Philosophy Dialogues: Robin Mackay & Amy Ireland

835 North Kings Road,West Hollywood CA 90069

08 March, 2022

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The Philosophy Dialogues series is organized by Joseph Lemelin on the occasion of "Florian Hecker — Resynthesizers." Robin Mackay – "A Synthetic Faunography" With an emphasis on the concepts of hallucination, synthesis, and the erotics of abstraction, Mackay will present some details of his collaboration with Florian Hecker on the 2016 ‘abstract opera’ FAVN, and a discussion of its continuities with the subsequent collaborative project Inspection/Inspection II (2016/2018) and now Resynthesizers (2021). Amy Ireland – "Beside a Cold Statue"Focusing on Inspection/Inspection II (2016/2018), Amy will explore the relationship between Florian Hecker’s use of computational analysis and resynthesis techniques and the psychoanalytic theory of masochism. What is the connection between timbre and trauma? How is the gap between the empirical and the ideal negotiated, and how might a dramatization of its crossing affect not only our experience of sound, but also our thinking of time and space? Philosophy DialoguesPlease join us at the Schindler House for a series of lectures organized by Joseph Lemelin and featuring philosophers Roy Ben-Shai, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Amy Ireland, Robin Mackay, and Gabriel Rockhill. The series is presented by Equitable Vitrines on the occasion of "Florian Hecker — Resynthesizers." Addressing Hecker’s work directly and obliquely, speakers in this series reflect on themes that his work evokes at the meeting point of theory and artistic practice. As automation and data-fueled technologies reconfigure lived experience, what new forms of sensing emerge? What kinds of relationships between human and machine sense arise? What does it mean for artists and theorists to intervene within these aesthetic transformations? Philosophy Dialogues gathers five contemporary thinkers from different theoretical orientations to investigate the capacities of art and technology to shape alternative worlds of sense and sense-making. Lead funding has been generously provided by the Wilhelm Family Foundation and the Michael Asher Foundation, with additional support from the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, the Kebok Foundation, the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles, and the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs."Florian Hecker — Resynthesizers" is on display through March 13, 2022 at the Fitzpatrick-Leland House, MAK Center for Art and Architecture. www.equitablevitrines.com Robin Mackay Robin Mackay is director of UK publisher Urbanomic, He has written widely on philosophy and contemporary art, and has instigated collaborative projects with a number of contemporary artists. Amy IrelandAmy Ireland is an experimental writer and theorist best known for her work with the technomaterialist transfeminist collective, Laboria Cuboniks. She has exhibited and performed work in Australia, the UK, Korea, China, Canada, and France. Amy currently works as an editor for UK publisher Urbanomic. Founded in 2014, Equitable Vitrines is a Los Angeles 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that organizes exhibitions and educational programming. Its work is based upon the conviction that art’s value lies in its capacity to facilitate the emergence of new aesthetic and discursive forms, which are needed to enhance humanity’s self-understanding in an era of unprecedented change.