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[[File:Cybernetics zeichnung.png|thumb|531x531px|Drawing by Ricardo Tapia Ch in the class of Tibor Weiner, Chile (Credit: Antonieta Hola)]] | [[File:Cybernetics zeichnung.png|thumb|531x531px|Drawing by Ricardo Tapia Ch in the class of Tibor Weiner, Chile (Credit: Antonieta Hola)]] | ||
Beginning in the nineteen thirties and continuing through and after World War II, scientists developed increasingly sophisticated mechanical and electrical systems that seemed to have purpose. This intersected with research on animal cognition and early computing and led to a new perspective on mechanical, electrical, biological, and social systems, resulting in a unifying theory known as cybernetics. Although today the computer has become the driving force and steering mechanism of our civilization in an unprecedented development, the original ideas relating to cybernetics have faded from view. Cybernetics - with the computer as a means - became too much a synonym for control and domination, while at the same time almost every corner of our earth was digitally penetrated. A kind of digital organism was created not only through governance, but also through self-organization. | Beginning in the nineteen thirties and continuing through and after World War II, scientists developed increasingly sophisticated mechanical and electrical systems that seemed to have purpose. This intersected with research on animal cognition and early computing and led to a new perspective on mechanical, electrical, biological, and social systems, resulting in a unifying theory known as cybernetics. Although today the computer has become the driving force and steering mechanism of our civilization in an unprecedented development, the original ideas relating to cybernetics have faded from view. Cybernetics - with the computer as a means - became too much a synonym for control and domination, while at the same time almost every corner of our earth was digitally penetrated. A kind of digital organism was created not only through governance, but also through self-organization. | ||
Today, we are not only living with digital machines, but also with the environmental consequences of them, and we have to realize that our world is changing - in a way that we had not anticipated. | Today, we are not only living with digital machines, but also with the environmental consequences of them, and we have to realize that our world is changing - in a way that we had not anticipated. | ||
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An excursion to [https://schieferpark.de/ Schieferpark] in the first week of December is part of the module. | An excursion to [https://schieferpark.de/ Schieferpark] in the first week of December is part of the module. | ||
Schedule: | <small>Program of the Retreat:</small> | ||
<small>The environment of Schieferpark should be an opportunity to relate to natural processes and the flow of time (e.g. of plants or animals). From these systemic couplings, ideas for artistic installations can then be developed. (...). We draw on the history of cybernetics and the beginnings of artificial intelligence to reflect on the relationship to our now precarious environment and its needs in these models of thinking. How can we develop technologies that bring us into balance with our natural environment? How can learning be understood in technology and living beings, based on the levels of learning defined by the cyberneticist Gregory Bateson? At the same time, the excursion should also be an opportunity to connect with students from other art schools and get to know their way of working. For students in final projects, the presentation and discussion of their work is in the foreground. For younger students and anyone interested, there are short workshops with simple tasks that can be developed, discussed and solved in group work.</small> | |||
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* 22.10.2024: first meeting at DBL: Introduction by Ursula Damm '''"Technology Creating Infrastructure"''' and Georg Trogemann '''"Cybernetics"''' | * 22.10.2024: first meeting at DBL: Introduction by Ursula Damm '''"Technology Creating Infrastructure"''' and Georg Trogemann '''"Cybernetics"''' | ||