In this Focus Discussion (Track 1) Salvatore Iaconesi, Derrick de Kerckhove, Ursula Endlicher, Heath Bunting and Alessandro Ludovico discuss artworks and artistic forms of practice that explore newer, fluid identity configurations characterised by physical and intangible aspects and the spaces between them.

The convergence of information and laboratory technological procedures engenders biomedia that are increasingly being appropriated by the arts. Based on the performative gel electrophoresis works by US artist Paul Vanouse, the panel examines the political, science-historical and aesthetic aspects of contemporary biologisms and molecularisms.

Tim Etchells (uk), Adrian Heathfield (uk)
In the context of an increasingly mobile culture, participants discuss key development processes and the paradigm of physical co-presence as a common space of mutual experience.

We are currently witnessing an increasing biologisation of the media. Our action and reaction patterns in this environment of biomedia have sensory, tactile and emotional integration – computer and brain as a synthesis. 
The participants in this debate on the one hand the impact of such processes on our biological and social body, and on the other hand, the kinds of artistic-experimental self-empowerment strategies such re-modelling has already brought about.

Participants: Roberto Esposito (it), Judith Revel (fr)

Moderation: Matteo Pasquinelli (it)

This focus discussion explores the processes of subjectivation as field of resistance and power asymmetry. How can we organize movements of resistance to immaterial and material forms of biopower without necessarily becoming the other of power?