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''Lecturer:'' [[Lasse Scherffig]]<br />
''Lecturer:'' [[Lasse Scherffig]]<br />
''Credits:'' 18 [[ECTS]], 16 [[SWS]]<br />
''Credits:'' 18 [[ECTS]], 16 [[SWS]]<br />
''Date:'' Thrusday, 13:30 until 16:45 h<br />
''Date:'' Thursday, 13:30 until 16:45 h<br />
''Venue:'' [[Marienstraße 7b]], Room 204<br />
''Venue:'' [[Marienstraße 7b]], Room 204<br />
''First meeting:'' 11.04.2013
''First meeting:'' 11.04.2013
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# 17.5.2013 (Friday!) Guest lecture: Interactive 3D, [http://pixelsix.net Jonas Hansen], [http://labd.khm.de/ Lab-D], [http://www.khm.de Academy of Media Arts Cologne] (KHM) as part of Critical 3D and Cyber/space.<br />Material: [http://pixelsix.net/unity/?SoundWorld pixelsix.net/unity/?SoundWorld]
# 17.5.2013 (Friday!) Guest lecture: Interactive 3D, [http://pixelsix.net Jonas Hansen], [http://labd.khm.de/ Lab-D], [http://www.khm.de Academy of Media Arts Cologne] (KHM) as part of Critical 3D and Cyber/space.<br />Material: [http://pixelsix.net/unity/?SoundWorld pixelsix.net/unity/?SoundWorld]
# 23.5.2013 Behavior(ism): Feedback, Interaction and Games<br/>Material: [http://www.khm.de/~lscherff/cyberspace/09-Behaviorism.pdf 09-Behaviorism.pdf]
# 23.5.2013 Behavior(ism): Feedback, Interaction and Games<br/>Material: [http://www.khm.de/~lscherff/cyberspace/09-Behaviorism.pdf 09-Behaviorism.pdf]
# 30.5.2013 Space II: Space as Action -- The Principle of Reafference<br/>Presentations I
# 30.5.2013 Space II: Space as Action -- The Principle of Reafference<br/>Material: [http://www.khm.de/~lscherff/cyberspace/10-SpaceII.pdf 10-SpaceII.pdf]
# 6.6.2013 All day lab day<br/>Presentations II (15:00)
# 6.6.2013 Open lab (from 13:30)<br/>Presentations I (from 15:00)
# 13.6.2013 Networks, Sur- and Subfaces<br/>Presentations III
# 12.6.2013 Open lab: Motion tracking session at #201 (14:00)
# 20.6.2013 Presentations IV
# 13.6.2013 Presentations II, Planning the summaery
# 27.6.2013  
# 20.6.2013 Presentations III, Project updates
# 4.7.2013  
# 27.6.2013 Project session
# 11.7.2013 summaery 2013: Raumlabor/Space lab
# 4.7.2013 Preparations summaery 2013 (16:00!)
# 11.7.2013 11:00 Final presentation!<br />16:00 summaery 2013: Raumlabor/Space lab (11.7. - 14.7.)


==Projects==
==Projects==


* [[/Katta/]]
* [[/cyber cinema/]]
* [[/Christoph/]]
* [[/IPuppet/]]
* [[/Pixelmatrix/]]
* [[/UndoYourUndo/]]
* [[/Room In Room/]]
* [[/Walden Three/]]
* [[/Matthias/]]
* [[/Nooshin/]]
* [[/Zanda/]]
* [[/electrochemical closed circuit system/]]
* [[/Bamboo_Space/]]
* [[/Virtual Acoustic/Auralization/]]
* [[/laser  symphony/]]
* [[/The Dome/]]
* [[/Aa line/]]
* [[/thumb/]]
* [[/Supertask/]]


