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.
Continue readingUtopian Cities, Programmed Societies: Exhibition
After participating in the Utopian Cities, Programmed Societies summer school, a group of KISD students takes part in an exhibition of the summer school’s results at Fabrica de Pensule in Cluj, Romania.
Continue readingPrint is not dead/The post-digital condition at Künstlerhaus Dortmund
How does design look in times of the gig economy, template culture, scripted layouts, and the standardized interaction and aesthetics of the responsive web? What is the design potential of last year’s tools and devices we already have forgotten? How can we show work and projects while our audience is immersed in their own smartphones? In a collaboration with FH Dortmund, a group of KISD students exhibits work dealing with questions like these under the title “Print is not dead/The post-digital condition.”
Continue readingShoot your pain away at HURRA HURRA Festival
KISD is going to BURG Halle to join HURRA HURRA, a festival on rethinking design education. At the festival, we will build a shooting gallery targeting our pains with academia.
Continue readingBauhaus 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.
Utopian Cities, Programmed Societies: Victoria Summer Camp
As part of the research project Utopian Cities, Programmed Societies, a group of KISD students participates in a summer camp in the planned city of Victoria, Brașov in Romania.
Continue readingArtificial Intelligence in Art and Design
A one-week workshop about applying artificial intelligence and machine learning in art and design. The workshop takes place in a remote location in Ramberg and gathers students and teachers of KISD, KHM, Academy of Media Arts Cologne (Prof. Dr. Georg Trogemann, Experimental Computer Science), and Bauhaus University Weimar (Prof. Ursula Damm, Media Environments). For one week, we will work on and discuss practical projects that use, abuse, criticize or embrace artificial intelligence and machine learning.
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.
Continue readingSignal to Noise at Pixel Studio Bergen
As part of the show Signal to Noise, we are showing the FM radio installation of the same name at Piksel Studio 207 in Bergen, Norway.
Continue readingSome 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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