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GMU:Speculative Atmospheres/Alina Draeger

2021-05-18T04:02:08Z

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== '''Perception Experience - Ilmpark, Mai 2021''' ==

The perception of the Ilmpark started with my "object of high awareness" - a pinecone. A pinecone so small, I felt a little like I was protecting a tiny creature while holding it in my hand. Beginning with this thought, I’ve let my thoughts loose, focusing only on whatever came to my senses.

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The Ilmpark is a mixture of "true" nature and a man made, natural environment. It is a coexistence between culture, city life, technology and nature. Even though it's designed and maintained by humans, wherever there is space, nature takes it, creating a new environment, a new home, a new life every day.

The park is home to all kinds of living creatures: butterflies, ants, spiders, bugs, bumblebees, ducks, all kind of birds, squirrels, mice, moles, etc., even ferrets and comorans. There is also a great variety of wild plants, depending on whether there's more or less light or what kind of vegetation is around them (around trees = more plants). The plants, trees, animals and insects are coexisting, sharing the environment and depending on each other.
In addition, the park also makes up a large part of the city and culture, thus of the home of people and their pets, while offering an escape from their daily life. Searching for a quiet space, a space to enjoy fresh air, being around other people or animals or finding inspiration, all kinds of people come to the park.

Every living creature leaves traces – from trees to animals, from elements to humans. Holes in the ground, mole moles, nibbled leaves. Feathers, paths, leaves, seed, blossoms, dead insects, cigarettes and garbage on the ground. By storing these traces, the park becomes a witness of time, life and death. Traces are a documentation of generations and change. For example, they are a documentation of movement. Everything in the park is in movement: wind, water, animals, humans. Their movements cause other movements, like movements of grass, plants, pebbles, leaves, etc. These movements change the environment little by little, they create the space around them.
By focusing on the traces and documenting them, humans can save, analyze and share them, becoming witnesses and keepers of generations and change themselves.

When you’re standing still or with slower, adjusted movements to your environment, you'll become one with it. Animals and insects become less afraid. They start accepting you as a part of their environment and nature, and ignore you as a human being. While standing still, even the plants around you will start moving in their own rhythm again.

I like going to the park, watching people, animals, the water and the plants and the trees. I go there nearly every day, for a break of everyday life or to find inspiration. The park has many colours and shapes to see and feel: Blue, green, yellow, white, brown, grey, beige, purple in all shades and saturations; mostly round, organic shapes, even though the material may be sharp or spiky.

GMU:Speculative Atmospheres/Alina Draeger

2021-05-18T04:01:54Z

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== '''Perception Experience - Ilmpark, Mai 2021''' ==

The perception of the Ilmpark started with my "object of high awareness" - a pinecone. A pinecone so small, I felt a little like I was protecting a tiny creature while holding it in my hand. Beginning with this thought, I’ve let my thoughts loose, focusing only on whatever came to my senses.

[[File:pinecone.jpg|400px]]

The Ilmpark is a mixture of "true" nature and a man made, natural environment. It is a coexistence between culture, city life, technology and nature. Even though it's designed and maintained by humans, wherever there is space, nature takes it, creating a new environment, a new home, a new life every day.

The park is home to all kinds of living creatures: butterflies, ants, spiders, bugs, bumblebees, ducks, all kind of birds, squirrels, mice, moles, etc., even ferrets and comorans. There is also a great variety of wild plants, depending on whether there's more or less light or what kind of vegetation is around them (around trees = more plants). The plants, trees, animals and insects are coexisting, sharing the environment and depending on each other.
In addition, the park also makes up a large part of the city and culture, thus of the home of people and their pets, while offering an escape from their daily life. Searching for a quiet space, a space to enjoy fresh air, being around other people or animals or finding inspiration, all kinds of people come to the park.

Every living creature leaves traces – from trees to animals, from elements to humans. Holes in the ground, mole moles, nibbled leaves. Feathers, paths, leaves, seed, blossoms, dead insects, cigarettes and garbage on the ground. By storing these traces, the park becomes a witness of time, life and death. Traces are a documentation of generations and change. For example, they are a documentation of movement. Everything in the park is in movement: wind, water, animals, humans. Their movements cause other movements, like movements of grass, plants, pebbles, leaves, etc. These movements change the environment little by little, they create the space around them.
By focusing on the traces and documenting them, humans can save, analyze and share them, becoming witnesses and keepers of generations and change themselves.

When you’re standing still or with slower, adjusted movements to your environment, you'll become one with it. Animals and insects become less afraid. They start accepting you as a part of their environment and nature, and ignore you as a human being. While standing still, even the plants around you will start moving in their own rhythm again.

