Jakob Kilian, Alexander Neugebauer, Lasse Scherffig, Siegfried Wahl: The Unfolding Space Glove: A Wearable Spatio-Visual to Haptic Sensory Substitution Device for Blind People, in: Sensors, 22(5): 1859, 2022 › PDF/Web (open access)
RoboLAB Odonien: Prototyping Accessibility and Inclusion
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.
Continue readingComputers all the Way Down at Conversations with Computers, Linz
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.
Continue readingPolitics of the Machines: Rogue Research
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.
Continue readingTracked & Traced, Science Gallery Detroit
My work Where have you been? is part of the exhibition Tracked & Traced at Science Gallery Detroit.
Continue readingPrototyping Accessibility and Inclusion at RoboLAB Odonien
RoboLAB 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 readingDesigning Reafference at Designano – The Aesthetics of Imperceptibility
As 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 readingHill Climbing
Software 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.
Continue readingMachine-Centered Design: Engaging in Non-human Ecologies
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.
Continue readingHill Climbing at Festival Internacional de la Imagen
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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