Matthias Grund, Lasse Scherffig (2024): Approaching the Aesthetics and Materiality of Hidden Layers. In: rrrreflect. Journal of Integrated Design Research, Special Issue 1: Hidden Layers, 1-6 (Open Access, https://doi.org/10.57684/COS-1265)
Hallucinating canines: Google DeepDream’s taxonomic heritage
Synthetic Realities Book Launch
At KISD, we are hosting the launch event of the book Synthetic Realities: New Frontiers in AI-driven Design, Fabrication, and Materiality. The event gathers authors of the volume edited by Manuel Kretzer, such as Immanuel Koh, Marc Engenhart, Martin Naumann and Aaron Siermann, Simon Maris and Lasse Scherffig, Michael Hansmeyer, and Maria Kuptsova for presentations and discussions.
Continue readingDis/ability Design and Participation
As part of the lecture series Participatory Research at TH Köln, Laura Popplow (TH Köln), Nils Rottgardt (Un-Label) and I will talk about Dis/ability Design and Participation.
Continue readingGet-iT Fellowship at TH Köln
I am honored to be part of the TH Köln Get-iT fellowship program for gender aspects in research and development.
AI – Opportunities and Barriers for Artists with Disabilities at kaethe:k
In a public discussion at kaethe:k Kunsthaus, we are exploring the opportunities and barriers of AI for artists with disabilities.
Continue readingTH Köln Teaching Award for Accessibility in Tech
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
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