Prof. Dr. Gabriele Gramelsberger, Aachen
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"Phenomenology of the digital", German Congress of Philosophy XXVI "# digital | thinking", Munster, 22-26.9.2024.
"The electric analog computing roots of biophysics", 11th ESHS conference on Science, Technology, Humanity, and the Earth, Barcelona, 4-7.9.2024.
Panel: "Varieties of the digital: variants of digitalisation in experimental and ML-based research practices" (together with Stefan Böschen, Aachen), EASST-4S 2024, Amsterdam, 16-19.7.2024.
"Models of complex systems as scientific-public boundary objects. The case of climate change" (together with Alexandre Hocquet, Nancy), Graduate-School "Complexity and Transdisciplinarity" of the Center for Advanced Studies at the Aix-Marseille University, 27-28.2.2023.
"Autonomy of the digital subject" (together with Maximilian Mayer, Bonn), Conference "Autonomy in the Digital Age: Rethinking Relationships between Humans, Technology and Society", University of Bonn, 21.11.2022.
Panel: "Reproducibility in Computational Practice" (together with Johannes Lenhard, Kaiserslautern; Alexandre Hocquet, Nancy), SPSP Conference 2022, Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice, University of Gent, 2.7.2022.
"Reproducibility Expectations & Issues in Computer-based Simulation sui generis" (together with Andreas Kaminski), SPSP Conference 2022, Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice, University of Gent, 2.7.2022.
Panel: "Engineering Turn: Coping with complex problems as engineering of science?" (together with Stefan Böschen, Aachen), 4S Conference 2021, Society for Social Studies of Science, University of Toronto, 6.-9.10.2021.
"Eine kurze Geschichte der philosophischen Digitalitätsforschung. Rückblick und Ausblick zum Auftakt der AG Philosophie der Digitalität", XXV. Deutscher Kongress für Philosophie, 6.10.2021.
"Prozessierung von Datenmaterialien in der Forschung. Spuren digitaler Transformationen", GfM Conference 2019, German Society of Media Studies, University of Cologne, 26.9.2019.
"Technizität grenzrealisierender Rückkopplungen und deren Folgen für die Un/Verfügbarkeiten der Selbstaffizierung", Conference "Figuren des Unverfügbaren im Anschluss an Helmuth Plessner", University of Oldenburg, 22.6.2019.
Panel "Mind the Game! Global Game/AI-Ecosystem driving 2020s Industry 4.0", R&D Management Conference 2019, cole Polytechnique Paris, 20.6.2019.
Panel "Mediatechnicity. Notes on a Concept Between Technosphere and Digital Cultures" (together with Dawid Kasprowicz, RWTH Aachen University), International Conference "Digital Culture",Leuphana University Luneburg, 19.-22.9.2018.
Panel "The Power of Correlation and the Promises of Auto-Management. On The Epistemological and Societal Dimension of Data-Based Algorithms" (together with Jutta Weber, University of Paderborn), EASST Conference 2018, European Association for Science and Technology Studies, 25-27.2018.
"Shaping Haptics, Meeting Humans: Data-Clustering Algorithms in Human-Robot-Collaborations" (together with Dawid Kasprowicz), EASST Conference 2018, European Association for Science and Technology Studies, University of Lancaster, 26.7.2018.
"Plessners exzentrische Positionalität als empfindliche Oberfläche", GfM Conference 2016, German Society of Media Studies, FU Berlin 28.9.-1.10.2016.
"Datenvielfalt - Qualitative, quantitative und in-silico Daten in der Biologie", DGGMNT Conference 2016, German Society of History of Medicine, Science and Technology, University of Lübeck, 16.-18.09.2016.
"Circulation of pieces of code in climate models", presentation, ESHS Conference 2014, European Society for the History of Science, University of Lisbon, 4-6.9.2014.
"From predictive to heuristic models in climate research", panel "Controlling the climate system?", Climate Engineering Conference Berlin, IASS Potsdam, Berlin 19.8.2014.
"Towards a Simulation-Oriented Biology - Standardization and Quantification",panel S036: "Systems Biology, a paradigm at work", 24th ICHST International Congress 2013, Society for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine,University of Manchester, 22-28.7.2013.
Panel "Rechnen als Forschungstechnologie" (together with Ulf Hashagen und Rudolf Seising, München), DGGMNT Conference 2011, German Society of History of Medicine, Science and Technology, University of Stuttgart, 24.9.2011.
"Prescribing, diagnosing, and prognosticating. Simulation strategies in subscale parametrizations of climate models", SimTech workshop "Computer simulations and the changing face of scientific experimentation", University of Stuttgart, 21.-23.9.2011.
"The simulation approach in biology", ESF European Science Foundation Workshop "Systems Biology", University of Aarhus, 18.-20.8.2011.
Panel "Philosophical and Sociological Perspectives on Synthetic Biology" (together with Tarja Knuuttila, Helsinki), SPSP Conference 2011 of the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice, University of Exeter, 24.6.2011.
