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DataNatures

2025-11-11T10:29:45Z

Sabah Elhadid:

''Type: ''Project Module

''Lecturer: ''Verena Friedrich

''Credits: ''18 SWS

''Times: ''Tuesday 10:00 - 13:00

''Venue: ''DBL & online

''First meeting: ''October 21, 10:00 @ DBL

'''Description:'''

In the science fiction film Tron (1982), an orange is scanned by a laser beam in order to be transferred into a virtual computer world. At the end of this “Matter Transform Sequence”, the orange has disappeared—its digital image appears on the screen instead. The promise of this fictional technology: the total capture and modeling of the bio-logical world, in order to make it manipulable, controllable, and available at will on a data-logical level.

Some four decades later, the methods and scope of data collection, processing, and storage have developed at a rapid pace. Increasingly large parts of the world and of our everyday lives are being digitized and incorporated into technical infrastructures, to the point that one can speak of a “datafication of everything.” Yet have we really come closer to the techno-utopia of the world’s complete capture?

Does not the sheer abundance of data itself show that certain aspects of the world and of “nature” always remain fleeting—immeasurable, unavailable, and resistant to any form of technical appropriation? Or is this, after all, merely a romantic notion that can no longer stand up to the effectiveness of Big Tech? How do we, as human beings and as artists, engage with the current situation? Can artistic practices open up alternatives to a purely technocratic handling of data?

The seminar investigates these questions from artistic, technical, practical, and theoretical perspectives. Following a general introduction to the topic, we will discuss artistic works and read selected texts in order to critically engage with the increasing quantification and datafication of the world. In practical workshops, we will do statistics with pen and paper and explore basic methods of collecting, ordering, counting, and classifying biological samples. From there, we will trace the path toward today’s computer-based (classification) procedures grounded in machine learning and data-driven research in science. Hovering above all of this is the question of the relationship between materiality and digitality: what continuities persist, and what ruptures emerge?

The aim is to develop independent project ideas and realizations that engage artistically and experimentally with specific aspects of the theme DataNatures.

==== Students ====

* [[Sabah Abouelhadid]]
* [[Timm Albers]]
* [[Seoyeon Lee]]
* [[Olga Molzan]]
* [[Henriette Schmidt]]
* [[Konstantin Schoser]]

==== Materials ====

[[DataNatures – Literature]]

[[DataNatures – Artists & Artworks]]

==== Schedule ====

GMU:Wetlands

2025-11-05T21:54:09Z

Sabah Elhadid: /* BUW */

=== Fieldwork ===
* January 12-16th 2026, Psachna, Greece

=== Online sessions ===
Please join at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88147828394?pwd=4XFVLT1jP4PBDOEgZNVK3bLr4U2q0T.1

9:00-12:00 Berlin time
 10:00-13:00 Helsinki/Athens time

* October 27th 2025: [[/Narrating the waters: Curatorial and Dramaturgical Perspectives]], led by Prof. Angeliki Poulou
* November 3rd 2025: [[/Interdisciplinary research and artistic practice: from sketch to interactive installation]], led by Dr. Mindaugas Gapševičius
* November 7th 2025: [[/Liquid flows and wet matter in Art & Science: Micro + Macro]], led by Prof. Laura Beloff
* January 7th 2026: [[/Questions and Answers]]

=== Faculty ===
* Prof. Angeliki Poulou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
* Prof. Laura Beloff, Aalto University
* Prof. Kerstin Ergenzinger, Bauhaus Universität Weimar
* Prof. Ursula Damm, Bauhaus Universität Weimar
* Dr. Mindaugas Gapševičius, Bauhaus Universität Weimar
* Felix Bonowski, Bauhaus Universität Weimar
* Prof. Dimitris Charitos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
* Prof. Alexandros Kontogeorgakopoulos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
* Prof. Katerina Antonopoulou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
* Prof. Orestis Karamanlis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
* Prof. Haris Rizopoulos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
* Prof. Nafisika Papageorgiou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

