This expert tour guided by curator, media theoretician, and Ars Electronica Jury member Jens Hauser will provide insights into the underlying philosophical and techno-scientific aspects of selected biology-based artworks in the POSTCITY exhibition: these works, in which bacteria, fungi, plants, bats or extremophile organisms become micro-performative agents, often require background information beyond the observable phenomena.
Biography:
Jens Hauser (DE/FR/DK) is a Paris and Copenhagen based media studies scholar and art curator focusing on the interactions between art and technology, trans-genre and hybrid aesthetics. He is a researcher at the University of Copenhagen’s Medical Museion and the Art/Science Chair at the École Polytechnique Paris-Saclay, a distinguished affiliated faculty at Michigan State University where he co-directs the Bridge Art Program, as well as a faculty member at the Department for Image Science at the Danube University Krems, Austria, and guest professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.
