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GMU:Hallucinating computers and dreaming non-machines

2025-03-26T09:56:55Z

Chefin:

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* Project Module Hallucinating Computers and Dreaming Non-Machines

The course wants to stimulate and accompany projects of students dealing with emergent behavior of computers and/or their co-existence with non-machines. Non-machine is a term which has been introduced by Mindaugas Gapsevicius and names all non-technical subjects (humans, animals, plants). It inspires us to look at living things from the perspective of a machine and vice versa.

In the module we want to imagine how non-humans dream or how we - humans can use our dreams for a meaningful exchange with other non-machines.

We comprehend the concept of [dreaming] as a term that connects with fictions, futuristic speculations and desires.

And what about human-shaped machines? Being confronted with hallucinations of software processes in many facets of our daily lives, we would also like to better understand the difference between computer hallucinations and our own dreaming capacity.

More and more research focuses on all the creatures which made human life possible. Millions of years of photosynthesis made it possible for us to live on earth today. The ecological crises show that we have not yet understood our dependence on our ecological embedding. Have we developed the wrong kind of technology? What can the capabilities of contemporary technology contribute to a common, intellectual and spiritual sphere?

'''Recommended Fach courses:'''

* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=66083&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung Unexpected Imageries - programming generative art] By Ting Chun Liu
* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=66132&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung Aesthetics of Macroworlds] by Alessandro Volpato and Alexander König
* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=66135&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung A investigation in machine learing / "AI"] by Alexander König
* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=66334&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung Computer Aided Fabrication and the Wilderness] by Felix Bonowski
* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=66148&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung Speech to Text to Actions] by Isabella Lee Arturo
* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=66172&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung Technosolutionism + Silicone Nightmares] by Bethan Hughes
'''Artists:'''

* [https://deweyhagborg.com/ Heather Dewey-Hagborg]
* [https://annaridler.com/works Anna Ridler]
*[https://stephanierothenberg.com/ Stephanie Rothenberg]

GMU:Hallucinating computers and dreaming non-machines

2025-03-10T13:45:51Z

Chefin:

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2025-03-10T13:43:40Z

Chefin:

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GMU:Hallucinating computers and dreaming non-machines

2025-03-10T12:33:57Z

Chefin:

* Project Module Hallucinating Computers and Dreaming Non-Machines

The course wants to stimulate and accompany projects of students dealing with emergent behavior of computers and/or their co-existence with non-machines. Non-machine is a term which has been introduced by Mindaugas Gapsevicius and names all non-technical subjects (humans, animals, plants). It inspires us to look at living things from the perspective of a machine and vice versa.

In the module we want to imagine how non-humans dream or how we - humans can use our dreams for a meaningful exchange with other non-machines.

We comprehend the concept of [dreaming] as a term that connects with fictions, futuristic speculations and desires.

And what about human-shaped machines? Being confronted with hallucinations of software processes in many facets of our daily lives, we would also like to better understand the difference between computer hallucinations and our own dreaming capacity.

More and more research focuses on all the creatures which made human life possible. Millions of years of photosynthesis made it possible for us to live on earth today. The ecological crises show that we have not yet understood our dependence on our ecological embedding. Have we developed the wrong kind of technology? What can the capabilities of contemporary technology contribute to a common, intellectual and spiritual sphere?

'''Recommended Fach courses:'''

* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=66083&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung Unexpected Imageries - programming generative art] By Ting Chun Liu
* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=66132&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung Aesthetics of Macroworlds] by Alessandro Volpato and Alexander König
* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=66135&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung A investigation in machine learing / "AI"] by Alexander König
* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=66334&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung Computer Aided Fabrication and the Wilderness] by Felix Bonowski
* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=66148&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung Speech to Text to Actions] by Isabella Lee Arturo
* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=66172&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung Technosolutionism + Silicone Nightmares] by Bethan Hughes
'''Artists:'''

* [https://deweyhagborg.com/ Heather Dewey-Hagborg]
* [https://annaridler.com/works Anna Ridler]
*

GMU:Hallucinating computers and dreaming non-machines

2025-03-10T12:17:23Z

Chefin:

* Project Module Hallucinating Computers and Dreaming Non-Machines

The course wants to stimulate and accompany projects of students dealing with emergent behavior of computers and/or their co-existence with non-machines. Non-machine is a term which has been introduced by Mindaugas Gapsevicius and names all non-technical subjects (humans, animals, plants). It inspires us to look at living things from the perspective of a machine and vice versa.

In the module we want to imagine how non-humans dream or how we - humans can use our dreams for a meaningful exchange with other non-machines.

We comprehend the concept of [dreaming] as a term that connects with fictions, futuristic speculations and desires.

And what about human-shaped machines? Being confronted with hallucinations of software processes in many facets of our daily lives, we would also like to better understand the difference between computer hallucinations and our own dreaming capacity.

More and more research focuses on all the creatures which made human life possible. Millions of years of photosynthesis made it possible for us to live on earth today. The ecological crises show that we have not yet understood our dependence on our ecological embedding. Have we developed the wrong kind of technology? What can the capabilities of contemporary technology contribute to a common, intellectual and spiritual sphere?

Recommended Fach courses:

* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=66083&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung Unexpected Imageries - programming generative art] By Ting Chun Liu
* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=66132&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung Aesthetics of Macroworlds] by Alessandro Volpato and Alexander König
* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=66135&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung A investigation in machine learing / "AI"] by Alexander König
* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=66334&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung Computer Aided Fabrication and the Wilderness] by Felix Bonowski
* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=66148&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung Speech to Text to Actions] by Isabella Lee Arturo

GMU:Hallucinating computers and dreaming non-machines

2025-03-10T12:14:45Z

Chefin:

* Project Module Hallucinating Computers and Dreaming Non-Machines

The course wants to stimulate and accompany projects of students dealing with emergent behavior of computers and/or their co-existence with non-machines. Non-machine is a term which has been introduced by Mindaugas Gapsevicius and names all non-technical subjects (humans, animals, plants). It inspires us to look at living things from the perspective of a machine and vice versa.

In the module we want to imagine how non-humans dream or how we - humans can use our dreams for a meaningful exchange with other non-machines.

We comprehend the concept of [dreaming] as a term that connects with fictions, futuristic speculations and desires.

And what about human-shaped machines? Being confronted with hallucinations of software processes in many facets of our daily lives, we would also like to better understand the difference between computer hallucinations and our own dreaming capacity.

More and more research focuses on all the creatures which made human life possible. Millions of years of photosynthesis made it possible for us to live on earth today. The ecological crises show that we have not yet understood our dependence on our ecological embedding. Have we developed the wrong kind of technology? What can the capabilities of contemporary technology contribute to a common, intellectual and spiritual sphere?

Recommended Fach courses:

* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=66083&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung Unexpected Imageries - programming generative art] By Ting Chun Liu
* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=66132&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung Aesthetics of Macroworlds] by Alessandro Volpato and Alexander König
* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=66135&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung A investigation in machine learing / "AI"]

GMU:Hallucinating computers and dreaming non-machines

2025-03-10T12:12:58Z

Chefin:

== Project Module Hallucinating Computers and Dreaming Non-Machines ==

The course wants to stimulate and accompany projects of students dealing with emergent behavior of computers and/or their co-existence with non-machines. Non-machine is a term which has been introduced by Mindaugas Gapsevicius and names all non-technical subjects (humans, animals, plants). It inspires us to look at living things from the perspective of a machine and vice versa.

In the module we want to imagine how non-humans dream or how we - humans can use our dreams for a meaningful exchange with other non-machines.

We comprehend the concept of [dreaming] as a term that connects with fictions, futuristic speculations and desires.

And what about human-shaped machines? Being confronted with hallucinations of software processes in many facets of our daily lives, we would also like to better understand the difference between computer hallucinations and our own dreaming capacity.

More and more research focuses on all the creatures which made human life possible. Millions of years of photosynthesis made it possible for us to live on earth today. The ecological crises show that we have not yet understood our dependence on our ecological embedding. Have we developed the wrong kind of technology? What can the capabilities of contemporary technology contribute to a common, intellectual and spiritual sphere?

Recommended Fach courses:

<nowiki>*</nowiki> [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=66083&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung Unexpected Imageries - programming generative art]

* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=66132&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung Aesthetics of Macroworlds]

GMU:Re-enchanting the field

2025-03-06T14:58:16Z

Chefin: /* MATERIAL */

Preparatory Sessions (Online): April 4th, 11th 25th and May 9th 2025
 Field visit, Narva, Estonia (including travel days): 18.5. – 25.5.2025
 Follow up & Project Review (online): June 20th and July 5th 2025

Prof. Ursula Damm, Prof. Kerstin Ergenzinger, Mindaugas Gapševičius (Bauhaus University Weimar)
 Prof. Monika Halkort (University of Applied Arts Vienna)
 Prof. Myriel Milicevic (Potsdam University of Applied Sciences)
 Prof. Kärt Ojavee (Estonian Academy of Arts)

NUMBER OF ECTS AWARDED: 6 (4 SWS)

Topics addressed: energy transitions, extractivism, industrial waste as material witness and driver of (geo)political transformations and change.

The Chairs of Acoustic Ecologies and Media Environments invite students from Media Art and Design program to apply for a week-long field experiment in Narva, Estonia, near the Russian border. In collaboration with colleagues from the University of Applied Arts Vienna (School for Transformation), the Estonian Academy of Arts (Master of Craft Studies), and Potsdam University of Applied Sciences (Department of Design) we investigate the material legacy of oil shale extraction in the Baltic region, focusing in particular on the historical entanglement of energy, substances, landscapes, and bodies, and their unintended proliferations and designs.

Our main aim is to engage with the emergent properties of bio/geo-chemical waste in their broader geopolitical context and to unpack how they hold landscapes and bodies in colonial relations, long after the mining activities have been shut down.

Oil shales are marine fossils stored in rocks containing kerogen that can be converted into crude oil and gas. The northeast of Estonia is extremely rich in oil shale reserves that have attracted the interest of imperial powers and totalitarian regimes throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. The unfettered violence of colonial and capitalist extraction has left behind vast mountains of industrial ash, and polluting materials, that are waiting to be remediated and disposed. The enduring legacy of toxic waste in open dumps next to forests, rivers, and unused agricultural lands has created its own queer ecologies that collectively remake environments in which received boundaries between waste, residue and resource, or regenerative materials are continuously renegotiated, reconfigured and redrawn.

During this 5 day workshop, we want to explore the recurrent cycles of decomposition, death and renewal that are shaping the ambivalent landscapes of extractivism in Estonia, making their queer connections and affinities visible and apparent for critical inquiry and future research. “Queer” in this context does not necessarily describe something that already exists. Rather, queer inaugurates a certain kind of future of intelligibility for beings and collectives who are not yet available for explication. Hence, we consider the shale oil waste dumps as post-natural worlds, traversed by imperial and capitalist relations, whose historically specific modes of (chemo/techno)sociality and untapped potentials we seek to understand.

===METHODOLOGY & TASKS===

Toxicity is a specific genre of harm that describes the (re)ordering of living systems across timeframes and scales. Following Tironi and Liberoin, (p. 336;) it creates shared conditions for what thrives and what is altered, what ‘persist[s] and redistributes[s] ‘ and ‘what is destroyed, injured, and constrained’ both as a premise for other things to thrive (Murphy, 2017: 141–142).

During the one-week residency in Estonia, we trace this reordering of life across the entire life cycle of oil shales - from their site of extraction along the Estonian coastline, to fossil fuel processing plants, all the way to the open waste dumps and riverbeds, where the toxic sludge and the industrial ash are deposited and dumped.

Together with local residents and field guides, we will visit ash mountains, ghost villages and abandoned manufacturing plants, built under Soviet Occupation (1941 – 1991), when oil shale production was at its historical height. Additional insights will be provided by scientific inputs from researchers in biology, geology, and environmental history in preparatory sessions online.

Our main task will be to create a living index of liminal relations that sustain the shale oil ecosystem, mapping how they animate, de/recompose and transform social and natural landscapes, organisms and bodies at different speeds, durations and levels of intensity. Drawing on acoustic sensing, environmental mappings, and elemental ethnography / bio-geochemical analysis, we hope to reveal the less noticeable tensions, collaborations, and attunements that emerge from ‘non-consensual inhabitations’ (Masco) and forced transfers and unpack how they facilitate and/or disrupt land-body relations against a backdrop of shifting geopolitical borders and energy regimes.

===OUTCOMES===

The outcome of our material probes and observations will be documented in a shared workbook (digital/online publication) based on group projects conducted in the field.

Participants in this workshop will develop an understanding of bio-chemical processes and relations as critical infrastructures of geopolitical transformations and recognize how socio-ecological change is as much about (re)configuring life and responsibility beyond the individual body (Murphy, 2017, p. 479) as it is premised upon structures of violence and extraction that require land and bodies as sacrifice zones.

===BUDGET===

Participants receive stipends from the Erasmus programme to cover travel expenses.

===ACCOMMODATION===

We will be staying at Narva Art Residency (NART)
*https://www.nart.ee/en/residency/
*https://g.co/kgs/uLm4yKZ

===EXPECTATIONS===

Participation in the trip to Estonia 18. -25. May 2025
 Interest in discourse, reading, research as well as hands-on material experiments around anthropocene & feral landscapes, relationality, more-than-human design, interdisciplinary, experimental and poetic approaches, team work
 Documentation and experimental storytelling (transferring findings and relations into visual, sonic, experimental narratives). These narratives will be published on a dedicated course website.

===MATERIAL===

* "Ocean earth: 1980 bis heute: 1980 bis heute. Ausstellung Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum im Künstlerhaus Graz, Febr./März 1993"; Peter Weibel, Peter Fend, Thomas Donga Heike Rekampe ISBN 978-3927789722

* "Microhabitable"; Fernando Garcia Dory and Lucia Pietroiusti ISBN 978-3753303864
* "[https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/technologies-of-care-7046 Technologies of Care" by Yvonne Volkart]

GMU:Re-enchanting the field

2025-03-06T12:53:57Z

Chefin: /* MATERIAL */

GMU:Re-enchanting the field

2025-03-06T12:47:39Z

Chefin: /* EXPECTATIONS */

Preparatory Sessions (Online): April 4th, 11th 25th and May 9th 2025
 Field visit, Narva, Estonia (including travel days): 18.5. – 25.5.2025
 Follow up & Project Review (online): June 20th and July 5th 2025

Prof. Ursula Damm, Prof. Kerstin Ergenzinger, Mindaugas Gapševičius (Bauhaus University Weimar)
 Prof. Monika Halkort (University of Applied Arts Vienna)
 Prof. Myriel Milicevic (Potsdam University of Applied Sciences)
 Prof. Kärt Ojavee (Estonian Academy of Arts)

NUMBER OF ECTS AWARDED: 6 (4 SWS)

Topics addressed: energy transitions, extractivism, industrial waste as material witness and driver of (geo)political transformations and change.

The Chairs of Acoustic Ecologies and Media Environments invite students from Media Art and Design program to apply for a week-long field experiment in Narva, Estonia, near the Russian border. In collaboration with colleagues from the University of Applied Arts Vienna (School for Transformation), the Estonian Academy of Arts (Master of Craft Studies), and Potsdam University of Applied Sciences (Department of Design) we investigate the material legacy of oil shale extraction in the Baltic region, focusing in particular on the historical entanglement of energy, substances, landscapes, and bodies, and their unintended proliferations and designs.

Our main aim is to engage with the emergent properties of bio/geo-chemical waste in their broader geopolitical context and to unpack how they hold landscapes and bodies in colonial relations, long after the mining activities have been shut down.

Oil shales are marine fossils stored in rocks containing kerogen that can be converted into crude oil and gas. The northeast of Estonia is extremely rich in oil shale reserves that have attracted the interest of imperial powers and totalitarian regimes throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. The unfettered violence of colonial and capitalist extraction has left behind vast mountains of industrial ash, and polluting materials, that are waiting to be remediated and disposed. The enduring legacy of toxic waste in open dumps next to forests, rivers, and unused agricultural lands has created its own queer ecologies that collectively remake environments in which received boundaries between waste, residue and resource, or regenerative materials are continuously renegotiated, reconfigured and redrawn.

During this 5 day workshop, we want to explore the recurrent cycles of decomposition, death and renewal that are shaping the ambivalent landscapes of extractivism in Estonia, making their queer connections and affinities visible and apparent for critical inquiry and future research. “Queer” in this context does not necessarily describe something that already exists. Rather, queer inaugurates a certain kind of future of intelligibility for beings and collectives who are not yet available for explication. Hence, we consider the shale oil waste dumps as post-natural worlds, traversed by imperial and capitalist relations, whose historically specific modes of (chemo/techno)sociality and untapped potentials we seek to understand.

===METHODOLOGY & TASKS===

Toxicity is a specific genre of harm that describes the (re)ordering of living systems across timeframes and scales. Following Tironi and Liberoin, (p. 336;) it creates shared conditions for what thrives and what is altered, what ‘persist[s] and redistributes[s] ‘ and ‘what is destroyed, injured, and constrained’ both as a premise for other things to thrive (Murphy, 2017: 141–142).

During the one-week residency in Estonia, we trace this reordering of life across the entire life cycle of oil shales - from their site of extraction along the Estonian coastline, to fossil fuel processing plants, all the way to the open waste dumps and riverbeds, where the toxic sludge and the industrial ash are deposited and dumped.

Together with local residents and field guides, we will visit ash mountains, ghost villages and abandoned manufacturing plants, built under Soviet Occupation (1941 – 1991), when oil shale production was at its historical height. Additional insights will be provided by scientific inputs from researchers in biology, geology, and environmental history in preparatory sessions online.

Our main task will be to create a living index of liminal relations that sustain the shale oil ecosystem, mapping how they animate, de/recompose and transform social and natural landscapes, organisms and bodies at different speeds, durations and levels of intensity. Drawing on acoustic sensing, environmental mappings, and elemental ethnography / bio-geochemical analysis, we hope to reveal the less noticeable tensions, collaborations, and attunements that emerge from ‘non-consensual inhabitations’ (Masco) and forced transfers and unpack how they facilitate and/or disrupt land-body relations against a backdrop of shifting geopolitical borders and energy regimes.

===OUTCOMES===

The outcome of our material probes and observations will be documented in a shared workbook (digital/online publication) based on group projects conducted in the field.

Participants in this workshop will develop an understanding of bio-chemical processes and relations as critical infrastructures of geopolitical transformations and recognize how socio-ecological change is as much about (re)configuring life and responsibility beyond the individual body (Murphy, 2017, p. 479) as it is premised upon structures of violence and extraction that require land and bodies as sacrifice zones.

===BUDGET===

Participants receive stipends from the Erasmus programme to cover travel expenses.

