GMU:Media Art Strategies

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Art in crisis? It may seem that right now everything else is more important than art. However, many people experience the cancellation of cultural events as a great loss, especially now when world views are changing.

Moreover, because of Corona, the digital media are becoming much more important and accepted as a given.

This module will explore the question of how everyday life should look in the future, what aims we want to pursue and what values we want to see as the basis for action and what we want to consider to be art in the future. In the module I offer you a collection of material about historical and current developments in media arts and design. We will discuss recent and future strategies to work with audiovisual and strategic media. You will have the opportunity to carry out your individual artistic or design related project. I offer professionale advice, moderation and support. These self-motivated and self-organized projects have to be realized until the end of the module in March. The plenum initiates open dialogue about these projects. It is planned to hold face-to-face meetings every two weeks at Coudraystrasse.

In the remaining weeks, our meetings take place virtually as online conferences.

First meeting: November 3rd, 9.15-12.30 at Coudraystrasse 11 C ground floor

Additional meetings for Bachelors and others: Wednesday, 9.15 same place

Course PDFs

Lectures on Media Art Semester_2

for beginners (you are allowed to do the first semester instead):

Lectures on Media Art Semester 1

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Contact and Info: ursula.damm at uni-weimar.de

Material

• A book on diagrammatic drawing: Drawing a Hypothesis, preview of the book ISBN 978-3-11-054661-3
• The Social Amoeba: The biology of Cellular Slime Molds ISBN 978-0691139395
• Rhytmen Experimente (Euglena)
• Dieter Mersch: (Un)Creative Artificial Intelligence - A Critique of 'Artificial Art'
• Comment on Dieter Merschs Article by Trogemann et al.
• Yvonne Volkart Kunst und Ökologie
• Axel Roch: Spielzeug, Leben und die geheime Geschichte seiner Theorie der Information ISBN 978-3981315608
• Designing Freedom by Stafford Beer
• Does a robot have an Umwelt?
• Cultural Probes explained
• Cultural Probes by William Gaver
• See yourself sensing ISBN 978-1907317293
• Devices that alter perception ISBN 978-1463664244
• Devices that Alter Perception
• Paula Antonelli: Talk to me ISBN 978-0870707964
• Real Feelings ISBN 978-3856169312
• Frédéric Neyrat: Our shared Absence

Artists

• John Badessari
• Image Fulguator by Julius von Bismarck
• Monitor Man by Yassine Khaled
• Three Transitions by Peter Campus
• Uebermorgen
• Mary Maggic
• Ian Cheng
• Krzysztof Wodiczko
• SMDK by Knowbotic Research video -> Min.10 video

Syllabus

• 10.11.2020 (presence) Presentation of prior works, presentation of semesterproject ideas
• 17.11.2020 (presence)
• 24.11.2020 (virtual)
• 01.12.2020 (presence)
• 08.12.2020 (virtual)
• 15.12.2020 (virtual)
• 05.01.2021 (virtual) Midterm presentation
• 12.01.2021 (virtual)
• 19.01.2021
• 26.01.2021
• 02.01.2021
• 09.02.2021 Tan Otik, Sandra Rücker Christian Manzano

Student projects

• Sandra Rücker
• Benazir Basauri Torres
• Sevgin Basari
• Angie Sabrina Eckart
• Carolina Garcia
• Clemens Hornemann
• Eirini Kokkinidou
• Leon-Etienne Kühr
• Christian Manzano
• Lennart Oberlies
• Helin Özdemir
• Beatrice Perlato
• Markus Siegel
• Ksenia Tajsic
• F.Z.Ayguler
• Quan Zhou
• Zhixuan Zhou
• Tan Otik