Our collaboration with Un-Label won a TH Köln Teaching Award. The project brought experts from various disability perspectives into the classroom to work with students from KISD and Code & Context on the design of technologies for access.
Continue readingDesigning on the Micro-scale
Simon Maris, Lasse Scherffig: Designing on the Micro-scale, in: Manuel Kretzer (Hrsg.): Synthetic Realities. New Frontiers in AI-driven Design, Fabrication and Materiality, AADR – Art Architecture Design Research, Bamberg, 2024, 116-123 (https://aadr.info/product/synthetic-realities/)
Expanded Animation, Summer School in Vilnius
At the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Lithuanian Song Festival, KISD students are showing audiovisual works in the Visitor Center of the Lithuanian Parliament in Vilnius.
The works deal with the cultural heritage of the song festival “Dainų šventė”, which is listed by UNESCO as an intangible world cultural heritage. In the works, new animation technologies such as 3D reconstruction, generative graphics and generative ‘artificial intelligence’ are used.
Continue readingHidden Layers Conference
At KISD, we will host the second edition of Hidden Layers Conference from June 12 to 15. The event brings together a diverse group of experts to collectively discuss and learn about artificial intelligence in design. Organized by the research project KITeGG on design and AI, it combines a public program of talks, an exhibition and workshops with internal meetings of the five art and design schools involved in the project.
Attendance is free and the public program will run from Wednesday evening, June 12, to Friday afternoon, June 14.
More information will be available in late May at www.hiddenlayers.de
Continue readingTH Köln Research Day
As part of the Research Day at TH Köln, I will participate in a conversation on ‘artificial intelligence’ with many colleagues from all disciplines.
Continue readingPuppy Slugs, Vibes, and Visual Alignment at KHI, Florence
As part of the workshop The Art of AI: Narratives, Creativities, and Ethics, Matthias Grund and myself will present work done with Thomas Hawranke at the Max Planck Society’s Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz. Our talk is titled “Puppy Slugs, Vibes, and Visual Alignment.”
Continue readingAnthrobot — A Human Robot Dance Performance
In collaboration with the artist collective DIPHTHONG, students of KISD took part in the production of a dance performance for two dancers and a robot. Under the direction of Laura Wagner and supported by myself, they designed and programmed the movement sequences of an industrial robot for the performance and also co-produced the soundtrack for the piece.
Continue readingThe Aesthetics of Generative AI and AI Literacy for Design
I am talking about ‘generative AI’ and how we try to develop ‘AI literacy’ in design at the AI Drivers Future, International Design Innovation Forum in Shanghai, China (online).
Continue readingUnlearning the Hype at Hochschule Darmstadt
As part of the symposium “Artificial Intelligence in Design. Insights and Outlooks” at Hochschule Darmstadt, I will talk about “Unlearning the Hype.”
Continue readingrrrreflect. Journal of Integrated Design Research
At KISD, we are publishing a new journal: rrrreflect. Jornal of Integrated Design Research.
rrrreflect is a digital open-access journal that publishes outstanding work of student and faculty design research at KISD as well as guest contributions under the Creative Commons license CC-BY. It is published online and archived as a publication series by Cologne Open Science.
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