===ACCOMMODATION===

We will be staying at Narva Art Residency (NART)
*https://www.nart.ee/en/residency/
*https://g.co/kgs/uLm4yKZ

===EXPECTATIONS===

Participation in the trip to Estonia 18. -25. May 2025
 Interest in discourse, reading, research as well as hands-on material experiments around anthropocene & feral landscapes, relationality, more-than-human design, interdisciplinary, experimental and poetic approaches, team work
 Documentation and experimental storytelling (transferring findings and relations into visual, sonic, experimental narratives). These narratives will be published on a dedicated course website.

===MATERIAL===

* Ocean earth: 1980 bis heute: 1980 bis heute. Ausstellung Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum im Künstlerhaus Graz, Febr./März 1993; Peter Weibel, Peter Fend, Thomas Donga Heike Rekampe ISBN 978-3927789722

GMU:Hallucinating computers and dreaming non-machines

2025-02-12T14:56:33Z

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2025-02-12T14:54:40Z

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This is the wiki of the Media Environments chair. For the public website please refer to https://www.uni-weimar.de/gmu

==Featured Projects==
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|width="300px"|[[File:Markt-und-Maus-2.jpg|300px|plug and pray|link=GMU:BFA MFA Finals#Stefan Pach: Markt und Maus]]

[[GMU:BFA MFA Finals#Stefan Pach: Markt und Maus |Markt und Maus]] (Market and Mouse) [[Stefan Pach |Stefan Pach]]

How can we make mice live by the rules of investment banking?

To improve the understanding of the dynamics of finance markets the "Market and Mouse"-System tries to simulate a part of the fiscal universe. The main analysis focuses on the aspect of investment banking. This is the field with the biggest possible profit. "Market and Mouse" investigates how mice decide if they have to choose between high risk but high value options and less lucrative possibilities.
 
 

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|width="300px"|[[File:Brume1.jpg|300px|Brume|link=GMU:BFA MFA Finals#Sebastian Wolf .26 Michael Kugler: Brume]]

[http://einsdreidrei.com/Brume Brume] by [[Sebastian Wolf]] & Michael Kugler

In 'Brume', the artist duo Michael Kugler and Sebastian Wolf investigate immateriality by coaxing fog into a semi-geometrical, self-organizing form. The viewer becomes a catalyst for disturbance, generating turbulences that not only illustrate the carrying power of the air, but upset a perceived equilibrium, and reveal the spatial and temporal volatility of such a phenomenon. 'Brume' operates in the margins between ubiquity and the finite, symmetry and the amorphous, transience and permanence, and gesturing at the paradox of immateriality.
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|width="300px"|[[File:super-boxen front.jpg|Synbio|link=GMU:Synthetic Biology]]
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|width="300px"|[[File:Plug and pray.png|300px|plug and pray|link=Mental Radio Arbeiten#Jörg Brinkmann: plug and pray]]

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|Super Cell is a fictional supermarket website offering speculative products related to Synthetic Biology and our project for iGEM 2010. [[GMU:Synthetic Biology|Super Cell]]
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|„You shall not make for yourself an idol...“

...just google it.

plug & pray is an interactive artwork that allows believers to pray through their computer. plug & pray makes the search for God easier, with the help of the internet. plug & pray works as if you were praying. Believers use the pray device that activates a google image search for the word „God“ on the act of praying. plug & pray believers see the results of their prayers as spiritualized video, projected before their very eyes. [[Mental Radio Arbeiten#Jörg Brinkmann: plug and pray|Jörg Brinkmann: plug and pray]]
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Check out our archives with [[GMU:Works|student works]] and [[GMU:BFA MFA Finals|thesis works]] of BFA and MFA graduates.
 

== Research and Teaching Faculty ==
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Professor '''[[GMU:Ursula_Damm|Ursula Damm]]''' 
Marienstraße 5, Raum 304 
99423 Weimar 
Telefon:. +49 3643 / 58-3607 
E-Mail: ursula.damm [at] uni-weimar.de 
[http://www.ursuladamm.de ursuladamm.de] 
 
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Artistic Associate 
'''[[GMU:Mindaugas Gapševičius|Mindaugas Gapševičius]]''' 
Marienstraße 5, Raum 208 
99423 Weimar 
Telefon: +49 3643 /58-3871 
E-Mail: mindaugas.gapsevicius [at] uni-weimar.de 
[http://www.triple-double-u.com triple-double-u.com] 
 
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Artistic Associate 
'''[[GMU:Alexander König|Alexander König]]''' 
Marienstraße 5, Raum 208 
99423 Weimar 
E-Mail: alexander.koenig [at] uni-weimar.de
[http://www.media-art-theory.com www.media-art-theory.com] 
 

Artistic Associate 
'''[[GMU:Isabella Lee Arturo|Isabella Lee Arturo]]''' 
Marienstraße 5, Raum 306 
99423 Weimar 
Telefon: +49 3643 /58-3871 
E-Mail: isabella.lee.arturo@uni-weimar.de isabella Lee Arturo[at] uni-weimar.de 
 
===[[GMU:Personen|other staff]]===

== SS 2025 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==
* [[GMU:Technosolutionism + Silicone Nightmares|Technosolutionism + Silicone Nightmares]]
* [[GMU:Hallucinating computers and dreaming non-machines]]

== WS 2024 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==

* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:Cybernetic_Subjects_-_Ursula_Damm_(Georg_Trogemann) GMU:Cybernetic Subjects - Ursula Damm (Georg Trogemann)]
* [[GMU:Performing for Machines (Body Work in Cybernetic Systems) - Isabella Lee Arturo]]
* [[GMU:Exhibitionist! (how to do Art Exhibitions) - Isabella Lee Arturo]]
* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:The_Plant_Plant GMU:The Plant Plant – Christian Doeller, Klaus Fritze]
* [[GMU:Life_in_an_aquatic_ecosystem|GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem]] - Mindaugas Gapševičius, Alessandro Volpato

== SS 2024 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==
*[[GMU:Data as Artistic Material]] - Juliane Götz, Sebastian Neitsch (Künstlerduo Quadrature)
*[[GMU:Winning natural habitats]] - Mindaugas Gapševičius & Klaus Herbst
*[[GMU:Diy biolab drivers licence SoSe24|GMU:DIY BioLab Driver's license]] - Alessandro Volpato
*[[GMU:Growing microorganisms for bioart projects SoSe24|GMU:Growing microorganisms for bioart projects]] - Alessandro Volpato
*[[GMU:Embodiment Toolkit|GMU:Embodiment Toolkit]] - Christian Doeller

== WS 2023 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==
*[[GMU:Beings and Machines]] - Prof. Ursula Damm
*[[GMU:Non-machines]] - Mindaugas Gapševičius
*[[GMU:Tired Machines Orchestra]] - Christian Doeller
*[[GMU:Making the Artist Present. Exploring Performative Practices]] - Martin Mueller (Bauhaus.Modul)
*[[GMU:Diy biolab drivers licence|GMU:DIY BioLab Driver's licence]] - Alessandro Volpato
*[[GMU:Design with Fungi]] - Alessandro Volpato
*GMU: LICHEN Workshop The Lichenlounge featuring Edible Lichen - Dr. Klaus Fritze
*GMU: LICHEN Expedition: Biodiversity in Thuringia Forest - Dr. Klaus Fritze and Dr. Jan Vondrak

== SS 2023 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==
*[[GMU: Maps, Territories and Possibility Spaces]] - Prof. Ursula Damm
*[[GMU:Photosynthesis and I]] - Mindaugas Gapsevicius

== WS 2022 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==
===Projektmodule===
*[[GMU:Construction - Destruction|Construction - Destruction]] - Prof. Ursula Damm

{{GMU:Lehrveranstaltungen/SS23}}

== WS 2022/23 – Vergangene Lehrveranstaltungen – Previous Courses ==
{{GMU:Lehrveranstaltungen/WS22}}

== Lehrveranstaltungen (Archiv) – Previous Courses ==
{{GMU:Previous Semesters}}

== Equipment ==
* [[GMU:Equipment|GMU Equipment]] – ''Equipment for Students of the Media Environments (GMU)''
* [[Equipment|Mediapoint]] – ''Equipment for all Students of Media Art + Design''

== Inside GMU ==
* [[GMU:Mailinglist|GMU Mailingliste]] – ''sign up using the [http://listserv.uni-weimar.de/mailman/listinfo/gmu web-interface]
* [[GMU:Links|GMU Linklist]]

{{Template:Help}}

GMU:Start

2025-02-12T14:53:22Z

Chefin: /* Research and Teaching Faculty */

This is the wiki of the Media Environments chair. For the public website please refer to https://www.uni-weimar.de/gmu

==Featured Projects==
{|cellpadding="2px" cellspacing="2px" border="0" style="margin:10px 10px 10px 0; font-size:0.8em; line-height: 1;"
|width="300px"|[[File:Markt-und-Maus-2.jpg|300px|plug and pray|link=GMU:BFA MFA Finals#Stefan Pach: Markt und Maus]]

[[GMU:BFA MFA Finals#Stefan Pach: Markt und Maus |Markt und Maus]] (Market and Mouse) [[Stefan Pach |Stefan Pach]]

How can we make mice live by the rules of investment banking?

To improve the understanding of the dynamics of finance markets the "Market and Mouse"-System tries to simulate a part of the fiscal universe. The main analysis focuses on the aspect of investment banking. This is the field with the biggest possible profit. "Market and Mouse" investigates how mice decide if they have to choose between high risk but high value options and less lucrative possibilities.
 
 

|width="26px"|
|width="300px"|[[File:Brume1.jpg|300px|Brume|link=GMU:BFA MFA Finals#Sebastian Wolf .26 Michael Kugler: Brume]]

[http://einsdreidrei.com/Brume Brume] by [[Sebastian Wolf]] & Michael Kugler

In 'Brume', the artist duo Michael Kugler and Sebastian Wolf investigate immateriality by coaxing fog into a semi-geometrical, self-organizing form. The viewer becomes a catalyst for disturbance, generating turbulences that not only illustrate the carrying power of the air, but upset a perceived equilibrium, and reveal the spatial and temporal volatility of such a phenomenon. 'Brume' operates in the margins between ubiquity and the finite, symmetry and the amorphous, transience and permanence, and gesturing at the paradox of immateriality.
|-

|width="300px"|[[File:super-boxen front.jpg|Synbio|link=GMU:Synthetic Biology]]
|width="26px"|
|width="300px"|[[File:Plug and pray.png|300px|plug and pray|link=Mental Radio Arbeiten#Jörg Brinkmann: plug and pray]]

|-
|Super Cell is a fictional supermarket website offering speculative products related to Synthetic Biology and our project for iGEM 2010. [[GMU:Synthetic Biology|Super Cell]]
|
|„You shall not make for yourself an idol...“

...just google it.

plug & pray is an interactive artwork that allows believers to pray through their computer. plug & pray makes the search for God easier, with the help of the internet. plug & pray works as if you were praying. Believers use the pray device that activates a google image search for the word „God“ on the act of praying. plug & pray believers see the results of their prayers as spiritualized video, projected before their very eyes. [[Mental Radio Arbeiten#Jörg Brinkmann: plug and pray|Jörg Brinkmann: plug and pray]]
|}

Check out our archives with [[GMU:Works|student works]] and [[GMU:BFA MFA Finals|thesis works]] of BFA and MFA graduates.
 

== Research and Teaching Faculty ==
{|cellpadding="5"
|+
|-
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Professor '''[[GMU:Ursula_Damm|Ursula Damm]]''' 
Marienstraße 5, Raum 304 
99423 Weimar 
Telefon:. +49 3643 / 58-3607 
E-Mail: ursula.damm [at] uni-weimar.de 
[http://www.ursuladamm.de ursuladamm.de] 
 
|

|
Artistic Associate 
'''[[GMU:Mindaugas Gapševičius|Mindaugas Gapševičius]]''' 
Marienstraße 5, Raum 208 
99423 Weimar 
Telefon: +49 3643 /58-3871 
E-Mail: mindaugas.gapsevicius [at] uni-weimar.de 
[http://www.triple-double-u.com triple-double-u.com] 
 
|}

Artistic Associate 
'''[[GMU:Alexander König|Alexander König]]''' 
Marienstraße 5, Raum 208 
99423 Weimar 
E-Mail: alexander.koenig [at] uni-weimar.de
[http://www.media-art-theory.com www.media-art-theory.com] 
 

Artistic Associate 
'''[[GMU:Isabella Lee Arturo|Isabella Lee Arturo]]''' 
Marienstraße 5, Raum 306 
99423 Weimar 
Telefon: +49 3643 /58-3871 
E-Mail: isabella.lee.arturo@uni-weimar.de isabella Lee Arturo[at] uni-weimar.de 
 
===[[GMU:Personen|other staff]]===

== SS 2025 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==
* [[GMU:Technosolutionism + Silicone Nightmares|Technosolutionism + Silicone Nightmares]]
* '''Hallucinating computers and dreaming non-machines'''

== WS 2024 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==

* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:Cybernetic_Subjects_-_Ursula_Damm_(Georg_Trogemann) GMU:Cybernetic Subjects - Ursula Damm (Georg Trogemann)]
* [[GMU:Performing for Machines (Body Work in Cybernetic Systems) - Isabella Lee Arturo]]
* [[GMU:Exhibitionist! (how to do Art Exhibitions) - Isabella Lee Arturo]]
* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:The_Plant_Plant GMU:The Plant Plant – Christian Doeller, Klaus Fritze]
* [[GMU:Life_in_an_aquatic_ecosystem|GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem]] - Mindaugas Gapševičius, Alessandro Volpato

== SS 2024 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==
*[[GMU:Data as Artistic Material]] - Juliane Götz, Sebastian Neitsch (Künstlerduo Quadrature)
*[[GMU:Winning natural habitats]] - Mindaugas Gapševičius & Klaus Herbst
*[[GMU:Diy biolab drivers licence SoSe24|GMU:DIY BioLab Driver's license]] - Alessandro Volpato
*[[GMU:Growing microorganisms for bioart projects SoSe24|GMU:Growing microorganisms for bioart projects]] - Alessandro Volpato
*[[GMU:Embodiment Toolkit|GMU:Embodiment Toolkit]] - Christian Doeller

== WS 2023 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==
*[[GMU:Beings and Machines]] - Prof. Ursula Damm
*[[GMU:Non-machines]] - Mindaugas Gapševičius
*[[GMU:Tired Machines Orchestra]] - Christian Doeller
*[[GMU:Making the Artist Present. Exploring Performative Practices]] - Martin Mueller (Bauhaus.Modul)
*[[GMU:Diy biolab drivers licence|GMU:DIY BioLab Driver's licence]] - Alessandro Volpato
*[[GMU:Design with Fungi]] - Alessandro Volpato
*GMU: LICHEN Workshop The Lichenlounge featuring Edible Lichen - Dr. Klaus Fritze
*GMU: LICHEN Expedition: Biodiversity in Thuringia Forest - Dr. Klaus Fritze and Dr. Jan Vondrak

== SS 2023 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==
*[[GMU: Maps, Territories and Possibility Spaces]] - Prof. Ursula Damm
*[[GMU:Photosynthesis and I]] - Mindaugas Gapsevicius

== WS 2022 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==
===Projektmodule===
*[[GMU:Construction - Destruction|Construction - Destruction]] - Prof. Ursula Damm

{{GMU:Lehrveranstaltungen/SS23}}

== WS 2022/23 – Vergangene Lehrveranstaltungen – Previous Courses ==
{{GMU:Lehrveranstaltungen/WS22}}

== Lehrveranstaltungen (Archiv) – Previous Courses ==
{{GMU:Previous Semesters}}

== Equipment ==
* [[GMU:Equipment|GMU Equipment]] – ''Equipment for Students of the Media Environments (GMU)''
* [[Equipment|Mediapoint]] – ''Equipment for all Students of Media Art + Design''

== Inside GMU ==
* [[GMU:Mailinglist|GMU Mailingliste]] – ''sign up using the [http://listserv.uni-weimar.de/mailman/listinfo/gmu web-interface]
* [[GMU:Links|GMU Linklist]]

{{Template:Help}}

GMU:Start

2025-02-12T14:53:05Z

Chefin: /* Research and Teaching Faculty */

This is the wiki of the Media Environments chair. For the public website please refer to https://www.uni-weimar.de/gmu

==Featured Projects==
{|cellpadding="2px" cellspacing="2px" border="0" style="margin:10px 10px 10px 0; font-size:0.8em; line-height: 1;"
|width="300px"|[[File:Markt-und-Maus-2.jpg|300px|plug and pray|link=GMU:BFA MFA Finals#Stefan Pach: Markt und Maus]]

[[GMU:BFA MFA Finals#Stefan Pach: Markt und Maus |Markt und Maus]] (Market and Mouse) [[Stefan Pach |Stefan Pach]]

How can we make mice live by the rules of investment banking?

To improve the understanding of the dynamics of finance markets the "Market and Mouse"-System tries to simulate a part of the fiscal universe. The main analysis focuses on the aspect of investment banking. This is the field with the biggest possible profit. "Market and Mouse" investigates how mice decide if they have to choose between high risk but high value options and less lucrative possibilities.
 
 

|width="26px"|
|width="300px"|[[File:Brume1.jpg|300px|Brume|link=GMU:BFA MFA Finals#Sebastian Wolf .26 Michael Kugler: Brume]]

[http://einsdreidrei.com/Brume Brume] by [[Sebastian Wolf]] & Michael Kugler

In 'Brume', the artist duo Michael Kugler and Sebastian Wolf investigate immateriality by coaxing fog into a semi-geometrical, self-organizing form. The viewer becomes a catalyst for disturbance, generating turbulences that not only illustrate the carrying power of the air, but upset a perceived equilibrium, and reveal the spatial and temporal volatility of such a phenomenon. 'Brume' operates in the margins between ubiquity and the finite, symmetry and the amorphous, transience and permanence, and gesturing at the paradox of immateriality.
|-

|width="300px"|[[File:super-boxen front.jpg|Synbio|link=GMU:Synthetic Biology]]
|width="26px"|
|width="300px"|[[File:Plug and pray.png|300px|plug and pray|link=Mental Radio Arbeiten#Jörg Brinkmann: plug and pray]]

|-
|Super Cell is a fictional supermarket website offering speculative products related to Synthetic Biology and our project for iGEM 2010. [[GMU:Synthetic Biology|Super Cell]]
|
|„You shall not make for yourself an idol...“

...just google it.

plug & pray is an interactive artwork that allows believers to pray through their computer. plug & pray makes the search for God easier, with the help of the internet. plug & pray works as if you were praying. Believers use the pray device that activates a google image search for the word „God“ on the act of praying. plug & pray believers see the results of their prayers as spiritualized video, projected before their very eyes. [[Mental Radio Arbeiten#Jörg Brinkmann: plug and pray|Jörg Brinkmann: plug and pray]]
|}

Check out our archives with [[GMU:Works|student works]] and [[GMU:BFA MFA Finals|thesis works]] of BFA and MFA graduates.
 

