Fachmodul
Garbage In, Garbage Out: Networked Sensors and Actors in Human Environments
Instructor: Jason Reizner
Credits: 6 ECTS, 4 SWS
Capacity: max. 15 students
Language: English
Date: Friday, 13:30 to 16:45
Location: Marienstr. 7b, Room TBA
First Meeting: TBA
Description
Looking past the grandiose and unrelenting hype of the impending 'internet of everything,' the primary question presently facing designers is not simply how to network objects and acquire data from them, but how to decipher, parse and interpret this data, and then use it to inform and affect human interactions in the world around us. This module provides an experimental setting to explore the deployment and use of optoelectric, electrochemical, mechanical, thermal and magnetic sensors, as well as the interface, networking and processing systems necessary to support them. Participants will gain insight into current methodologies for signal processing and data analysis, with a special focus on the codification, visualization and physicalization of information through actors in the built and natural environments.
Admission requirements
This is an introductory course with no technical pre-requisites. Concurrent enrollment in another IFD course offering is strongly encouraged.
Registration procedure
Please send an email with your name, degree program, technical background and a brief motivation for taking this module to: jason.reizner [ät] uni-weimar.de
Evaluation
Successful completion of the course is dependent on regular attendance, active participation, completion of weekly assignments and delivery of a relevant semester project.
Eligible participants
Fachmodul:
MFA Medienkunst/-gestaltung, MFA Media Art and Design, MSc MediaArchitecture
Syllabus
TBA
Further Reading
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