JOHANNES BENNKE
Dr., Media Studies, Philosophy, Aesthetics,Artistic Research
Upcoming Talks
March 26–29, 2026:
“Grammatology of Voices: Vocal Sovereignty in Holly+ Between AI and Blockchain”. Talk as part of the panel Vocal Ontologies in the Age of AI: Histories, Infrastructures, and Fractures together with Dr. Ido Ramati, Dr. Hadar Landesberg, Ass.-Prof. Golden M. Owens at the annual SCMS 2026 conference in Chicago (USA).
April 22-24, 2026:
“Pattern Formation and Aesthetic Deformation in Network States”. Talk at the conference Crisis and Form: The Politicization of Art at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen, Germany; funded by the Fritz-Thyssen-Foundation, the German Society of Aesthetics and the Media Philosophy Working Group of the German Society of Media Studies; organized by Dr. Johannes Bennke, Prof. Christian Grüny, Prof. Markus Rautzenberg and Prof. Mirjam Schaub. Program follows.
May 7–8, 2026:
“Rätsel und Geheimnis: Ästhetiken des Verbergens”. Talk at the DFG research network Der Reiz des Rätsels at the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research in Berlin, organized by Dr. Eva Stubenrauch and Dr. Dana Steglich. Program follows.
May 21–22, 2026:
“Digitale Souveränität im Widerstreit”. Talk at the 2nd workshop of the Media Lab for Digital Sovereignty organized by Dr. Johannes Bennke and Prof. Claus Pias at the Leuphana University Lüneburg. Program follows.
Past Talks
“Protocological Ecosystems: From Ownership to the Responsible Organization of Digital Lifeworlds“. Invited talk at the workshop Virtual Ownership II by the research project VIRTOWN: Assessing Ownership in the Digital Age at the The Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) at University of Luxembourg, organized by Dr. Katrin Becker and Dr. Réka Markovich; November 25, 2025.
“Die Kunst digitaler Souveränität”. Presentation at the workshop Forms of Digital Sovereignty of the Media Lab for Digital Sovereignty organized by Dr. Johannes Bennke and Prof. Claus Pias in cooperation with the The Brandenburg Center for Media Studies (ZeM), Potsdam. November 14, 2025.
“Einführung: Aufbrüche der Medienphilosophie”. Talk and moderation at the annual conference Aufbrüche der Medienphilosophie of the Media Philosophy Workgroup of the German Society for Media Studies (GfM) in cooperation with the Philosophy of Digitality Workgroup of the German Society for Philosophy (DGPhil) on October 10, 2025 at the Folkwang University of the Arts Essen in the SANAA Building at Zeche Zollverein, organized by Dr. Johannes Bennke, Prof. Markus Rautzenberg, Prof. Mirjam Schaub in cooperation with Dr. Patrizia Beil and Dr. Alisa Kronberger, Oktober 10, 2025.
“Protocols and Intellectual Landscapes of AI“. Workshop together with Prof. Dr. Nathan Schneider (University of Colorado Boulder) at the ZeMKI Bremen, as part of the ComAI Lecture Series, organized by Prof. Andreas Hepp, September 30, 2025.
“Adaptable Structures of Permanence? Blockchain’s “Forever” Promise“. Talk together with Ass.-Prof. Ella Klik at SIGCIS 2025: Power Surge. The 16th annual conference of the Special Interest Group for Computing, Information, and Society (SIGCIS) of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), September 25-27, 2025 on Zoom.
“Governing Data: Future Protocols for Data Sovereignty“. Talk as part of the panel Plugging into Power: Materiality and Imaginaries of Future Digital Infrastructures together with Ass.-Prof. Ella Klik and PD Dr. Florian Hoof at the annual conference of the German Society for Media Studies (GfM), University of Paderborn, September 19, 2025.
“Esthétique de la générativité”. Invited talk at the seminar Penser le déluge des images numériques, led by Prof. Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, University of Geneva, March 27, 2025.
“Epistemologien des Generativen: Generativität in Kunst, Medien und Medientheorie”. Invited talk at textfeld-Kolloquium/ digitale_kultur, led by Prof. Thomas Bedorf, FernUniversität Hagen/Zoom, Januar 2025.
“Ästhetik der Generativität”. Invited talk at the seminar Philosophie des Digitalen, led by Prof. Luca Viglialoro, Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Essen, Januar 2025.
“Blockchain Governance”. Invited talk at the seminar Against the Current: Refusal, Technology, and Neo-Liberalism, led by Ass.-Prof. Ella Klik, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan/Tel Aviv, Israel/Zoom, December 2024.
“Digitaler Vitalismus und radikale Politiken in der Kryptokunst”. XII. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Ästhetik, “Medien der Künste / Künste der Medien”, Fribourg, Switzerland, September 2024.
“Blockchain and Validation”. Invited talk at the workshop ‘Blockchain and Society Handbook’ by Lachlan Robb, John Flood, Queens University of Technology/ Griffith University Queensland, Australia/Zoom, May 2024.
“Media of Verification: Epistemologies and Aesthetics of Cultural Techniques of Law”. Doctorate colloquium of Prof. Jens Schröter, University of Bonn, February 2024.
“Introduction to ‘Digital Biedermeier – or Radical Democratic Utopia? NFTs as Interfaces of Cryptocurrencies’”. Organizer, Moderator. AG Medienphilosophie Annual Workshop 2023, Humboldt University Berlin, October 2023.
