GMU:Thinking Beyond Tanks

Werkmodul Fachmodul

Lecturer: Julian Chollet

Credits: 6 ECTS, 4 SWS

Dates: 13.04. – 13.07. every Tuesday (15:15 - 16:45)
Venue: Usually online (optional meetings in the park)

FIRST MEETING Tuesday 13.04. 15:15 - 16:45

Students

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Abstract

Our contemporary political landscape as well as public debate is increasingly dominated by extreme positions. Opinions and assumptions are echoed through (social) media, loose their connection to reality and transform into collective imaginations of more or less homogeneous peer groups. All those groups have their own values, a canon of guiding principles, their specific ingroup language and a common externalized enemy.

Over the course of the semester, every participant will develop a fictional future scenario based on current real-world ideologies. We will then discuss the implications of those utopian or dystopian visions for our current situation and use these insights for the development of critical artworks. The concept of this course is experimental and will be further developed together with the participants.

Finished projects from last semester

Rojin
https://cloud.uni-weimar.de/s/xzDeqL9o3cA24i2#pdfviewer

Yasemin
https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/File:YaseminYagci_thinkingInTheTanks.pdf

Wiki-pages from previous Participants

WARNING!!! Literature and media recommendations may be highly controversial and from dubious sources (content can be added by all members of Bauhaus-University)

Books

Hartmut Rosa: "Unverfügbarkeit" (ISBN: 978-3701734467)
Sarah T. Roberts: "Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media" (ISBN: 978-0300235883)
Siva Vaidhyanathan: "Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy" (ISBN: 978-0190841164)
Jaron Lanier: "Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now"

Articles

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Videos

Mehr Sinn statt Gier | ARTE Re: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCmsvPR6PuE