== Research and Teaching Faculty ==
{|cellpadding="5"
|+
|-
|
Professor '''[[GMU:Ursula_Damm|Ursula Damm]]''' 
Marienstraße 5, Raum 304 
99423 Weimar 
Telefon:. +49 3643 / 58-3607 
E-Mail: ursula.damm [at] uni-weimar.de 
[http://www.ursuladamm.de ursuladamm.de] 
 
|

|
Artistic Associate 
'''[[GMU:Mindaugas Gapševičius|Mindaugas Gapševičius]]''' 
Marienstraße 5, Raum 208 
99423 Weimar 
Telefon: +49 3643 /58-3871 
E-Mail: mindaugas.gapsevicius [at] uni-weimar.de 
[http://www.triple-double-u.com triple-double-u.com] 
 
|}

Artistic Associate 
'''[[GMU:Alexander König|Alexander König]]''' 
Marienstraße 5, Raum 208 
99423 Weimar 
E-Mail: alexander.koenig [at] uni-weimar.de
[http://www.media-art-theory.com www.media-art-theory.com] 
 
|
Artistic Associate 
'''[[GMU:Isabella Lee Arturo|Isabella Lee Arturo]]''' 
Marienstraße 5, Raum 306 
99423 Weimar 
Telefon: +49 3643 /58-3871 
E-Mail: isabella.lee.arturo@uni-weimar.de isabella Lee Arturo[at] uni-weimar.de 
 
|}
===[[GMU:Personen|other staff]]===

== SS 2025 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==
* [[GMU:Technosolutionism + Silicone Nightmares|Technosolutionism + Silicone Nightmares]]
* '''Hallucinating computers and dreaming non-machines'''

== WS 2024 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==

* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:Cybernetic_Subjects_-_Ursula_Damm_(Georg_Trogemann) GMU:Cybernetic Subjects - Ursula Damm (Georg Trogemann)]
* [[GMU:Performing for Machines (Body Work in Cybernetic Systems) - Isabella Lee Arturo]]
* [[GMU:Exhibitionist! (how to do Art Exhibitions) - Isabella Lee Arturo]]
* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:The_Plant_Plant GMU:The Plant Plant – Christian Doeller, Klaus Fritze]
* [[GMU:Life_in_an_aquatic_ecosystem|GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem]] - Mindaugas Gapševičius, Alessandro Volpato

== SS 2024 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==
*[[GMU:Data as Artistic Material]] - Juliane Götz, Sebastian Neitsch (Künstlerduo Quadrature)
*[[GMU:Winning natural habitats]] - Mindaugas Gapševičius & Klaus Herbst
*[[GMU:Diy biolab drivers licence SoSe24|GMU:DIY BioLab Driver's license]] - Alessandro Volpato
*[[GMU:Growing microorganisms for bioart projects SoSe24|GMU:Growing microorganisms for bioart projects]] - Alessandro Volpato
*[[GMU:Embodiment Toolkit|GMU:Embodiment Toolkit]] - Christian Doeller

== WS 2023 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==
*[[GMU:Beings and Machines]] - Prof. Ursula Damm
*[[GMU:Non-machines]] - Mindaugas Gapševičius
*[[GMU:Tired Machines Orchestra]] - Christian Doeller
*[[GMU:Making the Artist Present. Exploring Performative Practices]] - Martin Mueller (Bauhaus.Modul)
*[[GMU:Diy biolab drivers licence|GMU:DIY BioLab Driver's licence]] - Alessandro Volpato
*[[GMU:Design with Fungi]] - Alessandro Volpato
*GMU: LICHEN Workshop The Lichenlounge featuring Edible Lichen - Dr. Klaus Fritze
*GMU: LICHEN Expedition: Biodiversity in Thuringia Forest - Dr. Klaus Fritze and Dr. Jan Vondrak

== SS 2023 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==
*[[GMU: Maps, Territories and Possibility Spaces]] - Prof. Ursula Damm
*[[GMU:Photosynthesis and I]] - Mindaugas Gapsevicius

== WS 2022 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==
===Projektmodule===
*[[GMU:Construction - Destruction|Construction - Destruction]] - Prof. Ursula Damm

{{GMU:Lehrveranstaltungen/SS23}}

== WS 2022/23 – Vergangene Lehrveranstaltungen – Previous Courses ==
{{GMU:Lehrveranstaltungen/WS22}}

== Lehrveranstaltungen (Archiv) – Previous Courses ==
{{GMU:Previous Semesters}}

== Equipment ==
* [[GMU:Equipment|GMU Equipment]] – ''Equipment for Students of the Media Environments (GMU)''
* [[Equipment|Mediapoint]] – ''Equipment for all Students of Media Art + Design''

== Inside GMU ==
* [[GMU:Mailinglist|GMU Mailingliste]] – ''sign up using the [http://listserv.uni-weimar.de/mailman/listinfo/gmu web-interface]
* [[GMU:Links|GMU Linklist]]

{{Template:Help}}

GMU:Start

2025-02-12T14:49:39Z

Chefin: /* Research and Teaching Faculty */

This is the wiki of the Media Environments chair. For the public website please refer to https://www.uni-weimar.de/gmu

==Featured Projects==
{|cellpadding="2px" cellspacing="2px" border="0" style="margin:10px 10px 10px 0; font-size:0.8em; line-height: 1;"
|width="300px"|[[File:Markt-und-Maus-2.jpg|300px|plug and pray|link=GMU:BFA MFA Finals#Stefan Pach: Markt und Maus]]

[[GMU:BFA MFA Finals#Stefan Pach: Markt und Maus |Markt und Maus]] (Market and Mouse) [[Stefan Pach |Stefan Pach]]

How can we make mice live by the rules of investment banking?

To improve the understanding of the dynamics of finance markets the "Market and Mouse"-System tries to simulate a part of the fiscal universe. The main analysis focuses on the aspect of investment banking. This is the field with the biggest possible profit. "Market and Mouse" investigates how mice decide if they have to choose between high risk but high value options and less lucrative possibilities.
 
 

|width="26px"|
|width="300px"|[[File:Brume1.jpg|300px|Brume|link=GMU:BFA MFA Finals#Sebastian Wolf .26 Michael Kugler: Brume]]

[http://einsdreidrei.com/Brume Brume] by [[Sebastian Wolf]] & Michael Kugler

In 'Brume', the artist duo Michael Kugler and Sebastian Wolf investigate immateriality by coaxing fog into a semi-geometrical, self-organizing form. The viewer becomes a catalyst for disturbance, generating turbulences that not only illustrate the carrying power of the air, but upset a perceived equilibrium, and reveal the spatial and temporal volatility of such a phenomenon. 'Brume' operates in the margins between ubiquity and the finite, symmetry and the amorphous, transience and permanence, and gesturing at the paradox of immateriality.
|-

|width="300px"|[[File:super-boxen front.jpg|Synbio|link=GMU:Synthetic Biology]]
|width="26px"|
|width="300px"|[[File:Plug and pray.png|300px|plug and pray|link=Mental Radio Arbeiten#Jörg Brinkmann: plug and pray]]

|-
|Super Cell is a fictional supermarket website offering speculative products related to Synthetic Biology and our project for iGEM 2010. [[GMU:Synthetic Biology|Super Cell]]
|
|„You shall not make for yourself an idol...“

...just google it.

plug & pray is an interactive artwork that allows believers to pray through their computer. plug & pray makes the search for God easier, with the help of the internet. plug & pray works as if you were praying. Believers use the pray device that activates a google image search for the word „God“ on the act of praying. plug & pray believers see the results of their prayers as spiritualized video, projected before their very eyes. [[Mental Radio Arbeiten#Jörg Brinkmann: plug and pray|Jörg Brinkmann: plug and pray]]
|}

Check out our archives with [[GMU:Works|student works]] and [[GMU:BFA MFA Finals|thesis works]] of BFA and MFA graduates.
 

== Research and Teaching Faculty ==
{|cellpadding="5"
|+
|-
|
Professor '''[[GMU:Ursula_Damm|Ursula Damm]]''' 
Marienstraße 5, Raum 304 
99423 Weimar 
Telefon:. +49 3643 / 58-3607 
E-Mail: ursula.damm [at] uni-weimar.de 
[http://www.ursuladamm.de ursuladamm.de] 
 
|

|
Artistic Associate 
'''[[GMU:Mindaugas Gapševičius|Mindaugas Gapševičius]]''' 
Marienstraße 5, Raum 208 
99423 Weimar 
Telefon: +49 3643 /58-3871 
E-Mail: mindaugas.gapsevicius [at] uni-weimar.de 
[http://www.triple-double-u.com triple-double-u.com] 
 
|}

Artistic Associate 
'''[[GMU:Alexander König|Alexander König]]''' 
Marienstraße 5, Raum 208 
99423 Weimar 
E-Mail: alexander.koenig [at] uni-weimar.de
[http://www.media-art-theory.com www.media-art-theory.com] 
 

===[[GMU:Personen|other staff]]===

== SS 2025 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==
* [[GMU:Technosolutionism + Silicone Nightmares|Technosolutionism + Silicone Nightmares]]
* '''Hallucinating computers and dreaming non-machines'''

== WS 2024 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==

* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:Cybernetic_Subjects_-_Ursula_Damm_(Georg_Trogemann) GMU:Cybernetic Subjects - Ursula Damm (Georg Trogemann)]
* [[GMU:Performing for Machines (Body Work in Cybernetic Systems) - Isabella Lee Arturo]]
* [[GMU:Exhibitionist! (how to do Art Exhibitions) - Isabella Lee Arturo]]
* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:The_Plant_Plant GMU:The Plant Plant – Christian Doeller, Klaus Fritze]
* [[GMU:Life_in_an_aquatic_ecosystem|GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem]] - Mindaugas Gapševičius, Alessandro Volpato

== SS 2024 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==
*[[GMU:Data as Artistic Material]] - Juliane Götz, Sebastian Neitsch (Künstlerduo Quadrature)
*[[GMU:Winning natural habitats]] - Mindaugas Gapševičius & Klaus Herbst
*[[GMU:Diy biolab drivers licence SoSe24|GMU:DIY BioLab Driver's license]] - Alessandro Volpato
*[[GMU:Growing microorganisms for bioart projects SoSe24|GMU:Growing microorganisms for bioart projects]] - Alessandro Volpato
*[[GMU:Embodiment Toolkit|GMU:Embodiment Toolkit]] - Christian Doeller

== WS 2023 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==
*[[GMU:Beings and Machines]] - Prof. Ursula Damm
*[[GMU:Non-machines]] - Mindaugas Gapševičius
*[[GMU:Tired Machines Orchestra]] - Christian Doeller
*[[GMU:Making the Artist Present. Exploring Performative Practices]] - Martin Mueller (Bauhaus.Modul)
*[[GMU:Diy biolab drivers licence|GMU:DIY BioLab Driver's licence]] - Alessandro Volpato
*[[GMU:Design with Fungi]] - Alessandro Volpato
*GMU: LICHEN Workshop The Lichenlounge featuring Edible Lichen - Dr. Klaus Fritze
*GMU: LICHEN Expedition: Biodiversity in Thuringia Forest - Dr. Klaus Fritze and Dr. Jan Vondrak

== SS 2023 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==
*[[GMU: Maps, Territories and Possibility Spaces]] - Prof. Ursula Damm
*[[GMU:Photosynthesis and I]] - Mindaugas Gapsevicius

== WS 2022 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==
===Projektmodule===
*[[GMU:Construction - Destruction|Construction - Destruction]] - Prof. Ursula Damm

{{GMU:Lehrveranstaltungen/SS23}}

== WS 2022/23 – Vergangene Lehrveranstaltungen – Previous Courses ==
{{GMU:Lehrveranstaltungen/WS22}}

== Lehrveranstaltungen (Archiv) – Previous Courses ==
{{GMU:Previous Semesters}}

== Equipment ==
* [[GMU:Equipment|GMU Equipment]] – ''Equipment for Students of the Media Environments (GMU)''
* [[Equipment|Mediapoint]] – ''Equipment for all Students of Media Art + Design''

== Inside GMU ==
* [[GMU:Mailinglist|GMU Mailingliste]] – ''sign up using the [http://listserv.uni-weimar.de/mailman/listinfo/gmu web-interface]
* [[GMU:Links|GMU Linklist]]

{{Template:Help}}

GMU:Start

2025-02-12T14:49:20Z

Chefin: /* Research and Teaching Faculty */

This is the wiki of the Media Environments chair. For the public website please refer to https://www.uni-weimar.de/gmu

==Featured Projects==
{|cellpadding="2px" cellspacing="2px" border="0" style="margin:10px 10px 10px 0; font-size:0.8em; line-height: 1;"
|width="300px"|[[File:Markt-und-Maus-2.jpg|300px|plug and pray|link=GMU:BFA MFA Finals#Stefan Pach: Markt und Maus]]

[[GMU:BFA MFA Finals#Stefan Pach: Markt und Maus |Markt und Maus]] (Market and Mouse) [[Stefan Pach |Stefan Pach]]

How can we make mice live by the rules of investment banking?

To improve the understanding of the dynamics of finance markets the "Market and Mouse"-System tries to simulate a part of the fiscal universe. The main analysis focuses on the aspect of investment banking. This is the field with the biggest possible profit. "Market and Mouse" investigates how mice decide if they have to choose between high risk but high value options and less lucrative possibilities.
 
 

|width="26px"|
|width="300px"|[[File:Brume1.jpg|300px|Brume|link=GMU:BFA MFA Finals#Sebastian Wolf .26 Michael Kugler: Brume]]

[http://einsdreidrei.com/Brume Brume] by [[Sebastian Wolf]] & Michael Kugler

In 'Brume', the artist duo Michael Kugler and Sebastian Wolf investigate immateriality by coaxing fog into a semi-geometrical, self-organizing form. The viewer becomes a catalyst for disturbance, generating turbulences that not only illustrate the carrying power of the air, but upset a perceived equilibrium, and reveal the spatial and temporal volatility of such a phenomenon. 'Brume' operates in the margins between ubiquity and the finite, symmetry and the amorphous, transience and permanence, and gesturing at the paradox of immateriality.
|-

|width="300px"|[[File:super-boxen front.jpg|Synbio|link=GMU:Synthetic Biology]]
|width="26px"|
|width="300px"|[[File:Plug and pray.png|300px|plug and pray|link=Mental Radio Arbeiten#Jörg Brinkmann: plug and pray]]

|-
|Super Cell is a fictional supermarket website offering speculative products related to Synthetic Biology and our project for iGEM 2010. [[GMU:Synthetic Biology|Super Cell]]
|
|„You shall not make for yourself an idol...“

...just google it.

plug & pray is an interactive artwork that allows believers to pray through their computer. plug & pray makes the search for God easier, with the help of the internet. plug & pray works as if you were praying. Believers use the pray device that activates a google image search for the word „God“ on the act of praying. plug & pray believers see the results of their prayers as spiritualized video, projected before their very eyes. [[Mental Radio Arbeiten#Jörg Brinkmann: plug and pray|Jörg Brinkmann: plug and pray]]
|}

Check out our archives with [[GMU:Works|student works]] and [[GMU:BFA MFA Finals|thesis works]] of BFA and MFA graduates.
 

== Research and Teaching Faculty ==
{|cellpadding="5"
|+
|-
|
Professor '''[[GMU:Ursula_Damm|Ursula Damm]]''' 
Marienstraße 5, Raum 304 
99423 Weimar 
Telefon:. +49 3643 / 58-3607 
E-Mail: ursula.damm [at] uni-weimar.de 
[http://www.ursuladamm.de ursuladamm.de] 
 
|

|
Artistic Associate 
'''[[GMU:Mindaugas Gapševičius|Mindaugas Gapševičius]]''' 
Marienstraße 5, Raum 208 
99423 Weimar 
Telefon: +49 3643 /58-3871 
E-Mail: mindaugas.gapsevicius [at] uni-weimar.de 
[http://www.triple-double-u.com triple-double-u.com] 
 
|}

Artistic Associate 
'''[[GMU:Alexander König|Alexander König]]''' 
Marienstraße 5, Raum 208 
99423 Weimar 
E-Mail: alexander.koenig [at] uni-weimar.de
[http://www.media-art-theory.com www.media-art-theory.com] 
 
|}

===[[GMU:Personen|other staff]]===

== SS 2025 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==
* [[GMU:Technosolutionism + Silicone Nightmares|Technosolutionism + Silicone Nightmares]]
* '''Hallucinating computers and dreaming non-machines'''

== WS 2024 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==

* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:Cybernetic_Subjects_-_Ursula_Damm_(Georg_Trogemann) GMU:Cybernetic Subjects - Ursula Damm (Georg Trogemann)]
* [[GMU:Performing for Machines (Body Work in Cybernetic Systems) - Isabella Lee Arturo]]
* [[GMU:Exhibitionist! (how to do Art Exhibitions) - Isabella Lee Arturo]]
* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:The_Plant_Plant GMU:The Plant Plant – Christian Doeller, Klaus Fritze]
* [[GMU:Life_in_an_aquatic_ecosystem|GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem]] - Mindaugas Gapševičius, Alessandro Volpato

== SS 2024 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==
*[[GMU:Data as Artistic Material]] - Juliane Götz, Sebastian Neitsch (Künstlerduo Quadrature)
*[[GMU:Winning natural habitats]] - Mindaugas Gapševičius & Klaus Herbst
*[[GMU:Diy biolab drivers licence SoSe24|GMU:DIY BioLab Driver's license]] - Alessandro Volpato
*[[GMU:Growing microorganisms for bioart projects SoSe24|GMU:Growing microorganisms for bioart projects]] - Alessandro Volpato
*[[GMU:Embodiment Toolkit|GMU:Embodiment Toolkit]] - Christian Doeller

== WS 2023 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==
*[[GMU:Beings and Machines]] - Prof. Ursula Damm
*[[GMU:Non-machines]] - Mindaugas Gapševičius
*[[GMU:Tired Machines Orchestra]] - Christian Doeller
*[[GMU:Making the Artist Present. Exploring Performative Practices]] - Martin Mueller (Bauhaus.Modul)
*[[GMU:Diy biolab drivers licence|GMU:DIY BioLab Driver's licence]] - Alessandro Volpato
*[[GMU:Design with Fungi]] - Alessandro Volpato
*GMU: LICHEN Workshop The Lichenlounge featuring Edible Lichen - Dr. Klaus Fritze
*GMU: LICHEN Expedition: Biodiversity in Thuringia Forest - Dr. Klaus Fritze and Dr. Jan Vondrak

== SS 2023 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==
*[[GMU: Maps, Territories and Possibility Spaces]] - Prof. Ursula Damm
*[[GMU:Photosynthesis and I]] - Mindaugas Gapsevicius

== WS 2022 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==
===Projektmodule===
*[[GMU:Construction - Destruction|Construction - Destruction]] - Prof. Ursula Damm

{{GMU:Lehrveranstaltungen/SS23}}

== WS 2022/23 – Vergangene Lehrveranstaltungen – Previous Courses ==
{{GMU:Lehrveranstaltungen/WS22}}

== Lehrveranstaltungen (Archiv) – Previous Courses ==
{{GMU:Previous Semesters}}

== Equipment ==
* [[GMU:Equipment|GMU Equipment]] – ''Equipment for Students of the Media Environments (GMU)''
* [[Equipment|Mediapoint]] – ''Equipment for all Students of Media Art + Design''

== Inside GMU ==
* [[GMU:Mailinglist|GMU Mailingliste]] – ''sign up using the [http://listserv.uni-weimar.de/mailman/listinfo/gmu web-interface]
* [[GMU:Links|GMU Linklist]]

{{Template:Help}}

GMU:Start

2025-02-12T14:49:02Z

Chefin: /* Research and Teaching Faculty */

This is the wiki of the Media Environments chair. For the public website please refer to https://www.uni-weimar.de/gmu

==Featured Projects==
{|cellpadding="2px" cellspacing="2px" border="0" style="margin:10px 10px 10px 0; font-size:0.8em; line-height: 1;"
|width="300px"|[[File:Markt-und-Maus-2.jpg|300px|plug and pray|link=GMU:BFA MFA Finals#Stefan Pach: Markt und Maus]]

[[GMU:BFA MFA Finals#Stefan Pach: Markt und Maus |Markt und Maus]] (Market and Mouse) [[Stefan Pach |Stefan Pach]]

How can we make mice live by the rules of investment banking?