I like going to the park, watching people, animals, the water and the plants and the trees. I go there nearly every day, for a break of everyday life or to find inspiration. The park has many colours and shapes to see and feel: Blue, green, yellow, white, brown, grey, beige, purple in all shades and saturations; mostly round, organic shapes, even though the material may be sharp or spiky.

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== '''Perception Experience - Ilmpark, Mai 2021''' ==

The perception of the Ilmpark started with my "object of high awareness" - a pinecone. A pinecone so small, I felt a little like I was protecting a tiny creature while holding it in my hand. Beginning with this thought, I’ve let my thoughts loose, focusing only on whatever came to my senses.

The Ilmpark is a mixture of "true" nature and a man made, natural environment. It is a coexistence between culture, city life, technology and nature. Even though it's designed and maintained by humans, wherever there is space, nature takes it, creating a new environment, a new home, a new life every day.

The park is home to all kinds of living creatures: butterflies, ants, spiders, bugs, bumblebees, ducks, all kind of birds, squirrels, mice, moles, etc., even ferrets and comorans. There is also a great variety of wild plants, depending on whether there's more or less light or what kind of vegetation is around them (around trees = more plants). The plants, trees, animals and insects are coexisting, sharing the environment and depending on each other.
In addition, the park also makes up a large part of the city and culture, thus of the home of people and their pets, while offering an escape from their daily life. Searching for a quiet space, a space to enjoy fresh air, being around other people or animals or finding inspiration, all kinds of people come to the park.

Every living creature leaves traces – from trees to animals, from elements to humans. Holes in the ground, mole moles, nibbled leaves. Feathers, paths, leaves, seed, blossoms, dead insects, cigarettes and garbage on the ground. By storing these traces, the park becomes a witness of time, life and death. Traces are a documentation of generations and change. For example, they are a documentation of movement. Everything in the park is in movement: wind, water, animals, humans. Their movements cause other movements, like movements of grass, plants, pebbles, leaves, etc. These movements change the environment little by little, they create the space around them.
By focusing on the traces and documenting them, humans can save, analyze and share them, becoming witnesses and keepers of generations and change themselves.

When you’re standing still or with slower, adjusted movements to your environment, you'll become one with it. Animals and insects become less afraid. They start accepting you as a part of their environment and nature, and ignore you as a human being. While standing still, even the plants around you will start moving in their own rhythm again.

I like going to the park, watching people, animals, the water and the plants and the trees. I go there nearly every day, for a break of everyday life or to find inspiration. The park has many colours and shapes to see and feel: Blue, green, yellow, white, brown, grey, beige, purple in all shades and saturations; mostly round, organic shapes, even though the material may be sharp or spiky.

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GMU:Speculative Atmospheres

2021-04-20T07:52:09Z

Alinvlina:

[[:Category:Fachmodul|Werk/Fachmodul]] 
''Lecturer:'' [[Christian Doeller]] 
''Credits:'' 6 [[ECTS]], 4 [[SWS]] 
''Date:'' Tuesday, 9:30 until 12:45 
''Venue:'' Online, "Park an der Ilm" and [[Marienstraße 7b]], Room 201 
''First meeting:'' April 13, 9.30

Video Link: https://vimeo.com/532615636 
Password: speculativeAtmospheres

Description:

How can we sharpen our perception and look at the seemingly familiar from a
new perspective?

In the module "Speculative Atmospheres" we will explore the ever-changing
states of our environment. We will operate by means of our own senses as well
as with the filters, magnifying glasses and distorting mirrors of technical
systems.

We will experiment with Arduino, Processing and various sensors to convert
environmental phenomena into electrical voltages and numerical values.
Through visualizations, sounds or kinetic objects, we will generate new
sensory experiences from the collected data.

Our class will partly take place in the "Park an der Ilm“ in Weimar. Here we will
take walks, train our perception, test ideas and develop prototypes. The park
as a hybrid ecosystem will be our experimental laboratory, our speculative
atmosphere.

The module will be a mix of technical, "creative" and theoretical components. The aim is to not only work together on our technological capabilities, but also to critically look at the topics/positions/ideas we are dealing with.

