DATE: 04/10/2021 – 06/10/2021
International LMET Conference:
THE MODELLING OF ENERGY TRANSITION.
CULTURES / VISIONS / NARRATIVES
VENUE: SCHLOSS and FÜRSTENBERGHAUS / MÜNSTER / GERMANY
Deadline for Applications: 31/05/2021 (closed)
DATE: 04/10/2021 – 06/10/2021
Exhibition by Tobias Becker:
THE BLIND SPOTS OF MODELLING
VENUE: MÜNSTER / GERMANY
4/10/2021 - 10.00 - 16.00 h Schloss Münster, Schlossplatz 2
5/10/2021 - 10.00 - 20.00 h Fürstenberghaus, Domplatz 20 - 22
6/10/2021 - 10.00 - 14.00 h Fürstenberghaus, Domplatz 20 - 22
Free entry / please note: 3G-rule applies
(acces only for people either fully vaccinated, fully recovered, or negatively tested)
The conference is accompanied by an exhibition in which models and modelling processes from scientific fields (such as energy technology) are juxtaposed with the visual arts in the form of model-aesthetic works by Tobias Becker. The differences of the models, not only in their origin but also in intention and appearance, invite a reflection on the constituting moments that are hidden behind the respective expressions.
While the scientific model is committed to the greatest possible closeness to reality and usability, the artistic model formulates itself freely and operates in self-reflexive and media-reflexive modes that can play out the possibilities and limits of model-like languages. Compiled with attention to essential procedures and modes in model formation, the exhibition provides insight into this difficult practice from two perspectives and thus functions as an aesthetic counterpart to the model critique formulated in the context of the conference.
Tobias Becker (*1975 in Mönchengladbach)
After studying fine arts at the UdK in Berlin, the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam and the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA, Tobias Becker taught at the TU Berlin, the RWTH Aachen and the HfG Karlsruhe. He is now professor of Design and Design Theory at the Department of Architecture at the University of Siegen. He lives and works in Cologne. Becker deals with the perception and construction of space as well as strategies of spatial location in the media of object and model construction, painting, photography, installation and performance. This takes place in varying formal languages and situationally via the confrontation and connection of basic questions about one's own existence with various materials and spatial environments.