"Missing e-Link. The role of computer based simulation in the context of emerging technologies", "S.NET Conference "Emerging Technologies", TU Darmstadt, 22.09.-2.10.2010.
"Epistemic Shifts in Computer Based Sciences, e.g. Climate Modelling", colloquium on climate modelling, Department of Science Studies, Aarhus University, 23.02.2009.
"How simulation reshapes science - organising simulation based research in climate modelling", ESHS Conference 2008, European Society of the History of Science, Academy of Science Vienna, 10.-12.09.2008.
"Reshaping science - How simulation reshapes climatology", Conference "What is Behind Climate Change Research? Global Organization, Management, and Science Policy", Center for Science and Technology Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 24.-26.4.2008.
"Die rationale Prognostik numerischer Simulationen", Conference "Prognosen. Zukunftswissen und Expertise in Wirtschaft, Politik und Gesellschaft", Centre Marc Bloch, FU Berlin, 28.-29.2.2008.
"Simulation and Experimentation", Conference "Models & Simulation 2", University of Tilburg, 11.-13.10.2007.
"From human computers to computer based simulation", ECAP'07 European Computer and Philosophy Conference, University of Twente, 21.-23.6.2007.
"The obsolescence of imprecise facts", Lecture series "The Nature of Evidence: How Well Do 'Facts' Travel?", Dep. of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Sciences, 23.5.2007.
"The planet in the pocket - Writing the body of planet earth", EASST Conference 2006, European Association for the Study of Sciences and Technology, University of Lausanne, 23.-28.8.2006
"42 - Der Wahn der rationalen Prognostik", Conference "HyperKult 15: Modelling & Simulation", University of Lüneburg, 13.-15.7.2006.
"Calculable future - Computer, catastrophes and the public", Conference "The Role of the Media for Human-Environment Interaction and Sustainable Development", University of Lüneburg, 21.-22.6.2006.
"Interferenzen: Explorationen anthropotechnischer Räume" (together with Oliver Lerone Schultz), Conference "Körperwellen. Zur Resonanz als Modell, Metapher und Methode", FU Berlin/Tesla, 18.-20.5.2006.
"Story telling with code - Archaeology of climate modelling", Conference "Ethnography of Coding", University of Lancaster, 30.3.2006.
"Datenarchäologie in aktuellen Klimamodellen", GWTF Conference 2005 "E-Science", German Society of Science and Technology Studies, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Berlin , 25.-26.11.2005.
"Simulation als Kreativitätspraktik", XX. Deutscher Kongress für Philosophie "Kreativität", TU Berlin, 26.-30.09.2005.
Workshops, Lectures, Colloquia (invited papers)
2024
"Towards Computational Science Studies", LunchTalk, Käte Hamburger Kolleg Aachen, 23.10.2024.
"Leibniz‘ Kalkül der Lage als Urschrift des Traums einer künstlichen Intelligenz", Lecture Series "KI-Evolution von Leibniz bis heute", Leibniz Library Hannover, 17.10.2024.
"AI and the hybrid Society", Keynote Lecture Summer School "AI, Social Machines, and the Future of Democratic Societies", Sommerschule, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, 19.9.2024.
"KI als Forschungsakteur - Ethische und epistemische Herausforderungen", Keynote Lecture Conference "Herausforderungen durch KI für die Arbeit von ForschungsethikKommissionen: Problemfelder des Bewertens, Resilienz fachlicher Standards, Verfahrensfragen", Volkswagen-Stiftung, Xplanatorium Herrenhausen, Hannover, 7.8.2024.
"Rethinking Michael Polanyi's concept of tacit knowledge", Workshop "The Origin of Concepts: Philosophical analyses and historical accounts", Käte Hamburger Kolleg Aachen, 21-23.5.2024.
"From Calculation to Computation. Philosophy of Computational Sciences in the Making", Workshop "Epistemology of Arithmetic: New Philosophy for New Times", Käte Hamburger Kolleg Aachen, 16-17.5.2024.
Panel I: Labs as Infrastructure Chaired, Symposium "Digital Research Infrastructure: What's In It For ME?", Maastricht University, 11.4.2024.
"Full Machine Readability of the World", conference "Reckoning with Everything", Bauhaus University Weimar, 27.3.2024.
"Life from Scratch. Biohybrid Regimes of Generating Life", conference "Living Techno-Natures: Biohybrid Objects, Life, and Technology", Goethe University Frankfurt, 7.3.2024.
"Philosophie des Digitalen", LOGOI Aachen, 4.2.2024.
"Philosophie des Digitalen", distinguished lecture series, SFB 1567 Virtuelle Lebenswelten, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 24.1.2024.
2023
"Industrial Metaverse and its associated technologies", panel discussion Siemens RIE Aachen Arc Annual Conference, RWTH Aachen University, 6.12.2023.
"Philosophie des Digitalen - Zeichen- und Werkzeuge der Operationalisierung des Geistes", lecture series Werkzeug. Zur Praxis computergestützter Forschung in den Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften, Humboldt University Berlin, 17.11.2023.
