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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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