Bauhaus.Orbits_Discourse and structure – Experimentation in software and visualization
The Bauhaus Orbits installation is a 360° projection surface – a site-specific Bauhaus 100 project dedicated to critically establishing the Bauhaus less as a visual style, but an intellectual discourse. The form of the installation references the vaults of the historical lecture room at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, while its content is distilled through data science’s and digital humanities’ approach to the historic Bauhaus books, which are granulated into data graphs and visualised as an immaterial world of discourse formation. The project surface, which resembles the skin of a discursive space, was meant to enable tactile navigation.
Master-Thesis WiSe 2018/19
Ka Man Lam
Betreuung:
Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dipl.-Des. Bernd Rudolf
Professur Bauformenlehre
Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Henning Schmidgen
Professur Theorie medialer Welten
Dr.-Ing. Sabine Zierold
Professur Darstellungsmethodik
Prof. Mark Shepard
University at Buffalo, SUNY, Department of Media Studies
Prof. Marc Höhlen
University at Buffalo, SUNY, Department of Media Studies
The project has been directed by a transdisciplinary team of students from MediaArchitecture, Human-Computer-Interaction, civil engineering, media arts, electro-acoustic composition and computer science. The project realised a physical exhibition installation in scale 1:1 with software and interface application. It was exhibited in July 2019 in the university library as part of the analog exhition about the historical Bauhaus books. The project was funded by the “Freundeskreis der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar e.V.”, the Kreativfonds and the Ministry for Economy, Science and Digital Society.
Project team for design and realisation:
Ka-man Lam, MediaArchitecture, M.Sc., author, curator, interface design, developer, Nancy Abdelzaher, Hamzeh Ahmad, Alfredo Ardia, Grayson Bailey, Diego Carvallo, Jyotsna Gorle, Frédéric-Philipp Habermann, Mohamad Kahlil, Arthur Keir, Rafael Kosuch, Youngmo On, Patrick Saad, Hannes Schmidt, Victor Vilceanu, Michael Wilde
Cooperation partner and sponsorship:
DFG Research group, Process-oriented Discourse Analysis
Freundeskreis der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar e.V.
Kreativfonds der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Ministry for Economy, Science and digital Society
Consulting engineers Münz and Partner Weimar,
Renolit vinyl Worms,
Kreativmetall Weimar,
Stahlbau Müller GmbH Weimar,
AEO GmbH Riesa, Metall-Kontor GmbH,
Malerfachbetrieb Großmann,
Domzelt Deutschland,
Mapping Matter, Rinn GmbH Stadtroda