"Philosophie des Digitalen. Digitalisierung und Digitalität hinterfragt", Philosophie kontrovers, Institute of Philosophy, University of Cologne, 15.11.2023.
"Panoptikon der Daten", Hans Böckler Stiftung, Düsseldorf, 15.11.2023.
"History of Philosophy of Science - The Berlin Group and its Legacy", permanent seminar of philosophy of sciences, Centre of Philosophy (CFUL), University of Lisbon, 7.11.2023.
"Philosophy of the Digital", research seminar, Centre of Philosophy (CFUL), University of Lisbon, 6.11.2023.
"Life from Scratch", lecture series Lifelikeness, Käte Hamburger Kolleg Aachen, 25.10.2023.
"Philosophie des Digitalen", Natur- und Ingenieurwissenschaftliches Kolleg IX, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Cologne 20.9.2023.
"Affective Infrastructure. Towards the Naturalization of the Digital", Workshop "Ethics of Emotion Computing", Digital Society Initiative (DSI), University of Zurich, 18.9.2023.
"Wendepunkte als Gegenstand der Erkenntnistheorie", "Vom Umgang mit Wendepunkten. Politische, gesellschaftliche und erkenntnistheoretische Perspektiven", Interdisziplinäre Akademie in Kooperation mit dem Max Weber-Programm Bayern / Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Akademie für Politische Bildung in Tutzing am Starnberger See, 9.6.2023.
"Projektion, Invertierung, Perspektive. Bauersfelds Modell II als Vorwegnahme des modernen Simulationsverständnisses", Colloquium "Planetare Perspektiven", Research Center of the Deutsches Museum Munich, 5.6.2023.
"Computational Science Studies", Workshop "Research Software Engineering", RWTH Aachen University, 17.5.2023.
"Berlin Group & Vienna Circle. Varieties and commonalities in early philosophy of science", International Conference "European Traditions of Philosophy of Science: Unexpected Varieties", Käte Hamburger Kolleg Cultures of Research Aachen & Institute for Philosophy, University of Bucharest, 6.5.2023.
"Herausforderungen von Digital Humanities in der Zukunft", Workshop "Digitale Forschung in der Theologie. Erkenntnisweisen - Methoden - Gegenstand", RWTH Aachen University, 31.3.2023.
"Computer Signals I & II (2012-2020). Artists, philosophers, and historians in biological labs", Workshop "Matter. Non-Matter. Anti-Matter - Interdisciplinarity in curatorial networks", Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (ZKM), 24.2.2023.
2022
"John von Neumanns 'linguistic turn' des Coding und seine Folgen für die Wissenschaft", Workshop "Digitale Schriftlichkeit. Programmieren, Prozessieren und Codieren von Schrift", University of Düsseldorf, 9.12.2022.
"Struktur und Signatur des Digitalen", Conference "Was ist Philosophie des Digitalen?", University of Konstanz, 3.12.2022.
"Digital twin, metaverse and computer-based simulation", International Conference "Are You a Model?", TU Darmstadt 4.11.2022.
"Die Aktualität von Kant in der Neurowissenschaft", Workshop "Prinzipien der neuronalen Informationsverarbeitung. Geometrie Dynamik Wissen", Institute for Computational and Systems Neuroscience, Research Center Jülich, RWTH Aachen, 28.10.2022.
"Superhuman AI. Out-performing des Menschen durch seine Maschinen?", Annual Meeting 2022 of the Görres-Gesellschaft, Sektion Philosophy, RWTH Aachen, 24.9.2022
"Autonomie des Maschinellen", Conference "Data Society" of the 50th Anniversary of the University of Paderborn, 22.9.2022.
"Computational Science Studies. Methoden, Ansätze, Problem- und Fragestellungen", Conference "Wissenschaftsforschung im Fokus Potentiale und neue Perspektiven", Volkswagen-Foundation Hannover, 7.7.2022.
"Zur Wissenschaftskritik des Engineering of Science", Workshop "Wissenschaftskritik", KIT Karlsruhe 26.6.2022.
"Algorithmizität. Eine philosophische Perspektive" (Keynote), Conference "Algorithmizität als Kultur des Verstehens? Digitale Erkenntnisprozesse in den Humanities", Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin, 10.6.2022.
"KI-Geschichte entlang der jeweils im Fokus stehenden Spiele", Conference "Was war Künstliche Intelligenz? Konturen eines Forschungsfeldes 1975-2000 in Deutschland", HU Berlin 14.5.2022.
"Maschinenrationalität", Conference "Synthesis: Linien philosophischer Digitalisierungsforschung", Center of Advanced Internet Studies Bochum, 29.03.2022.
"Prospektive Performanz. Versuch einer Philosophie der Prognostik", Conference "Zukunftswissen Energie", Ruhr-University of Bochum, 25.02.2022.
"Modelle - Kulturtechniken des Konjekturalen", ZfW Lecture Series "Kulturtechnik Modell", University of Münster, 10.2.2022.
"Machine Learning. An Emerging Experimental Culture in Science", Workshop "Explainable AI Explanations in AI", Käte Hamburger Kolleg "Kulturen des Forschens", RWTH Aachen, 2.2.2022.
