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Social sciences researcher and writer Flavia Costa will be participating in the forthcoming edition of ‘Transfronteirizas, conversaciones de arte e ciencia (‘Transborders, conversations in art and science’) on Wednesday 16 November at 20:00 on the CIGUS Network partner IGFAE’s YouTube channel. Promoted by the IGFAE ArtLab, Costa and researcher José Edelstein will discuss the new challenges of the current technological, political and cultural scenario, the so-called ‘Technocene’. Costa posits that the processes of exponential digitalisation and the use of mass data, surveillance systems and the potential horizon of an artificial superintelligence are marking the onset of a new era that has moved beyond the Anthropocene, a term coined in 2000 by Nobel Prize winner Paul Crutzen to define the current geological era, characterised by the significant global impact that human activities have on the planet’s ecosystems.

Organised by the ArtLab at the IGFAE, a member of the CIGUS Network, ‘Transborders, conversations in art and science’ is a series of virtual dialogues on YouTube in which leading figures from the world of culture are invited to join researchers in exploring the intersections between art and science, seeking an interdisciplinary approach. Launched in collaboration with Rosa Montero on 15th May 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, the series has featured personalities such as Javier Ruibal, Alejandro Dolina, Anna R. Figueiredo and Agustín Fernández Mallo. The aim is to build bridges and encourage participation between society and the research community through various forms of artistic expression.

Trajectory

Flavia Costa has a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and is a researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET). She is an associate professor at the Seminar on Informatics and Society at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the UBA, and is the head of the PhD seminar “Aesthetics, biopolitics, state of exception. A reading of Giorgio Agamben” at the same faculty, and the seminar “Theories of Culture and Power. Michel Foucault, at the School of Interdisciplinary Advanced Social Studies at the National University of San Martin (UNSAM). She is a member of “Ludión. A Latin American exploratory of poetry/technological policies” and was one of the founders of the journal Artefacto. Pensamientos sobre la técnica. She is the author of the novel Las anfibias (Adriana Hidalgo, 2008) and of numerous publications on technology, culture and society. Her latest book is entitled Tecnoceno. Algoritmos, biohackers y nuevas formas de vida (Taurus, 2021).