Collaborative project, since 2020
RoboLAB is a sculpture, workshop and gallery for inclusive and accessible art in Cologne’s famous underground culture location Odonien. In a series of student-led research projects, KISD students here work with artists from the disability community, prototyping interfaces that incorporate the diversity of human perception and action.
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I’ll be part of Conversations with Computers, a 2-day symposium organized by the net-culture initiative servus.at in cooperation with the University of Art and Design Linz. The symposium addresses contemporary artistic research in the field of AI, focusing on new languages that emerge between humans and machines, but also how work and communication are facilitated through technological means.
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In an intervention at the international conference Politics of the Machines: Rogue Research, students of KISD and HS Augsburg present work that critically deals with machine learning and artificial intelligence. The presentation titled “Training to Deal with Otherness” is the result of the work in three study programs dealing with design and/of technology: the Integrated Design BA and MA program of KISD, the Code & Context program of TH Köln, and the Hybrid Things Lab of Hochschule Augsburg.
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My work Where have you been? is part of the exhibition Tracked & Traced at Science Gallery Detroit.
Continue readingRoboLAB is a sculpture, workshop and gallery for inclusive and accessible art in Cologne’s famous underground culture location Odonien. Here, a group of KISD students worked with artists from the disability community, prototyping interfaces that incorporate the diversity of human perception and action.
Continue readingAs part of the symposium Designano – The Aesthetics of Imperceptibility at IMéRA (L’institut d’études avancées d’Aix-Marseille), I will speak about Perceiving Imperceptibility / Designing Reafference. The talk will be part of a conversation of design and nano-materials and the paradoxical nature of nano-objects and their performativity across scales, organized by Tincuta Heinzel.
Continue readingSoftware bot, 2021
Hill Climbing is a bot walking through Google StreetView that always goes up, following the direction of the steepest incline. As a software bot, the work performs autonomously, creating an open-ended visual meditation on human and machine agency, artificial intelligence and optimization, and the landscapes and operational images of the measured globe.
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As part of the 20th Festival Internacional de la Imagen, I will give an online presentation on Machine-Centered Design: Engaging in Non-human Ecologies.
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Hill Climbing will be shown at the 20th Festival Internacional de la Imagen in Manizales, Colombia, in an online exhibition and via a twitch.tv stream.
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At Simultan Festival 2020: Unseen in Timișoara, Romania, we are putting up a group show with results of the project Utopian Cities, Programmed Societies. My works Where have you been? and Autoflaneur are part of the show.
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