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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.
[[:Category:Projektmodul|Projektmodul]]<br />
''Lecturer(s):'' Christian Doeller<br />
''Credits:'' 16 [[SWS]]<br />
''Date:'' Thursdays 09.30-12.45<br />
''Venue:'' [[Marienstraße 7b/204 | Room 204]]<br />
''BBB:'' https://meeting.uni-weimar.de/b/min-g3n-kqy-lol
 
 
<u>Description:</u>
 
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>
 
* [[/Mavie Beisheim/]]
* [[/Selena Deger/]]
* [[/Eli Kiefer/]]
* [[/Martin Müller/]]
* [[/Jan Munske/]]
* [[/Dahye Seo/]]
* [[/Jenny Soggia/]]
* [[/Jemma Woolmore/]]
 
 
<u>Sensor Tutorials:</u>
 
* [https://wiki.keyestudio.com/Ks0033_keyestudio_Analog_Temperature_Sensor Analog Temperature Sensor]
* [https://wiki.keyestudio.com/KS0487_Keyestudio_37_in_1_Sensor_Kit_upgrade_v3.0#Project_22:_Analog_Sound Analog Sound Sensor]
* [https://wiki.keyestudio.com/Ks0048_keyestudio_Water_Sensor Water Sensor]
* [https://wiki.keyestudio.com/Ks0049_keyestudio_Soil_Humidity_Sensor Soil Humidity Sensor]
* [https://wiki.keyestudio.com/Ks0040_keyestudio_Analog_Gas_Sensor Analog Gas Sensor]
* [https://wiki.keyestudio.com/Ks0272_keyestudio_Analog_Piezoelectric_Ceramic_Vibration_Sensor Analog Piezoelectric Ceramic Vibration Sensor]
* [https://wiki.keyestudio.com/Ks0309_Keyestudio_Thin-film_Pressure_Sensor_(Black_and_Eco-friendly) Thin-film Pressure Sensor ]
* [https://wiki.keyestudio.com/Ks0034_keyestudio_DHT11_Temperature_and_Humidity_Sensor DHT11 Temperature and Humidity Sensor]
* [https://wiki.keyestudio.com/Ks0051_keyestudio_Infrared_Obstacle_Avoidance_Sensor Infrared Obstacle Avoidance Sensor]
* [https://wiki.keyestudio.com/Ks0270_keyestudio_MMA8452Q_Module_Triaxial_Digital_Acceleration_Tilt_Sensor Triaxial Acceleration Tilt Sensor / Gyroscope]
* [https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/qwiic-ultrasonic-distance-sensor-hc-sr04-hookup-guide/hardware-overview HC-SR04 Ultrasonic Sensor]
* [https://wiki.keyestudio.com/Ks0009_keyestudio_Photo_Interrupter_Module Photo Interrupter Module ]
* [https://wiki.keyestudio.com/Ks0024_keyestudio_Knock_Sensor_Module Knock Sensor Module ]
* [https://wiki.keyestudio.com/KS0487_Keyestudio_37_in_1_Sensor_Kit_upgrade_v3.0#Project_15:_Capacitive_Touch Capacitive Touch Sensor ]
* [https://wiki.keyestudio.com/Ks0036_keyestudio_Flame_Sensor Flame Sensor]
* [https://wiki.keyestudio.com/Ks0052_keyestudio_PIR_Motion_Sensor PIR Motion Sensor ]
* [https://wiki.keyestudio.com/Ks0025_keyestudio_Digital_Tilt_Sensor Digital Tilt Sensor ]
* [https://wiki.keyestudio.com/Ks0020_keyestudio_Hall_Magnetic_Sensor Hall Magnetic Sensor (Magnet not included) ]
* [https://wiki.keyestudio.com/Ks0203_keyestudio_Steam_Sensor Steam Sensor]
 
 
<u>Artists / Links:</u>
 
* [http://smitesmits.com/SwampRadio.html Rasa Smite & Raitis Smits]
* [https://www.ted.com/talks/neil_harbisson_i_listen_to_color?language=de Neil Harbisson]
* [http://www.delindro.com/resilience.html Gil Delindro]
* [https://www.marcobarotti.com/Moss Marco Barotti]
* [https://www.nodegree.de/work/the-cosmic-and-the-affective/ Kerstin Ergenzinger]
* [https://www.niklasroy.com/#menuTop Niklas Roy]
* [http://www.blubblubb.net/OneTreeID/index.html Agnes Meyer Brandis]
* [https://www.jiri-suchanek.net/en/project/turbulence/ Jiří Suchánek]
 
 
<u>Schedule:</u>
 
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
 
 
<u>Topics:</u>
 
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
 
 
<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, 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/
*Hannes Bergthaller, Eva Horn: Anthropozän zur Einführung, ISBN 978-3-96060-311-5
*Klimakunstforschung, ISBN: 3883962996
*Christiane Heibach: Dem Spüren auf der Spur: Zur Wahrnehmung biologischer und technischer sensorischer Systeme, Link: https://www.medienobservationen.de/pdf/20200430Heibach1.pdf 
*Verena Kuni: The Plants Are (Watching) Sensing, Link: https://www.medienobservationen.de/pdf/20200430Kuni6.pdf
* Field_Notes – From Landscape to Laboratory, https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/hybridmatters-production/media/Field_Notes-From_Landscape_To_Laboratory-2013.pdf
 
 
*Make: Getting Started with Arduino, EAN 9781449363314
*Arduino Cookbook, O’REILLY, German/English, ISBN Print: 978-3-86899-353-0
*Das Sensor Buch, O’REILLY, ´German, ISBN 978-3-95561-902-2
*Make: Sensors, ISBN: 9781449368104
*Make: Getting Started with Processing, MIT Press, ISBN: 9781457187087
*Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers, ISBN: 9780262028288
*Arduino Tutorials 1: https://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/HomePage
*Arduino Tutorials 2: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfYfK0tzHZTpNFrc_NDKfTA
*Processing Tutorials 1: https://processing.org/tutorials/
*Processing Tutorials 2: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvjgXvBlbQiydffZU7m1_aw
 
 
<u>Criteria for passing:</u>
 
*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
 
 
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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