GMU:Start

„...[es] sind die Bemühungen dessen, der, überflogen von Sternen, die Menschenwerk sind, .. , zeltlos in diesem bisher ungeahnten Sinne und damit auf das unheimlichste im Freien, mit seinem Dasein zur Sprache geht, wirklichkeitswund und Wirklichkeit suchend“ Paul Celan

News

Digital Bauhaus Lab expected to be inaugurated in 2014
Interactive Performance Platform with a markerless tracking system, high-speed video, sound, light and projections funded by the DFG
DAAD funded partnership with the University of California in San Diego starting now until 2016
We welcome Theresa Schubert as a reseacher for the PhyChip Project to our team

Featured Projects

Markt und Maus (Market and Mouse) Stefan Pach

How can we make mice live by the rules of investment banking?

To improve the understanding of the dynamics of finance markets the "Market and Mouse"-System tries to simulate a part of the fiscal universe. The main analysis focuses on the aspect of investment banking. This is the field with the biggest possible profit.
"Market and Mouse" investigates how mice decide if they have to choose between high risk but high value options and less lucrative possibilities.

Super Cell is a fictional supermarket website offering speculative products related to Synthetic Biology and our project for iGEM 2010. Super Cell

„You shall not make for yourself an idol...“

...just google it.

plug & pray is an interactive artwork that allows believers to pray through their computer. plug & pray makes the search for God easier, with the help of the internet. plug & pray works as if you were praying. Believers use the pray device that activates a google image search for the word „God“ on the act of praying. plug & pray believers see the results of their prayers as spiritualized video, projected before their very eyes. Jörg Brinkmann: plug and pray

Check out our archives with student works and thesis works of BFA and MFA graduates.

Research and teaching faculty

Chair: Prof. Ursula Damm Marienstraße 5, Raum 304 99423 Weimar Telefon:. +49 3643 / 58-3607 E-Mail: ursula.damm [at] uni-weimar.de ursuladamm.de	Theresa Schubert Marienstraße 5, Raum 305 99423 Weimar Telefon: +49 3643 / 58-3873 E-Mail: theresa.schubert-minski [at] uni-weimar.de theresaschubert.org
Martin Schneider Marienstraße 5, Raum 208 99423 Weimar Telefon: +49 3643 / 58-3872 E-Mail: martin.schneider [at] uni-weimar.de bitcraftlab.com	Darsha Hewitt Marienstraße 5, Raum 208/201 99423 Weimar Telefon: +49 3643 / 58-3872 E-Mail: darsha.hewitt [at] uni-weimar.de darsha.org

other staff

Lehrveranstaltungen / Courses

Projektmodule

Society of Networked Things – Visiting Prof. Mark Shepard

Werk/Fachmodule

Art out of Living Matter – Prof. Ursula Damm
collect/distort/direct/reflect – Moritz Wehrmann
MediaArt and Biotechnology – Prof. Ursula Damm (San Diego), Verena Friedrich, Lorenz Adlung
Principia Textilica – Martin Schneider
We Make Machines Not Art I – Darsha Hewitt
We Make Machines Not Art II – Darsha Hewitt