Über die Beziehung zwischen Kunst und Ökologie

Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. He gave the Wellek Lectures in Theory in 2014 and has collaborated with Björk, Olafur Eliasson, Haim Steinbach and Pharrell Williams. He is the author of Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (Columbia, 2016), Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism (Chicago, 2015), Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (Minnesota, 2013), Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality (Open Humanities, 2013), The Ecological Thought (Harvard, 2010), Ecology without Nature (Harvard, 2007), eight other books and 180 essays on philosophy, ecology, literature, music, art, architecture, design and food. Blog: http://www.ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com . Twitter: @the_eco_thought

Boyan Manchev is philosopher, Professor at the New Bulgarian University and at the HZT/UdK. He is also former Director of Program and Vice-President of the International College of Philosophy in Paris. His actual research, which advances the perspective of a dynamic ontology and transfor-mationist materialism, is focused on the fields of ontology, philosophy of art and political philosophy. In the last years Manchev collaborates often to theatre, contemporary dance and visual arts projects. Manchev is the author of eight books and around two hundred book chapters, catalogues and other publications in various languages. In the last years appeared Clouds (Sofia, 2017), Logic of the Political (Sofia, 2012), Miracolo (Milano: Lanfranchi, 2011), L’altération du monde (Paris: Lignes, 2009); La Métamorphose et l’Instant – Désorganisation de la vie (Paris: La Phocide, 2009). His book The Body-Metamorphosis (Sofia: Altera, 2007) deals extensively with contemporary art, performance and dance.