As part of the symposium Designano – The Aesthetics of Imperceptibility at IMéRA (L’institut d’études avancées d’Aix-Marseille), I will speak about Perceiving Imperceptibility / Designing Reafference. The talk will be part of a conversation of design and nano-materials and the paradoxical nature of nano-objects and their performativity across scales, organized by Tincuta Heinzel.
Continue readingHill Climbing
Software bot, 2021
Hill Climbing is a bot walking through Google StreetView that always goes up, following the direction of the steepest incline. As a software bot, the work performs autonomously, creating an open-ended visual meditation on human and machine agency, artificial intelligence and optimization, and the landscapes and operational images of the measured globe.
Continue readingMachine-Centered Design: Engaging in Non-human Ecologies
As part of the 20th Festival Internacional de la Imagen, I will give an online presentation on Machine-Centered Design: Engaging in Non-human Ecologies.
Continue readingHill Climbing at Festival Internacional de la Imagen
Hill Climbing will be shown at the 20th Festival Internacional de la Imagen in Manizales, Colombia, in an online exhibition and via a twitch.tv stream.
Continue readingSimultan Festival, Timișoara
At Simultan Festival 2020: Unseen in Timișoara, Romania, we are putting up a group show with results of the project Utopian Cities, Programmed Societies. My works Where have you been? and Autoflaneur are part of the show.
Continue readingRoboLAB: an inclusive art space for Cologne
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.
Continue readingSchrödinger’s Black Box
A public lecture at Köln International School of Design about the black boxes of interactive computing titled Schrödinger’s Black Box.
Continue readingSpeaking Interactivity at HfK Bremen
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.”
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