Politics 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.

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Designing 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.

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Machine-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.

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Schrödinger’s Black Box

A public lecture at Köln International School of Design about the black boxes of interactive computing titled Schrödinger’s Black Box.

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Speaking Interactivity at HfK Bremen

On December 9, I will talk about “Interactivity” at the MS/MfA program I attended back in the days: the Digital Media program at the University of Bremen and University of the Arts Bremen.

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Bauhaus 100: We are not alone

I am speaking at a panel on media art and design education at Ars Electronica titled We are not alone.

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Maschinenraum Augsburg

I will speak at the Maschinenraum symposium at the Augsburg Textile and Industry Museum. The symposium focuses the relationship of humans, technology, and society and is organized by the Hybrid Things Lab of Hochschule Augsburg.

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Some kind of actual space

A presentation at the Institute of Media and Design of Technical University Braunschweig about taking the term Cyberspace literally by looking at how cybernetic feedback enables (the perception of) virtual space. Part of the lecture series “Where are we now?”

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Unauthorized SFMOMA Show at Radical Networks

Our project Unauthorized SFMOMA Show is part of the Radical Networks Gallery and conference in New York, October 19-22, 2017.

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Resonant Worlds: Sound, Art and Science

The project Repertories of (in)discreetness will be presented at ISACS 17 – Resonant Worlds: Sound, Art and Science at ZKM, Karlsruhe, with a presentation titled “Repertories of (in)discreetness – Curating Radio Free Europe’s archives.”

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