===Other Faculty===
* Iouiani Theona, Adjunct Professor, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
* Chloe Pare-Anastasiadou, Post-dc researcher, Max Planche Institute
* Anna Pangalou, voice soloist performative artist
* Tanya Zervoudaki, marine biologist, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research
* Maria Koutsodimou, marine biologist, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research
* Dimitris Pafras, phd candidate in Marine Biology, Scientific Diver
* Petros Andreas Tiktapanidis, phd candidate in Marine Biology, Scientific Diver

The course investigates the intersection of art, science, and ecology through interdisciplinary research and artistic practice. Focusing on aquatic ecosystems, participants will develop artistic projects and embodied sensory experiences. Field work will take place in Psachna, Greece, with particular attention to the Kolovrechtis Wetland and the Chalcis Strait.

Students will engage with a variety of artistic and research methodologies - including storytelling, creative writing, interactive installations, and scientific approaches. The course fosters both experimental and reflective modes of knowledge production, supporting dialogue between disciplines and encouraging the development of new collaborations across ecology, digital media, and contemporary art.

Through embodied research, we will explore the ecological, generative, and disruptive dimensions of sensory perceptions - listening, seeing, smelling, tasting, touching, and beyond. Participants will be invited to:
* Develop curatorial, dramaturgical, or theoretical perspectives on aquatic environments;
* Create interactive installations as tools of artistic inquiry and as platforms to reimagine ecological interdependencies beyond human-centered perspectives;
* Critically examine technology, its entanglements with ecology, and its role in the climate crisis.

During the field work, students are expected to develop a small project, a prototype, or a component of a larger project. Emphasis will be placed on shared discussions, informed by lectures and supervision. Each participant (individually or in groups) will present their project at the end of the week and document it on a shared wiki platform.

The course is coordinated by the Acoustic Ecologies and Media Environments departments at Bauhaus Universität Weimar, hosted by DCARTS of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, with participation of the Department of Art and Media at Aalto University. It is offered within the framework of the Erasmus Blended Intensive Program and carries 6 ECTS credits.

=== Students ===
==== AALTO ====
*[[/Agnieszka Pokrywka]] (Doctoral student)
*[[/Mari Nurmeniemi|/Mari Nurmenniemi]] (Master students)
*[[/Atso Airola]] (Master student)
*[[/Müge Yildiz]] (Doctoral student)
*[[/Alexia Coville]] (Master student)

====BUW====
*[[/Lilas Almalla]]
*[[/Tim Auzinger]]
*[[/Laura Eleana Bein]]
*[[GMU:Wetlands/ Sabah Abouelhadid|/Sabah Abouelhadid]]
*[[/Zakhar Komarov-Zelinskii]]
*[[/Viviane Morais Dantas]]
*[[/Jan Laurenz Munske]] (Bachelor student)
*[[/Radu Paul Simon Reinhardt]]
*[[/Cosmo Niklas Schüppel]] (Bachelor student)
*[[/Wiebke Stark]]
*[[/Cristina Garcia Margarita]]

====NKUA====
*[[/Anna-Maria Galani]] (PhD student)
*[[/Alexandra Niaka]] (PhD student)
*[[/Elena Novakovits]] (PhD student)
*[[/Aria Saridi]] (PhD student)
*[[/Yiannis Kranidiotis]] (PhD student)

GMU:Re-enchanting the field

2025-11-05T21:53:46Z

Sabah Elhadid:

Erasmus+ Blended Intensiv Program (BIP). A collaboration between Bauhaus University Weimar (Sound Ecologies and Media Environments), the Estonian Academy of Arts (Master of Craft Studies), Potsdam University of Applied Sciences (Department of Design) and the Unniversity of Applied Arts (Transformation Studies) Vienna,Austria.