2021
"Collaborating with Machines. Researchers meet ML-Algorithms", Lecture Series of the DFG Collaborative Research Center 1187 "Learning (in) Digital", University of Siegen, 23.11.2021.
"Prototyping future ontologies. Model cascades as tools for backward chaining possible futures", LMET Conference 2021 "The Modelling of Energy Transition", University of Münster, 4.10.2021.
"Probabilistische Gestik: Zur sozialen Dimension von Algorithmen in Mensch-Roboter-Interaktionen" (together with Dawid Kasprowicz), 16. International Congress of the German Socitey of Semtiotics, TU Chemnitz 9.9.2021.
"Superhuman AI", Conference "Infrastrukturen der Autonomie", Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet Berlin, 30.9.2021.
"Using machine learning for tackling the cloud parametrization deadlock in climate models", Workshop "Integrated History and Philosophy of Climate Data", Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, 26.8.2021.
"The Curls of Water. Digital water, discrete flow, and curly eddies" (Keynote), Conference "Waterworlds. Reflecting on Multiple Waters, Philipps University Magdeburg, 18.6.2021.
"Save the Code! Die Geschichte wissenschaftlicher Software erforschen", Wissenschaftshistorisches Seminar, Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina Halle, 8.6.2021.
"Maschinenrationale Sozialität. Kritik der in maschinelle Lernverfahren eingeschrieben Sozialität", Conference "Von Menschen und Maschinen. Mensch-Maschine-Interaktionen in digitale Kulturen", Univesity of Hagen, 3.3.2021
"Die Extrapolation möglicher Zukünfte: Prognosemodelle in der Klimaforschung", Annual Conference "Vorausschauen, Vorausdenken, Vorausberechnen. Kritische Reflektionen zur Funktion von Prognose in modernen Gesellschaften", Internationales Kolleg für Geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung, FAU Nürnberg 5.2.2021.
"Philosophical Considerations on Machine Learning in Scientific Research", I2SoS-Colloquium, Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of Science (I2SoS), University of Bielefeld, 19.1.2021.
2020
"Automatisierung in/von Wissenschaft und Forschung" (Inaugural Lecture), North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Science and Arts, Humanities section in cooperation with Engineering section, 25.11.2020.
"ML-based research strategies a game changer for science?" (Keynote), AI & ML Conference for Belgium, Netherlands & Luxemburg BNAIC 2020, University of Leiden, 19.11.2020.
"Maschinenrationalität künstlicher neuronaler Netze, Workshop "Vernunftverhältnisse", Center of Advanced Internet Studies Bochum, 12.11.2020.
"Arkane Briefkulturen, Workshop "Der Brief als Wissensmedium", RWTH Aachen University, 16.10.2020.
"Selbstlernende Klimamodelle. Modellierung, maschinelles Lernen und Evaluation von Daten, Interdisciplinary Conference "Herausforderung Daten Qualität - Forschung im Digitalen Wandel" of the German Council for Information Infrastructures (RfII), Volkswagen Stiftung Hannover, 27.2.2020.
2019
"Machine Learning in Material Science", SAS Conference 2019, HLRS High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, 13.11.2019.
"Wer forscht in Zukunft? Künstliche Intelligenz und Maschinelles Lernen in der Forschung", Vortrags- und Diskussionsreihe "Künstliche Intelligenz Alltag, Utopie oder Dystopie?", RWTH Aachen 27.11.2019.
"Computational Science Studies: Software-Tools for Philosophers" (together with Dawid Kasprowicz), RUSTlab Lecture Series 2019/2020, Ruhr-University of Bochum, 28.11.2019.
"Asymptotik Finales Anschmiegen an das Unendliche", Conference "Paradoxien des Endes", Media Art School K ln, 15.11.2019.
"Hermeneutik der Maschinen", Conference "Hermeneutik unter Verdacht", Fritz-Thyssen-Foundation Cologne, 12.11.2019.
"John von Neumanns Digitaler Windkanal", Workshop "Windkan&auuml;le in den Wissenschaften und den Künsten", DFG Centre for Advanced Studies of Media Cultures of Computer Simulation, Leuphana University Lüneburg, 8.11.2019.
"Algorithms, Design and New Forms/Objects", Research Colloquium, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, 23.10.2019.
"Towards Wetware Computing", Festival "Blue Skies: Bodies in Trouble", PACT Zollverein Performing Arts Choreography Center, Essen 13.7.2019.
"Wie verändert KI die Wissenschaft Wer forscht morgen?", Leonardo Module "Das 21. Jahrhundert besser verstehen!", RWTH Aachen University, 6.9.2019.
"Digitalisierung von Forschung", Colloquium "Leonardo-Welten together with Jürgen Mittelstra ", RWTH Aachen University, 3.5.2019.
"Rheologie des Medialen. Fluidität medialer Formen", Conference "Fluide Mediale", University of Düsseldorf, 24.52019.
