Opening exhibition with contributions by KISD students
On September 6, a new space art space and event series is opening in Cologne: RoboLAB 2020. The first event is the show Circolaris that takes place in the walkable and accessible sculpture of the same name, created by Odo Rumpf in Odonien. This sculpture will provide a lasting space for inclusive, accessible and multi-genre art and culture projects.
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A public lecture at Köln International School of Design about the black boxes of interactive computing titled Schrödinger’s Black Box.
Continue readingOn 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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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.
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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 readingKISD 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.
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I am speaking at a panel on media art and design education at Ars Electronica titled We are not alone.
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.
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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.
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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