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This is a tool building seminar. Many of us today believe that we live in a dystopia. Our personal agency and autonomy have been slowly eroding. Many of the tools that were meant to liberate us -- the internet, computers, AI, biotechnology have turned against us. Is it possible to reimagine a future where humans take control of our own narrative or is it lost forever? Do we now learn to live in a dystopia or can we still dare to imagine a Utopia? In this seminar, We will borrow from the toolkit of hackers, designers, artists-collectives, activists and biohackers to learn the tools that they have imagined to create a utopia or fight dystopia. Our final project will critically examine these tools and techniques and attempt to reimagine or rebuild these tools.
This is a tool building seminar. Many of us today believe that we live in a dystopia. Our personal agency and autonomy have been slowly eroding. Many of the tools that were meant to liberate us -- the internet, computers, AI, biotechnology have turned against us. Is it possible to reimagine a future where humans take control of our own narrative or is it lost forever? Do we now learn to live in a dystopia or can we still dare to imagine a Utopia? In this seminar, We will borrow from the toolkit of hackers, designers, artists-collectives, activists and biohackers to learn the tools that they have imagined to create a utopia or fight dystopia. Our final project will critically examine these tools and techniques and attempt to reimagine or rebuild these tools. (original text by Yashas Shetty)


<u>Participants:</u>
<u>Participants:</u>
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* [[/Martin Müller/]]
* [[/Martin Müller/]]
* [[/Jan Munske/]]
* [[/Jan Munske/]]
* [[/Corinna Rausch/]]
* [[/Dahye Seo/]]
* [[/Dahye Seo/]]
* [[/Jenny Soggia/]]
* [[/Jenny Soggia/]]
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: - light sensor experiments
: - light sensor experiments


November 30 Sensors (theory & hands-on)
December 1 Sensor Tutorials + text discussion
: - sensor starter kit presentations
: - sensor starter kit presentations
: - first ideas & experiments
: - reading no. 1: Jennifer Gabrys: How to Do Things with Sensors
: - Jennifer Gabrys  


December 1 – project ideas + text discussion
December 8 – project ideas + text discussion
: - presentation of ideas and experiments
: - presentation of first ideas and experiments
: - Byung-Chul Han: Shanzhai
: - reading no. 2: Silvia Lindtner, Shaowen Bardzell, Jeffrey Bardzell: Reconstituting the Utopian Vision of Making: HCI After Technosolutionism


December 8 – hands-on (I) + text discussion
December 15 – hands-on (I) + text discussion
: - hands-on session
: - presentation by Selena on Stafford Beer and the Cyber Syn project
 
December 15 – hands-on (II)
: - hands-on session
: - hands-on session


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December 29 – Christmas holidays
December 29 – Christmas holidays


January 5 – updates
January 5 – online consultations (optional)
: 10:30 - 11:00 – Jemma
: 11:30 - 12:00 – Mavie
 
January 12 – updates + presentations
: - present the current state of your projects
: - present the current state of your projects
: - further reading
: - presentation by Jemma on Deep Listening


January 12 – hands-on (III) + text discussion
January 19 presentation + hands-on (II) + private consultations
: - present the current state of your projects
: - presentation by Martin on Ursula K. Le Guin


January 19 – hands-on (IV) + private consultations
January 26 – hands-on (III) + private consultations
: 09:30 - 10:00 – name
: - present the current state of your projects
: 10:00 - 10:30 – name
: - presentation by Dahye on philosophies of cycles
: 10:30 - 11:00 – name
: - Deep Listening Experiment with Jemma
: 11:30 - 12:00 – name
: 12:00 - 12:30 – name
 
January 26 – hands-on (V) + private consultations
: 09:30 - 10:00 – name
: 10:00 - 10:30 – name
: 10:30 - 11:00 – name
: 11:30 - 12:00 – name


