3rd International Symposium on Aquatic Mesocosm Research

Organizers: Prof. Meryem Bekli̇oğlu, Dr. Jens Nejstgaard

The ‚3rd International Symposium on Aquatic Mesocosm-Based Research, Antalya, Türkiye‘ brings together contributions from researchers from around the world who are using mesocosms to address major scientific and societal challenges in all aquatic domains (including ponds, lakes, rivers, estuaries, coasts and open oceans). The Symposium welcomes a wide range of contributions exploring impacts at all scales, from local to landscape to regional.

The participatory artistic research workshop given by Jenny Brockmann at the ‚3rd International Symposium on Aquatic Mesocosm-Based Research, Antalya, Türkiye‘ will address the question that is increasingly being asked today: Is there such a thing as „living“ machines and „intelligent“ plants? The workshop ties in with the 2018 project „Of Color and Light“, which was a transdisciplinary project in collaboration between Jenny Brockmann and scientists from the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) and the Free University of Berlin in the Orangery of Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin. In an experiment lasting more than two months, Brockmann and the researchers, together with the audience, investigated the environmental effects of different colored artificial light on organisms in the Berlin Spree and determined the possible effects on humans. Scientific research methods were combined with methods of artistic research such as embodied knowledge. This transdisciplinary approach will also play a role in the workshop planned at the symposium and thus represents an interesting and important addition to the symposium program.

The workshop will take place as part of the research project „Animism/Machinism. Configurations of Critique between Science, Art and Technology“, which explores the question of the animatedness nature and technical apparatuses and is being funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) for three years, and in the context of which transdisciplinary research on the effects of artificial light on people and nature is to be revisited and further developed.

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