GMU:Habitats

Experiments with protists and their 'Umwelt'

Lecturer: Ursula Damm
Credits: 18 ECTS, 16 SWS
Date: Di, 13.30 bis 16.30
Venue: Marienstrasse 5, room 204,
First meeting: 18.10.2016

Application

 Each participant has to apply: please send a motivation letter before October 7th, 2016 to ursula.damm [ät] uni-weimar.de

To: ursula.damm [ät] uni-weimar.de
Subject:Habitats (MFA) /// Application
Content:

• Your motivation to join the course
• Previous artworks (links, pdf)
• Name, surname
• Program and semester (Studienprogramm und Fachsemester)
• Valid email address @uni-weimar.de (if possible)

Description

How can we broaden our experience of communication between humans, animals and things through the use of experimental objects, arrangements and interfaces?

We will offer the opportunity to continue projects from the last semester.

Beschreibung

The project invites students to work in our DIY Biolab. It is highly recommended to choose one of our 'Fachmodules' dealing with Bioart and electronics.

The students are also invited to participate at the Seminar of Rebekka Ladewig Medien des Vitalen which will be in english.

Links

• Accompanying theory modul by Rebekka Ladewig

Literature/Materials

• Karen Barad: Posthumanist Performativity
• Karen Barad: Agentieller Realismus ISBN 978-3518260456
• Rosi Braidotti, The Posthuman ISBN 978-0745641584
• Rodney Brooks: Intelligence without Representation
• Bruns & Richard: Aesthetic Cybernetics – Turning towards Senses of Man and Machine
• Valentino Braitenberg: Vehicles – Experiments in Synthetic Psychology
• Jakob von Uexkull: A Stroll Through the Worlds of Animals and Men
• Margulis, Asikainen, Krumbein: Chimeras and Consciousness - Evolution of the Sensory Self ISBN 978-0262515832
• Hugh Raffles: Insectopedia ISBN 978-1400096961 recommended chapters: Generosity (the Happy Times), Heads and How to Use Them, The Sound of Global Warming