Dr. Frank Maet
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Technology and/as art
Technology and ethics
Art and science
Art and other media
Post-artistic theory
Philosophy of artistic research
Philosophy in relation to the practice of art and design
Philosophy of contemporary culture
Frank Maet is a lecturer in philosophy of art and philosophy of technology. Before specializing in philosophy, he followed a training in performing arts (‘acting’) and studied visual arts (‘moving image’). He published on contemporary art theory (Danto, de Duve, Fried), contemporary artists and designers (Sikander, Murakami, Snibbe), and philosophy of technology (McLuhan, Latour, Stiegler, Nancy, Verbeek). Currently his research focuses on the question how art and aesthetics can contribute to the understanding as well as the development of the digitization. He was involved in the professional scientific research-project “Digital designers: co-creators of participatory democracy”. Furthermore, he holds public lectures on “Philosophy of the Internet”; “Artists as Educators of Robots” and “In Search of an Ethics for Human-Computer Interaction.”
Projects
Frank Theys: The Tragic Sciences
The future of the artistic object
On things and thinking: design and nature
Philosophy, Art and Technology