MAN
IN THE MACHINE SYMPOSIUM
Műcsarnok
/ Kunsthalle, Budapest
24.-25. March 2007.
Participants:
Arianna Borrelli (science historian, Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin)
György Blahó (chess historian, Szeged)
Iván Bottlik (chess historian, Budapest)
Brigitte Felderer / Ernst Strouhal (Universität für Angewandte Kunst, Kempelen Archiv, Vienna)
John Gaughan (historian of magic, Los Angeles)
Rüdiger Hoffmann (Technische Universität, Dresden)
Hans-Peter Ketterling (chess-computer expert, Berlin)
Anthony Moore (music historian, Kunsthochschule für Medien, Köln)
Simon Penny (artist, University of California Irvine)
Miklós Peternák (media historian, C3, Budapest)
Bernhard Serexhe (curator, ZKM, Karlsruhe)
Zoltán Szegedy-Maszák (media artist, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest)
Siegfried Zielinski (media archeologist, Universität der Künste Berlin)
Program:
2007. March 24, Saturday
10.00-10.15 introduction (József Mélyi, curator of the Kempelen exhibition)
10.15-10.55 Brigitte Felderer / Ernst Strouhal:
Kempelen's Artful Science, his poetical writings and an early source from 1769
10.55-11.35 Arianna Borrelli: Pneumatics, natural magic and showmanship in the early 17th century: Cornelis Drebbel and his “perpetuum mobile”
coffee break
12.00-12.30 György Blahó: 18th Century Chess Life in Hungary
12.30-13.00 Iván Bottlik: Hungarian and French Chess Relations from Kempelen to Duchamp
dinner
14.00-14.40 Miklós Peternák: The Background of a Portrait
14.40-15.20 Anthony Moore: The alphabet as a technology
coffee break
15.50-16.30 Siegfried Zielinski: On divine automatons: living machines/machines of the living
16.30-17.00 discussion
2007. March 25, Sunday
10.15-10.55 Bernhard Serexhe: Amendment of the Machinepark. Satirical Attempt to the Epistemological Obfuscation of Man During a Talk About Machines.
10.55-11.35 Rüdiger Hoffmann: Early experimental phonetics and speech communication in Germany - historic traces in the collection of the TU Dresden
coffee break
12.00-12.30 Hans-Peter Ketterling presents talking chess machines
12.30-13.00 John Gaughan in conversation with Miklós Peternák
dinner
14.00-14.40 Simon Penny: The Trojan Horse in the Studio: abstraction, generality and instrumentality.
14.40-15.20 Zoltán Szegedy-Maszák: Chatrobots and intelligence
coffee break
16.30-17.00 discussion
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