Common activities:

Ongoing:

• Monthly internal research meetings

2003 (preparation of the research project)

• NIRES7, the 7th Nordic Interactive Research School: Interface - From the Desktop to Interactive Spaces - Challenging aesthetics, architecture and computer science, Aarhus University, 9-15 November (organised with Interactivespaces.net & CAVI )

2004

• Read_me 2004 Software Art Festival, Aarhus University, The Jutland Academy of Fine Arts, Rum46 & Musikcafeen , 23-27 August (organised with CAVI, Det Jyske Kunstakademi, Rum46, Dorkbot & Runme.org )
• The research group at the Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria, 2-7 Sept.
• Part of the research group at Electrohype, Malmö, Sweden, 28-29 Nov.

2005

• Peter Weibel visit, 28 Nov
• Eduardo Kac seminar and workshop, 6-7 oktober Aarhus Universitet
• Jay David Bolter visit, 7 Sept., Aarhus Universitet
• The research group at the Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria, 1-6 Sept
• Visit at Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe
• D-Day seminar (in Danish), 21 April
• Aesthetics of Interaction Workshop, The Aarhus School of Architecture, 6-7 Jan. (organised with Interactivespaces.net )
• The netartist Christophe Bruno visits and talks on: Iterature.com, 30-31 March

2006  

• Serious Simulations (for fun) - Games and animation seminar, 29. Nov
• Workshop with Hans Bernhard, Ubermorgen.com, 6. Nov. 200 6
• Art|Net|Work seminar, 25. Oc t. 2006
• The research group at the Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria, 31 August-5 Sept
• Visiting Transmediale, Berlin
• Participating in Software Studies Workshop, Rotterdam
• Organising the conference Program/Kunst/Maskine about Danish digital art from the 1960's and onwards
• Matthew Fuller visit (workshop and lecture), 3 May

2007

• The research group at the Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria, 6-11 Sept
• The Aesthetic Interface conference (9-13 May, 2007)

Pictures from the conference

Individual activities related to the research project

Christian Ulrik Andersen

• From Window to Augmentation, Nordic Association of Aesthetics, The Borderlines of Aesthetics, Aarhus, DK, 22.5.2003.
• From Windows to Augmentation, Digital æstetik, digital kultur, space, FMKJ, Digital Aesthetics, 29.4.2003.
• Computer Games in Physical Space: LEGO Spybotic, Computer games, augmented space, LEGO, robotics, LEGO, 2.4.2003.

Morten Breinbjerg

2006

• Designing an Acousmatic Music Environment, Center for designforskning, Æstetik & Interaktion, 17.11.2006.
• An Acousmatic Music Environment, Tulane University & International Computer Music Association, Multidimensionality, The International Computer Music Conference, New Orleans, US, 10.11.2006.
• System Event Sounds, Matthew Fuller, Software Studies Workshop, Rotterdam, NL, 25.2.2006.

2005

• "The Aesthetic Experience of Sound - Staging of Auditory Spaces in 3D Computer Games" på Aesthetics of Play ( http://www.aestheticsofplay.org/ ), Bergen, Norge, 14-15 oktober.

• The Aarhus Soundscape Project, Outer Limits

• Lectures on sound and computergames at Aalborg and Copenhagen University;february 2005

Lone Koefoed Hansen

2005

• Visiting researcher at School of Interactive Arts and Technology, SimonFraserUniversity, Vancouver, Canada, 12 Nov-18 Dec.
• Speaks at Critical Computing: Between Sense and Sensibility, University of Aarhus, 22-24 Aug.
• 31 July-6 Aug., Siggraph 2005, Los Angeles, USA
• 26.-27. maj: Workshop Digital Ground: pervasive computing and design, Datalogi/Århus Arkitektskole
• 4.-12. juni: Ph.d.-kursus ICT and the Humanities: Exploring Digital Artifacts, Södertörn Högskola, Stockholm

2004

• Participated in ISEA 2004, 15-22 August 2004
• Participated in Electrophype 2004, 28-29 November 2004
• Participated in Context Aware Computing, 30 November 2004

Henrik Kaare Nielsen

2007

• Kulturtheoretische Überlegungen zur Aktualität des autobiographischen Schreibens, Forskningsprojektet "Autobiographisches Schreiben in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur, Autobiographisches Schreiben grenzüberschreitend - innerhalb und ausserhalb der deutschsprachigen Gebiete, Roskilde, DK, 10.10.2007.
• Aesthetics and Politics, Nordic Association for Aesthetics, The Limits of Aesthetics, Århus, DK, 1.6.2007.
• The Interface and the Public Sphere, Forskningsprojektet Interfacekulturens æstetik, The Aesthetic Interface, Århus, DK, 10.5.2007.

2006

The Ambivalences of Civil Society, CINEFOGO Network of Excellence, The Role and Organisation of Civil Society, Roskilde, DK, 20.11.2006.

2005

• Keynote speaker at "Exploring Critical and Instrumental Approaches to Cultural Policy Research" på University of Warwick, February 2005. Title of Paper: "The Technocratisation of the Field of Cultural Policy and the Role of Critical Research".