"Philosophy of Computational Sciences", Graduate School "Computational Engineering" Retreat, TU Darmstadt, 8.4.2019.
"Some general remarks on Philosophy of Science investigating Computational Neuroscience", Workshop "Neurological Computer Simulation", DFG Centre for Advanced Studies of Media Cultures of Computer Simulation, Leuphana University Lüneburg, 28.2.2019.
"The challenge of non-linearity and the need for computer-based modelling and simulation in science", Colloquium, ILLC Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, Amsterdam 31.1.2019.
2018
"Mark-up languages as tools for standardizing modeling in science", Workshop "Philosophy and Technologies for Simulation", Politecnico di Milano, 22.11.2018.
"The technoromanticism of the ontography. Using computer-aided design for direct access to things, but possible ones", presentation at the conference "Ontography. Procedures, Problems, Prospects," Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie (IKKM), Bauhaus University Weimar, 17 19.10.2018.
"Parallelgesellschaft der Maschinen", Keynote lecture, 3. INSIST-Nachwuchstagung Von Menschen und Maschinen", Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), 5-7.10.2018.
"Labore - Herstellungsorte temporaler Artifizialitäten", Conference "Technik und Zeit," Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, 27-28.9.2018.
"Mastering temporal regimes in science", Lecture series, Institute for Computational and Systems Neuroscience (INM-6), FZ Julich, 6.9.2018.
"Scaling in modelling and simulation", Workshop "Scales of Justice: Calculating Norms and Probabilities", Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, 22.6.2018.
"Einsichten in Modelle und Modellierung", Workshop "Literary Modelling and Energy Transition", University of Münster and KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, KIT Karlsruhe, 17.4.2018.
"Parallelgesellschaft der Maschinen" (Keynote), 3. INSIST-Conference "Von Menschen und Maschinen", Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe 6.10.2018.
"Tech-Bodies. Thresholds of biological bodies and technological innovation", Assembly / Tanzplattform in Deutschland 2018, PACT Zollverein Performing Arts Choreography Center, Essen 15.3.2018.
"History of continuous culture techniques and their promise of directed evolution", EGENIS Centre for the Study of Life Sciences, University of Exeter, 12.2.2018.
"Erkenntnisformen des Neuen", Lecture series "Das Neue", Institute of Philosophy, TU Darmstadt, 31.1.2018.
"Media Technicity", Conference "CritiqueLab for Digital Cultures", DCRL Centre for Digital Cultures, Leuphana University Luneburg, 12.1.2018
2017
"Philosophie, Klima, Komplexe Systeme", Colloquium of the Institute of Philosophy, RUB Bochum, 7.12.2017.
"Promising Care, Longing for Data", Conference "Affective Transformations: Politics. Algorithms. Media", University of Postdam, 2.-4.11.2017.
"Die Kunst des Modellierens", Opening lecture of the conjoint research project "Literary Modelling and Energy Transition", University of Münster and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, University of Münster, 23.10.17.
"Base-calling Algorithmen. Epistemische Folgen der Automatisierung der Gensequenzierung in den 1970ern und 1980ern auf den Gen-Begriff", Workshop "Algorithmische Wissenskulturen? Der Einfluss des Computers auf die Wissenschaftsentwicklung", Deutsches Museum München, 12-14.10.2017, 13.10.2017.
"1880er Debatte zur 'Rationalen Mechanik' der Atmosphäre", University of Wuppertal, 26.07.2017.
"Reenacting Science - Wissenschaftsforscher und Künstler in biologischen Laboren", Lecture series "Spektakel: Reenactments in Kunst, Gestaltung, Wissenschaft und Technologie , Hochschule für Künste Bremen, 19.6.2017.
"Zahlen-Diskussion mit Bernd Mahr", Symposium "Modell und Auffassung" in honor of Bern Mahr, HU Berlin, 17.-18.6.2017.
"Computer-aided Design in Biology", Keynote lecture, Spring School "CAX: Dimensions of Compiter-Aid in Architecture, Biological Sciences, Design and Medcine", HU Berlin, 3.-7.4.2017, 8.3.2017.
"Traveling Codes in Subscale Parameterization of Climate Models", Workshop "Traveling Codes", MECS Institute for Advanced Study, Leuphana University Lüneburg, 30.-31.3.2017.
"Modelling in Systems Biology", Winter School "Varieties of Modeling in Technoscience: The Case of Synthetic Biology", TU Darmstadt, 6.-10.3.2017, 8.3.2017.
"Lem goes reality", International Conference "Kosmos Lem. Zivilisationspoetik, Wissenschaftsanalytik und Kulturphilosophie", TU Darmstadt, 3.-5.3.2017, 4.3.2017.
"Wetware Computing", Panel "New Paradigms", Transmediale Media Festival Berlin, 3.2.2017.
"Zur Rolle der Modellvergleiche in der Klimamodellierung", Lecture series "Klimaforschung und Klimaethik", Zentrum für Wissenschaftstheorie der Universität Münster together with Centrum Bioethik, 26.1.2017.
"Loosing track of certainty - Simulation and the problem of convergence", Conference "Loose Connections Modes of un_relating", University of Hamburg, 12.1.2017.