Participants:

* [[/Maximilian Glass/]]
* [[/Emil Torp/]]
* [[/Robin Wieber/]]
* [[/Junting Liu/]]
* [[/Fei Xie/]]
* [[/Anna Wißmüller/]]
* [[/Egor Gavrilov/]]
* [[/Friedrich Wilhelm Albrecht Pittelkow/]]
* [[/Marta Iranzo/]]
* [[/Ingrid Kussatz/]]
* [[/Christian Kummer/]]
* [[/Alina Draeger/]]

Artists / Links:

* [https://olafureliasson.net/archive/artwork/WEK101003/the-weather-project Olafur Eliasson: The Weather Project]
* [https://www.nodegree.de/work/the-cosmic-and-the-affective/ Kerstin Ergenzinger: The Cosmic and the Affective]
* [http://ursuladamm.de/sensor/ Ursula Damm: I am a Sensor]
* [http://www.blubblubb.net/OneTreeID/index.html Agnes Meyer Brandis: One Tree ID]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stFyG_AAje8 Céleste Boursier-Mougenot: From Here to Ear]
* [https://www.dwbowen.com/telepresent-wind David Bowen: Telepresent Wind (...)]
* [https://www.marcobarotti.com/Clams Marco Barotti: Clams]
* [http://smitesmits.com/PondBattery.html Rasa Smite & Raitis Smits: Pond Battery / Swamp Radio]
* [https://www.niklasroy.com/workshop/144/ Niklas Roy: Umbrellaphone Workshop]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO7f1mXuWe4 DIY#1], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIzwv6LcriA DIY#2], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_Q1WKCtWiA&t=327s DIY#3]

Topics:

Technology:
*Getting started with Arduino
*Connecting and reading different sensors
*Getting familiar with different output possibilities
*Basic visualizations with Processing
*Establishing a ping-pong connection between Arduino and Processing
*translating sensor data into movements, drawings, sounds…

Art & Thinking:
*Contemporary (media) art positions that relate to the subject matter
*Different ways to observe processes and dependencies in our surroundings
*Strategies in working with sensor technologies and input/output systems
*Feedback mechanisms, cybernetic circuits
*Relations between humans – technology – „nature“/environment
*Relations between the physical and the digital
* // DIY: make your own sensor
* // Anthroprocene - discourse

Literature:
*Make: Getting Started with Arduino, EAN 9781449363314
*Arduino Cookbook, O’REILLY, German/English, ISBN Print: 978-3-86899-353-0
*Das Sensor Buch, O’REILLY, ´German, ISBN 978-3-95561-902-2
*Make: Sensors, ISBN: 9781449368104
*Make: Getting Started with Processing, MIT Press, ISBN: 9781457187087
*Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers, ISBN: 9780262028288
*Arduino Tutorials 1: https://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/HomePage
*Arduino Tutorials 2: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfYfK0tzHZTpNFrc_NDKfTA
*Processing Tutorials 1: https://processing.org/tutorials/
*Processing Tutorials 2: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvjgXvBlbQiydffZU7m1_aw
*Karen barad: Agential Realism / Agentieller Realismus, ISBN 9783518260456
*Hannes Bergthaller, Eva Horn: Anthropozän zur Einführung, ISBN 978-3-96060-311-5
*Klimakunstforschung, ISBN: 3883962996
*Christiane Heibach: Dem Spüren auf der Spur: Zur Wahrnehmung biologischer und technischer sensorischer Systeme, Link: https://www.medienobservationen.de/pdf/20200430Heibach1.pdf
*Verena Kuni: The Plants Are (Watching) Sensing, Link: https://www.medienobservationen.de/pdf/20200430Kuni6.pdf
*Didier Debaise – Out of Nature. How a Concept Became a Political Power? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKukK6kKRQ0

Material fee / personal equipment:

*there will be a material fee of max. 30€ for basic things like Arduinos, breadboards, wires, …
*Links to the equipment needed will be sent via e-mail.
*Our module will partly take place outside, bringing your own laptop is required.

Venue / Structure:

The module will initially be held online via video conference: https://meeting.uni-weimar.de/b/jor-irj-ap6-so8. However, there will be lots of practical exercises that explicitly involve "the outside world".
In summer, it is planned to have sessions outside in the "Park an der Ilm" in Weimar, perhaps also in a kind of classroom situation in the DIY electronics studio in M7 201.

Language & skill level: 
*The module will be held in English, unless all participants are speaking German.
*No prior knowledge of electronics/programming is required.

Criteria for passing:

*document exercises on the wiki, present them for the rest of the class
*experiment, attend the classes and develop your own prototype relating to the topic

Application:

*The application deadline will be on April 6, 2021
*Please send an e-Mail with the subject „Application Speculative Atmospheres“ to melanie.birnschein[AT]uni-weimar.de
*Your e-mail should contain the following info:
::# Full name and matriculation number
::# course of study, BA/MA
::# Your e-mail address
::# A small PDF containing previous works
::# Your motivation for joining the module

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2021-04-20T07:45:54Z

Alinvlina:

Alina Draeger