Susanne M. Winterling
Pandora’s Box
Conversation with Wolfram Burgard
Sat, 17 Jun, 3 pm
With Pandora’s Box Susanne M. Winterling has created a forum that allows her to come into conversation with cultural professionals, activists, theorists and scientists; an intertwined metabolic system, that not only feeds Winterling’s work but has become a part of her artistic practice.
The dialogues revolve around themes that deal with social communal living and forms of solidarity, as well as questions arising from current crises and technological developments. For her Site Visit, Winterling initiated a conversation with Wolfram Burgard about the development of autonomous robots, the social implications and the potential ethical consequences of such intelligent, technical systems.
Wolfram Burgard is a professor at the Department of Computer Science at the Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg, where he leads the research lab for autonomous intelligence systems and is also the speaker for the Freiburg University Cluster of Excellence BrainLinks-BrainTools. He ranks highly amongst the prominent experts in mobile robots and has received many awards and distinctions for his research contributions in the field of autonomous robotic navigation. In the Freiburg Cluster of Excellence BrainLinks-BrainTools life sciences and engineering come together to work on the development of medical technologies that can be directly integrated with the nervous system.
The relationship between human subjectivity, technosciences and eco systems has consistently been the focus of Winterling’s work. Technical appliances such as touch screens or interfaces are placed parallel to biological phenomenon such as the bioluminescence of particular types of plankton, thus questioning the supposed polar opposites of nature and technology or corporeality and virtuality.
An edition has been released as part of the exhibition, available exclusively to Kunstverein Freiburg members.