DIES IST (K)EIN SPIEL – PLAY, ART, AND SCIENCE

The connections and parallels between play, forms of artistic expression and modern methods of imparting knowledge have up to now hardly been formulated.

Yet, scientific and (media-) technological developments which fundamentally influence modern society are particularly open to Ludic processes like experiment, concept and model, and thus to forms and practices that are neither foreign to artistic processes nor to spheres of social discourse influenced by chance and happening. The lecture is about these and other interdependencies and about winning, on the one hand, new impulses for describing a culture influenced by performativity and mediality and, on the other, raising awareness for methods of imparting knowledge in media that largely put learning across as a form of cultural participation.

Prof. Dr. Natascha Adamowsky
 studied Media and Cultural Science at the Berlin University of the Arts; Doctorate 1998 at the Department of Literature and Media Studies of the University of Siegen; Doctoral dissertation ›Spielfiguren in virtuellen Welten‹ [Game Characters in Virtual Worlds]; since 2002, Junior Professor for Cultural Studies (game theory/ media culture) at the Seminar for Cultural History and Theory of the Humboldt University, Berlin.