The Symposium Rethinking Affordance explores the critical significance of »affordance« in digital contexts and areas including media art, media theory, film, art history, and cultural theory.

The Social Life of the Universe explores in a performative dialog possible ways to map out human biographies between the smallest biological components and immense cosmological spaces. 

With DINGEN, the choreographer Paul Wenninger and the composer Peter Jakober (fellow 2011–2013) follow the tracks of a discovery. Following the performance an artist talk on the topic of the »informed body« will take place. 

The tenth Hybrid Talks focus on the concept of performance/ power – thus also to say the value of work, and what these terminologies imply in the sciences, in the arts as well as in management will be scrutinized. The Talks will take place in close cooperation with the art, science & business program of the Akademie Schloss Solitude.

By introducing the scope and scale of Amazon.com Trebor Scholz and Marcell Mars will start the discussion on the new mode of social production facilitated by new capitalist imperatives and which has become increasingly difficult to distinguish between play, consumption and production, life and work, labor and non-labor.

Following the workshop »What's Work Worth?« on Sunday, June 2, 2013, François Vatin’s talk on Monday, June 3 will center on the relationship between performance and work.

After the first two successful lectures by Akseli Virtanen (theorist of new political economy) und Alan Bass (psychoanalyst) around the main topic Chronicles of Work, the sociologist Maurizio Lazzarato will talk about the working and living conditions of freelance journalists, artists and stage technicians. 

In the context of Lange Nacht der Museen, the project at Römerstraße takes up the two main themes for the fellows at Akademie Schloss Solitude this year: the intertwined notions of work and play (see also Chronicles of Work, June 2013) and The Practice of an Ephemeral Architecture (more to come in November 2013).

Since autumn 2011, the Akademie Schloss Solitude has been addressing the theme »Chronicles of Work«, centered around an extensive interdisciplinary discussion on changes in modern and contemporary work organization and their consequences for society. From January until June 2013, four internationally renowned scientists from the fields of economy, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and sociology will approach these issues in their lectures. 

Since autumn 2011, the Akademie Schloss Solitude has been addressing the theme Chronicles of Work, centered around an extensive interdisciplinary discussion on changes in modern and contemporary work organization and their consequences for society. From January until June 2013, four internationally renowned scientists from the fields of economy, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and sociology will approach these issues in their lectures.