Søren Pold

2007

• Interface Perception, Interface aesthetics, Interfacekulturens Æstetik, The Aesthetic Interface, Århus, DK, 9.5.2007.

2006

• Buttons & Preference s, Piet Zwartz Institute, Software Studies, Rotterdam, NL, 25.2.2006.

2005

• Literature Between Media – From Page to Interface, Intermedialitet, ph.d. kursus, Georg Brandes skolen, Kbh., december
• From Page to Interface, Epoetry 2005, september, London
• Gave the paper "The Critical Interface", at Critical Computing: between Sense and Sensibility, Aarhus, August
• Conducted the workshop Aesthetics as Critical Computing - A Workshop on the Role of Aesthetics within the field of Information Technology, at Critical Computing, Aarhus, August

2004

• Conference paper: "Criticism as an Approach to Interface Aesthetics" (with Olav W. Bertelsen) at NordiCHI 2004, Tampere, Finland, 24-27 October
• Workshop på NordiCHI 2004:Aesthetic Approaches to Human-Computer Interaction (organised with Olav W. Bertelsen & Marianne Graves Petersen) – proceedings published by Dept. of Computer Science, AU: http://www.daimi.au.dk/publications/PB/572/PB-572.pdf
• Talks at Electrohype, 2004, Malmö, Sverige, 28-29 nov). The talk, "Is Something Rotten in the State of Denmark?", is published by Artificial : http://www.artificial.dk/articles/soerenpold.htm
• Member of the think tank on digital art and culture initiated by the regional IT-council. Report published here (in Danish): http://www.aaa.dk/aaa/digital_kunst.pdf

Bodil Marie Thomsen:

2007

• The Haptic Interface, The Aesthetic Interface, Århus, DK, 9.5.2007.

2006

”New Realism in Contemporary Art and Media”. Transcultural Aesthetics. Contemporary Literature and Media Culture, Trondheim, Norge, 03. Nov 2006.

2005

• Visiting Fulbright Professor at the Department of Scandinavian Studies, University of Washington, Seattle (28 March - 10 June)
  

  • 21 March, 3:00 PM: »A close reading of Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves (1996) and Carl Th. Dreyer’s Jeanne d’Arc (1928) with special attention paid to the haptic- and the pathos-effect of the close-ups«.

  • 21 March, 7:00 PM: »A study of Lars von Trier’s films from the 1990’s in the context of New Nordic Realism that recalls the methods of blending fiction and reality as done in Avant-garde films from the 1960’s«. Arr. Marina Allemano, co-sponsored by the Canadian Institute for Nordic Studies and English and Film Studies. University of Alberta, Edmondton, Canada.

  • 1. April:» New Realism in Scandinavian Film in Response to New Digital Media and 3-D Spatiality«. The Simpson Center for the Humanities. University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.

  • 7 May: »Expressionism and Reality-Effects in Carl Th. Dreyer's Jeanne d'Arc and Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves, The Idiots, Dancer in the Dark and Dogville«. SASS-Conference. 95th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study. May 5-7, 2005. Portland State University, Portland. Oregon, USA.

  • 19 May: »Dogma-95 and Lars von Trier«. Course: Introduction to Scandinavian Culture ved Andrew Nestingen, Scandinavian Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.

  • 23 May: »The Haptic Images in Breaking the Waves ­ a Critique of the Body/Mind Split in Philosophy«. Course: Sexuality in Scandinavia: Myth and Reality ved Ia Dübois, Scandinavian Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. USA.

  • 27 May: »Lars von Trier's Films and The New Scandinavian Realism«. Department of Foreign Languages and Literature. Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA

  • 10 June: »Dogma-95. Thomas Vinterberg’s Festen and new media realism in the 1990’s«. Film Club at The Art School, University of Washington, Seattle.

  • 4. november: »Deleuze’s concept of the virtual in visual examples of today’s artworld, reflecting tele-presence and spatial multiplicity«.

  
  

2004

• Talk about Dreyer's and Besson's Jeanne D'Arc at Middle ages symposium, AU, 5 Nov.
• Participated in the conference "The Still Image". Canterbury, England.

Jacob Wamberg

2007

• Does Advanced Aesthetics Have to Be Subversive?, Nordisk Selskab for Æstetik, The Limits of Aesthetics, Århus, DK, 3.6.2007.
• Interface/Interlace, Or Is Telepresence Teleological?, Interfacekulturens æstetik, The Aesthetic Interface, Århus, DK, 9.5.2007.

2006

• The Renaissance - Modernity's Origin or First Resistance?, Hugo Johannsen og Birgitte Bøggild Johannsen, Reframing the Danish Renaissance: Problems and Prospects in a European Perspective, København, DK, 1.10.2006.
• Light in Painting - an overview, II, 6.6.2006.
• Light in Painting - an overview, I, 30.5.2006.

2005

• Talks at College Art Association Conference i Atlanta, d. 18/2- 2005: Toward a Split Physiology? On Stelarc’s Performances ( Abstract )