Stars, Schemas, Points – Books and Talks

Opening and Drinks 19:30 Uhr, The Podium starts 20:00-22:00 Uhr

"Stars, Schemas, Points – Books and Talks" is the public event that launches a PHD peer-to-peer workshop organized in collaboration with the Philosophy Department at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Five scholars with present their recent publications in a podium talk and engage in a discussion around abstraction, sonic and visual experiences, thought, research and method, the practicing of attention.

Im Podium:

Ricarda Denzer (artist in Vienna, die Angewandte), on the book: ganz ohr / all ears. Audio Trouble, Para-Listening, and Sounding Research (de Gruyter, 23/24).
Andrej Radman (TU Delft), on the book: Ecologies of Architecture: Essays on Territorialisation (Edinburgh University Press, 2023)
Sjoerd van Tuinen (Erasmus University Rotterdam) on the book: The Dialectic of Ressentiment: Pedagogy of a Concept (Routledge, 2023)
Riccardo M. Villa (ATTP TU Wien), on the book: Upon Entropy. Architectonics of the Image in the Age of Information (Birkhäuser, 2024)
Jordi Vivaldi (European Graduate School, Innsbruck University), on the book: The Threefold Logic of Advanced Architecture (Actar Publishers, 2020)
Vera Bühlmann (ATTP TU Wien), on the book: The Digital, A Continent? Nature and Poetics (Birkhäuser, 2024)

Thematic abstract: Stars, Schemas, Points

Das ding and the amphora, the portico and chaos, chrôma and chrônos, the aliquid and pockets of irreducibility, the gerund and Mêtis, the void and stellar friendships, chôros and meridian poetics – the theoretical framework of the conference Schemas, Stars, Points aims to allude through these words to a preservation of a certain substance that is “under continuous deformations”.

We want to play dice with the stars to formulate homotopes between domains and explore the art of space-making, how to see and think within “pointless topologies”. Beyond comforting and conforming bipoles that pigeonhole thinking as either skepsis or desire, we look at treatises—in their dual sense of “treatment” of a subject matter as well as the “contractual” resonance with treaties. We not only look for the third party that will conclude with a tensed triangulation—a “scalenopaedia”— to elevated matters of absurdity. We also engage with the endless movement of oceanic contingencies, and how to translate within the pluriversal next to the impossibility of interpretation.

In the horizon of Large Language Models that come along unequipped monosemantic descriptives like deep (learning) or big (data), we draw from both the critical and the naïve to address the dimensionalization of Juste une Image. We recognize and address how some descriptives open up nominalist architectures within fluctuating spaces and wonder about jurisprudence and the nomothètes.

The Schemas, Stars, Points conference is an invitation to address the inexhaustive as a minor literature, a vocal silence and a spatial void of a scalable quantum literacy.

The workshop program Jan 11-13 will be published on www.attp.tuwien.ac.at; it is not a public event, but interested colleagues are welcome to join. In case of interest please write us at office@attp.tuwien.ac.at.