Making AI Tangible and Comprehensible: Connecting Technology and Society Through Design – KITeGG
Since December 2021, KISD is part of a four-year BMBF project on design and artificial intelligence. The aim of the project is to establish a strong network of design departments and universities in order to sustainably anchor the teaching of AI topics and methods in the entire field of design.
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Animation in X-Reality is a Summer School on the expanded field of animation: motion capture, 3D scanning, augmented and virtual reality, interaction, and creative artificial intelligence. It is organized at the Department of Graphical Systems at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University in collaboration with Köln International School of Design, Tampere University of Applied Sciences and Academy of Media Arts Cologne.
Continue readingLasse Scherffig: CON 457 (planes), in: Processing Foundation (eds.): Processing Community Catalog, The Processing Foundation, New York, NY, 2022, 790 (Open Access)
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)
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.
Continue readingLasse Scherffig, Andreas Muxel, Christian Faubel, Laura Popplow: Training to Deal with Otherness – Rehearsing & Maintaining Human-Machine Relations, in: Proceedings of Politics of the Machines – Rogue Research 2021, 2021, 359-364 (Open Access)
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.
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