==Literature==
==Literature==
===Online Resources<sup>1</sup>===
===Online Resources<ref>All resources are publicly available on the internet and not hosted on the servers of Bauhaus-University Weimar.</ref>===
* Roy Ascott: [http://dev.stg.brown.edu/projects/netart/documents/Ascott.pdf Behaviourist Art and the Cybernetic Vision]
* Roy Ascott: [http://dev.stg.brown.edu/projects/netart/documents/Ascott.pdf Behaviourist Art and the Cybernetic Vision]
* Ross Ashby: [http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/books/IntroCyb.pdf An Introduction to Cybernetics]
* Ross Ashby: [http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/books/IntroCyb.pdf An Introduction to Cybernetics]
* Sarah-Jayne Blakemore et al.: [http://www-psych.stanford.edu/~knutson/ans/blakemore02.pdf Why can't you tickle yourself?]
* Florian Cramer: [http://cramer.pleintekst.nl/essays/alvin_lucier_sprechschleifen/alvin_lucier_sprechschleifen.pdf With perhaps the exception of rhythm: Sprechen, Stottern und Schleifen in Alvin Luciers "I am sitting in a room"]
* Florian Cramer: [http://cramer.pleintekst.nl/essays/alvin_lucier_sprechschleifen/alvin_lucier_sprechschleifen.pdf With perhaps the exception of rhythm: Sprechen, Stottern und Schleifen in Alvin Luciers "I am sitting in a room"]
* Florian Cramer: [http://gwei.org/pages/press/press/Florian_Cramer/fullversion.html Entering the Machine and Leaving It Again: Poetics of Software in Contemporary Art]
* Florian Cramer: [http://gwei.org/pages/press/press/Florian_Cramer/fullversion.html Entering the Machine and Leaving It Again: Poetics of Software in Contemporary Art]
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* Peter Galison: [http://jerome-segal.de/Galison94.pdf The Ontology of the Enemy: Norbert Wiener and the Cybernetic Vision]
* Peter Galison: [http://jerome-segal.de/Galison94.pdf The Ontology of the Enemy: Norbert Wiener and the Cybernetic Vision]
* William Gibson: [http://mith.umd.edu/digitalstorytelling/wp-content/uploads/GibsonW_Burning_Chrome.pdf Burning Chrome]
* William Gibson: [http://mith.umd.edu/digitalstorytelling/wp-content/uploads/GibsonW_Burning_Chrome.pdf Burning Chrome]
* Erich von Holst and Horst Mittelstaedt: [https://courses.cit.cornell.edu/bionb4240/Documents/Holst_Mittelsteadt_1950_English.pdf The Principle of Reafference: Interactions Between the Central Nervous System and the Peripheral Organs]
* Lettrist International: [http://www.notbored.org/la-carte.html Response to the question: "Does thought enlighten both us and our actions with the same indifference as the sun, or what is our hope, and what is its value?"]
* Lettrist International: [http://www.notbored.org/la-carte.html Response to the question: "Does thought enlighten both us and our actions with the same indifference as the sun, or what is our hope, and what is its value?"]
* Jerome Lettvin et al.: [http://konderak.eu/materialy/lettvinEtAl68.pdf What the frog's eye tells the frog's brain]
* Lev Manovich: [http://www.manovich.net/LNM/Manovich.pdf The Language of New Media]
* Lev Manovich: [http://www.manovich.net/LNM/Manovich.pdf The Language of New Media]
* Larry McCaffery: [http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/gibson_interview.html An Interview with William Gibson]
* Larry McCaffery: [http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/gibson_interview.html An Interview with William Gibson]
* Theodor Nelson: [http://ubuzip.com/text/cldm/COMPUTER%20LIB.pdf Computer Lib: You Can and Must Understand Computers Now]
* Theodor Nelson: [http://ubuzip.com/text/cldm/DREAM%20MACHINES.pdf Dream Machines: New Freedoms Through Computer Screens — A Minority Report]
* J. Kevin O’Regan and Alva Noë: [http://cogsci.uni-osnabrueck.de/~NBP/PDFs_Publications/ORegan.BBS.01pdf.pdf A sensorimotor account of vision and visual consciousness]
* Simone Osthoff: [http://www.leonardo.info/isast/spec.projects/osthoff/osthoff.html Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica: A Legacy of Interactivity and Participation for a Telematic Future]
* Simone Osthoff: [http://www.leonardo.info/isast/spec.projects/osthoff/osthoff.html Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica: A Legacy of Interactivity and Participation for a Telematic Future]
* Laura Popplow and Lasse Scherffig: [http://www.khm.de/~lscherff/cyberspace/L_Popplow_L_Scherffig_GzA.pdf Locative Arts – neue Erzählung des Raums?] (restricted access)
* Laura Popplow and Lasse Scherffig: [http://www.khm.de/~lscherff/cyberspace/L_Popplow_L_Scherffig_GzA.pdf Locative Arts – neue Erzählung des Raums?] (restricted access)
* Claus Pias: [http://e-pub.uni-weimar.de/opus4/files/35/Pias.pdf Computer Spiel Welten]
* Claus Pias: [http://e-pub.uni-weimar.de/opus4/files/35/Pias.pdf Computer Spiel Welten]
* Claus Pias: [http://www.uni-due.de/~bj0063/texte/chile.pdf Der Auftrag. Kybernetik und Revolution in Chile]
* Claus Pias: [http://www.uni-due.de/~bj0063/texte/chile.pdf Der Auftrag. Kybernetik und Revolution in Chile]
* Henri Poincaré: [http://archive.org/details/scienceandhypoth00poinuoft Science and hypothesis]
* Howard Rheingold: [http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/5.html Ex-Prodigies and Anti-Aircraft Guns (chapter 5 of Tools for Thought)]
* Howard Rheingold: [http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/5.html Ex-Prodigies and Anti-Aircraft Guns (chapter 5 of Tools for Thought)]
* Arturo Rosenblueth, Norbert Wiener and Julian Bigelow: [http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Books/Wiener-teleology.pdf Behavior, Purpose and Teleology]
* Arturo Rosenblueth, Norbert Wiener and Julian Bigelow: [http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Books/Wiener-teleology.pdf Behavior, Purpose and Teleology]
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* Dag Svanæs: [http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~dags/interactivity.pdf Understanding Interactivity. Steps to a Phenomenology of Human-Computer Interaction]
* Dag Svanæs: [http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~dags/interactivity.pdf Understanding Interactivity. Steps to a Phenomenology of Human-Computer Interaction]