2016
"Der futurologische Kongress: Neuroenhancement", Lecture series "Lem zwischen den Welten", Institute of Philosophy, TU Technische Universität Darmstadt, 14.12.2016.
"Temporale Regime der Synthetischen Biologie", Lecture series "CompuGene", TU Darmstadt, 02.11.2016.
"Sichtbarkeit und Existenz. Simulationen - zur Rolle der Anschauung in den (Natur-)Wissenschaften", (together with Andreas Buchleitner), Lecture series "Science beyond borders", University College Freiburg, 15.11.2016.
"Embrace uncertainty. Die trügerische Gewissheit sicheren Wissens", SAS 16 Conference "Normativität in der Computersimulation", HLRS Stuttgart, 4.-5.10.2016, 5.10.2016.
"Affective Computing", Lecture series "Affektive Medien/Wissenschaft , Hochschule für Bildende Kuenste Braunschweig, 04.07.2016.
"Klimawandel, Prognose, Computer - Der vage Blick in unsere Zukunft", Lecture series "Zukunft denken. Mythen, Mentalitäten, Prognosen , Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 08.06.2016.
"Writing Life with Algorithms", Workshop "Making algorithms visible", Exzellenzcluster "Bild Wissen Gestaltung", Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 03.06.2016.
"'It's because I'm lazy' - Karl H. Hinkelmann's favor for primitive equations models in the early 1950s", Workshop "Modernizing Climate", KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, 14-15.3.2016.
"Leibniz Begriffsnetze und sein Konzept der distinkten Imagination", Conference "Leibniz Netzwerk Digitalisierung", Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science, 5.2.2016.
"Wissenschaft in Zeiten der Computersimulation. Eine wissenschaftshistorische und -philosophische Verortung", (PD Inaugural lecture), Department of Social Sciences and History, TU Darmstadt, 4.2.2016.
"Ästhetik des Parametrischen. Vom architektonischen Entwerfen zum experimentellen Forschen", Lecture series "Constructed Reality" of the University Frankfurt, DAM Deutsches Architekturmuseum, 3.2.2016.
2015
"Discussion with Julien Vincent, Oxford", Finisage "Growing As Building", InnovationLab, University of Applied Arts Vienna, 6.11.2015.
"Prospektive Performanz der Simulation", SAS 15 Conference, HLRS Stuttgart, 12.-13.10.2015.
"Operative Epistemologie - Symbolisch-operative Praktiken der prognostischen Vergegenwärtigung", Conference "Handlungs/Spiel/Räuml;ume der Schrift: Zur Operativität des Graphischen", ZHdK Zurich, 16.-18.9.2015.
"Simulationsmodelle - Temporale Figurationen des Prospektiven", Workshop "Theorie und Begriffsgeschichte des Modells", ZfL Berlin, 3.-4.9.2015.
"Willensfreiheit im Zeitalter der Neurowissenschaften", Habilitation lecture, Department of Social Sciences and History, TU Darmstadt, 16.7.2015.
"Algorithm Ontologies" (together with Peter Bexte), Lecture performance, IKKM Lecture series, Bauhaus University Weimar, 10.6.2015.
"Operative Epistemology. Operating living cells and other things", Fellow lecture at IKKM Lab, Bauhaus University Weimar, 8.5.2015.
"The Illusion of Vortex Atoms", Workshop "At the Treshold of Experience. Illusions in Science, Media, and Popular Entertainments", Bauhaus University Weimar, 23-24.4.2015.
"Wider die Normalisierung des Klimawandels", Lecture series "Wissen und Handeln im Anthropozän", Autodidaktische Initiative e.V., University of Leipzig, 23.1.2015.
"Life/Design/Matter. Towards a Philosophy of Parametric Thinking", Conference "Computational Design Culture. Scripting, Simulation, and the Making of Architecture", MECS Institute for Advanced Studies, Leuphana University Lüneburg, 16.-17.1.2015.
2014
"Automatisierung des Beobachters", Workshop "Computersignale", MECS Institute for Advanced Studies, Leuphana University Lüneburg, 26.-27.11.2014.
Comment on "Cultures of Prediction"-talk of Matthias Heymann, Conference "Mistakes, Ignorance, Contingency and Errors in Science and Technology", MCTS Munich, 2.-4.10.2014.
"Rational design in synthetic biology", Conference "From in vivo to in silico", MECS Institute for Advanced Studies, Leuphana University Lüneburg, 19.-21.6.2014, 19.6.2014.
"From predictive to heuritsic models in climate reserach", Panel "Controlling the climate system?", Climate Engineering Conference, Berlin 18.-22.8.2014.
"Technological guidance in synthetic biology", German-Dutch Workshop of Philosophy of Technology, TU Darmstadt, 12.-14.6.2014, 13.6.2014.
"Making of ECHAM ein globales Klimamodell", Lecture series, MECS Institute for Advanced Studies, Leuphana University Lüneburg, 14.1.2014.