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)

<big>'''SCHEDULE'''</big>

'''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

'''<big>ECTS AWARDED: 6 (4 SWS)</big>'''

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

=== SYLLABUS ===
* 04.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Welcome & Introduction|Welcome & Introduction]]
* 11.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production|Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production]]
* 25.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia|The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia]] + Methodological Briefing
* 09.05.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Preparation for Travel|Preparation for Travel]]

FIELDWEEK May 18th – 25

* 19.05.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/EKA, Tallinn|EKA, Tallinn]]
* 20.05.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Travelling to Narva|Travelling to Narva]]
* 21.05.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Field visit auvre|Field visit auvre]]
* 22.05.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Field visit|Field visit and independent work]] / [[Independent work on projects]] / practical experiments
* 23.05.2025 Independent work on projects / Visit to Narva Venice
* 24.05.2025 All-day group presentations & Feedback
* 25.05.2025 Travel Day
==== '''<big>PROGRAM DESCRIPTION</big>''' ====
This course offers an intensive training in elemental ethnography and ecological research. During a week long fieldvisit to Narva, Estonia, near the Russian border we will 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. The fieldvisit will be preceded by 4 online lectures to provide context and to introduce us to the main topcis and cpnceptual framing of our research.

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.

More specifically 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.

===METHODOLOGY & TASKS===

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.

The outcome of this collaborative exercise will be documented in a shared workbook (digital/online publication) based on group projects conducted in the field. The workbook will be designed as 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.

===LEARNING OBJECTIVES===
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.

===COURSE MATERIALS===
'''Course Materials (all)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HV75lDkZEHdtrAgx0-7SFfqAEqqGSGdL

'''Social and Cultural History of Oil Shale Production in Estonia (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rlz26-7diSfn2Mp-YVLSBt_TdLZdldKl?usp=drive_link

'''Environmental Studies (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yM6MCDSTPJWmKqPqw7r_KL6FQKmc9tjP?usp=drive_link

'''Ecology/Elemental Perspectives (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1P1DwGrEWz3HpTbfr9932CYUuRyl5atNK?usp=drive_link

*"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]

'''Methodology'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nHvoJGnypVfDTGesCPSrxdQw5lTeQ2i8?usp=drive_link

* [https://leida.artun.ee/en/issues/community-of-agents/in-praise-of-legwork Legwork]

* [[Feralatlas.org|Feral Atlas]]

'''Miroboard'''

https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVI4OmmIc=/

===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.
===PARTICIPANTS===
Bauhaus Universität Weimar
* [[/Cosmo Schüppel]]
* [[/Jan Munske]]
* [[/Karlotta Sperling]]
* [[/Kitman Yeung]]
* [[/Nina Bendix Igleses]]
* [[/Öykü Türkan]]
* [[/Rieke Hettinger]]
* [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Sabah Elhadid|Sabah Abouelhadid]]

Potsdam University of Applied Sciences
* [[/Marie Buschmann]]
* [[/Laura Günther]]
* [[/Helena Haak]]
* [[/Hannah Charlotte Krause]]
* [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/I na K won|/Ina Kwon]]
* [[/Juliane Müller|/J uli ane Müll er]]
* [[/Jennifer Schnurr]]
* [[/Ragnar Wilczek|/]]RLW
* [[/Tilmann Finner]]

University of Applied Arts Vienna
* [[/Virginia Nicole Bonareri]]
* [[/Hans-Lionel Cayaban]]
* [[/Helin Ozdemir]]
* [[/Raphaela Leitner]]
* [[/Sara Karimi]]
* [[/Sofia Pechenaia]]
* [[/Yuri Turovskiy|/Yury Turovskiy]]
* [[/Jiun-You Ou]]

Estonian Academy of Arts
* [[/Chun Chow|/Odie Chow]]
* [[/Marite Helena Kuus|/Marite Kuus]]
* [[/Mariam Mestvirishvili]]
* [[/Hannah Caroline Segerkrantz]]

===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
The residency has two '''common sleeping areas''' which you can see [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avOYADrNMBY here]. To '''book a space''' please fill out this Google form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfw00YebTE9C9GpAEJViwnC2q2s1tjGPMKmpTp9YLkhDR1abA/viewform?pli=1<nowiki/>The price for accommodation at NaRt is '''15€''' per night, '''75€''' for the whole week.