To improve the understanding of the dynamics of finance markets the "Market and Mouse"-System tries to simulate a part of the fiscal universe. The main analysis focuses on the aspect of investment banking. This is the field with the biggest possible profit. "Market and Mouse" investigates how mice decide if they have to choose between high risk but high value options and less lucrative possibilities.
 
 

|width="26px"|
|width="300px"|[[File:Brume1.jpg|300px|Brume|link=GMU:BFA MFA Finals#Sebastian Wolf .26 Michael Kugler: Brume]]

[http://einsdreidrei.com/Brume Brume] by [[Sebastian Wolf]] & Michael Kugler

In 'Brume', the artist duo Michael Kugler and Sebastian Wolf investigate immateriality by coaxing fog into a semi-geometrical, self-organizing form. The viewer becomes a catalyst for disturbance, generating turbulences that not only illustrate the carrying power of the air, but upset a perceived equilibrium, and reveal the spatial and temporal volatility of such a phenomenon. 'Brume' operates in the margins between ubiquity and the finite, symmetry and the amorphous, transience and permanence, and gesturing at the paradox of immateriality.
|-

|width="300px"|[[File:super-boxen front.jpg|Synbio|link=GMU:Synthetic Biology]]
|width="26px"|
|width="300px"|[[File:Plug and pray.png|300px|plug and pray|link=Mental Radio Arbeiten#Jörg Brinkmann: plug and pray]]

|-
|Super Cell is a fictional supermarket website offering speculative products related to Synthetic Biology and our project for iGEM 2010. [[GMU:Synthetic Biology|Super Cell]]
|
|„You shall not make for yourself an idol...“

...just google it.

plug & pray is an interactive artwork that allows believers to pray through their computer. plug & pray makes the search for God easier, with the help of the internet. plug & pray works as if you were praying. Believers use the pray device that activates a google image search for the word „God“ on the act of praying. plug & pray believers see the results of their prayers as spiritualized video, projected before their very eyes. [[Mental Radio Arbeiten#Jörg Brinkmann: plug and pray|Jörg Brinkmann: plug and pray]]
|}

Check out our archives with [[GMU:Works|student works]] and [[GMU:BFA MFA Finals|thesis works]] of BFA and MFA graduates.
 

== Research and Teaching Faculty ==
{|cellpadding="5"
|+
|-
|
Professor '''[[GMU:Ursula_Damm|Ursula Damm]]''' 
Marienstraße 5, Raum 304 
99423 Weimar 
Telefon:. +49 3643 / 58-3607 
E-Mail: ursula.damm [at] uni-weimar.de 
[http://www.ursuladamm.de ursuladamm.de] 
 
|

|
Artistic Associate 
'''[[GMU:Mindaugas Gapševičius|Mindaugas Gapševičius]]''' 
Marienstraße 5, Raum 208 
99423 Weimar 
Telefon: +49 3643 /58-3871 
E-Mail: mindaugas.gapsevicius [at] uni-weimar.de 
[http://www.triple-double-u.com triple-double-u.com] 
 
|}

|
Artistic Associate 
'''[[GMU:Alexander König|Alexander König]]''' 
Marienstraße 5, Raum 208 
99423 Weimar 
E-Mail: alexander.koenig [at] uni-weimar.de
[http://www.media-art-theory.com www.media-art-theory.com] 
 
|}

===[[GMU:Personen|other staff]]===

== SS 2025 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==
* [[GMU:Technosolutionism + Silicone Nightmares|Technosolutionism + Silicone Nightmares]]
* '''Hallucinating computers and dreaming non-machines'''

== WS 2024 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==

* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:Cybernetic_Subjects_-_Ursula_Damm_(Georg_Trogemann) GMU:Cybernetic Subjects - Ursula Damm (Georg Trogemann)]
* [[GMU:Performing for Machines (Body Work in Cybernetic Systems) - Isabella Lee Arturo]]
* [[GMU:Exhibitionist! (how to do Art Exhibitions) - Isabella Lee Arturo]]
* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:The_Plant_Plant GMU:The Plant Plant – Christian Doeller, Klaus Fritze]
* [[GMU:Life_in_an_aquatic_ecosystem|GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem]] - Mindaugas Gapševičius, Alessandro Volpato

== SS 2024 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==
*[[GMU:Data as Artistic Material]] - Juliane Götz, Sebastian Neitsch (Künstlerduo Quadrature)
*[[GMU:Winning natural habitats]] - Mindaugas Gapševičius & Klaus Herbst
*[[GMU:Diy biolab drivers licence SoSe24|GMU:DIY BioLab Driver's license]] - Alessandro Volpato
*[[GMU:Growing microorganisms for bioart projects SoSe24|GMU:Growing microorganisms for bioart projects]] - Alessandro Volpato
*[[GMU:Embodiment Toolkit|GMU:Embodiment Toolkit]] - Christian Doeller

== WS 2023 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==
*[[GMU:Beings and Machines]] - Prof. Ursula Damm
*[[GMU:Non-machines]] - Mindaugas Gapševičius
*[[GMU:Tired Machines Orchestra]] - Christian Doeller
*[[GMU:Making the Artist Present. Exploring Performative Practices]] - Martin Mueller (Bauhaus.Modul)
*[[GMU:Diy biolab drivers licence|GMU:DIY BioLab Driver's licence]] - Alessandro Volpato
*[[GMU:Design with Fungi]] - Alessandro Volpato
*GMU: LICHEN Workshop The Lichenlounge featuring Edible Lichen - Dr. Klaus Fritze
*GMU: LICHEN Expedition: Biodiversity in Thuringia Forest - Dr. Klaus Fritze and Dr. Jan Vondrak

== SS 2023 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==
*[[GMU: Maps, Territories and Possibility Spaces]] - Prof. Ursula Damm
*[[GMU:Photosynthesis and I]] - Mindaugas Gapsevicius

== WS 2022 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==
===Projektmodule===
*[[GMU:Construction - Destruction|Construction - Destruction]] - Prof. Ursula Damm

{{GMU:Lehrveranstaltungen/SS23}}

== WS 2022/23 – Vergangene Lehrveranstaltungen – Previous Courses ==
{{GMU:Lehrveranstaltungen/WS22}}

== Lehrveranstaltungen (Archiv) – Previous Courses ==
{{GMU:Previous Semesters}}

== Equipment ==
* [[GMU:Equipment|GMU Equipment]] – ''Equipment for Students of the Media Environments (GMU)''
* [[Equipment|Mediapoint]] – ''Equipment for all Students of Media Art + Design''

== Inside GMU ==
* [[GMU:Mailinglist|GMU Mailingliste]] – ''sign up using the [http://listserv.uni-weimar.de/mailman/listinfo/gmu web-interface]
* [[GMU:Links|GMU Linklist]]

{{Template:Help}}

GMU:Start

2025-02-12T14:45:25Z

Chefin: /* SS 2025 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses */

This is the wiki of the Media Environments chair. For the public website please refer to https://www.uni-weimar.de/gmu

==Featured Projects==
{|cellpadding="2px" cellspacing="2px" border="0" style="margin:10px 10px 10px 0; font-size:0.8em; line-height: 1;"
|width="300px"|[[File:Markt-und-Maus-2.jpg|300px|plug and pray|link=GMU:BFA MFA Finals#Stefan Pach: Markt und Maus]]

[[GMU:BFA MFA Finals#Stefan Pach: Markt und Maus |Markt und Maus]] (Market and Mouse) [[Stefan Pach |Stefan Pach]]

How can we make mice live by the rules of investment banking?

To improve the understanding of the dynamics of finance markets the "Market and Mouse"-System tries to simulate a part of the fiscal universe. The main analysis focuses on the aspect of investment banking. This is the field with the biggest possible profit. "Market and Mouse" investigates how mice decide if they have to choose between high risk but high value options and less lucrative possibilities.
 
 

|width="26px"|
|width="300px"|[[File:Brume1.jpg|300px|Brume|link=GMU:BFA MFA Finals#Sebastian Wolf .26 Michael Kugler: Brume]]

[http://einsdreidrei.com/Brume Brume] by [[Sebastian Wolf]] & Michael Kugler

In 'Brume', the artist duo Michael Kugler and Sebastian Wolf investigate immateriality by coaxing fog into a semi-geometrical, self-organizing form. The viewer becomes a catalyst for disturbance, generating turbulences that not only illustrate the carrying power of the air, but upset a perceived equilibrium, and reveal the spatial and temporal volatility of such a phenomenon. 'Brume' operates in the margins between ubiquity and the finite, symmetry and the amorphous, transience and permanence, and gesturing at the paradox of immateriality.
|-

|width="300px"|[[File:super-boxen front.jpg|Synbio|link=GMU:Synthetic Biology]]
|width="26px"|
|width="300px"|[[File:Plug and pray.png|300px|plug and pray|link=Mental Radio Arbeiten#Jörg Brinkmann: plug and pray]]

|-
|Super Cell is a fictional supermarket website offering speculative products related to Synthetic Biology and our project for iGEM 2010. [[GMU:Synthetic Biology|Super Cell]]
|
|„You shall not make for yourself an idol...“

...just google it.

plug & pray is an interactive artwork that allows believers to pray through their computer. plug & pray makes the search for God easier, with the help of the internet. plug & pray works as if you were praying. Believers use the pray device that activates a google image search for the word „God“ on the act of praying. plug & pray believers see the results of their prayers as spiritualized video, projected before their very eyes. [[Mental Radio Arbeiten#Jörg Brinkmann: plug and pray|Jörg Brinkmann: plug and pray]]
|}

Check out our archives with [[GMU:Works|student works]] and [[GMU:BFA MFA Finals|thesis works]] of BFA and MFA graduates.
 

== Research and Teaching Faculty ==
{|cellpadding="5"
|+
|-
|
Professor '''[[GMU:Ursula_Damm|Ursula Damm]]''' 
Marienstraße 5, Raum 304 
99423 Weimar 
Telefon:. +49 3643 / 58-3607 
E-Mail: ursula.damm [at] uni-weimar.de 
[http://www.ursuladamm.de ursuladamm.de] 
 
|

|
Artistic Associate 
'''[[GMU:Mindaugas Gapševičius|Mindaugas Gapševičius]]''' 
Marienstraße 5, Raum 208 
99423 Weimar 
Telefon: +49 3643 /58-3871 
E-Mail: mindaugas.gapsevicius [at] uni-weimar.de 
[http://www.triple-double-u.com triple-double-u.com] 
 
|}
===[[GMU:Personen|other staff]]===
 

== SS 2025 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==
* [[GMU:Technosolutionism + Silicone Nightmares|Technosolutionism + Silicone Nightmares]]
* '''Hallucinating computers and dreaming non-machines'''

== WS 2024 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==

* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:Cybernetic_Subjects_-_Ursula_Damm_(Georg_Trogemann) GMU:Cybernetic Subjects - Ursula Damm (Georg Trogemann)]
* [[GMU:Performing for Machines (Body Work in Cybernetic Systems) - Isabella Lee Arturo]]
* [[GMU:Exhibitionist! (how to do Art Exhibitions) - Isabella Lee Arturo]]
* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:The_Plant_Plant GMU:The Plant Plant – Christian Doeller, Klaus Fritze]
* [[GMU:Life_in_an_aquatic_ecosystem|GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem]] - Mindaugas Gapševičius, Alessandro Volpato

== SS 2024 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==
*[[GMU:Data as Artistic Material]] - Juliane Götz, Sebastian Neitsch (Künstlerduo Quadrature)
*[[GMU:Winning natural habitats]] - Mindaugas Gapševičius & Klaus Herbst
*[[GMU:Diy biolab drivers licence SoSe24|GMU:DIY BioLab Driver's license]] - Alessandro Volpato
*[[GMU:Growing microorganisms for bioart projects SoSe24|GMU:Growing microorganisms for bioart projects]] - Alessandro Volpato
*[[GMU:Embodiment Toolkit|GMU:Embodiment Toolkit]] - Christian Doeller

== WS 2023 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==
*[[GMU:Beings and Machines]] - Prof. Ursula Damm
*[[GMU:Non-machines]] - Mindaugas Gapševičius
*[[GMU:Tired Machines Orchestra]] - Christian Doeller
*[[GMU:Making the Artist Present. Exploring Performative Practices]] - Martin Mueller (Bauhaus.Modul)
*[[GMU:Diy biolab drivers licence|GMU:DIY BioLab Driver's licence]] - Alessandro Volpato
*[[GMU:Design with Fungi]] - Alessandro Volpato
*GMU: LICHEN Workshop The Lichenlounge featuring Edible Lichen - Dr. Klaus Fritze
*GMU: LICHEN Expedition: Biodiversity in Thuringia Forest - Dr. Klaus Fritze and Dr. Jan Vondrak

== SS 2023 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==
*[[GMU: Maps, Territories and Possibility Spaces]] - Prof. Ursula Damm
*[[GMU:Photosynthesis and I]] - Mindaugas Gapsevicius

== WS 2022 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==
===Projektmodule===
*[[GMU:Construction - Destruction|Construction - Destruction]] - Prof. Ursula Damm

{{GMU:Lehrveranstaltungen/SS23}}

== WS 2022/23 – Vergangene Lehrveranstaltungen – Previous Courses ==
{{GMU:Lehrveranstaltungen/WS22}}

== Lehrveranstaltungen (Archiv) – Previous Courses ==
{{GMU:Previous Semesters}}

== Equipment ==
* [[GMU:Equipment|GMU Equipment]] – ''Equipment for Students of the Media Environments (GMU)''
* [[Equipment|Mediapoint]] – ''Equipment for all Students of Media Art + Design''

== Inside GMU ==
* [[GMU:Mailinglist|GMU Mailingliste]] – ''sign up using the [http://listserv.uni-weimar.de/mailman/listinfo/gmu web-interface]
* [[GMU:Links|GMU Linklist]]

{{Template:Help}}

GMU:Start

2025-02-12T14:38:16Z

Chefin: /* Research and Teaching Faculty */

This is the wiki of the Media Environments chair. For the public website please refer to https://www.uni-weimar.de/gmu

==Featured Projects==
{|cellpadding="2px" cellspacing="2px" border="0" style="margin:10px 10px 10px 0; font-size:0.8em; line-height: 1;"
|width="300px"|[[File:Markt-und-Maus-2.jpg|300px|plug and pray|link=GMU:BFA MFA Finals#Stefan Pach: Markt und Maus]]

[[GMU:BFA MFA Finals#Stefan Pach: Markt und Maus |Markt und Maus]] (Market and Mouse) [[Stefan Pach |Stefan Pach]]

How can we make mice live by the rules of investment banking?

To improve the understanding of the dynamics of finance markets the "Market and Mouse"-System tries to simulate a part of the fiscal universe. The main analysis focuses on the aspect of investment banking. This is the field with the biggest possible profit. "Market and Mouse" investigates how mice decide if they have to choose between high risk but high value options and less lucrative possibilities.
 
 

|width="26px"|
|width="300px"|[[File:Brume1.jpg|300px|Brume|link=GMU:BFA MFA Finals#Sebastian Wolf .26 Michael Kugler: Brume]]

[http://einsdreidrei.com/Brume Brume] by [[Sebastian Wolf]] & Michael Kugler

In 'Brume', the artist duo Michael Kugler and Sebastian Wolf investigate immateriality by coaxing fog into a semi-geometrical, self-organizing form. The viewer becomes a catalyst for disturbance, generating turbulences that not only illustrate the carrying power of the air, but upset a perceived equilibrium, and reveal the spatial and temporal volatility of such a phenomenon. 'Brume' operates in the margins between ubiquity and the finite, symmetry and the amorphous, transience and permanence, and gesturing at the paradox of immateriality.
|-

|width="300px"|[[File:super-boxen front.jpg|Synbio|link=GMU:Synthetic Biology]]
|width="26px"|
|width="300px"|[[File:Plug and pray.png|300px|plug and pray|link=Mental Radio Arbeiten#Jörg Brinkmann: plug and pray]]

|-
|Super Cell is a fictional supermarket website offering speculative products related to Synthetic Biology and our project for iGEM 2010. [[GMU:Synthetic Biology|Super Cell]]
|
|„You shall not make for yourself an idol...“

...just google it.

plug & pray is an interactive artwork that allows believers to pray through their computer. plug & pray makes the search for God easier, with the help of the internet. plug & pray works as if you were praying. Believers use the pray device that activates a google image search for the word „God“ on the act of praying. plug & pray believers see the results of their prayers as spiritualized video, projected before their very eyes. [[Mental Radio Arbeiten#Jörg Brinkmann: plug and pray|Jörg Brinkmann: plug and pray]]
|}

Check out our archives with [[GMU:Works|student works]] and [[GMU:BFA MFA Finals|thesis works]] of BFA and MFA graduates.
 