<sup>1</sup>All resources are publicly available on the internet and not hosted on the servers of Bauhaus-University Weimar.
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===Exhibitions===
===Exhibitions===
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* Andrew Pickering: The cybernetic brain: sketches of another future ISBN 978-0-226-66789-8
* Andrew Pickering: The cybernetic brain: sketches of another future ISBN 978-0-226-66789-8
* Situationistische Internationale: Der Beginn einer Epoche: Texte der Situationisten ISBN 3-89401-243-9
* Situationistische Internationale: Der Beginn einer Epoche: Texte der Situationisten ISBN 3-89401-243-9
* Jakob von Uexküll, Georg Kriszat: Streifzüge durch die Umwelten von Tieren und Menschen: ein Bilderbuch unsichtbarer Welten ISBN 3-596-27331-5
* Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort (Eds.): The new media reader ISBN 978-0-262-23227-2 (includes, among other things, texts by Nam Jun Paik, Experiments in Art and Technology, ...)
* Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort (Eds.): The new media reader ISBN 978-0-262-23227-2 (includes, among other things, texts by Nam Jun Paik, Experiments in Art and Technology, ...)
* Norbert Wiener: Cybernetics: or control and communication in the animal and the machine ISBN 978-0262730099
* Norbert Wiener: Cybernetics: or control and communication in the animal and the machine ISBN 978-0262730099

