The idea behind this initiative is founded in the DFG and DAAD funded event series “Collaborative on Technology and Society”, first realized at the Bauhaus-University Weimar in 2007, followed by multiple repetitions in callaboration with UCSD. This year the focus of the three-day event will be the interface between Art, Design, Science, and Technology and thus the promotion of the existing bilateral research cooperation in civil engineering through establishment of an additional enduring interdisciplinary collaboration in the artistic and design oriented subject areas at the BUW and UCSD.

Core aim of the event is the development of multidisciplinary collaborations at the interfaces between Art, Design, Architecture, Media, and Engineering in the research and development field “Public Strategies” on the basis of existing projects. The interaction with the Public is, among others, main topic in fields of research and development of „Cultures of Design“, Public Art, Experimental Buildings and Studio Bauhaus. In disciplinary as well as transdisciplinary projects and developments the public space is subjected to both specific theoretical foundation as well as interpretation. The factor

of localization of visualization processes and communication is at the center of artistic, creative, and scientific questions. Making insights accessible and fruitful over the borders of the fields will be the factor determining the inner structure of the event.

In the process of the structural transformation of the public and the advancement of media development, space is subjected to a new understanding in the line of disintegration processes of its specific localization. Space is established in communication and requires as well as enables the public at the same time. Social sciences address the resulting developments in communication culture and social behavior. Artists, Designers, and Architects provide a major contribution through their work with the requirements of flexible space, with changing means of adopting public space, with the appropriation of real spaces by media, in the era of virtual worlds, as well as in the discourse on phenomena of the public in temporary communication spaces.

The innovative factor of methodologically unadjusted access to global phenomena lies in the opening of unexpected perspectives, which can be made productive by transdisciplinary means. The interchange with UCSD offers a culturally and socially founded, qualified extension of possible “Public Strategies” and connectivity for an advancement of existing developments. This also opens opportunities to establish innovative, bilateral research networks at the interfaces of Art, Design, Media, Architecture and Engineering.

Program:

Wednesday, 14/09/2011

20 Uhr

Shahrokh Yadegari (UCSD)

VdV HP 05

Director of Center for Research in Computing and the Arts

»Composing with Self-Referentiality: Sound Definition of Space«

SUBSEQUENTLY Jens Geelhaar (BUW) & Michael Rullmann (HTWK Leipzig) - VdV HP 05

Professor, Interface Design & Assistant, Researchproject „ForMaT2“

»Neuro-PET/MR Imaging in Interaction Design«

Thursday, 15/09/2011

09.30: Frieder Seible (UCSD) - VdV HP 05

Dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego

»Bauhaus West – Interdisciplinary Opportunities on the Interface between Society & Technology«

SUBSEQUENTLY Falko Küster (UCSD) - VdV HP 05

Associate Professor, Structural Engineering

»Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM): Towards Digitally Enabled Cultural Heritage Diagnostics and Preservations«

11.30: Bernd Rudolf (BUW) - Campus BUW

Professor, Architectural Elements

»Bauhaus Experimental.Buildings – forms a Creativ-Campus of the Bauhaus-University«

SUBSEQUENTLY Barbara Wittmann & Nathalie Bredella (BUW) - VdV HP 05

Assistant Professor, Media Studies & Postdoc Fellowship Holder

»Tools of Design«

16.30: Yuri Bazilevs (UCSD) - VdV HP 05

Assistant Professor, Structural Engineering

»Cardiovascular Simulation« Part Nº1 »Models, Methods« and Clinical Applications“

SUBSEQUENTLY Jürgen P. Schulze(UCSD) - VdV HP 05

Assistant Research Scientist at the California Institut for Telecommunications and Information Technology

»Cardiovascular Simulation« Part Nº2 »Visualization and Virtual Reality Tools Education an Clinical Use«

20.00: Benjamin H. Bratton (UCSD) - VdV HP 05

Associate Professor, Visual Art / Director of Center for Design and Geopolitics

»Design Philosophy: On General Interfaciality«

Friday, 16/09/2011

11.30: Ursula Damm (BUW) - VdV HP 05

Professor, Design of Media Environment

»Are Engineers inventig the Culture of Tomorrow?«

SUBSEQUENTLY Bernhard Hopfengärtner (BUW) - VdV HP 05

Assistant, Design of Media Environment

»Super Cell – Art and Design students engaging with Synthetic Biology«

SUBSEQUENTLY Felix Sattler (BUW) - VdV HP 05

Assistant, Media, Trend and Public Appearance

»Formensinn – An Exhibition About the Common Natural Roots of Art, Architecture and Engineering«

14.30 Anya Gallaccio (UCSD) - VdV HP 05

Professor, Visual Art

Title to be confirmed

SUBSEQUENTLY Anke Hannemann (BUW) - VdV HP 05

Assistant, Fine Art

»Entrop(h)y – Garbage and Art«

16.30: Jennifer Pastor (UCSD) - VdV HP 05

Professor, Visual Art

»Residual Ghosts, Compression of Impossible Spaces into Form«

SUBSEQUENTLY Lisa Glauer (BUW) - VdV HP 05

Assistant, Public Art an New Artistic Strategies

»Oscillating Links«

SUBSEQUENTLY Sam Kronick UCS D - VdV HP 05

Graduate Student

»Programmable Space – Architecture, Utopia, Augmented Reality«

SUBSEQUENTLY Marta Depta BUW - VdV HP 05

Alumna

»Growing Package – Designer in Biotech Lab.«

SUBSEQUENTLY Moritz Wehrmann (BUW) - VdV HP 05

Student

»I — U&I«

(by invitation only)