Siegfried Zielinski: Apparatus Theory Re-Visited

The Real of Reality | International Conference on Philosophy and
Film


Wed, 02.11.2016 – Sun, 06.11.2016
ZKM_Media Theater, ZKM_Lecture Hall, ZKM_Media Lounge, ZKM_Cube


Siegfried Zielinski ist Professor für Medientheorie an der
Universität der Künste Berlin sowie Michel-Foucault-Professor für
Medienarchäologie und Techno-Kultur an der European Graduate
School in Saas Fee, Schweiz. Darüber hinaus ist er Direktor des
Vilém Flusser Archivs an der Universität der Künste Berlin. Er
ist Verfasser der Bücher »Veit Harlan« (R.G. Fischer, Frankfurt
am Main, 1981), »Zur Geschichte des Videorecorders«
(Wissenschaftsverlag Spiess, Berlin, 1986), »Audiovisionen«
(Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1989), »Archäologie der Medien«
(Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg, 2002), »[... nach den Medien]«
(Merve, Berlin, 2011) und Herausgeber der fünfbändigen Reihe
»VARIANTOLOGY. On Deep Time Relations of Arts, Sciences and
Technologies« (König, Köln, 2005-2011).


International Conference on Philosophy and Film
Photography and film in particular paved the way for complex
philosophical questions regarding the nature of reality and its
mechanical reproduction. What does film reproduce and how can we
grasp this element, which has the transactive ability to form
reality although originating in reality? This shaping takes palce
through a complex interaction of image, action and narration and
tends to permeate reality completely. It is an inconspicuous
process that already affects our everyday life profoundly and is
based on a revolution of the real. What does film show? Do we
have access to reality that is not based on images or narrations?
And what can film and its analysis contribute to philosophical
debates on the real?
These are questions we are asking to engage in a dialogue between
philosophy and film. For five days, one hundred and fifty
philosophers, media scholars and filmmakers will connect
philosophical theory with cinematic practice and open up new
ideas and concepts. To accompany the program, there will be film
screenings of documentaries of the invited filmmakers.
The participation at the conference is also possible without the
presentation of a paper.
The conference will be held in English.