“To the Sun! Wertschöpfungen durch DAOs.” AG Medienphilosophie Symposium, Annual Conference of the German Society of Media Studies, University of Bonn, Germany, September 2023.
“Emmanuel Levinas and Work on the Social.” Invited talk at The Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania/Zoom, May 2023.
“What are NFTs? And what is their relevance for Media Studies?” Invited talk at the Metalab at Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná, Brazil/Zoom, December 2022.
“Media of Verification. From Early Accounting and Sealing to Blockchain.” Invited talk at Institute Colloquium at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, November 2022.
“Krypto-Ikonizität in der Moderne. Medialität und Ästhetik von NFTs.” Interdisciplinary Workshop on Riddles in Modernity, Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research, Berlin, November 2022.
“Proof-of-Work und Negentropie: Zur Medieneschatologie digitaler Ökonomien.” Annual Conference of the German Society of Media Studies, Halle, Germany, September 2022.
“Crypto-Iconicity. The Mediality of NFTs – Stamping, Signing, Sealing.” OxBAT Blockchain Art and NFTs: Spreading the Wings of Encounter. Oxford, UK, September 2022.
“Antisemitismus und Blockchain.“ Film University Babelsberg & Selma Stern Centre for Jewish Studies Berlin Brandenburg, Germany, June 2022.
“Bilderverbot in der Ästhetik von Emmanuel Levinas.“ Invited talk at Freie Universität Berlin, March 2022.
“Testimoniale Bildepistemologie in den Filmen der Sensorischen Ethnographie.“ „Kunst und Erkenntnis, Conference of the German Society of Aesthetics“, Zurich University of the Arts, Zoom, July 2021.
“Iconic Method in Art Criticism? Testimonial Image Epistemology and the Eschatology of Images in Contemporary Documentary Film.” Invited talk, Research Group „Theology and Contemporary Culture“ at Charles University Prague, Zoom, July 2021.
“Introduction to Media Philosophy and Theological Aesthetics of Algorithms.”, „Media Philosophy and Theological Aesthetics of Algorithms“, Annual Workshop AG Media Philosophy, Charles University Prague, Zoom, June, 2021.
“Obfuskation: Technikästhetik eines medienphilosophischen Konzepts.“ Interdisciplinary Conference at the University of Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Germany, April 2021.
“Reflexivitiy in Digital Media.” Invited talk at a panel discussion at the interdisciplinary workshop of the Institute for Theory, Zurich University of the Arts, June 2019.
“Bauen und Bild. Zum Wiederaufbau des Neuen Museums Berlin.“ Workshop with Aleida Assmann of the Deutsche Seminar of the UZH and the Research Lab ,Epistemologies of Aesthetic Practices‘“, University of Zurich, Mai 2019.
“Zeigenschaften.“ Colloquium, PhD program „Epistemologien ästhetischer Praktiken“, Collegium Helveticum, Zurich, November 2018.
“Bilderverbot bei Levinas.“ Colloquium, Selma Stern Centre for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg, November 2018.
“Filmgespräch zu Sweetgrass von Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Ilisa Barbash, USA, 2009.“ Film Series: ‘Sheeps in Film’, Moabiter Filmkultur, Berlin, June 2018.
“Obliterations in El Mar La Mar.” docusophia: documentary film and philosophy, Steve Tisch School for Film and Television, Tel Aviv University, May 2018.
“Obliteration. Emmanuel Levinas als Medienphilosophen lesen.“ AG Medienphilosophie der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft, Zurich University of the Arts, April 2018.
“Sensorische Objekte im Dokumentarischen.“ „FFK#31. Film und Fernsehwissenschaftliches Kolloquium Nr. 31“, Ruhr University Bochum, February 2018.
“Objekte der Sensorischen Ethnographie.“ „Filmreihe zu Objekten der Sensorischen Ethnographie“, Bauhaus-University Weimar, January 2018.
“Das testimoniale Bild. Medienphilosophische Zugänge zur Sensorischen Ethnographie.“ „Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft 2017“, University Erlangen, October 2017.
“Bild und Ähnlichkeit. Eine Geschichte vom Ursprung der Bewegung.“ Workshop Ähnlichkeit, Joint workshop of the Graduate School Automatism (University of Paderborn) & KOMA - Media Anthropology Centre of Excellence (Bauhaus-University Weimar), December 2016.
“The Documentary Real. The Films of the Sensory Ethnography Lab and the Conversion of Media Philosophy.“ The Real of the Reality. International Conference on Philosophy and Film, Symposium, ZKM, Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe, November 2016.
“Spiegeln ohne Reflektion. Zur Performanz der Projektion.“ Ernst Kapp und die Anthropologie der Technik. Eine interdisziplinäre Tagung“, Internationales Kolleg für Medienphilosophie und Kulturtechnikforschung (IKKM) in Cooperation with the KOMA - Media Anthropology Centre of Excellence (Bauhaus-University Weimar), September 2016.
“Disziplinarmacht, Kontrollmacht, Psychomacht. Medialitäten des technischen und leiblichen Fühlens.“ medien:fühlen, 6. Tagung des Masterstudiengangs Medienwissenschaft Bauhaus-University Weimar, September July 2015.
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