Projektmodul / Project Module
Unplugged - exploring the artistic potentials with Energy Harvesting
Instructor: Prof. Martin Hesselmeier
Credits: 18 ECTS, 16 SWS
Capacity: max. 16 students
Language: english, deutsch
Date: Plenum: Tuesdays, 09:15-12:30; Consultations by appointment
Location: Online/Marienstraße 7b,104
First Meeting: 18 April 2023, 09:15
(More information regarding the first meeting will be sent to accepted participants by email.)
BISON Course ID: 323120025
Description
The project module deals with the topic of energy. This is necessary when something is set in motion, accelerated, lifted, heated or illuminated. It is explicitly about its extraction, storage and the experimental creative and artistic handling of it. Literally, if we consider natural resources, we are surrounded by energy.
Every mass around us, regardless of its form, has energy and everything that has energy vibrates. Energy harvesting is the collection and storage of small amounts of electrical energy from sources such as light, movement, heat and vibration. A topic that could not be more relevant. The focus is on discussing, questioning and discovering this technical development from a design and artistic point of view, rather than on its efficient use and conversion into electrical energy. We want to work on and realise this in an exemplary and prototypical way. The term in the seminar title - Unplugged: exploring the artistic potentials with Energy Harvesting - can be understood to mean all things, objects, items, modules, artefacts and installation works and their interfaces that deal with the topic of Energy Harvesting.
In this project module, there will be space for creative and artistic concepts and their implementation that deal with the omnipresent existence of potential energy in our everyday lives. Various energy potentials will be investigated and experimentally transformed into new forms of expression. In this way, projects can emerge that pursue very different approaches and take their own positions.
Following teaching formats are offered:
Lecture A lecture series is offered to accompany the Bachelor's and Master's projects of the professorship. This deals with different design and artistic positions and gives an insight into tools and methods for the conception and design of objects, artefacts and installative works and their interfaces, which deal with the topic of energy harvesting. In addition, we will receive visits from interesting designers and artists who will give an insight into their work and working processes. The language of the course will be English.
Workshop Ralf Schreiber will offer a two-day workshop to accompany the project module. Information will follow.
Consultation By appointment, the individual projects as well as one's own professional development can be discussed. At least 2 consultations should be attended.
Excursion To sharpen the view and to get further impulses for the development of the project, we will undertake an excursion over several days in June 2023. All students from the project module are invited to participate.
Admission requirements
Enrollment in MKG/MAD MFA or MediaArchitecture MSc programs, or with instructor permission.
Please attend of the accompanying modules in Interface Design
Physical Computing II: Energy Harvesting by Brian Larson Clark
Paper, Ink and Electronics by Clemens Wegener
Application and registration procedure
Registration via the BISON Portal
Please send a one-page letter of motivation outlining your interest in the course, as well as your level of knowledge and background to : martin.hesselmeier@uni-weimar.de
Eligible participants
MFA Medienkunst/-gestaltung, MFA Media Art and Design, MSc MediaArchitecture candidates
Syllabus (subject to change)
Literature
Energy and Civilization: A History
Vaclav Smil
2018
Link
Solar Futures : how to design a post-fossil world with the sun
van Aubel, Marjan
2022
Link
Advanced Energy Harvesting Technologies
Zhu, Dibin
2022
Link
Energy harvesting technologies
Priya, Shashank, Inman, Daniel J.
[2009], © 2009
Link
Vom Experiment zur Idee : die Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts im Zeichen von Wissenschaft und Technologie ; Analysen, Dokumente, Zukunftsperspektiven
Davis, Douglas
1975
Link
The design of everyday things
Norman, Donald A.
1990
Link
Uncanny Interfaces Hg. Konstantin Daniel Haensch, Lara Nelke, Matthias Planitzer, 2019
Parasitäre Strategien Kunstforum, 185 Link
Joseph Weizenbaum
Die Macht der Computer und die Ohnmacht der Vernunft
1978
Link
Marshall McLuhan - The Medium is The Massage 1967 Link
Jeff Johnson: Designing with the Mind in Mind 2014
Gerhard M. Buurman: Total Interaction – Theory and Practice of a New Paradigm for the Design Disciplines 2005
Platforms and Tools
This Wiki
BigBlueButton
Raindrop
Mattermost
Figma