologische und ästhetische Perspektiven, Leipzig. S. 41-48.
This book addresses these conditions by proposing an extension of the milieu concept, while at the same time illuminating specific modern-day technological and aesthetic constellations from a theoretical perspective. It includes a selection of essays from the philosophy of technology, cultural and media studies, and the history of art and images. The volume is published as part of the series of theoretical works Analysis&Excess by ilinx-Kollaborationen. https://spectorbooks.com/milieu-fragmente

SPEAKER UNIVERSITÄT KLAGENFURT 2018

LECTURE * ALPEN-ADRIA UNIVERSITÄT KLAGENFURT * DAS GESICHT IST POLITIK. ZUR SEHMASCHINE IM DIGITALEN MILIEU * Ein Vortrag von Katharina D. Martin im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe: Blick-Kontakt. Portraits und Profile in einer mediatisierten Welt. * In ihrem Vortrag befasst sich Martin mit der politischen Dimension von Gesicht als Muster signifikanter Einschreibung. Gilles Deleuzes und Félix Guattaris Konzept der Gesichtsmaschine wird mit Paul Virilios Begriff der Sehmaschine zusammengeführt und im Hinblick auf Technologien automatischer Gesichtserkennung durchdacht. info

BOOK PUBLICATION 2017 * OPEN ACCESS

HERAUSGEBERSCHAFT * ANTHOLOGIE Ann-Cathrin Drews/Katharina D. Martin (Hg.): Innen. Außen. Anders, Körper im Werk von Gilles Deleuze und Michel Foucault, Bielefeld transcript.
Im Werk von Gilles Deleuze und Michel Foucault sind Körper und Körperlichkeit zentrale Aspekte, die in diesem Band erstmalig vergleichend in den Fokus gerückt werden. Die Beiträger_innen stellen die Entwürfe beider Denker zur Ästhetik und Ethik als Reflexionen der Beziehung zwischen Körper und Bild vor und betonen die Verkettungen von Körper, Macht und Ästhetik. * BOOK CHAPTER K.D. Martin: »Gesicht, Kopf, Körper, eine politische Karte« in: Drews/Martin (Hg.): Innen. Außen. Anders. Körper im Werk von Gilles Deleuze und Michel Foucault. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 289-304. * https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-3575-1/innen-aussen-anders/

PUBLICATION BOOK CHAPTER 2017

K. D. Martin: »Ecologies of Corporeal Space« in: Sohn, Heidi/Radman, Andrej (eds.): Critical and Clinical Cartographies Architecture, Robotics, Medicine, Philosophy Edinburgh University Press, pp. 178–312.
Critical and Clinical Cartographies rethinks medical and design pedagogies in the context of both the Affective and Digital Turns that are occurring under the umbrella of New Materialism. This collection is framed through Deleuze's symptomalogical approach which creates the ideal terrain for architecture and medical technologies of care to meet with robotics, alongside the newly emerging 'materialist landscape'. * https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-critical-and-clinical-cartographies.html

SPEAKER SORBONNE NOUVELLE PARIS 2017

CONFERENCE PAPER »Amplified Bodies and Digital Aesthetic« at Sensibiltiy and the Senses, Media, Bodies, Practices. NECS European Network for Cinema and Media Studies und Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris.
The question of the relationship between media, bodies, and the senses cuts across the entire history of media theories. Since their first appearance, technical media and a wide variety of cultural techniques have been analyzed taking into consideration their relationships with the human body and its sensory organs. Concepts such as “organ projection,” “prosthesis,” “innervation,” “extension,” and “interface” have been used to describe the contact and the interaction between human organisms and technical apparatuses with their various degrees of hybridization, which in turn have generated a whole series of utopian and dystopian visions of a future “post-human” condition. info

PUBLICATION TRANSCRIPT OF PUBLIC DEBATE 2017

Jules Sturm and Katharina D. Martin, Feminism & New Materialism, Debate transcript. Martin, K. D./Sturm, J./Schilpzand S. B., in: Channa van Dijk et al. (eds.): In staat tot natuur festival DRIFT 2016. Amsterdam: Merlijn Olnon Publicis, pp. 114–136. PUBLIC DEBATE AMSTERDAM 09.04.2016 »Feminism & New Materialism« public dabate with Jules Sturm Philosohy festival: In staat tot natuur, Wijsgerig Festival DRIFT 2016 Felix Meritis Amsterdam. https://www.bibliotheek.nl/catalogus/titel.410595543.html/in-staat-tot-natuur--wijsgerig-festival-drift-2016/

PUBLICATION PAPER 2015

»Ecologies of Corporeal Space«, K. D. Martin, in: Radman, Andrej/Kousoulas, Stavros (Eds.): Critical and Clinical Cartographies, International Conference Proceedings, Jap Sam Books and Delft University of Technology 2015, S.39-50.
What is the relation between the human body as a living organism and the machine technologies applied in medical care? Organized around four thematics – embodiment, technology, care and design-, the Critical and Clinical Carthopgrahies Conference evoked the practice of cartography as a means to map the elusive and shifting thresholds between the organic and the inorganic, the innate and the acquired. Critical and Clinical Carthographies arises from a transdisciplinary conference organized by the Theory Section and Hyperbody of the TU Delft Architecture Department in cooperation with the Bio Mechatronics and Bio Robotics Section of the Department of Bio Mechanical Engineering, TU Delft. https://www.japsambooks.nl/products/critical-and-clinical-cartographies

SPEAKER MÜNSTER 2013

CONFERENCE PAPER »Weiße Wand und schwarzes Loch: Mikropolitik des unentdeckten Gesichts« at Innen. Außen. Anders. Körper im Werk von Gilles Deleuze und Michel Foucault. CONFERENCE ORGANISERS Ann-Cathrin Drews und Katharina D. Martin an der Kunstakademie Münster.
Both Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault were intensely engaged with aspects of the body. In particular, their critical drafts of aesthetics as much as their political thinking are based on conceptions of the body and corporeality. Deleuze's body is flexible, fleshy and abstract at the same time. Following Spinoza, in asking what the body can do, he unfolds his theory of becoming, becoming animal, becoming other. The potentiality of the body is revealed here as being in a state of nomadism and constant transformation. Foucault first of all attends to the body within his analytical investigations of power relations. In his late works and under the heading of an “Aesthetics of Existence“ he reformulates his thematic constellation between subject, truth and power. info

KEYNOTE TALK UNIVERSITY KLAGENFURT 2024 * International Conference * Aesthetics of Digital Images Syntheses: Genealogies, Styles, Practices * 07.-08. November 2024 * Universität Klagenfurt Institut für Kulturanalyse. Abteilung Visuelle Kultur.

NATURE AND TECHNOLOGY IN IDEALISM * ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM
**23 July 2024 * 13:00-18:00 * Polak Building 1-23, Campus Woudestein - Host: Prof. Dr. Yuk Hui**

**Moderator Deleuze & Guattari Studies Camp * Fr.** 5 July 2024

**TECHNOLOGY – EXPRESSION – INDIVIDUATION * CLUSTER OF EXCELLENCE BERLIN**
22. January 2024 * 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm * Central Laboratory, Sophienstraße 22a, 10178 Berlin