Latest revision as of 13:05, 5 February 2014

Cyber/space. Localizations in art and science

Projektmodul
Lecturer: Lasse Scherffig
Credits: 18 ECTS, 16 SWS
Date: Thursday, 13:30 until 16:45 h
Venue: Marienstraße 7b, Room 204
First meeting: 11.04.2013

Description

More than 30 years after its debut in a science fiction story, "cyberspace" seems to have vanished. What started in 1982 as a name for the "closed loop" between computer game and player, system and user, and what bloomed during the 1990s as a name of a new, placeless and virtual reality, today is at most left as a prefix for "sex" and "war".

Time for a fresh look onto "cyber" and "space". We examine "cyber" as the revolution in the technosciences of the 1940s that was named Cybernetics – and its relation to algorithms and interaction. We look at computer art, which from its beginning was deeply related to Cybernetics, and which later accompanied the cyber-hype with „interactive art“ installations. We view the internet, which proves every day that virtual space is not necessarily spatial at all. And we examine "space" from perspectives of art and science (from Closed Circuit to Cognitive Science), that do not stop at the idea of three-dimensionality but understand space as the result of action – a view that in turn directly relates to the ideas of Cybernetics.

The project aims at developing practical projects that constitute contemporary positions in art and design dealing with these topics.

German description

Mehr als 30 Jahre nach seinem ersten Auftauchen in einer Science-Fiction-Geschichte scheint der „Cyberspace“ verschwunden. Was 1982 als Name für den „closed loop“ aus Computerspieler und Computerspiel, System und Nutzer begann und während der 1990er Jahre als Name der neuen ortlosen und virtuellen Realität Karriere machte, ist heute allenfalls als Vorsilbe für „sex“ und „war“ erhalten geblieben.

Grund genug antizyklisch zu handeln und „Cyber“ und „Space“ erneut anzuschauen. Wir untersuchen das „Cyber“ als die Umwälzung in Technologie und Wissenschaft der 1940er Jahre, die als Kybernetik bezeichnet wurde – und ihren Zusammenhang mit den Algorithmen und der Interaktion der Informatik. Wir betrachten die Computerkunst, die von Anfang an eng mit der Kybernetik verknüpft war und die später den Hype um den Cyberspace als „interaktive Medienkunst“ mit aufwändigen Installationen begleitete. Wir werfen einen Blick in das Netz, das heute ganz konkret zeigt, dass virtueller Raum kein Raum zu sein braucht. Und wir betrachten den „Space“ über künstlerische und wissenschaftliche Konzepte von Räumlichkeit (von Closed Circuit bis Kognitionswissenschaft), die sich nicht mit dessen Dreidimensionalität zufrieden geben, sondern Räume als Resultat von Handlungen begreifen und gerade damit wieder an die Kybernetik anschließen. Denn weder ist Virtualität das, was als zweidimensionales Resultat eines Rendervorgangs auf einem Bildschirm zu sehen ist, noch ist Realität unabhängig von dem zu suchen, was wir tun.

Das Projekt zielt auf die Entwicklung praktischer Projekte ab, die zeitgenössische künstlerisch-gestalterische Positionen zu diesem Themenkomplex formulieren.

Werkmodul: Critical 3D - Verräumlichen

In addition to the project, the Werkmodul Critical 3D: Verräumlichen is offered by Thomas Hawranke. Participation in both project and Werkmodul is not obligatory but advisable.

Evaluation

Active participation, presentation (oral/written), artistic project.

Eligible participants

Graduates and undergraduates enrolled in the Faculties of Media, Gestaltung and in the MediaArchitecture program.

