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January 31, 2010 at Goethe Institute Cairo and February 6 at the Max-Bense Symposium in Stuttgart

Art and technology have different ways of thinking and produce diverse images of the body. This was the case with the German philosopher Max Bense (1910-1990) who worked in depth on this area of intersection and carried out significant basic research in information aesthetics.

Performance on February 6, 2010 on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Max Bense at Wilhelmpalais in Stuttgart

seismic body memory | lecture performance	seismic body signals | exhibition	fogzone | presentation
06. december 2008 | freiburg university	10.-20. july 2008 | rotterdam v2	22. january 2008 | furtwangen

The fogpatch project* (2007-2010) is dealing with the theories of Max Bense. It is initiated by the media artist Daniel Fetzner and realized with a team of students and other professionals. A series of interactive installations and performances in Freiburg (G) and Rotterdam (NL) reconstructed a traumatic body experience of this cartesian thinker. Starting points are Bense`s text »Existenzmitteilung aus San Franzisko« and a TV disputation with Joseph Beuys, both from 1970.

The conceptual design of this creative research happened in San Francisco and at the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe. The realisation is accompanied by interviews with scientists, artists and humanists.The project will be finished in 2010 on the 100th anniversary of Max Bense with performances in Cairo and Stuttgart.

* fog in banks irregularly distributed

Der Aufsatz »Max Bense als Vordenker des Postmedialen« ist im August 2009 in dem Sammelband Postmediale Wirklichkeiten im Telepolis-Verlag erschienen.