Programme

FrAIday Talks

UmArts FrAIday Talks

Ongoing

online

UmArts Art and AI talks introduce artists, curators, designers and architects who are contributing to the social and ethical discourses of Artificial Intelligence and machine learning.

Utan til’ / By Heart – calling hibernating origin stories into emergence. A vertical exploration through body-land-Earth. This workshop is aimed at anyone who are interested in expanding their answer to the questions “where do I (we) come from?” and “where do I (we) belong?”

Come and celebrate the opening of our new Research Studio on the Arts Campus. New works, events and performances by UmArts researchers.

UMA Research Seminar

Of nurseries, and other possible forms of phenomenotechnical geoengineering

8 March 2023 3.30pm-5pm CET

Currently, geoengineering is limited to scaleless, hemispheric, technological mitigation. During his postdoc, Luis Berríos-Negrón will explore performative, sculptural, and spatial forms that critically challenge and shape other possible definitions of this controversial practice.

The film documents the Moving North group process of researching social integration in the city of Skellefteå in Northern Sweden.

Event

Extinction Burst

Thursday 26 January 19.00 CET

Drawing from her recent essay collection Death by Landscape, Elvia Wilk joins artist Annika Eriksson and curator Fatima Hellberg in a conversation about shared interests and themes relating to their exhibition In the Shadows of Tall Necessities, currently showing at Bonner Kunstverein. They will discuss the politics of care and cohabitation, consider the way we might […]

Dr Tonia Carless will host the ‘Wide Load’ panel discussion at the Relate North 10 Symposium, Yukon School of Visual Arts, Canada, 27-28 January 2023. The panel expands on Tonia Carless’s Small Visionary Project ‘To the North’, investigating the social politics of house moving in northern Sweden.

Luis Berríos-Negrón is the UmArts Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Architecture and Art, in partnership with Bildmuseet and Umeå School of Architecture (UMA), 2023-2024.

Public Event + Roundtable
Saturday 3-18 December 2022
Arts Campus, Umeå, Sweden

VR Conference, Luleå, Sweden
17 November 2022, 15.00-16.30

UmArts is hosting the Planetary Entanglements panel discussion at the Vetenskapsrådet conference Transformations ‘22: artistic research in times of change with Toms Kokins and the Moving North research group.