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The project module introduces into media that moderate the living and the digital. We look into environments in their diverse natures, and how various actors live in them, network and relate to each other. The aim is to develop interfaces, methods and practices that enable such communication between different actors. The project addresses both questions of craftsmanship in the use of sensors as well as the performative use of media as an enactment of a writing of history and culture of technologies. In the end, our physicality is and remains the central point of orientation and the measure of reference and evaluation. Subjectivity - experienced as artistic expression - remains an essential measure for artefacts in the making. But addressing the subjectivity of the other person also means taking their interests into account and planning for them.

On this basis we want to thematize ideological questions that arise from the narratives of performance with media and how these can be brought into a non-violent relation and strategy to and in the present.

The project expects participants to conceive and elaborate a self-defined work, but also offers numerous literature and digressions on the topic.

Students are expected to be able and willing to work in a self-organized manner and to actively engage in the discourses of the module.

A prerequisite is prior enrollment in a specialized module with the co-workers of GMU or the Interface Design Professorship.

An accompanying course of the modules of the professorship is recommended.

Syllabus

10.10.2023: Introduction, Topics, lecture
17.10.2023: Your short presentations (recent works, plans for the semester)
24.10.2023: lectures...
31.10.2023: Lecture by teacher
07.11.2023: Start with your lectures
14.11.2023
21.11.2023
28.11.2023
05.12.2023: Midterm Presentations
12.12.2023
19.12.2023
09.01.2024
16.01.2024
23.1.2024
30.01.2024
06.02.2024: Final presentation

Artworks in presentations related to the course

Materials

James Bridle: Ways of Being ISBN 9780141994260
Peter Asaro: On the Origins of the Synthetic Mind: Working Models, Mechanisms, and Simulations german version
Donna Haraway: Staying with the Trouble. Making Kin in the Chthulucene ISBN 978-0822362241
Lynn Margulis: Symbiotic Planet: A New Look At Evolution Inside Other Spaces. Environments by Women Artists 1956 – 1976
Georg Trogemann, Code@Art first chapter
ISBN 978-0465072729
The Architecture Machine
Turtles by William Grey Walter

Recommended Artists

Robertina Sebjanic [Aurelia 1-Hz]
Adam Brown
Verena Friedrich
Agnes Meyer-Brandis [One Tree ID], [The Moon Goose Analogue] and others...
Tomomi Adachi
Niklas Roy [Windmills]
Felipe Castelblanco [Video Reporte por Ñambi Rimai Colectivo de Medios: Quemas de Páramo en el Pueblo Quillacinga], [La Jungla Amazónica]
Ursula Biemann
Lygia Clark
Jenna Sutela
Hyungkoo Lee
Neozoon, [My BBY 8L3W ]
William Forsythe [https://synchronousobjects.osu.edu/]

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 *[http://heavythinking.org/ Verena Friedrich]
 *[http://www.agnes-meyer-brandis.de/ Agnes Meyer-Brandis] [[http://www.blubblubb.net/OneTreeID/index.html One Tree ID]], [[http://www.blubblubb.net/mga/index.html The Moon Goose Analogue]] and others...
+*[https://www.adachitomomi.com/ Tomomi Adachi]
 *[https://niklasroy.com/ Niklas Roy] [[https://niklasroy.com/20windmills/ Windmills]]
 *[https://www.felipecastelblanco.com/ Felipe Castelblanco] [[https://vimeo.com/782667500/fb0ccecdb8 Video Reporte por Ñambi Rimai Colectivo de Medios: Quemas de Páramo en el Pueblo Quillacinga]], [[https://vimeo.com/715583135 La Jungla Amazónica]]