Time table (preliminary) and course material

  1. 11.04.2013 Introduction: Cybernetics, art & science
    Material: 01-Overview.pdf, 01-Cybernetics.pdf, 01-Cyberarts.pdf (restricted access)
  2. 18.4.2013 Introduce yourself!
  3. 23.4.2013 19:00 Cybernetic movie night: Das Netz + Discussion (replacement for 2.5.2013)
  4. 25.4.2013 Space I: Rigid and liquid spaces.
    Material: 03-Space.pdf
    Guest lecture: On the presence of absence, Johanna Steindorf
  5. 2.5.2013 No class!
  6. 9.5.2013 No class! (Holiday/Feiertag)
  7. 16.5.2013 Project session #1/Werkmodul Critical 3D
  8. 17.5.2013 (Friday!) Guest lecture: Interactive 3D, Jonas Hansen, Lab-D, Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) as part of Critical 3D and Cyber/space.
    Material: pixelsix.net/unity/?SoundWorld
  9. 23.5.2013 Behavior(ism): Feedback, Interaction and Games
    Material: 09-Behaviorism.pdf
  10. 30.5.2013 Space II: Space as Action -- The Principle of Reafference
    Material: 10-SpaceII.pdf
  11. 6.6.2013 Open lab (from 13:30)
    Presentations I (from 15:00)
  12. 12.6.2013 Open lab: Motion tracking session at #201 (14:00)
  13. 13.6.2013 Presentations II, Planning the summaery
  14. 20.6.2013 Presentations III, Project updates
  15. 27.6.2013 Project session
  16. 4.7.2013 Preparations summaery 2013 (16:00!)
  17. 11.7.2013 11:00 Final presentation!
    16:00 summaery 2013: Raumlabor/Space lab (11.7. - 14.7.)

Projects

Literature

Online Resources[1]

  1. All resources are publicly available on the internet and not hosted on the servers of Bauhaus-University Weimar.

Exhibitions

Books

  • Regine Buschauer and Katharine S. Willis (Eds.): Locative media: multidisciplinary perspectives on media and locality ISBN 978-3-8376-1947-8
  • Regine Buschauer: Mobile Räume: medien- und diskursgeschichtliche Studien zur Tele-Kommunikation ISBN 978-3-8376-1246-2
  • Heinz von Foerster: Wissen und Gewissen: Versuch einer Brücke ISBN 3-518-28476-2
  • Heinz von Foerster: Understanding Understanding. Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition ISBN 0-387-95392-2
  • Heinz von Foerster: KybernEthik ISBN 3-88396-111-6
  • Jörg Dünne and Stephan Günzel (Eds.): Raumtheorie: Grundlagentexte aus Philosophie und Kulturwissenschaften ISBN 978-3-518-29400-0
  • Katherine Hayles: How we became posthuman: virtual bodies in cybernetics, literature, and informatics ISBN 0-226-32145-2
  • David A. Mindell: Between human and machine: feedback, control, and computing before cybernetics ISBN 0-8018-6895-5
  • Claus Pias (Ed.): Cybernetics I, Transactions/Protokolle ISBN 3-935300-35-2
  • Claus Pias (Ed.): Cybernetics II, Essays and documents/Essays und Dokumente ISBN 3-935300-36-0
  • Andrew Pickering: The cybernetic brain: sketches of another future ISBN 978-0-226-66789-8
  • Situationistische Internationale: Der Beginn einer Epoche: Texte der Situationisten ISBN 3-89401-243-9
  • Jakob von Uexküll, Georg Kriszat: Streifzüge durch die Umwelten von Tieren und Menschen: ein Bilderbuch unsichtbarer Welten ISBN 3-596-27331-5
  • Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort (Eds.): The new media reader ISBN 978-0-262-23227-2 (includes, among other things, texts by Nam Jun Paik, Experiments in Art and Technology, ...)
  • Norbert Wiener: Cybernetics: or control and communication in the animal and the machine ISBN 978-0262730099
  • Norbert Wiener: The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society ISBN

0-306-80320-8

  • Mark Wigley: Constant's New Babylon: the hyper-architecture of desire ISBN

90-6450-343-5

Films

Links