Goldsmiths’ THURSDAY CLUB presents short lectures and a conversation with Elke Gaugele and Dani Ploeger.
Where: Location: RHB 2107, Richard Hoggart Building
When: 6pm-8pm, Thursday 24 September 2015
Free. All welcome, no booking required.
Dr. Elke Gaugele will raise a critical studies approach towards ‘Fashioning the Future’ phantasms, which are often inscribed in smart textiles as well as in its future technologies. Looking at issues that engage with fashion, body and technology he will suggest a perspective on ‘biometric subjectivation’ that entangles fashion and surveillance, with examples from the history, science and biopolitics of fashion.
Elke Gaugele is professor for Fashions & Styles at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, dean of the Institute for Education in the Arts. She researches on fashions’ history of science as well as on biopolitics and new technologies in fashion; on aesthetic politics and postcolonial approaches in fashion, textile and cultural theory.
Artist Dr. Dani Ploeger will speak on digitized planned obsolescence and art, in relation to his recently published Leonardo paper Abject Digital Performance: Engaging the politics of electronic waste. His performance installations involve consumer technologies and readily available medical devices, and explore themes around the technologized body, ecology, sexuality and vanity.
Dani Ploeger is an artist and theorist, whose artwork has been featured in galleries and museums across Europe, North-America and China, as well as festivals including transmediale (Berlin), CYNETART (Dresden) and Arse Elektronika – a festival of sex and technology (San Francisco).
This event is co-organised with Goldsmiths’ MA Fashion and the Goldsmiths Fashion Research Unit and kindly sponsored by visiondirect.co.uk
THE THURSDAY CLUB is an open forum discussion group for anyone interested in the theories and practices of cross-disciplinarity, interactivity, technologies and philosophies of the state-of-the-art in today’s (and tomorrow’s) cultural landscape(s).