Christoph Frey

@chrstphfr.bsky.social

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he/him | game dev in Linz, Austria | IGF Nuovo Award 2020 winner | The Space Between | Letters To A Friend - Farewell | http://chrstphfr.itch.io | http://patreon.com/christophfr

A glass of filtered coffee with ice cubes sits on a windowsill, framed by transparent curtains on each side. Outside it is sunny and warm.

"Perhaps turning to magic or the occult is also one of the last remaining options to reclaim a sense of agency" Lucile Olympe Haute

As the biohacker collective Quimera Rosa suggests, witches were “the most high-tech of their time”, already cyborgs embodying situated, corporeal knowledge and the ability to manipulate signs and matter. This lecture moves through artistic practices that operate as cyberwitchcraft, where artists draw on witchcraft traditions in both their poetics and modes of living to challenge technoscientific regimes and reclaim agency from below.

Moderation by: Martina Pizzigoni

Lecture
FRI 15
10:30–11:00
afo - 1st floor | conference hall

A naked man is hanging on a cross, his stomach area open like a mouth, his intestines hanging out and moving like tentacles. There are tubes coming out of his stomach, collecting blood-like fluids in buckets standing on the ground. The scene has an orange glow.

Nier: Automata