February 2nd – final presentations
February 2nd – final presentations
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<u>Literature:</u>
<u>Literature:</u>
* Silvia Lindtner, Shaowen Bardzell, Jeffrey Bardzell: Reconstituting the Utopian Vision of Making: HCI After Technosolutionism
*Jennifer Gabrys, How to Do Things with Sensors, https://www.jennifergabrys.net/2019/09/how-to-sensors/
*Jennifer Gabrys, How to Do Things with Sensors, https://www.jennifergabrys.net/2019/09/how-to-sensors/
*Jennifer Gabrys, Program Earth, https://www.jennifergabrys.net/2016/03/program-earth-environmental-sensing-technology-making-computational-planet/
*Jennifer Gabrys, Program Earth, https://www.jennifergabrys.net/2016/03/program-earth-environmental-sensing-technology-making-computational-planet/
* Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble. Making kin in the Chthulucene
* Byung-Chul Han, Shanzhai, https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262534369/shanzhai/
* Byung-Chul Han, Shanzhai, https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262534369/shanzhai/
*Hannes Bergthaller, Eva Horn: Anthropozän zur Einführung, ISBN 978-3-96060-311-5
*Hannes Bergthaller, Eva Horn: Anthropozän zur Einführung, ISBN 978-3-96060-311-5

Latest revision as of 14:34, 18 January 2023

Projektmodul
Lecturer(s): Christian Doeller
Credits: 16 SWS
Date: Thursdays 09.30-12.45
Venue: Room 204
BBB: https://meeting.uni-weimar.de/b/min-g3n-kqy-lol


Description:

This is a tool building seminar. Many of us today believe that we live in a dystopia. Our personal agency and autonomy have been slowly eroding. Many of the tools that were meant to liberate us -- the internet, computers, AI, biotechnology have turned against us. Is it possible to reimagine a future where humans take control of our own narrative or is it lost forever? Do we now learn to live in a dystopia or can we still dare to imagine a Utopia? In this seminar, We will borrow from the toolkit of hackers, designers, artists-collectives, activists and biohackers to learn the tools that they have imagined to create a utopia or fight dystopia. Our final project will critically examine these tools and techniques and attempt to reimagine or rebuild these tools. (original text by Yashas Shetty)

Participants:


Sensor Tutorials:


Artists / Links:


Schedule:

November 17 – introduction

- utopia in the context of DIY technologies
- utopia and technical sensors as interfaces to environments
- utopia and the maker movement

November 24 – Arduino basics + Sensors

- breadboard connections
- analog / digital converter
- analog / digital input
- light sensor experiments

December 1 – Sensor Tutorials + text discussion

- sensor starter kit presentations
- reading no. 1: Jennifer Gabrys: How to Do Things with Sensors

December 8 – project ideas + text discussion

- presentation of first ideas and experiments
- reading no. 2: Silvia Lindtner, Shaowen Bardzell, Jeffrey Bardzell: Reconstituting the Utopian Vision of Making: HCI After Technosolutionism

December 15 – hands-on (I) + text discussion

- presentation by Selena on Stafford Beer and the Cyber Syn project
- hands-on session

December 22 – Christmas holidays

December 29 – Christmas holidays

January 5 – online consultations (optional)

10:30 - 11:00 – Jemma
11:30 - 12:00 – Mavie

January 12 – updates + presentations

- present the current state of your projects
- presentation by Jemma on Deep Listening

January 19 – presentation + hands-on (II) + private consultations

- present the current state of your projects
- presentation by Martin on Ursula K. Le Guin

January 26 – hands-on (III) + private consultations

- present the current state of your projects
- presentation by Dahye on philosophies of cycles
- Deep Listening Experiment with Jemma

February 2nd – final presentations


Topics:

Technology:

  • Getting started with Arduino
  • Connecting and reading different sensors
  • tools to capture real-time sensor data
  • tools to transform the collected data into different phenomena


Art & Thinking:

  • Contemporary (media) art positions that relate to the subject matter
  • Sensors as interfaces between beings and their environments
  • perceptual awareness and sensors as magnifying glasses of everyday processes
  • interactive prototypes and simple tools as interfaces to »the other«
  • Strategies in working with sensor technologies and input/output systems
  • Feedback mechanisms, cybernetic circuits
  • Relations between the physical and the digital


Literature:



Criteria for passing:

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