Conference Program
Friday, January 23, 2009
Location: Rosensäle, Jena, Fürstengraben 27
All lectures will be simultaneously translated into English and/or German.
9.15AM: Opening of the Conference. Prof. Dr. Rainer Thiel, Dekan der Philosophischen Fakultät
9.30AM: Introduction: Hans-Christian von Herrmann (Jena)
Chair: Sven Spieker (Los Angeles)
10AM: Caroline A. Jones (Boston), “Artist / Office / System / Server”
11AM: Response: Carolin Meister (Berlin)
11.20AM: Discussion
12PM: Lunch Break
Chair: Hans-Christian von Herrmann (Jena)
2.00PM: Delphine Gardey (Paris), “L'invention du bureau moderne.
Une transformation cognitive, matérielle, culturelle et sociale
(1890-1930)”
3.00PM: Reinhold Martin (New York), “The Topologies of Knowledge: Laboratory as Office”
4.00PM: Coffee Break
Chair: Stefan Neuner (Zürich)
4.30PM: Devin Fore (Princeton), “’To Be Continued’: On Documentary Bibliographies”
Artist Conversation
Intershop Tower, Leutragraben 1, 11th floor
8.00PM: A conversation between artist Ignacio Uriarte (Berlin) and curator Christiane Rekade (Berlin)
followed by a reception at Rosensäle, Fürstengraben 27
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Location: Rosensäle, Jena, Fürstengraben 27
Chair: Stefan Neuner (Zurich)
9.00AM: Uwe M. Schneede (Hamburg), “Das Büro als Umschlag der Fiktion in Praxis“
10.00AM: Sven Spieker (Los Angeles): „The Office As the Avant-Garde’s Unconscious“
11.00PM: Lunch Break
Chair: Sabine Flach (Berlin)
2.30PM: Mari Dumett (Boston), “Fluxus and the Postwar Subject of Organization”
3.30PM: Coffee Break
4.00PM: Pepe Karmel (New York), “The Convergence Hypothesis: Minimalism, Pop and the Command Economy”
5.00PM: Sabine Hänsgen (Cologne), „Das Archiv der Kollektiven Aktionen. Ein Dokumentationskunstwerk“