"HOWTO Things" symposium on transdisciplinary practices

HOWTO Things

Symposium “HOWTO Things”, aimed at transdisciplinary practices, will take place 2 December 2014 at Kaunas University of Technology (KUT), Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities. Introducing their field of research participants of this symposium will discuss and compare the variety of methods applied in their practices.

HOWTO Things
International Semiotics Institute

Artists, semioticists, biochemists, architects, IT specialists will take place in this symposium. Disciplines that are not directly connected with each other will be discussed, for example visual arts and biology, semiotics and music. During the symposium an online instruction guide “HOWTO” will be presented, containing observations of artists and scientists, their research methods and advice.

“An idea to create an online instruction guide for the interdisciplinary research has come up from the lack of information in relation to application of knowledge of other disciplines. While using the internet we often get the information of how to, for example, install an operational system, how to configure computer programs, how to perform exercise of how to just cook an omlet. This project aims to apply the usual processes to the unusual disciplines like art or science” – says the project initiator Mindaugas Gapševičius.

The main task of the online interdisciplinary instruction guide “HOWTO” is to research the interdisciplinary field, within which various specialists are dealing with problems related to social, economic, political or artistic challenges and to present them to the emerging artists and scientists. On the basis of this research an internet website will be developed which will contain conversations with specialists, the overview of their research and their methods used. The collected material will be presented in easy-to read language and systematized.

Speakers: Mindaugas Gapševičius, Jūratė Kamičaitytė-Virbašienė, Simonas Laurinavičius, Dario Martinelli, Vytautas Michelkevičius, Kęstutis Morkūnas, Ulrika Varankaitė

Symposium will take place at A. Mickevičiaus Str. 37, 202 auditorium, Kaunas, Lithuania
2 December 2014, 10 am.
Language – English.

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