Thursday, 5 August 2021
20:00-21:30 (Beijing), 14:00-15:30 (Paris)
The Research Network for Philosophy and Technology together
with the China Academy of Art launches an annual memorial
lecture dedicated to Bernard Stiegler (1 April 1952-5 August
2020). Stiegler has been an advisor to the Network since its
establishment in 2014, and has been a distinguished professor
at the China Academy of Art from 2015-2019, where he developed
a new agenda of research for art, philosophy and technology.
The inaugural memorial lecture in 2021 starts with an opening
address by Professor Gao Shiming, the president of the China
Academy of Art, followed by a lecture by Professor Yuk Hui.
Gao Shiming is the President of
China Academy of Art. He is an art historian, theorist and
curator of the Farewell to Post-colonialism, the 3rd
Guangzhou Triennial, 2008; and Rehearsal, the 8th Shanghai
Biennale, 2010. He is the founding chair of CAA’s
Curatorial Studies Department (the first curatorial
program in China), and founding director of the School of
Inter-Media Art, and China Institute for Visual Studies.
He is also one of the initiators of Inter-Asia School and
Bandung School.
Yuk Hui 許煜
Associate
Professor @City
University of Hong Kong
Yuk Hui is the
initiator of the Research Network for Philosophy and
Technology. He wrote his doctoral thesis under Bernard
Stiegler at the Goldsmiths College in London and
completed his Habilitation at the Leuphana University in
Lüneburg. Since 2015, he has been a visiting professor
at the China Academy of Art, where he taught a master
class with Bernard Stiegler every spring. He currently
teaches at the City University of Hong Kong. He is
author of several monographs, including Recursivity and
Contingency (2019), and Art and Cosmotechnics (2021).