== Research and Teaching Faculty ==
{|cellpadding="5"
|+
|-
|
Professor '''[[GMU:Ursula_Damm|Ursula Damm]]''' 
Marienstraße 5, Raum 304 
99423 Weimar 
Telefon:. +49 3643 / 58-3607 
E-Mail: ursula.damm [at] uni-weimar.de 
[http://www.ursuladamm.de ursuladamm.de] 
 
|

|
Artistic Associate 
'''[[GMU:Mindaugas Gapševičius|Mindaugas Gapševičius]]''' 
Marienstraße 5, Raum 208 
99423 Weimar 
Telefon: +49 3643 /58-3871 
E-Mail: mindaugas.gapsevicius [at] uni-weimar.de 
[http://www.triple-double-u.com triple-double-u.com] 
 
|}
===[[GMU:Personen|other staff]]===
 

== SS 2025 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==
* [[GMU:Technosolutionism + Silicone Nightmares|Technosolutionism + Silicone Nightmares]]

== WS 2024 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==

* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:Cybernetic_Subjects_-_Ursula_Damm_(Georg_Trogemann) GMU:Cybernetic Subjects - Ursula Damm (Georg Trogemann)]
* [[GMU:Performing for Machines (Body Work in Cybernetic Systems) - Isabella Lee Arturo]]
* [[GMU:Exhibitionist! (how to do Art Exhibitions) - Isabella Lee Arturo]]
* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:The_Plant_Plant GMU:The Plant Plant – Christian Doeller, Klaus Fritze]
* [[GMU:Life_in_an_aquatic_ecosystem|GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem]] - Mindaugas Gapševičius, Alessandro Volpato

== SS 2024 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==
*[[GMU:Data as Artistic Material]] - Juliane Götz, Sebastian Neitsch (Künstlerduo Quadrature)
*[[GMU:Winning natural habitats]] - Mindaugas Gapševičius & Klaus Herbst
*[[GMU:Diy biolab drivers licence SoSe24|GMU:DIY BioLab Driver's license]] - Alessandro Volpato
*[[GMU:Growing microorganisms for bioart projects SoSe24|GMU:Growing microorganisms for bioart projects]] - Alessandro Volpato
*[[GMU:Embodiment Toolkit|GMU:Embodiment Toolkit]] - Christian Doeller

== WS 2023 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==
*[[GMU:Beings and Machines]] - Prof. Ursula Damm
*[[GMU:Non-machines]] - Mindaugas Gapševičius
*[[GMU:Tired Machines Orchestra]] - Christian Doeller
*[[GMU:Making the Artist Present. Exploring Performative Practices]] - Martin Mueller (Bauhaus.Modul)
*[[GMU:Diy biolab drivers licence|GMU:DIY BioLab Driver's licence]] - Alessandro Volpato
*[[GMU:Design with Fungi]] - Alessandro Volpato
*GMU: LICHEN Workshop The Lichenlounge featuring Edible Lichen - Dr. Klaus Fritze
*GMU: LICHEN Expedition: Biodiversity in Thuringia Forest - Dr. Klaus Fritze and Dr. Jan Vondrak

== SS 2023 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==
*[[GMU: Maps, Territories and Possibility Spaces]] - Prof. Ursula Damm
*[[GMU:Photosynthesis and I]] - Mindaugas Gapsevicius

== WS 2022 – Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen – Current Courses ==
===Projektmodule===
*[[GMU:Construction - Destruction|Construction - Destruction]] - Prof. Ursula Damm

{{GMU:Lehrveranstaltungen/SS23}}

== WS 2022/23 – Vergangene Lehrveranstaltungen – Previous Courses ==
{{GMU:Lehrveranstaltungen/WS22}}

== Lehrveranstaltungen (Archiv) – Previous Courses ==
{{GMU:Previous Semesters}}

== Equipment ==
* [[GMU:Equipment|GMU Equipment]] – ''Equipment for Students of the Media Environments (GMU)''
* [[Equipment|Mediapoint]] – ''Equipment for all Students of Media Art + Design''

== Inside GMU ==
* [[GMU:Mailinglist|GMU Mailingliste]] – ''sign up using the [http://listserv.uni-weimar.de/mailman/listinfo/gmu web-interface]
* [[GMU:Links|GMU Linklist]]

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Valeria Shakhova

2025-02-11T10:55:21Z

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===About===
Valeriia Shakhova was born in Irkutsk, Russia, has started studying at Bauhaus University Weimar in 16/17, made her Bachelor in Product Design and started the Media Art and Design master program in 21/22.
 
Website with works/cv: valeriiashakhova.com
 

====Time table:====

GMU:Colloquium

2025-02-01T12:17:45Z

Chefin:

Here are the thesis projects from Bachelor, Master, and PhD students in summer semester 23

we are meeting at room 204, Marienstrasse 5. Hybrid participation is possible.

*[[Rico Graupner/]]
*[[/Jörg Brinkmann/]]
*[https://gabsmoses.com Gabriel Moses]
*[[/Vaclav Harsa/]]
*[[Belcim Yavuz]]
*[[Vivi Morais]]
*[[Ulas Yener]]
*[[/Martin Müller/]]
*Yavor Minchev
*Cagdas Biber
*Passion Asasu
*Torben Zsagar
*Elisa Balmaceda
*Carolina Garcia
*Kitman Pik Chee Yeoung
*Lalicha Lalitsasivimol

== Presentation Timetable ==

{| class="wikitable"
|+
|-
| '''Week'''
| '''Date'''
| '''Presenter'''
|-
| 1
| 23. October
| Introduction
|-
| 2
|30. October
| Viviane, Cagdas
|-
| 3
| 06. November
| No meeting
|-
| 4
|13. November
| Gabriel Ben Moshe
|-
|5
|20. November
| Martin
|-
|6
|27. November
|
|-
| 7
|4. December
| Retreat, no meeting
|-
|8
| 11. December
| ?
|-
|9
| 18. December
| <s>Vaclav Karel Harsa</s>
|-
| 10
|08. January
| no meeting
|-
|11
|15. January
|?
|-
|12
|22. January
|Vaclav Karel Harsa
|-
|13
|29. January
|?
|-
|14
|05. February
|?
|}
[[Category:WS23]]

GMU:Cybernetic Subjects - Ursula Damm (Georg Trogemann)

2025-01-14T07:59:24Z

Chefin:

[[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.

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.

Reason enough to address this development as a culture - or unculture - by looking at the actors who are involved. And the sets of rules in the world that currently surrounds us, in which they are involved or even develop them themselves in a game of feedback and recursion.

But also by critically scrutinizing the consequences of digitalization and asking ourselves whether we can choose or invent other forms of technization? And where we have made mistakes in the past?

It is up to you - the students - to ensure that this does not develop as a project of criticism, because the aim of the project is to produce (art) works, concepts, performances and proposals for actions that develop practices out of an understanding of the environment, which unfold in their reciprocal relationships between the acting subjects - be they humans, animals, plants or machines.

'''It is highly recommended if not mandatory to register in parrallel to the scientific module by Jan Willmann [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=64267&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung here]'''

'''Please apply with a portfolio with ursula.damm at uni-weimar.de'''

An excursion to [https://schieferpark.de/ Schieferpark] in the first week of December is part of the module.

Program of the Retreat:

The environment of Schieferpark should be an opportunity to relate to natural processes and the flow of time (e.g. of plants, animals and machines). How does it come about that we recognize phenomena that we observe as a coherent entity (i.e. a system)? What kind of strategies do such “systems” use to maintain an inner balance under permanently changing external conditions? How do individual entities distinguish themselves from others and how do they connect with them, for example, to gain individual advantages, but also to show a completely different overall behavior in relation to their environment? How can we couple systems to create symbiotic and cooperative behavior on the one hand, but also antagonistic and defensive behavior on the other?. 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.

Schedule of the project:

* 22.10.2024: first meeting at DBL: Introduction by Ursula Damm '''"Technology Creating Infrastructure"''' and Georg Trogemann '''"Cybernetics"'''
* 29.10.2024: Getting to know each other, presentations of participants, prior work (15 min), concept (5 min), additional presentations by teachers
*05.11.2024: Presentation of Artists in the context of Cybernetics today
*12.11.2024:
*19.11.2024: Amelia (Gestures and Bodylanguage)
*26.11.2024: Lina (smelling thru sensors)
*02.12.2024 - 06.12.2024 Retreat in Schieferpark (with Prof. Lasse Scherffig and his Students)
*10.12.2024: midterm presentation of your projects - be prepared (pdf with fotos, links, videos, text 15 min.)
*17.12.2024: no meeting
*07.01.2025: no meeting
*14.01.2025: Kitman
*21.01.2025: Lecture by Cornelia Sollfrank on Data collections and the body
*28.01.2025: Dahye Seo: Paul Vanouse
*04.02.2025: endpresentation
separate obligatory lectures:

* Georg Trogemann: 21.11.2024
* Ursula Damm: Presentation of Media Artworks on Cybernetics during the last 40 years

Literature:

* Yuk Hui: '''[https://hanart.press/cybernetics-for-the-21st-century-vol-1/ Cybernetics for the 21st Century] ISBN 978-9887026808'''
* Claus Pias: The Macy Conferences 1946-1953. The Complete Transactions, Diaphanes 2016 ISBN 978-3037345986
* Thomas Dreher: [https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/7723/1/Dreher_History-of-Computer-Art_2020.pdf History of Computer Art]
* David Maulén de los Reyes: [https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/arthistoricum/catalog/book/843/chapter/11912 Re-Imagining Modernization in Chile—The Active School Movement, Integral Co-op Architecture, Second-Order Cybernetics—Lessons from the Bauhaus and Beyond]
* C. Sollfrank, F. Stalder, S. Niederberger[https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/aesthetics-of-the-commons-6419 : Aesthetics of the commons]
* [http://cyberneticserendipity.net/ Cybernetic Serendipity], [https://monoskop.org/Cybernetic_Serendipity Book]
Artists:

* [http://heavythinking.org/ Verena Friedrich]
* [https://rlfbckr.io/ Ralf Baecker]
*[https://nicolahein.com/ Nicola Hein]
*[https://smitesmits.com/ Rasa Smite Raitis Smits]
*[https://angelawashko.com/home.html Angela Wahsko]
*[https://forensic-architecture.org/ Forensic Architecture]
*[https://www.dwbowen.com/ David Bowen]
*[https://www.lozano-hemmer.com/ Raphael Lozano-Hemmer]
*[https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/gustav-metzger-7196 Gustav Metzger]
*[https://jennasutela.com/ Jenna Sutela]
*[https://www.walidraad.com/ Walid Raad]
*[https://tranxxenolab.net/people/adriana_knouf/ Adriana Knouf]
*[https://archiv.adk.de/bigobjekt/17126 Lutz Dammbeck]
*[https://www.romansigner.ch/ Roman Signer]
*[https://monoskop.org/Mierle_Laderman_Ukeles Mierle Laderman Ukeles]
*[https://refikanadol.com/ Refik Anadol]
Students:

* [[ Sophia Amelia]]
* Mahla Mosahaneh
* [[/Dahye Seo]]
* Öykü Türkan
* [[Lina Louise Wolff]]
* Kitman Yeoung
* Sabah Khaled Abouelhadid Elsay Hassan
* Julian Michael Hoffmann
* Viviane Morais Dantas
* Rieke Hettinger
* Jan Munske

GMU:Cybernetic Subjects - Ursula Damm (Georg Trogemann)

2025-01-14T07:57:11Z

Chefin:

GMU:Cybernetic Subjects - Ursula Damm (Georg Trogemann)

2025-01-14T07:52:40Z

Chefin:

[[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.

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.

Reason enough to address this development as a culture - or unculture - by looking at the actors who are involved. And the sets of rules in the world that currently surrounds us, in which they are involved or even develop them themselves in a game of feedback and recursion.

But also by critically scrutinizing the consequences of digitalization and asking ourselves whether we can choose or invent other forms of technization? And where we have made mistakes in the past?

It is up to you - the students - to ensure that this does not develop as a project of criticism, because the aim of the project is to produce (art) works, concepts, performances and proposals for actions that develop practices out of an understanding of the environment, which unfold in their reciprocal relationships between the acting subjects - be they humans, animals, plants or machines.

'''It is highly recommended if not mandatory to register in parrallel to the scientific module by Jan Willmann [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=64267&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung here]'''

'''Please apply with a portfolio with ursula.damm at uni-weimar.de'''

An excursion to [https://schieferpark.de/ Schieferpark] in the first week of December is part of the module.

Program of the Retreat:

The environment of Schieferpark should be an opportunity to relate to natural processes and the flow of time (e.g. of plants, animals and machines). How does it come about that we recognize phenomena that we observe as a coherent entity (i.e. a system)? What kind of strategies do such “systems” use to maintain an inner balance under permanently changing external conditions? How do individual entities distinguish themselves from others and how do they connect with them, for example, to gain individual advantages, but also to show a completely different overall behavior in relation to their environment? How can we couple systems to create symbiotic and cooperative behavior on the one hand, but also antagonistic and defensive behavior on the other?. 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.

Schedule of the project:

* 22.10.2024: first meeting at DBL: Introduction by Ursula Damm '''"Technology Creating Infrastructure"''' and Georg Trogemann '''"Cybernetics"'''
* 29.10.2024: Getting to know each other, presentations of participants, prior work (15 min), concept (5 min), additional presentations by teachers
*05.11.2024: Presentation of Artists in the context of Cybernetics today
*12.11.2024:
*19.11.2024: Amelia (Gestures and Bodylanguage)
*26.11.2024: Lina (smelling thru sensors)
*02.12.2024 - 06.12.2024 Retreat in Schieferpark (with Prof. Lasse Scherffig and his Students)
*10.12.2024: midterm presentation of your projects - be prepared (pdf with fotos, links, videos, text 15 min.)
*17.12.2024: no meeting
*07.01.2025: no meeting
*14.01.2025: Kitman
*21.01.2025: Lecture by Cornelia Sollfrank on Data collections and the body
*28.01.2025:
*04.02.2025: endpresentation
separate obligatory lectures:

* Georg Trogemann: 21.11.2024
* Ursula Damm: Presentation of Media Artworks on Cybernetics during the last 40 years

Literature:

* Yuk Hui: '''[https://hanart.press/cybernetics-for-the-21st-century-vol-1/ Cybernetics for the 21st Century] ISBN 978-9887026808'''
* Claus Pias: The Macy Conferences 1946-1953. The Complete Transactions, Diaphanes 2016 ISBN 978-3037345986
* Thomas Dreher: [https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/7723/1/Dreher_History-of-Computer-Art_2020.pdf History of Computer Art]
* David Maulén de los Reyes: [https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/arthistoricum/catalog/book/843/chapter/11912 Re-Imagining Modernization in Chile—The Active School Movement, Integral Co-op Architecture, Second-Order Cybernetics—Lessons from the Bauhaus and Beyond]
* C. Sollfrank, F. Stalder, S. Niederberger[https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/aesthetics-of-the-commons-6419 : Aesthetics of the commons]
* [http://cyberneticserendipity.net/ Cybernetic Serendipity], [https://monoskop.org/Cybernetic_Serendipity Book]
Artists:

* [http://heavythinking.org/ Verena Friedrich]
* [https://rlfbckr.io/ Ralf Baecker]
*[https://nicolahein.com/ Nicola Hein]
*[https://smitesmits.com/ Rasa Smite Raitis Smits]
*[https://angelawashko.com/home.html Angela Wahsko]
*[https://forensic-architecture.org/ Forensic Architecture]
*[https://www.dwbowen.com/ David Bowen]
*[https://www.lozano-hemmer.com/ Raphael Lozano-Hemmer]
*[https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/gustav-metzger-7196 Gustav Metzger]
*[https://jennasutela.com/ Jenna Sutela]
*[https://www.walidraad.com/ Walid Raad]
*[https://tranxxenolab.net/people/adriana_knouf/ Adriana Knouf]
*[https://archiv.adk.de/bigobjekt/17126 Lutz Dammbeck]
*[https://www.romansigner.ch/ Roman Signer]
*[https://monoskop.org/Mierle_Laderman_Ukeles Mierle Laderman Ukeles]
*[https://refikanadol.com/ Refik Anadol]
Students:

* [[ Sophia Amelia]]
* Mahla Mosahaneh
* [[/Dahye Seo]]
* Öykü Türkan
* [[Lina Louise Wolff]]
* Kitman Yeoung
* Sabah Khaled Abouelhadid Elsay Hassan
* Julian Michael Hoffmann
* Viviane Morais Dantas
* Benazir Basauri
* Rieke Hettinger
* Jan Munske

GMU:Cybernetic Subjects - Ursula Damm (Georg Trogemann)

2024-11-11T16:48:07Z

Chefin:

[[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.

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.

Reason enough to address this development as a culture - or unculture - by looking at the actors who are involved. And the sets of rules in the world that currently surrounds us, in which they are involved or even develop them themselves in a game of feedback and recursion.

But also by critically scrutinizing the consequences of digitalization and asking ourselves whether we can choose or invent other forms of technization? And where we have made mistakes in the past?

It is up to you - the students - to ensure that this does not develop as a project of criticism, because the aim of the project is to produce (art) works, concepts, performances and proposals for actions that develop practices out of an understanding of the environment, which unfold in their reciprocal relationships between the acting subjects - be they humans, animals, plants or machines.

'''It is highly recommended if not mandatory to register in parrallel to the scientific module by Jan Willmann [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=64267&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung here]'''

'''Please apply with a portfolio with ursula.damm at uni-weimar.de'''

An excursion to [https://schieferpark.de/ Schieferpark] in the first week of December is part of the module.

Program of the Retreat:

The environment of Schieferpark should be an opportunity to relate to natural processes and the flow of time (e.g. of plants, animals and machines). How does it come about that we recognize phenomena that we observe as a coherent entity (i.e. a system)? What kind of strategies do such “systems” use to maintain an inner balance under permanently changing external conditions? How do individual entities distinguish themselves from others and how do they connect with them, for example, to gain individual advantages, but also to show a completely different overall behavior in relation to their environment? How can we couple systems to create symbiotic and cooperative behavior on the one hand, but also antagonistic and defensive behavior on the other?. 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.

