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If you would like to join this class, please write me a short e-mail with your name, study background and briefly describe your interest in the class (max 250 words).
If you would like to join this class, please write me a short e-mail with your name, study background and briefly describe your interest in the class (max 250 words).


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This class is loosely connected to the KICAD workshops *How the Electron goes from A to B*. It's not mandatory that you join both class + workshops. If you have little or no electronics knowledge (or you are interested in a more pragmatic workshop to design PCBs), then I'd recommend you to join this workshop series. But you are welcome to join both.
This class is loosely connected to the KICAD workshops *How the Electron goes from A to B*. It's not mandatory that you join both class + workshops. If you have little or no electronics knowledge (or you are interested in a more pragmatic workshop to design PCBs), then I'd recommend you to join this workshop series. But you are welcome to join both.
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Latest revision as of 19:54, 11 March 2025

Fachmodul

The Printed Circuit Board as an Artist Publication

Instructor: Lotta Stöver

Credits: 6 ECTS, 4 SWS

Capacity: 15 students

Language: English (German possible too)

Date: Mondays 11:00 -- 15:00, weekly

Location: TBA

First Meeting: MONDAY 2025-04-14 - 10:00

BISON Nr.: TBA

URL: TBA


Description

Printed circuit boards (PCBs) are the core functional electronic architecture of our everyday technologically-mediated reality. In this class we will dig deep into what materialities, design conventions, energetic regimes, (un)written rules and assumptions are embedded in PCBs - in order to understand, break, diverge or expand on them:

  • What alternative materials can we think of to implement electronic schematics?
  • What hidden humor can we inject in electronic schematics?
  • What aesthetics may emerge from electronic boards if their most important design criteria are not efficiency or functionality?
  • Which alternative approaches to making PCBs can we imagine other than designing/engineering? (craft, alchemy, witchcraft, hacking, …)

The production-oriented aspect of this class will be coupled to a strand of research on artist publications: Zines, net art, photo books, editions, etc. are established artist publication formats that have a similar mass- or selfproduced character. Also, we will take a look at some media artists’ practices who have made PCBs a central artistic medium.

This class introduces some manufacturing processes of how to DIY/DIWO produce circuit boards (for example etching + milling), but mostly invites you to expand on the repertoire of design methods to develop unconventional ways of producing analog, digital, expressive or non-sensical physical electric/electronic objects that might possibly double as artist publications.

If you would like to join this class, please write me a short e-mail with your name, study background and briefly describe your interest in the class (max 250 words).

P.S. { This class is loosely connected to the KICAD workshops *How the Electron goes from A to B*. It's not mandatory that you join both class + workshops. If you have little or no electronics knowledge (or you are interested in a more pragmatic workshop to design PCBs), then I'd recommend you to join this workshop series. But you are welcome to join both. }



Certificate of achievement

  • Presence, regular and active attendance and participation
  • Participation in the mid and end presentation
  • Submission of the documentation (until end of semester)