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Fachmodul/Werkmodul
Lecturer: Kati Hyyppä
Credits: 6 ECTS, 4 SWS
Date: Blockmodul (see timetable below)
Venue: Marienstraße 7b, Room 201
First meeting: Wednesday, 13 April 17:00 - 20:30
Course Hashtag: #wemakemachinesnotart
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imagining and inventing new mechanisms for interpreting the environment
Sensor HackLab proposes an art-making methodology where concept and aesthetics emerge through hands-on investigation of electricity and the materiality of technology. Here, we will focus on building devices and prototypes that consider alternative ways of sensing and responding to the environment. We aim to go beyond the capabilities of consumer electronics made to measure the world by imagining technology that connects us to the environment (and the environment to us) in adventurous ways.
This course takes a bottom-up approach to the electronic medium through techniques such as deconstruction; experimental circuit design; pattern recognition and reverse-engineering. By employing processes that make the hidden inner world of machines accessible, it also seeks to critique the economic systems embedded throughout electronic media and its impact on humans and nature.
This course is best suited for students that have already taken an introduction to electronics course with the instructor.
We will explore different kinds of sensors mainly using Arduino microcontroller boards. No prior experience of Arduino is required.
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Sensor HackLab schlägt den Pfad einer Kunstmethodik ein, aus der Konzept und Ästhetik aus einer haptischen Untersuchung voN Elektronik und der Materialität von Technik erwächst. Wir konzentrieren uns hier darauf Geräte und Prototypen zu bauen die alternative Möglichkeiten bereitstellen die Umwelt zu erfahren und darauf zu reagieren. Wir zielen darauf ab uns auf ein Abenteuer einzulassen die Grenzen und Möglichkeiten von Geräten, die gemacht sind die Welt zu quantifizieren, hinter uns zu lassen in dem wir Technologien entwickeln die uns mit der Umwelt (und die Umwelt mit uns) verbinden.
Dieser Kurs basiert auf einem bottom-up Ansatz sich dem elektronischen Medium durch Dekonstruktivismus, experimentellem Schaltungsdesign, Erkennen von Mustern und Reverseengineering zu nähern. Der Kurs strebt auch nach einer Kritik in wirtschaftlichen Systemen integrierter elektronischer Medien und deren Einfluss auf Menschheit und Natur mittels Prozessen, die die verborgenen inneren Welten von Maschinen offenbaren.
Wir experimentieren mit unterschiedlichen Sensoren. Hauptsächlich verwenden wir dabei das Arduino Mikrokontroller Board.
Vorerfahrungen mit dem Arduino sind für diesen Kurs nicht notwendig.
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1 - This is a studio course where students are given time and space in class to develop their work. Presence is taken very seriously. Late arrivals and absence are not tolerated.
2 – Students taking the GMU Project Module (GMU) have priority for this course, because this course is a requirement for those modules.
3 – Register via email before 14.03.2016
To: darsha.hewitt@uni-weimar.de
Subject: Sensor HackLab /// Application
Content:
- Name, Surname
- program and semester (Studienprogramm und Fachsemester)
- matriculation number (Matrikelnummer)
- Valid email address @uni-weimar.de
- Your project module
- Students must also acknowledge that they have read the course description online and that they can commit to the class schedule (http://www.uni-weimar.de/medien/wiki/GMU:Sensor_Hacklab).
4 – There is at 20€ material fee for this course
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- 1. Assignments 60%
- 2. Attendance 20%
- 3. Documentation 20%
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Once you are registered for the course you must sign up for the GMU mailing list: http://www.uni-weimar.de/medien/wiki/GMU:Mailinglist
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BA + MA:
- Medienkunst und Gestaltung
- Medienarchitektur
- Visuelle Kommunication
- Productdesign
- Medienwissenschaften
Note: Applications from students that have signed up for the project module at GMU, will be favoured, because this course is a requirement for those modules.
GMU is interested in projects that bridge notions of Sensing and Performance. Priority for this course will be given to students enrolled in the GMU project module or one of the GMU Werk- and Fach-modules dedicated to bridging notions of sensing and performance together.
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The course will be taught in English