Schedule of the project:

* 22.10.2024: first meeting at DBL: Introduction by Ursula Damm '''"Technology Creating Infrastructure"''' and Georg Trogemann '''"Cybernetics"'''
* 29.10.2024: Getting to know each other, presentations of participants, prior work (15 min), concept (5 min), additional presentations by teachers
*05.11.2024: Presentation of Artists in the context of Cybernetics today
*12.11.2024:
*19.11.2024: Amelia (Gestures and Bodylanguage)
*26.11.2024:
*02.12.2024 - 06.12.2024 Retreat in Schieferpark (with Prof. Lasse Scherffig and his Students)
*10.12.2024: midterm presentation of your projects - be prepared (pdf with fotos, links, videos, text 15 min.)
*17.12.2024: no meeting
*07.01.2025: no meeting
*14.01.2025:
*21.01.2025:
*28.01.2025:
*04.02.2025: endpresentation
separate obligatory lectures:

* Georg Trogemann: 21.11.2024
* Ursula Damm: Presentation of Media Artworks on Cybernetics during the last 40 years

Literature:

* Yuk Hui: '''[https://hanart.press/cybernetics-for-the-21st-century-vol-1/ Cybernetics for the 21st Century] ISBN 978-9887026808'''
* Claus Pias: The Macy Conferences 1946-1953. The Complete Transactions, Diaphanes 2016 ISBN 978-3037345986
* Thomas Dreher: [https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/7723/1/Dreher_History-of-Computer-Art_2020.pdf History of Computer Art]
* David Maulén de los Reyes: [https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/arthistoricum/catalog/book/843/chapter/11912 Re-Imagining Modernization in Chile—The Active School Movement, Integral Co-op Architecture, Second-Order Cybernetics—Lessons from the Bauhaus and Beyond]
* C. Sollfrank, F. Stalder, S. Niederberger[https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/aesthetics-of-the-commons-6419 : Aesthetics of the commons]
* [http://cyberneticserendipity.net/ Cybernetic Serendipity], [https://monoskop.org/Cybernetic_Serendipity Book]
Artists:

* [http://heavythinking.org/ Verena Friedrich]
* [https://rlfbckr.io/ Ralf Baecker]
*[https://nicolahein.com/ Nicola Hein]
*[https://smitesmits.com/ Rasa Smite Raitis Smits]
*[https://angelawashko.com/home.html Angela Wahsko]
*[https://forensic-architecture.org/ Forensic Architecture]
*[https://www.dwbowen.com/ David Bowen]
*[https://www.lozano-hemmer.com/ Raphael Lozano-Hemmer]
*[https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/gustav-metzger-7196 Gustav Metzger]
*[https://jennasutela.com/ Jenna Sutela]
*[https://www.walidraad.com/ Walid Raad]
*[https://tranxxenolab.net/people/adriana_knouf/ Adriana Knouf]
*[https://archiv.adk.de/bigobjekt/17126 Lutz Dammbeck]
*[https://www.romansigner.ch/ Roman Signer]
*[https://monoskop.org/Mierle_Laderman_Ukeles Mierle Laderman Ukeles]
*[https://refikanadol.com/ Refik Anadol]
Students:

* Amelia Eickhoff
* Mahla Mosahaneh
* Dahye Seo
* Öykü Türkan
* Lina Luise Wolf
* Kitman Yeoung
* Sabah Khaled Abouelhadid Elsay Hassan
* Julian Michael Hoffmann
* Viviane Morais Dantas
* Benazir Basauri
* Rieke Hettinger
* Jan Munske

GMU:Colloquium

2024-11-11T11:11:16Z

Chefin: /* Presentation Timetable */

Here are the thesis projects from Bachelor, Master, and PhD students in summer semester 23

we are meeting at room 204, Marienstrasse 5. Hybrid participation is possible.

*[[Rico Graupner/]]
*[[/Jörg Brinkmann/]]
*[[/Gabriel Moses/]]
*[[/Vaclav Harsa/]]
*[[Belcim Yavuz]]
*[[Vivi Morais]]
*[[Ulas Yener]]
*Martin Müller
*Victoria Mikhailova
*Yavor Minchev
*Mojjo Krenz
*Cagdas Biber
*Passion Asasu
*Torben Zsagar

== Presentation Timetable ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
| '''Week'''
| '''Date'''
| '''Presenter'''
|-
| 1
| 23. October
| Introduction
|-
| 2
|30. October
| Viviane, Cagdas
|-
| 3
| 06. November
| No meeting
|-
| 4
|13. November
| ?
|-
|5
|20. November
| ?
|-
|6
|27. November
| ?
|-
| 7
|4. December
| Retreat, no meeting
|-
|8
| 11. December
| ?
|-
|9
| 18. December
| ?
|-
| 10
|08. January
| no meeting
|-
|11
|15. January
|?
|-
|12
|22. January
|?
|-
|13
|29. January
|?
|-
|14
|05. February
|?
|}
[[Category:WS23]]

GMU:Colloquium

2024-11-11T11:04:14Z

Chefin:

Here are the thesis projects from Bachelor, Master, and PhD students in summer semester 23

we are meeting at room 204, Marienstrasse 5. Hybrid participation is possible.

*[[Rico Graupner/]]
*[[/Jörg Brinkmann/]]
*[[/Gabriel Moses/]]
*[[/Vaclav Harsa/]]
*[[Belcim Yavuz]]
*[[Vivi Morais]]
*[[Ulas Yener]]
*Martin Müller
*Victoria Mikhailova
*Yavor Minchev
*Mojjo Krenz
*Cagdas Biber
*Passion Asasu

== Presentation Timetable ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
| '''Week'''
| '''Date'''
| '''Presenter'''
|-
| 1
| 18. October
| N.N.
|-
| 2
|25. October
| N.N.
|-
| 3
| 01. November
| N.N.
|-
| 4
|08. Novmeber
| Yavor Minchev, Jemma Woolmore
|-
|5
|15. Novmeber
| Dasa Geiger, Victoria Mikhaylova
|-
|6
|22. November
| Eirini Kokkinidou/ Mint
|-
| 7
|29. November
| Valeriia Shakhova
|-
|8
| 06.Dezember
| Martin Müller
|-
|9
| 13. Dezember
| Belcim Yavuz
|-
| 10
|20. Dezember
| Viviane Morais Dantas
|-
|11
|03. Januar
|Fei Xie
|-
|12
|10. Januar
|Retreat
|-
|13
|17. Januar
|Mint
|-
|14
|24. Januar
|Viviane Morais Dantas, Belcim yavuz,
|-
|15
|31. Januar
|Yavor Minchev, Eirini Kokkinidou, Belcim
|}
[[Category:WS23]]

GMU:Cybernetic Subjects - Ursula Damm (Georg Trogemann)

2024-10-11T05:30:12Z

Chefin:

[[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.

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.

Reason enough to address this development as a culture - or unculture - by looking at the actors who are involved. And the sets of rules in the world that currently surrounds us, in which they are involved or even develop them themselves in a game of feedback and recursion.

But also by critically scrutinizing the consequences of digitalization and asking ourselves whether we can choose or invent other forms of technization? And where we have made mistakes in the past?

It is up to you - the students - to ensure that this does not develop as a project of criticism, because the aim of the project is to produce (art) works, concepts, performances and proposals for actions that develop practices out of an understanding of the environment, which unfold in their reciprocal relationships between the acting subjects - be they humans, animals, plants or machines.

'''It is highly recommended if not mandatory to register in parrallel to the scientific module by Jan Willmann [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=64267&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung here]'''

'''Please apply with a portfolio with ursula.damm at uni-weimar.de'''

An excursion to [https://schieferpark.de/ Schieferpark] in the first week of December is part of the module.

Program of the Retreat:

The environment of Schieferpark should be an opportunity to relate to natural processes and the flow of time (e.g. of plants, animals and machines). How does it come about that we recognize phenomena that we observe as a coherent entity (i.e. a system)? What kind of strategies do such “systems” use to maintain an inner balance under permanently changing external conditions? How do individual entities distinguish themselves from others and how do they connect with them, for example, to gain individual advantages, but also to show a completely different overall behavior in relation to their environment? How can we couple systems to create symbiotic and cooperative behavior on the one hand, but also antagonistic and defensive behavior on the other?. 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.

Schedule of the project:

* 22.10.2024: first meeting at DBL: Introduction by Ursula Damm '''"Technology Creating Infrastructure"''' and Georg Trogemann '''"Cybernetics"'''
* 29.10.2024: Getting to know each other, presentations of participants, prior work (15 min), concept (5 min), additional presentations by teachers
*05.11.2024: Presentation of Artists in the context of Cybernetics today
*12.11.2024:
*19.11.2024:
*26.11.2024:
*02.12.2024 - 06.12.2024 Retreat in Schieferpark (with Prof. Lasse Scherffig and his Students)
*10.12.2024: midterm presentation of your projects - be prepared (pdf with fotos, links, videos, text 15 min.)
*17.12.2024: no meeting
*07.01.2025: no meeting
*14.01.2025:
*21.01.2025:
*28.01.2025:
*04.02.2025: endpresentation
separate obligatory lectures:

* Georg Trogemann: 21.11.2024
* Ursula Damm: Presentation of Media Artworks on Cybernetics during the last 40 years

Literature:

* Yuk Hui: '''[https://hanart.press/cybernetics-for-the-21st-century-vol-1/ Cybernetics for the 21st Century] ISBN 978-9887026808'''
* Claus Pias: The Macy Conferences 1946-1953. The Complete Transactions, Diaphanes 2016 ISBN 978-3037345986
* Thomas Dreher: [https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/7723/1/Dreher_History-of-Computer-Art_2020.pdf History of Computer Art]
* David Maulén de los Reyes: [https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/arthistoricum/catalog/book/843/chapter/11912 Re-Imagining Modernization in Chile—The Active School Movement, Integral Co-op Architecture, Second-Order Cybernetics—Lessons from the Bauhaus and Beyond]
* C. Sollfrank, F. Stalder, S. Niederberger[https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/aesthetics-of-the-commons-6419 : Aesthetics of the commons]
* [http://cyberneticserendipity.net/ Cybernetic Serendipity], [https://monoskop.org/Cybernetic_Serendipity Book]
Artists:

* [http://heavythinking.org/ Verena Friedrich]
* [https://rlfbckr.io/ Ralf Baecker]
*[https://nicolahein.com/ Nicola Hein]
*[https://smitesmits.com/ Rasa Smite Raitis Smits]
*[https://angelawashko.com/home.html Angela Wahsko]
*[https://forensic-architecture.org/ Forensic Architecture]
*[https://www.dwbowen.com/ David Bowen]
*[https://www.lozano-hemmer.com/ Raphael Lozano-Hemmer]
*[https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/gustav-metzger-7196 Gustav Metzger]
*[https://jennasutela.com/ Jenna Sutela]
*[https://www.walidraad.com/ Walid Raad]
*[https://tranxxenolab.net/people/adriana_knouf/ Adriana Knouf]
*[https://archiv.adk.de/bigobjekt/17126 Lutz Dammbeck]
*[https://www.romansigner.ch/ Roman Signer]
*[https://monoskop.org/Mierle_Laderman_Ukeles Mierle Laderman Ukeles]
*[https://refikanadol.com/ Refik Anadol]

GMU:Colloquium

2024-10-10T11:47:35Z

Chefin:

Here are the thesis projects from Bachelor, Master, and PhD students in summer semester 23

we are meeting at room 204, Marienstrasse 5. Hybrid participation is possible.

*[[Rico Graupner/]]
*[[/Jörg Brinkmann/]]
*[[/Gabriel Moses/]]
*[[/Vaclav Harsa/]]
*[[Valeria Shakhova]]
*[[Belcim Yavuz]]
*[[Vivi Morais]]
*[[Eirini]]
*[[Ulas Yener]]
*Martin Müller
*Victoria Mikhailova
*Yavor Minchev

== Presentation Timetable ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
| '''Week'''
| '''Date'''
| '''Presenter'''
|-
| 1
| 18. October
| N.N.
|-
| 2
|25. October
| N.N.
|-
| 3
| 01. November
| N.N.
|-
| 4
|08. Novmeber
| Yavor Minchev, Jemma Woolmore
|-
|5
|15. Novmeber
| Dasa Geiger, Victoria Mikhaylova
|-
|6
|22. November
| Eirini Kokkinidou/ Mint
|-
| 7
|29. November
| Valeriia Shakhova
|-
|8
| 06.Dezember
| Martin Müller
|-
|9
| 13. Dezember
| Belcim Yavuz
|-
| 10
|20. Dezember
| Viviane Morais Dantas
|-
|11
|03. Januar
|Fei Xie
|-
|12
|10. Januar
|Retreat
|-
|13
|17. Januar
|Mint
|-
|14
|24. Januar
|Viviane Morais Dantas, Belcim yavuz,
|-
|15
|31. Januar
|Yavor Minchev, Eirini Kokkinidou, Belcim
|}
[[Category:WS23]]

GMU:Colloquium

2024-10-10T11:47:23Z

Chefin:

Here are the thesis projects from Bachelor, Master, and PhD students in summer semester 23

we are meeting at room 204, Marienstrasse 5. Hybrid participation is possible.

*[[/Isabella Lee Aturo/]]
*[[Rico Graupner/]]
*[[/Jörg Brinkmann/]]
*[[/Gabriel Moses/]]
*[[/Vaclav Harsa/]]
*[[Valeria Shakhova]]
*[[Belcim Yavuz]]
*[[Vivi Morais]]
*[[Eirini]]
*[[Ulas Yener]]
*Martin Müller
*Victoria Mikhailova
*Yavor Minchev

== Presentation Timetable ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
| '''Week'''
| '''Date'''
| '''Presenter'''
|-
| 1
| 18. October
| N.N.
|-
| 2
|25. October
| N.N.
|-
| 3
| 01. November
| N.N.
|-
| 4
|08. Novmeber
| Yavor Minchev, Jemma Woolmore
|-
|5
|15. Novmeber
| Dasa Geiger, Victoria Mikhaylova
|-
|6
|22. November
| Eirini Kokkinidou/ Mint
|-
| 7
|29. November
| Valeriia Shakhova
|-
|8
| 06.Dezember
| Martin Müller
|-
|9
| 13. Dezember
| Belcim Yavuz
|-
| 10
|20. Dezember
| Viviane Morais Dantas
|-
|11
|03. Januar
|Fei Xie
|-
|12
|10. Januar
|Retreat
|-
|13
|17. Januar
|Mint
|-
|14
|24. Januar
|Viviane Morais Dantas, Belcim yavuz,
|-
|15
|31. Januar
|Yavor Minchev, Eirini Kokkinidou, Belcim
|}
[[Category:WS23]]

GMU:Cybernetic Subjects - Ursula Damm (Georg Trogemann)

2024-10-10T11:34:45Z

Chefin:

[[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.

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.

Reason enough to address this development as a culture - or unculture - by looking at the actors who are involved. And the sets of rules in the world that currently surrounds us, in which they are involved or even develop them themselves in a game of feedback and recursion.

But also by critically scrutinizing the consequences of digitalization and asking ourselves whether we can choose or invent other forms of technization? And where we have made mistakes in the past?

It is up to you - the students - to ensure that this does not develop as a project of criticism, because the aim of the project is to produce (art) works, concepts, performances and proposals for actions that develop practices out of an understanding of the environment, which unfold in their reciprocal relationships between the acting subjects - be they humans, animals, plants or machines.

'''It is highly recommended if not mandatory to register in parrallel to the scientific module by Jan Willmann [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=64267&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung here]'''

'''Please apply with a portfolio with ursula.damm at uni-weimar.de'''

An excursion to [https://schieferpark.de/ Schieferpark] in the first week of December is part of the module.

Program of the Retreat:

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.

Schedule of the project:

* 22.10.2024: first meeting at DBL: Introduction by Ursula Damm '''"Technology Creating Infrastructure"''' and Georg Trogemann '''"Cybernetics"'''
* 29.10.2024: Getting to know each other, presentations of participants, prior work (15 min), concept (5 min), additional presentations by teachers
*05.11.2024: Presentation of Artists in the context of Cybernetics today
*12.11.2024:
*19.11.2024:
*26.11.2024:
*02.12.2024 - 06.12.2024 Retreat in Schieferpark (with Prof. Lasse Scherffig and his Students)
*10.12.2024: midterm presentation of your projects - be prepared (pdf with fotos, links, videos, text 15 min.)
*17.12.2024: no meeting
*07.01.2025: no meeting
*14.01.2025:
*21.01.2025:
*28.01.2025:
*04.02.2025: endpresentation
separate obligatory lectures:

* Georg Trogemann: 21.11.2024
* Ursula Damm: Presentation of Media Artworks on Cybernetics during the last 40 years

Literature:

* Yuk Hui: '''[https://hanart.press/cybernetics-for-the-21st-century-vol-1/ Cybernetics for the 21st Century] ISBN 978-9887026808'''
* Claus Pias: The Macy Conferences 1946-1953. The Complete Transactions, Diaphanes 2016 ISBN 978-3037345986
* Thomas Dreher: [https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/7723/1/Dreher_History-of-Computer-Art_2020.pdf History of Computer Art]
* David Maulén de los Reyes: [https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/arthistoricum/catalog/book/843/chapter/11912 Re-Imagining Modernization in Chile—The Active School Movement, Integral Co-op Architecture, Second-Order Cybernetics—Lessons from the Bauhaus and Beyond]
* C. Sollfrank, F. Stalder, S. Niederberger[https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/aesthetics-of-the-commons-6419 : Aesthetics of the commons]
* [http://cyberneticserendipity.net/ Cybernetic Serendipity], [https://monoskop.org/Cybernetic_Serendipity Book]
Artists:

* [http://heavythinking.org/ Verena Friedrich]
* [https://rlfbckr.io/ Ralf Baecker]
*[https://nicolahein.com/ Nicola Hein]
*[https://smitesmits.com/ Rasa Smite Raitis Smits]
*[https://angelawashko.com/home.html Angela Wahsko]
*[https://forensic-architecture.org/ Forensic Architecture]
*[https://www.dwbowen.com/ David Bowen]
*[https://www.lozano-hemmer.com/ Raphael Lozano-Hemmer]
*[https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/gustav-metzger-7196 Gustav Metzger]
*[https://jennasutela.com/ Jenna Sutela]
*[https://www.walidraad.com/ Walid Raad]
*[https://tranxxenolab.net/people/adriana_knouf/ Adriana Knouf]
*[https://archiv.adk.de/bigobjekt/17126 Lutz Dammbeck]
*[https://www.romansigner.ch/ Roman Signer]
*[https://monoskop.org/Mierle_Laderman_Ukeles Mierle Laderman Ukeles]
*[https://refikanadol.com/ Refik Anadol]

GMU:Cybernetic Subjects - Ursula Damm (Georg Trogemann)

2024-10-10T11:32:09Z

Chefin:

[[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.

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.

Reason enough to address this development as a culture - or unculture - by looking at the actors who are involved. And the sets of rules in the world that currently surrounds us, in which they are involved or even develop them themselves in a game of feedback and recursion.

But also by critically scrutinizing the consequences of digitalization and asking ourselves whether we can choose or invent other forms of technization? And where we have made mistakes in the past?

It is up to you - the students - to ensure that this does not develop as a project of criticism, because the aim of the project is to produce (art) works, concepts, performances and proposals for actions that develop practices out of an understanding of the environment, which unfold in their reciprocal relationships between the acting subjects - be they humans, animals, plants or machines.

'''It is highly recommended if not mandatory to register in parrallel to the scientific module by Jan Willmann [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=64267&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung here]'''

'''Please apply with a portfolio with ursula.damm at uni-weimar.de'''

An excursion to [https://schieferpark.de/ Schieferpark] in the first week of December is part of the module.

Program of the Retreat:

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.

