Spike is pleased to host

Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art's

Evening Public Program

Week 1:

Tuesday, July 4, 2017, 7.30-9pm, Lecture

Yann Moulier Boutang

Art and cognitive capitalism, dangerous connections and new subjectivity. Another collective is possible. As it has been suggested accurately by Warren Neidich, "In Cognitive Capitalism we have excessive amounts of connectivity but little Collectivity.” Cognitive capitalism has been using contemporary art on various levels. In his lecture Boutang stresses why capitalism has found in art in general and in contemporary art in particular new models to work, to command horizontally and in a pure immanence, to teach and to produce artistic critique to achieve its cultural revolution. Why did art become a powerful attractor for the world of the design of the production apparatus of the cognitive capitalism?

Wednesday, July 5, 2017, 7.30-9pm, Lecture

Antonia Majaca: "Paranoid Systems"

“Maybe all systems - that is, any theoretical, verbal, symbolic, semantic, etc. formulation that attempts to act as an all-encompassing, all-explaining hypothesis of what the universe is about - are the manifestations of paranoia.” (Phillip K. Dick, at the Vancouver SF Convention, 1972)

In 1974, Phillip K. Dick sent a letter to the FBI. He had some valuable information about a communist conspiracy that the security service should know about - Stanislaw Lem, the most famous science fiction writer of the Soviet Block, was not actually a single person but a secret committee with the agenda of spreading communist ideology in US by way of science fiction. At the time, Dick was rehabilitating from the recreational use of sodium pantathol that apparently granted his brain supernatural abilities and sudden, mind-alterning faculties of extrasensory perception.

Thursday, July 6, 2017, 7.30-9pm, lecture

Tiziana Terranova

Terranova's will be based on the essay 'A neo-monadology of social production', which maps the ways in which the architecture of social media platforms which has extensively colonized a large part of the Internet can be seen as informed by a neo-Leibnizian conception of subjectivity. Reading the hypersocial Internet by means of monadological and neo-monadological approaches, the talk poses the question of whether paradoxically atomist philosophies can give a us a concept of social production that can produce a new kind of diagram of what techno-collectivities can do.

Friday, July 7, 2017, 7.30-9pm, lecture

Franco "Bifo" Berardi: "From the mierdazo to the helicopter"

The experience of the internacional errorista in the age of fake news. What is the meaning of the word "truth"?

Baroque culture and the surfacing of the simulation as factor of the social landscape. Berardi's talk will include the recent experience of the helicopter performance by art group Etcetera in Buenos Aires, a recount of twenty years of media-artivism of the Internacional errorista, the problem of error in the history of philosophy simulation in modern culture and in the present semiocapital framework.

Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art, Berlin is founded and directed by Warren Neidich and co-directed by Barry Schwabsky. In 2017 it takes place at Spike Berlin during the month of July.