S'''ubmit''' your reservation '''by''' '''April 29th'''!

If you need or prefer more privacy, there are plenty of '''Air BnB''' spaces available in Narva. For further details see the info sheet below.

'''Info Sheet Accomodation & Arrival'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DB6yc_PfR_PKR0QnDerWHTY-JDR-xenj?usp=drive_link

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= '''REDISCOVERY AND EMBODIMENT OF HOME!''' =
I believe the idea of home and nesting is inherently ingrained within us from birth, to belong somewhere, somehow, safely.

As children, we all played the game of constructing our personalised forts using bedsheets, chairs, and any available structures to form a secretive house. Only those we granted access were allowed inside. We instinctively dreamed of having a space that was truly ours, where we could create our own rules and privacy.

The idea of home never left our minds as we grew older; however, did the definition of what home is as adults shift?

On one hand, some worry about affordability, ownership, taxes, and investments, and on the other hand, for some, the unfortunate reality is not having a house to call home at all, being forcibly displaced, and living in places that no longer feel like home.

In this fort, I aimed to highlight the cyclical passage from childhood to adulthood and back again, emphasising how our fundamental desires for a home remain unchanged.

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* '''Participants were invited to enter the fort and collaborate on building a home, exploring the idea of what a home could be beyond their current realities. This experience encouraged them to reconnect with the personal and emotional significance of creating a space, reminiscent of the imaginative worlds they built as children. By focusing on their shared vision and memories, they could explore the essence of home in a way that transcends current obstacles and limitations, embracing a deeper, more imaginative understanding of what a home could be.'''

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* Participants who were somewhat familiar with each other generally exhibited more patience and willingness to engage in the process. This openness allowed them to connect on a slightly deeper level, with two participants even realising they could potentially live together in the future.On the other hand, for those who didn't know each other beforehand, the experience was more challenging. One participant left during the process, but the remaining participant chose to continue answering the questions on her own.- Some documents from the participants

]][[File:Fort 2.jpg|thumb|797x797px|Observation: Participants who were somewhat familiar with each other generally exhibited more patience and willingness to engage in the process. This openness allowed them to connect on a slightly deeper level, with two participants even realising they could potentially live together in the future.

On the other hand, for those who didn't know each other beforehand, the experience was more challenging. One participant left during the process, but the remaining participant chose to continue answering the questions on her own.

]][[File:Green chair.jpg|thumb|1706x1706px|'''Document Description:'''This document outlines the collaborative experience of two participants as they work together to define and create their vision of a home. It includes: 1- '''Questionnaire Responses:''' Answers to a series of questions that explore each participant's preferences and ideas about what a home means to them.

2- '''Design Sketches:''' Drawings or sketches that illustrate the home they designed together, based on their responses to the questionnaire.

3- '''Reflections:'''Notes on their experience working together, including any insights or thoughts about what they learned during the process.

4- '''Creating A Brick:''' Participants design the brick of their house by using fimo, reflecting how it fits into the overall design and concept they developed.]][[File:Contract 1.jpg|thumb|1726x1726px]][[File:Contract 2.jpg|thumb|1715x1715px]][[File:Contract 3.jpg|thumb|1695x1695px]][[File:Questionnaire 01.jpg|thumb|1641x1641px]][[File:Questionnaire 02.jpg|thumb|1641x1641px]][[File:Questionnaire 03.jpg|thumb|1639x1639px]][[File:Brick 1.jpg|thumb|1637x1637px]][[File:Brick 2.jpg|thumb|1627x1627px]][[File:Bricks.jpg|thumb|1631x1631px]]]]