2013
"Computersimulationen. Konzepte der Wissenschaftsphilosophie und -forschung zur Simulation", Lecture series "Simulation"; HafenCity Universität Hamburg, 21.10.2013.
"The potentials and limits of simulation and HPC", Roundtable discussion at the SPPEXA Software für Exascale-Computing Panel, International Supercomputing Conference, Leipzig, 16.-20.6.2012, 19.6.2013.
"Datenfluten", Conference "Fragile Daten", Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science Berlin, 1.-2.3.2013, 2.3.2013.
2012
"Fast-track Synthetic Biology", Workshop "Modelling Complexity: New Methods and Concepts for a More Robust Synthetic Biology", University of Exeter, 29.-30.12.2012.
"Softwaremaschinerien als Synthesizer", Conference "Synthesis. Grenzen und Perspektiven technischer Erzeugung", FU Berlin, 15.-16.6.2012.
"Simulations in climate research and policy", Conference "Modelling for Policy", British Academy of Science, London, 17.-18.5.2012, 18.5.2012.
"Global, regional, lokal: Was sagen uns die neusten Klimamodelle?", Lecture, 3. Herrenhäser Forum Mensch-Natur-Technik, Volkswagen Stiftung, Hannover, 11.4.2012.
"Philosophie der Simulation", Lecture, Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Wissenschaftliches Rechnen, University of Heidelberg, 10.1.2012.
"Lifelike Algorithms & Cellular Machines", Workshop "Different Forms of Life? Comparative Perspectives on Systems and Synthetic Biology", Research Centre for Biotechnology, University of Hamburg, 19.-20.1.2012.
"The Data Paradox of Biology", Workshop "Futures of Synthetic Biology", Centre for the Study of the Science and the Humanities, University of Bergen, 26.-27.1.2012.
2011
"New Adjustments between Theory and Empirical Data", Workshop "Data - Differences - Diversity. Technologies of Differentiation in the Life Schiences", Max-Planck-Institute for History of Science, Berlin, 24.-26.11.2011.
"Epistemologien des Zukuenftigen. Rationale Prognostik und Futur-II-Aussagen", Conference "Das Wissen der Zukunft", Institute of German Studies, University of Vienna, 4.-5.11.2011.
Commentator of the panel "Communitcating Uncertainties", Workshop "Error in Science", Lorentz Center, Leiden, 24.-28.10.2011.
"Zum Verhältnis von Systembiologie und Synthetischer Biology", Colloquium, Institute of Philosopy, RWTH Aachen University, 19.10.2011.
"Experiments and algorithms as seen from philosophy of science", 3rd DFG Network Meeting Munich, 13.-14.10.2011.
"Zum Wandel der Wissenschaft im Zeitalter des Computers", Lecture series "Gedanken zur Information", HLRS High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, 29.6.2011.
"Die Vernetzung der Klimaforschung - Grid-Computing, Community-Plattformen und -Modelle", Workshop "Verteilte Systeme - Soziale Netze", ", DFG Research Training Group 1479 "Automatismen", University of Paderborn, 30.5.2011.
2010
"Prognose, Projektion, Szenario - Storylines der Klimamodellierung", ZfL Annual Conference 2010, "Prophetie und Prognostik", Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin, 25.-27.11.2010.
"Lebendige Algorithmen, zelluläre Maschinen", Conference "Die Zukunft der technischen Welt", Ruhr-University Bochum, 28.-30.10.2010.
"Images as Research Tools", Summer School "Art & Research & Science Studies in Biological Laboratories", KHM Academy for Media Arts Cologne, 23.07.2010.
"Algorithms as epistemic actors in policy contexts: Case climate research", Workshop "Modelling for Policy: Case From Climate Research and Public Health", CRASSH, Cambridge University, 20.05.2010.
"Trajektorien - Die Extrapolation der Linie aus dem Punkt", Workshop "Erkenntniskraft der Linie", University of Potsdam, 18.-19.02.2010.
"Das Geltungsparadox der Klimaforschung", Lecture series "Herausforderung Klima: Natur- und Wissenschaftsforschung im Handlungsdruck", Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Enegry, 20.01.2010.
2009
"Historische und philosophische Studien zur Klimaforschung" (together with Matthias Heymann, Aarhus), DLR Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, 11.11.2009.
"Neue symbolische Formen des Forschens: Simulation - Cassirer, Heidegger", Institute for Philosophy, FU Berlin, 03.11.2009.
"Computersimulationen in den Wissenschaften", Lecture series "Darstellungsräume. Schrift, Bild, Tanz, Klang", FU Berlin, 15.07.2009.
"Die Autonomie des Punktes in der Neuzeit", Workshop "Punkte & Flecken", KHM Media School Cologne, 26.-27.06.2009.
"Der gemittelte Fisch im simulierten Ozean", Conference "Woher der Wind weht: Szenarien des Klimawandels", HAU1 Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, 19.05.2009.
"Verkörperte Information - Konzepte und Bilder der 'Converging Technologies'", Colloquium, Institute of Technology and Innovation Research, TU Berlin, 06.05.2009.
