Welcome
Rektor Dr. Gerald Bast, University of Applied Arts, AUT

Introduction to Co-Corporeality  – Of Humans, Machines, & Microbes
Editors: Barbara Imhof, Daniela Mitterberger, Tiziano Derme

Round table
Co-Corporeality  – Of Humans, Machines, & Microbes reflects on an FWF funded artistic research project that investigated non-verbal communication with our microbial environment through living and grown material. While the book was an in-depth, multidisciplinary exploration of how humans can engage sensorically with their microbial environment, the panel discussion will further extend the inquiry of Co-Corporeality into viewpoints from media studies, choreography, architecture and design research. The panel will begin with a discussion on the cultural and scientific relevance of observing our environment at different scales in order to understand ecological relations and co-corporealities.

Panelists
Claudia Bosse, choreographer, director and artist, theatercombinat, Wien - Berlin, GER - AUT
Jens Hauser, media studies scholar, art curator, Paris - Karlsruhe - Copenhagen, F – GER - DK
Indre Umbrasaite, architect and design researcher, assistant professor, LT - AUT

Commentators
Barbara Imhof, Co-project lead Co-Corporeality, LIQUIFER, AUT
Daniela Mitterberger, Co-project lead Co-Corporeality, MAEID, ETH Zürich, AUT - CH
Tiziano Derme, Co-project lead Co-Corporeality, MAEID, ETH Zürich, AUT - CH

Moderator
Alexander Damianisch, Zentrum Fokus Forschung, University of Applied Arts, AUT

Food experience by Marianna Mondelos, artist, researcher, Zentrum Fokus Forschung, University of Applied Arts, AUT

photo credit: Bruno Stubenrauch 2022

video credit. Felipe Duque 2022

The book was printed with the financial support of the Institute of Architecture, University of Applied Arts and the Austrian Science Fund FWF-AR534