Schedule of the project:

* 22.10.2024: first meeting at DBL: Introduction by Ursula Damm '''"Technology Creating Infrastructure"''' and Georg Trogemann '''"Cybernetics"'''
* 29.10.2024: Getting to know each other, presentations of participants, prior work (15 min), concept (5 min), additional presentations by teachers
*05.11.2024: Presentation of Artists in the context of Cybernetics today
*12.11.2024:
*19.11.2024:
*26.11.2024:
*02.12.2024 - 06.12.2024 Retreat in Schieferpark (with Prof. Lasse Scherffig and his Students)
*10.12.2024: midterm presentation of your projects - be prepared (pdf with fotos, links, videos, text 15 min.)
*17.12.2024: no meeting
*07.01.2025: no meeting
*14.01.2025:
*21.01.2025:
*28.01.2025:
*04.02.2025: endpresentation
separate obligatory lectures:

* Georg Trogemann: 21.11.2024
* Ursula Damm: Presentation of Media Artworks on Cybernetics during the last 40 years

Literature:

* Yuk Hui: '''[https://hanart.press/cybernetics-for-the-21st-century-vol-1/ Cybernetics for the 21st Century] ISBN 978-9887026808'''
* Claus Pias: The Macy Conferences 1946-1953. The Complete Transactions, Diaphanes 2016 ISBN 978-3037345986
* Thomas Dreher: [https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/7723/1/Dreher_History-of-Computer-Art_2020.pdf History of Computer Art]
* David Maulén de los Reyes: [https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/arthistoricum/catalog/book/843/chapter/11912 Re-Imagining Modernization in Chile—The Active School Movement, Integral Co-op Architecture, Second-Order Cybernetics—Lessons from the Bauhaus and Beyond]
* C. Sollfrank, F. Stalder, S. Niederberger[https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/aesthetics-of-the-commons-6419 : Aesthetics of the commons]
* [http://cyberneticserendipity.net/ Cybernetic Serendipity], [https://monoskop.org/Cybernetic_Serendipity Book]
Artists:

* [http://heavythinking.org/ Verena Friedrich]
* [https://rlfbckr.io/ Ralf Baecker]
*[https://nicolahein.com/ Nicola Hein]
*[https://smitesmits.com/ Rasa Smite Raitis Smits]
*[https://angelawashko.com/home.html Angela Wahsko]
*[https://forensic-architecture.org/ Forensic Architecture]
*[https://www.dwbowen.com/ David Bowen]
*[https://www.lozano-hemmer.com/ Raphael Lozano-Hemmer]

GMU:Cybernetic Subjects - Ursula Damm (Georg Trogemann)

2024-10-10T11:26:55Z

Chefin:

[[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.

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.

Reason enough to address this development as a culture - or unculture - by looking at the actors who are involved. And the sets of rules in the world that currently surrounds us, in which they are involved or even develop them themselves in a game of feedback and recursion.

But also by critically scrutinizing the consequences of digitalization and asking ourselves whether we can choose or invent other forms of technization? And where we have made mistakes in the past?

It is up to you - the students - to ensure that this does not develop as a project of criticism, because the aim of the project is to produce (art) works, concepts, performances and proposals for actions that develop practices out of an understanding of the environment, which unfold in their reciprocal relationships between the acting subjects - be they humans, animals, plants or machines.

'''It is highly recommended if not mandatory to register in parrallel to the scientific module by Jan Willmann [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=64267&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung here]'''

'''Please apply with a portfolio with ursula.damm at uni-weimar.de'''

An excursion to [https://schieferpark.de/ Schieferpark] in the first week of December is part of the module.

Program of the Retreat:

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.

Schedule of the project:

* 22.10.2024: first meeting at DBL: Introduction by Ursula Damm '''"Technology Creating Infrastructure"''' and Georg Trogemann '''"Cybernetics"'''
* 29.10.2024: Getting to know each other, presentations of participants, prior work (15 min), concept (5 min), additional presentations by teachers
*05.11.2024: Presentation of Artists in the context of Cybernetics today
*12.11.2024:
*19.11.2024:
*26.11.2024:
*02.12.2024 - 06.12.2024 Retreat in Schieferpark (with Prof. Lasse Scherffig and his Students)
*10.12.2024: midterm presentation of your projects - be prepared (pdf with fotos, links, videos, text 15 min.)
*17.12.2024: no meeting
*07.01.2025: no meeting
*14.01.2025:
*21.01.2025:
*28.01.2025:
*04.02.2025: endpresentation
separate obligatory lectures:

* Georg Trogemann: 21.11.2024
* Ursula Damm: Presentation of Media Artworks on Cybernetics during the last 40 years

Literature:

* Yuk Hui: '''[https://hanart.press/cybernetics-for-the-21st-century-vol-1/ Cybernetics for the 21st Century] ISBN 978-9887026808'''
* Claus Pias: The Macy Conferences 1946-1953. The Complete Transactions, Diaphanes 2016 ISBN 978-3037345986
* Thomas Dreher: [https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/7723/1/Dreher_History-of-Computer-Art_2020.pdf History of Computer Art]
* David Maulén de los Reyes: [https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/arthistoricum/catalog/book/843/chapter/11912 Re-Imagining Modernization in Chile—The Active School Movement, Integral Co-op Architecture, Second-Order Cybernetics—Lessons from the Bauhaus and Beyond]
* C. Sollfrank, F. Stalder, S. Niederberger[https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/aesthetics-of-the-commons-6419 : Aesthetics of the commons]
* [http://cyberneticserendipity.net/ Cybernetic Serendipity], [https://monoskop.org/Cybernetic_Serendipity Book]
Artists:

* [http://heavythinking.org/ Verena Friedrich]
* [https://rlfbckr.io/ Ralf Baecker]
*[https://nicolahein.com/ Nicola Hein]
*[https://smitesmits.com/ Rasa Smite Raitis Smits]
*

GMU:Cybernetic Subjects - Ursula Damm (Georg Trogemann)

2024-10-09T15:16:27Z

Chefin:

[[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.

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.

Reason enough to address this development as a culture - or unculture - by looking at the actors who are involved. And the sets of rules in the world that currently surrounds us, in which they are involved or even develop them themselves in a game of feedback and recursion.

But also by critically scrutinizing the consequences of digitalization and asking ourselves whether we can choose or invent other forms of technization? And where we have made mistakes in the past?

It is up to you - the students - to ensure that this does not develop as a project of criticism, because the aim of the project is to produce (art) works, concepts, performances and proposals for actions that develop practices out of an understanding of the environment, which unfold in their reciprocal relationships between the acting subjects - be they humans, animals, plants or machines.

'''It is highly recommended if not mandatory to register in parrallel to the scientific module by Jan Willmann [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=64267&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung here]'''

'''Please apply with a portfolio with ursula.damm at uni-weimar.de'''

An excursion to [https://schieferpark.de/ Schieferpark] in the first week of December is part of the module.

Program of the Retreat:

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.

Schedule of the project:

* 22.10.2024: first meeting at DBL: Introduction by Ursula Damm '''"Technology Creating Infrastructure"''' and Georg Trogemann '''"Cybernetics"'''
* 29.10.2024: Getting to know each other, presentations of participants, prior work (15 min), concept (5 min), additional presentations by teachers
*05.11.2024: Presentation of Artists in the context of Cybernetics today
*12.11.2024:
*19.11.2024:
*26.11.2024:
*02.12.2024 - 06.12.2024 Retreat in Schieferpark (with Prof. Lasse Scherffig and his Students)
*10.12.2024: midterm presentation of your projects - be prepared (pdf with fotos, links, videos, text 15 min.)
*17.12.2024: no meeting
*07.01.2025: no meeting
*14.01.2025:
*21.01.2025:
*28.01.2025:
*04.02.2025: endpresentation
separate obligatory lectures:

* Georg Trogemann: 21.11.2024
* Ursula Damm: Presentation of Media Artworks on Cybernetics during the last 40 years

Literature:

* Yuk Hui: '''[https://hanart.press/cybernetics-for-the-21st-century-vol-1/ Cybernetics for the 21st Century] ISBN 978-9887026808'''
* Claus Pias: The Macy Conferences 1946-1953. The Complete Transactions, Diaphanes 2016 ISBN 978-3037345986
* Thomas Dreher: [https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/7723/1/Dreher_History-of-Computer-Art_2020.pdf History of Computer Art]
* David Maulén de los Reyes: [https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/arthistoricum/catalog/book/843/chapter/11912 Re-Imagining Modernization in Chile—The Active School Movement, Integral Co-op Architecture, Second-Order Cybernetics—Lessons from the Bauhaus and Beyond]
* C. Sollfrank, F. Stalder, S. Niederberger[https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/aesthetics-of-the-commons-6419 : Aesthetics of the commons]
* [http://cyberneticserendipity.net/ Cybernetic Serendipity], [https://monoskop.org/Cybernetic_Serendipity Book]
Artists:

* [http://heavythinking.org/ Verena Friedrich]
* [https://rlfbckr.io/ Ralf Baecker]
*[https://nicolahein.com/ Nicola Hein]
*....

GMU:Cybernetic Subjects - Ursula Damm (Georg Trogemann)

2024-10-08T07:53:15Z

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GMU:Cybernetic Subjects - Ursula Damm (Georg Trogemann)

2024-09-26T15:07:34Z

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File:612 43algedonic.jpg

2024-09-26T15:06:39Z

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Stafford Beer's algedonic meter

GMU:Cybernetic Subjects - Ursula Damm (Georg Trogemann)

2024-09-24T08:40:55Z

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File:Project-pigeon-1-x640.jpg

2024-09-24T08:31:45Z

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Pigeon as a camera substitute

GMU:Cybernetic Subjects - Ursula Damm (Georg Trogemann)

2024-09-24T08:28:18Z

Chefin:

[[File:Cybernetics zeichnung.png|thumb|532x532px]]
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.

Reason enough to address this development as a culture - or unculture - by looking at the actors who are involved. And the sets of rules in the world that currently surrounds us, in which they are involved or even develop them themselves in a game of feedback and recursion.

But also by critically scrutinizing the consequences of digitalization and asking ourselves whether we can choose or invent other forms of technization? And where we have made mistakes in the past?

It is up to you - the students - to ensure that this does not develop as a project of criticism, because the aim of the project is to produce (art) works, concepts, performances and proposals for actions that develop practices out of an understanding of the environment, which unfold in their reciprocal relationships between the acting subjects - be they humans, animals, plants or machines.

'''It is highly recommended if not mandatory to register in parrallel to the scientific module by Jan Willmann [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=64267&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung here]'''

'''Please apply with a portfolio with ursula.damm at uni-weimar.de'''

An excursion to [https://schieferpark.de/ Schieferpark] in the first week of December is part of the module.

Schedule:

* 15.10.2024: first meeting at DBL: Introduction by Ursula Damm '''"Technology Creating Infrastructure"''' and Georg Trogemann '''"Cybernetics"'''
* 22.10.2024: Getting to know each other, presentations of participants, prior work (15 min), concept (5 min), additional presentations by teachers
*29.10.2024: Presentation of Artists in the context of Cybernetics today
*05.11.2024:
*12.11.2024:
*19.11.2024:
*26.11.2024:
*02.12.2024 - 06.12.2024 Retreat in Schieferpark (with Prof. Lasse Scherffig and his Students)
*10.12.2024: midterm presentation of your projects - be prepared (pdf with fotos, links, videos, text 15 min.)
*17.12.2024: no meeting
*07.01.2025: no meeting
*14.01.2025:
*21.01.2025:
*28.01.2025:
*04.02.2025: endpresentation
separate obligatory lectures:

* Georg Trogemann: 21.11.2024
* Ursula Damm: Presentation of Media Artworks on Cybernetics during the last 40 years

Literature:

* Yuk Hui: '''[https://hanart.press/cybernetics-for-the-21st-century-vol-1/ Cybernetics for the 21st Century] ISBN 978-9887026808'''
* Claus Pias: The Macy Conferences 1946-1953. The Complete Transactions, Diaphanes 2016 ISBN 978-3037345986
* Thomas Dreher: [https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/7723/1/Dreher_History-of-Computer-Art_2020.pdf History of Computer Art]
* David Maulén de los Reyes: [https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/arthistoricum/catalog/book/843/chapter/11912 Re-Imagining Modernization in Chile—The Active School Movement, Integral Co-op Architecture, Second-Order Cybernetics—Lessons from the Bauhaus and Beyond]
* C. Sollfrank, F. Stalder, S. Niederberger[https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/aesthetics-of-the-commons-6419 : Aesthetics of the commons]
* [http://cyberneticserendipity.net/ Cybernetic Serendipity], [https://monoskop.org/Cybernetic_Serendipity Book]
Artists:

* [http://heavythinking.org/ Verena Friedrich]
* [https://rlfbckr.io/ Ralf Baecker]
*[https://nicolahein.com/ Nicola Hein]
*....

GMU:Cybernetic Subjects - Ursula Damm (Georg Trogemann)

2024-09-24T08:27:35Z

Chefin:

[[File:Cybernetics zeichnung.png|thumb|532x532px]]
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.

Reason enough to address this development as a culture - or unculture - by looking at the actors who are involved. And the sets of rules in the world that currently surrounds us, in which they are involved or even develop them themselves in a game of feedback and recursion.

But also by critically scrutinizing the consequences of digitalization and asking ourselves whether we can choose or invent other forms of technization? And where we have made mistakes in the past?

It is up to you - the students - to ensure that this does not develop as a project of criticism, because the aim of the project is to produce (art) works, concepts, performances and proposals for actions that develop practices out of an understanding of the environment, which unfold in their reciprocal relationships between the acting subjects - be they humans, animals, plants or machines.

'''It is highly recommended if not mandatory to register in parrallel to the scientific module by Jan Willmann [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=64267&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung here]'''

'''Please apply with a portfolio with ursula.damm at uni-weimar.de'''

An excursion to [https://schieferpark.de/ Schieferpark] in the first week of December is part of the module.

Schedule:

* 15.10.2024: first meeting at DBL: Introduction by Ursula Damm '''"Technology Creating Infrastructure"''' and Georg Trogemann '''"Cybernetics"'''
* 22.10.2024: presentations of participants, prior work (15 min), concept (5 min)
*29.10.2024: Presentation of Artists in the context of Cybernetics today
*05.11.2024:
*12.11.2024:
*19.11.2024:
*26.11.2024:
*02.12.2024 - 06.12.2024 Retreat in Schieferpark (with Prof. Lasse Scherffig and his Students)
*10.12.2024: midterm presentation of your projects - be prepared (pdf with fotos, links, videos, text 15 min.)
*17.12.2024: no meeting
*07.01.2025: no meeting
*14.01.2025:
*21.01.2025:
*28.01.2025:
*04.02.2025: endpresentation
separate obligatory lectures:

* Georg Trogemann: 21.11.2024
* Ursula Damm: Presentation of Media Artworks on Cybernetics during the last 40 years

Literature:

* Yuk Hui: '''[https://hanart.press/cybernetics-for-the-21st-century-vol-1/ Cybernetics for the 21st Century] ISBN 978-9887026808'''
* Claus Pias: The Macy Conferences 1946-1953. The Complete Transactions, Diaphanes 2016 ISBN 978-3037345986
* Thomas Dreher: [https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/7723/1/Dreher_History-of-Computer-Art_2020.pdf History of Computer Art]
* David Maulén de los Reyes: [https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/arthistoricum/catalog/book/843/chapter/11912 Re-Imagining Modernization in Chile—The Active School Movement, Integral Co-op Architecture, Second-Order Cybernetics—Lessons from the Bauhaus and Beyond]
* C. Sollfrank, F. Stalder, S. Niederberger[https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/aesthetics-of-the-commons-6419 : Aesthetics of the commons]
* [http://cyberneticserendipity.net/ Cybernetic Serendipity], [https://monoskop.org/Cybernetic_Serendipity Book]
Artists:

* [http://heavythinking.org/ Verena Friedrich]
* [https://rlfbckr.io/ Ralf Baecker]
*[https://nicolahein.com/ Nicola Hein]
*....

GMU:Cybernetic Subjects - Ursula Damm (Georg Trogemann)

2024-09-23T11:52:57Z

Chefin:

[[File:Cybernetics zeichnung.png|thumb|532x532px]]
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.

Reason enough to address this development as a culture - or unculture - by looking at the actors who are involved. And the sets of rules in the world that currently surrounds us, in which they are involved or even develop them themselves in a game of feedback and recursion.

But also by critically scrutinizing the consequences of digitalization and asking ourselves whether we can choose or invent other forms of technization? And where we have made mistakes in the past?

It is up to you - the students - to ensure that this does not develop as a project of criticism, because the aim of the project is to produce (art) works, concepts, performances and proposals for actions that develop practices out of an understanding of the environment, which unfold in their reciprocal relationships between the acting subjects - be they humans, animals, plants or machines.

'''It is highly recommended if not mandatory to register in parrallel to the scientific module by Jan Willmann [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=64267&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung here]'''

'''Please apply with a portfolio with ursula.damm at uni-weimar.de'''

An excursion to [https://schieferpark.de/ Schieferpark] in the first week of December is part of the module.

Schedule:

* 15.10.2024: first meeting at DBL: Introduction by Ursula Damm (Cybernetic Art) and Georg Trogemann (Cybernetics)
* 22.10.2024: presentations of participants, prior work (15 min), concept (5 min)
*29.10.2024: Presentation of Artists in the context of Cybernetics today
*05.11.2024:
*12.11.2024:
*19.11.2024:
*26.11.2024:
*02.12.2024 - 06.12.2024 Retreat in Schieferpark (with Prof. Lasse Scherffig and his Students)
*10.12.2024: midterm presentation of your projects - be prepared (pdf with fotos, links, videos, text 15 min.)
*17.12.2024: no meeting
*07.01.2025: no meeting
*14.01.2025:
*21.01.2025:
*28.01.2025:
*04.02.2025: endpresentation
separate obligatory lectures:

* Georg Trogemann: 21.11.2024
* Ursula Damm: Presentation of Media Artworks on Cybernetics during the last 40 years

Literature:

* Yuk Hui: '''[https://hanart.press/cybernetics-for-the-21st-century-vol-1/ Cybernetics for the 21st Century] ISBN 978-9887026808'''
* Claus Pias: The Macy Conferences 1946-1953. The Complete Transactions, Diaphanes 2016 ISBN 978-3037345986
* Thomas Dreher: [https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/7723/1/Dreher_History-of-Computer-Art_2020.pdf History of Computer Art]
* David Maulén de los Reyes: [https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/arthistoricum/catalog/book/843/chapter/11912 Re-Imagining Modernization in Chile—The Active School Movement, Integral Co-op Architecture, Second-Order Cybernetics—Lessons from the Bauhaus and Beyond]
* C. Sollfrank, F. Stalder, S. Niederberger[https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/aesthetics-of-the-commons-6419 : Aesthetics of the commons]
* [http://cyberneticserendipity.net/ Cybernetic Serendipity], [https://monoskop.org/Cybernetic_Serendipity Book]
Artists:

* [http://heavythinking.org/ Verena Friedrich]
* [https://rlfbckr.io/ Ralf Baecker]
*[https://nicolahein.com/ Nicola Hein]
*....