2008
"Digitale Narrationen des Klimas: Computer, Code, Modelle", Conference "Wissenswerte. Conference on science communication", Bremen, 17.-19.11.2008.
"Scientific versus computational style of thinking", Colloquium, Research group "Formale Modelle, Logik und Programmierung", TU Berlin, 7.7.2008.
"Virtual Screening in Drug Design", Workshop "Orientieren und Ausrichten", University of Konstanz, 12.-13.6.2008.
"Clash of styles - computational-thinking versus scientific-thinking", Social Computing Group, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, NY, 18.04.2008.
"From Science to Computational Sciences. Philosophy of Computer Based Simulation", ZMAW Lecture series, Max Planck Institute of Meteorology, Hamburg, 02.04.2008.
"E-Science", Colloquium, ETH Zentrum Geschichte des Wissens, ETH Zurich, 18.03.2008.
"Reshaping Science - Klimamodellierung", Colloquium, Institute of Technology and Innovation Research, TU Berlin, 09.01.2008.
2007
"Epistemische Praktiken des Forschens im Computerlabor", Conference "Kunst der Forschung", ZHdK Zürich, 6.-8.12.2007.
"How simulation reshapes science - Organising simulation based research in climate modelling", Lecture series "Simulation", University of Vienna, Institute of Philosophy, 13.12.2007.
"Semiotische Objekte im digitalen Labor", Workshop "Die Sichtbarmachung des Unsichtbaren: Mikroskopische Verfahren in der Laborpraxis", Forschungsinstitut für Technik- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Deutsches Museum München, 18.-19.10.2007.
"Loops between simulation and Experimentation", Blankensee-Colloquium "The Societal and Cultural Influence of Computer Based Simulation - Towards a Philosophy of Computational Sciences", Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science Berlin, 20.-22.09.2007.
"Narrative Trajektorien in Kunst und Wissenschaft", Workshop "Fluide Welten. Zur Kartierung von Zeit und Bewegung", Eikones Basel, 27.-28.08.2007.
"Smart dust revolution - Sensing the environment. An ambient intelligence concept of awareness", Symposion "Anthropothechnical Spaces & Mappings. Transformations of Human Orientation", FU Berlin/Tesla, 21.-24.02.2007.
2006
"Praktiken des wissenschaftlichen Programmierens", Workshop "Praktiken des Programmierens", Institute of Philosophy, FU Berlin, 1.12.2006.
"The epistemic culture of simulation", Workshop "Dealing with Uncertainty", Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science Berlin, 23.11.2006.
"Simulation - Analyse der organisationellen Etablierungsbestrebungen der (neuen) epistemischen Kultur des Simulierens am Beispiel der Klimamodellierung", Workshop "Organisatio(en) der Forschung", University of Dresden, 5.-6.10.2006.
"Die präzise elektronische Phantasie der Automatenhirne - Eine Analyse der Epistemik und Rezeption simulierter Weltbilder", Workshop "Logik der Bilder", Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science Berlin, 20.-21.07.2006.
"Simulation - Motor der Wissensproduktion", Workshop "Dynamik wissenschaftlichen Wissens", Deutsches Museum M& uml;nchen, 30.06.-01.07.2006.
"Grenzen der Parametrisierung", Workshop "Visualisierung, Simulation und Statistik als epistemische Praktiken der Erzeugung von Wissen und Nichtwissen", Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science Berlin, 08.06.2006.
1997 - 2005
"Wissenschaftliche Simulationen als Attraktoren interdisziplinären Forschens", Workshop "Forschen in interdisziplinären Feldern", BBAW Berlin, 04.05.2005.
"Bildlichkeit der Technik", Workshop "Bild - Technik - Entscheidung", Museum for Communication Berlin, 17.10.2003.
"Schrift, Zahl, Visualisierung", Conference "Schrifttechnik - Kulturtechnik", HU Berlin, 17.-18.2.2003.
"Simulation als Objektschrift", Lecture series, Institute of Philosophy, University of Potsdam, 6.5.2003.
"Wissenschaftliche Simulation", Lecture series, IWT Institute for Science and Technology Studies, University of Bielefeld, 25.11.2002.
"Digitale Schrift", Conference "Grenzfälle", HU Berlin, 16.-17.11.2001.
"Metaphoriken des Internets", University lecture, Applied University Salzgitter, 19.11.1999.
"Raum - Textur - Sprache", Symposion "Über Gestalt Denken", German Library Frankfurt, 21.10.1999.
"Computing and Visualisation", Lecture series, Institute of Philosophy, University of Magdeburg, 04.05.1999.
"Die Intersubjektivität visueller Wissensvermittlung", Conference "Die Sichtbarkeit der Macht", University of Augsburg, 23.10.1998.
"Neue Medien im Spannungsfeld: Wissenschaft - Kunst", Media Art Festival and Conference "Transmediale 1998", Podewil Berlin, 13.02.1998.
"Über die Evolution einer hypermedialen Norm der Sprache", 1. Hamburger Workshop "Philosophie und Internet", University of Hamburg, 22.02.1997.