GMU:Cybernetic Subjects - Ursula Damm (Georg Trogemann)

2024-09-23T11:51:02Z

Chefin:

[[File:Cybernetics zeichnung.png|thumb|532x532px]]
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.

Reason enough to address this development as a culture - or unculture - by looking at the actors who are involved. And the sets of rules in the world that currently surrounds us, in which they are involved or even develop them themselves in a game of feedback and recursion.

But also by critically scrutinizing the consequences of digitalization and asking ourselves whether we can choose or invent other forms of technization? And where we have made mistakes in the past?

It is up to you - the students - to ensure that this does not develop as a project of criticism, because the aim of the project is to produce (art) works, concepts, performances and proposals for actions that develop practices out of an understanding of the environment, which unfold in their reciprocal relationships between the acting subjects - be they humans, animals, plants or machines.

'''It is highly recommended if not mandatory to register in parrallel to the scientific module by Jan Willmann [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=64267&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung here]'''

'''Please apply with a portfolio with ursula.damm at uni-weimar.de'''

An excursion to [https://schieferpark.de/ Schieferpark] in the first week of December is part of the module.

Schedule:

* 15.10.2024: first meeting at DBL: Introduction by Ursula Damm (Cybernetic Art) and Georg Trogemann (Cybernetics)
* 22.10.2024: presentations of participants, prior work (15 min), concept (5 min)
*29.10.2024: Presentation of Artists in the context of Cybernetics today
*05.11.2024:
*12.11.2024:
*19.11.2024:
*26.11.2024:
*02.12.2024 - 06.12.2024 Retreat in Schieferpark (with Prof. Lasse Scherffig and his Students)
*10.12.2024: midterm presentation of your projects - be prepared (pdf with fotos, links, videos, text 15 min.)
*17.12.2024: no meeting
*07.01.2025: no meeting
*14.01.2025:
*21.01.2025:
*28.01.2025:
*04.02.2025: endpresentation
separate obligatory lectures:

* Georg Trogemann: 21.11.2024
* Ursula Damm: Presentation of Media Artworks on Cybernetics during the last 40 years

Literature:

* Yuk Hui: '''[https://hanart.press/cybernetics-for-the-21st-century-vol-1/ Cybernetics for the 21st Century] ISBN 978-9887026808'''
* Claus Pias: The Macy Conferences 1946-1953. The Complete Transactions, Diaphanes 2016 ISBN 978-3037345986
* Thomas Dreher: [https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/7723/1/Dreher_History-of-Computer-Art_2020.pdf History of Computer Art]
* David Maulén de los Reyes: [https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/arthistoricum/catalog/book/843/chapter/11912 Re-Imagining Modernization in Chile—The Active School Movement, Integral Co-op Architecture, Second-Order Cybernetics—Lessons from the Bauhaus and Beyond]
* C. Sollfrank, F. Stalder, S. Niederberger[https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/aesthetics-of-the-commons-6419 : Aesthetics of the commons]
* [http://cyberneticserendipity.net/ Cybernetic Serendipity], [https://monoskop.org/Cybernetic_Serendipity Book]
Artists:

* [http://heavythinking.org/ Verena Friedrich]
* [https://rlfbckr.io/ Ralf Baecker]
*

GMU:Cybernetic Subjects - Ursula Damm (Georg Trogemann)

2024-09-23T10:48:23Z

Chefin:

[[File:Cybernetics zeichnung.png|thumb|532x532px]]
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.

Reason enough to address this development as a culture - or unculture - by looking at the actors who are involved. And the sets of rules in the world that currently surrounds us, in which they are involved or even develop them themselves in a game of feedback and recursion.

But also by critically scrutinizing the consequences of digitalization and asking ourselves whether we can choose or invent other forms of technization? And where we have made mistakes in the past?

It is up to you - the students - to ensure that this does not develop as a project of criticism, because the aim of the project is to produce (art) works, concepts, performances and proposals for actions that develop practices out of an understanding of the environment, which unfold in their reciprocal relationships between the acting subjects - be they humans, animals, plants or machines.

'''It is highly recommended if not mandatory to register in parrallel to the scientific module by Jan Willmann [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=64267&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung here]'''

'''Please apply with a portfolio with ursula.damm at uni-weimar.de'''

An excursion to [https://schieferpark.de/ Schieferpark] in the first week of December is part of the module.

Schedule:

* 15.10.2024: first meeting at DBL: Introduction by Ursula Damm (Cybernetic Art) and Georg Trogemann (Cybernetics)
* 22.10.2024: presentations of participants, prior work (15 min), concept (5 min)
*29.10.2024: Presentation of Artists in the context of Cybernetics today
*05.11.2024:
*12.11.2024:
*19.11.2024:
*26.11.2024:
*02.12.2024 - 06.12.2024 Retreat in Schieferpark (with Prof. Lasse Scherffig and his Students)
*10.12.2024: midterm presentation of your projects - be prepared (pdf with fotos, links, videos, text 15 min.)
*17.12.2024: no meeting
*07.01.2025: no meeting
*14.01.2025:
*21.01.2025:
*28.01.2025:
*04.02.2025: endpresentation
separate obligatory lectures:

* Georg Trogemann: 21.11.2024
* Ursula Damm: Presentation of Media Artworks on Cybernetics during the last 40 years

Literature:

* Yuk Hui: '''[https://hanart.press/cybernetics-for-the-21st-century-vol-1/ Cybernetics for the 21st Century] ISBN 978-9887026808'''
* Claus Pias: The Macy Conferences 1946-1953. The Complete Transactions, Diaphanes 2016 ISBN 978-3037345986
* Thomas Dreher: [https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/7723/1/Dreher_History-of-Computer-Art_2020.pdf History of Computer Art]
* David Maulén de los Reyes: [https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/arthistoricum/catalog/book/843/chapter/11912 Re-Imagining Modernization in Chile—The Active School Movement, Integral Co-op Architecture, Second-Order Cybernetics—Lessons from the Bauhaus and Beyond]
* C. Sollfrank, F. Stalder, S. Niederberger[https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/aesthetics-of-the-commons-6419 : Aesthetics of the commons]
Artists:

GMU:Cybernetic Subjects - Ursula Damm (Georg Trogemann)

2024-09-23T10:45:21Z

Chefin:

[[File:Cybernetics zeichnung.png|thumb|532x532px]]
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.

Reason enough to address this development as a culture - or unculture - by looking at the actors who are involved. And the sets of rules in the world that currently surrounds us, in which they are involved or even develop them themselves in a game of feedback and recursion.

But also by critically scrutinizing the consequences of digitalization and asking ourselves whether we can choose or invent other forms of technization? And where we have made mistakes in the past?

It is up to you - the students - to ensure that this does not develop as a project of criticism, because the aim of the project is to produce (art) works, concepts, performances and proposals for actions that develop practices out of an understanding of the environment, which unfold in their reciprocal relationships between the acting subjects - be they humans, animals, plants or machines.

'''It is highly recommended if not mandatory to register in parrallel to the scientific module by Jan Willmann [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=64267&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung here]'''

'''Please apply with a portfolio with ursula.damm at uni-weimar.de'''

An excursion to [https://schieferpark.de/ Schieferpark] in the first week of December is part of the module.

Schedule:

* 15.10.2024: first meeting at DBL: Introduction by Ursula Damm (Cybernetic Art) and Georg Trogemann (Cybernetics)
* 22.10.2024: presentations of participants, prior work (15 min), concept (5 min)
*29.10.2024:
*05.11.2024:
*12.11.2024:
*19.11.2024:
*26.11.2024:
*02.12.2024 - 06.12.2024 Retreat in Schieferpark (with Prof. Lasse Scherffig and his Students)
*10.12.2024: midterm presentation of your projects - be prepared (pdf with fotos, links, videos, text 15 min.)
*17.12.2024: no meeting
*07.01.2025: no meeting
*14.01.2025:
*21.01.2025:
*28.01.2025:
*04.02.2025: endpresentation
separate obligatory lectures:

* Georg Trogemann: 21.11.2024

Literature:

* Yuk Hui: '''[https://hanart.press/cybernetics-for-the-21st-century-vol-1/ Cybernetics for the 21st Century] ISBN 978-9887026808'''
* Claus Pias: The Macy Conferences 1946-1953. The Complete Transactions, Diaphanes 2016 ISBN 978-3037345986
* Thomas Dreher: [https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/7723/1/Dreher_History-of-Computer-Art_2020.pdf History of Computer Art]
* David Maulén de los Reyes: [https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/arthistoricum/catalog/book/843/chapter/11912 Re-Imagining Modernization in Chile—The Active School Movement, Integral Co-op Architecture, Second-Order Cybernetics—Lessons from the Bauhaus and Beyond]
* C. Sollfrank, F. Stalder, S. Niederberger[https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/aesthetics-of-the-commons-6419 : Aesthetics of the commons]
Artists:

GMU:Cybernetic Subjects - Ursula Damm (Georg Trogemann)

2024-09-20T05:27:42Z

Chefin:

[[File:Cybernetics zeichnung.png|thumb|532x532px]]
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.

Reason enough to address this development as a culture - or unculture - by looking at the actors who are involved. And the sets of rules in the world that currently surrounds us, in which they are involved or even develop them themselves in a game of feedback and recursion.

But also by critically scrutinizing the consequences of digitalization and asking ourselves whether we can choose or invent other forms of technization? And where we have made mistakes in the past?

It is up to you - the students - to ensure that this does not develop as a project of criticism, because the aim of the project is to produce (art) works, concepts, performances and proposals for actions that develop practices out of an understanding of the environment, which unfold in their reciprocal relationships between the acting subjects - be they humans, animals, plants or machines.

'''It is highly recommended if not mandatory to register in parrallel to the scientific module by Jan Willmann [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=64267&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung here]'''

'''Please apply with a portfolio with ursula.damm at uni-weimar.de'''

An excursion to [https://schieferpark.de/ Schieferpark] in the first week of December is part of the module.

Schedule:

* 15.10.2024: first meeting at DBL: Introduction by Ursula Damm and Georg Trogemann
* 21.10.2024: presentations of participants, prior work (15 min), concept (5 min)
*

Literature:

* Yuk Hui: '''[https://hanart.press/cybernetics-for-the-21st-century-vol-1/ Cybernetics for the 21st Century] ISBN 978-9887026808'''
* Claus Pias: The Macy Conferences 1946-1953. The Complete Transactions, Diaphanes 2016 ISBN 978-3037345986
* Thomas Dreher: [https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/7723/1/Dreher_History-of-Computer-Art_2020.pdf History of Computer Art]
* David Maulén de los Reyes: [https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/arthistoricum/catalog/book/843/chapter/11912 Re-Imagining Modernization in Chile—The Active School Movement, Integral Co-op Architecture, Second-Order Cybernetics—Lessons from the Bauhaus and Beyond]
* C. Sollfrank, F. Stalder, S. Niederberger[https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/aesthetics-of-the-commons-6419 : Aesthetics of the commons]

GMU:Cybernetic Subjects - Ursula Damm (Georg Trogemann)

2024-09-20T05:27:04Z

Chefin:

[[File:Cybernetics zeichnung.png|thumb|532x532px]]
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.

Reason enough to address this development as a culture - or unculture - by looking at the actors who are involved. And the sets of rules in the world that currently surrounds us, in which they are involved or even develop them themselves in a game of feedback and recursion.

But also by critically scrutinizing the consequences of digitalization and asking ourselves whether we can choose or invent other forms of technization? And where we have made mistakes in the past?

It is up to you - the students - to ensure that this does not develop as a project of criticism, because the aim of the project is to produce (art) works, concepts, performances and proposals for actions that develop practices out of an understanding of the environment, which unfold in their reciprocal relationships between the acting subjects - be they humans, animals, plants or machines.

'''It is highly recommended if not mandatory to register in parrallel to the scientific module by Jan Willmann [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=64267&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung here]'''

'''Please apply with a portfolio with ursula.damm at uni-weimar.de'''

An excursion to [https://schieferpark.de/ Schieferpark] in the first week of December is part of the module.

Schedule:

* 15.10.2024: first meeting at DBL: Introduction
* 21.10.2024: presentations of participants, prior work (15 min), concept (5 min)
*

Literature:

* Yuk Hui: '''[https://hanart.press/cybernetics-for-the-21st-century-vol-1/ Cybernetics for the 21st Century] ISBN 978-9887026808'''
* Claus Pias: The Macy Conferences 1946-1953. The Complete Transactions, Diaphanes 2016 ISBN 978-3037345986
* Thomas Dreher: [https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/7723/1/Dreher_History-of-Computer-Art_2020.pdf History of Computer Art]
* David Maulén de los Reyes: [https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/arthistoricum/catalog/book/843/chapter/11912 Re-Imagining Modernization in Chile—The Active School Movement, Integral Co-op Architecture, Second-Order Cybernetics—Lessons from the Bauhaus and Beyond]
* C. Sollfrank, F. Stalder, S. Niederberger[https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/aesthetics-of-the-commons-6419 : Aesthetics of the commons]

GMU:Cybernetic Subjects - Ursula Damm (Georg Trogemann)

2024-09-19T08:42:12Z

Chefin:

[[File:Cybernetics zeichnung.png|thumb|532x532px]]
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.

Reason enough to address this development as a culture - or unculture - by looking at the actors who are involved. And the sets of rules in the world that currently surrounds us, in which they are involved or even develop them themselves in a game of feedback and recursion.

But also by critically scrutinizing the consequences of digitalization and asking ourselves whether we can choose or invent other forms of technization? And where we have made mistakes in the past?

It is up to you - the students - to ensure that this does not develop as a project of criticism, because the aim of the project is to produce (art) works, concepts, performances and proposals for actions that develop practices out of an understanding of the environment, which unfold in their reciprocal relationships between the acting subjects - be they humans, animals, plants or machines.

'''It is highly recommended if not mandatory to register in parrallel to the scientific module by Jan Willmann [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=64267&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung here]'''

'''Please apply with a portfolio with ursula.damm at uni-weimar.de'''

An excursion to [https://schieferpark.de/ Schieferpark] in the first week of December is part of the module.

Schedule:

* 15.10.2024: first meeting at DBL: Introduction

Literature:

* Yuk Hui: '''[https://hanart.press/cybernetics-for-the-21st-century-vol-1/ Cybernetics for the 21st Century] ISBN 978-9887026808'''
* Claus Pias: The Macy Conferences 1946-1953. The Complete Transactions, Diaphanes 2016 ISBN 978-3037345986
* Thomas Dreher: [https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/7723/1/Dreher_History-of-Computer-Art_2020.pdf History of Computer Art]
* David Maulén de los Reyes: [https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/arthistoricum/catalog/book/843/chapter/11912 Re-Imagining Modernization in Chile—The Active School Movement, Integral Co-op Architecture, Second-Order Cybernetics—Lessons from the Bauhaus and Beyond]
* C. Sollfrank, F. Stalder, S. Niederberger[https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/aesthetics-of-the-commons-6419 : Aesthetics of the commons]

GMU:Cybernetic Subjects - Ursula Damm (Georg Trogemann)

2024-09-19T06:11:08Z

Chefin:

[[File:Cybernetics zeichnung.png|thumb|532x532px]]
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.

Reason enough to address this development as a culture - or unculture - by looking at the actors who are involved. And the sets of rules in the world that currently surrounds us, in which they are involved or even develop them themselves in a game of feedback and recursion.

But also by critically scrutinizing the consequences of digitalization and asking ourselves whether we can choose or invent other forms of technization? And where we have made mistakes in the past?

It is up to you - the students - to ensure that this does not develop as a project of criticism, because the aim of the project is to produce (art) works, concepts, performances and proposals for actions that develop practices out of an understanding of the environment, which unfold in their reciprocal relationships between the acting subjects - be they humans, animals, plants or machines.

'''It is highly recommended if not mandatory to register in parrallel to the scientific module by Jan Willmann [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=64267&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung here]'''

'''Please apply with a portfolio with ursula.damm at uni-weimar.de'''

An excursion to [https://schieferpark.de/ Schieferpark] in the first week of December is part of the module.

Schedule:

* 15.10.2024: first meeting at DBL: Introduction

Literature:

* Yuk Hui: '''[https://hanart.press/cybernetics-for-the-21st-century-vol-1/ Cybernetics for the 21st Century] ISBN 978-9887026808'''
* Claus Pias: The Macy Conferences 1946-1953. The Complete Transactions, Diaphanes 2016 ISBN 978-3037345986
* Thomas Dreher: [https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/7723/1/Dreher_History-of-Computer-Art_2020.pdf History of Computer Art]
* David Maulén de los Reyes: [https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/arthistoricum/catalog/book/843/chapter/11912 Re-Imagining Modernization in Chile—The Active School Movement, Integral Co-op Architecture, Second-Order Cybernetics—Lessons from the Bauhaus and Beyond]

GMU:Cybernetic Subjects - Ursula Damm (Georg Trogemann)

2024-09-19T06:00:41Z

Chefin:

[[File:Cybernetics zeichnung.png|thumb|532x532px]]
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.

Reason enough to address this development as a culture - or unculture - by looking at the actors who are involved. And the sets of rules in the world that currently surrounds us, in which they are involved or even develop them themselves in a game of feedback and recursion.

But also by critically scrutinizing the consequences of digitalization and asking ourselves whether we can choose or invent other forms of technization? And where we have made mistakes in the past?

It is up to you - the students - to ensure that this does not develop as a project of criticism, because the aim of the project is to produce (art) works, concepts, performances and proposals for actions that develop practices out of an understanding of the environment, which unfold in their reciprocal relationships between the acting subjects - be they humans, animals, plants or machines.

'''It is highly recommended if not mandatory to register in parrallel to the scientific module by Jan Willmann [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=64267&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung here]'''

'''Please apply with a portfolio with ursula.damm at uni-weimar.de'''

An excursion to [https://schieferpark.de/ Schieferpark] in the first week of December is part of the module.

Literature:

* Yuk Hui: '''[https://hanart.press/cybernetics-for-the-21st-century-vol-1/ Cybernetics for the 21st Century] ISBN 978-9887026808'''
* Claus Pias: The Macy Conferences 1946-1953. The Complete Transactions, Diaphanes 2016 ISBN 978-3037345986
* Thomas Dreher: [https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/7723/1/Dreher_History-of-Computer-Art_2020.pdf History of Computer Art]
* David Maulén de los Reyes: [https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/arthistoricum/catalog/book/843/chapter/11912 Re-Imagining Modernization in Chile—The Active School Movement, Integral Co-op Architecture, Second-Order Cybernetics—Lessons from the Bauhaus and Beyond]