Latest revision as of 12:46, 7 October 2016

Experiments with protists and their 'Umwelt'

Lecturer: Ursula Damm
Credits: 18 ECTS, 16 SWS
Date: Di, 13.30 bis 16.30
Venue: Marienstrasse 5, room 204,
First meeting: 18.10.2016

Application

 Each participant has to apply: please send a motivation letter before October 7th, 2016 to ursula.damm [ät] uni-weimar.de

To: ursula.damm [ät] uni-weimar.de
Subject:Habitats (MFA) /// Application
Content:

Your motivation to join the course
Previous artworks (links, pdf)
Name, surname
Program and semester (Studienprogramm und Fachsemester)
Valid email address @uni-weimar.de (if possible)

Description

How can we broaden our experience of communication between humans, animals and things through the use of experimental objects, arrangements and interfaces?

We will offer the opportunity to continue projects from the last semester.

Beschreibung

The project invites students to work in our DIY Biolab. It is highly recommended to choose one of our 'Fachmodules' dealing with Bioart and electronics.

The students are also invited to participate at the Seminar of Rebekka Ladewig Medien des Vitalen which will be in english.

Presentations

Links

Accompanying theory modul by Rebekka Ladewig

Literature/Materials

Karen Barad: Posthumanist Performativity
Karen Barad: Agentieller Realismus ISBN 978-3518260456
Rosi Braidotti, The Posthuman ISBN 978-0745641584
Rodney Brooks: Intelligence without Representation
Bruns & Richard: Aesthetic Cybernetics – Turning towards Senses of Man and Machine
Valentino Braitenberg: Vehicles – Experiments in Synthetic Psychology
Jakob von Uexkull: A Stroll Through the Worlds of Animals and Men
Margulis, Asikainen, Krumbein: Chimeras and Consciousness - Evolution of the Sensory Self ISBN 978-0262515832
Hugh Raffles: Insectopedia ISBN 978-1400096961 recommended chapters: Generosity (the Happy Times), Heads and How to Use Them, The Sound of Global Warming
further material provided by the study modul Medien des Lebendigen

Artists

Video lectures

Resources

Basic texts

Student projects

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-P'Lecturer:'' [[Ursula Damm]] <br>
+= Experiments with protists and their 'Umwelt'=
+''Lecturer:'' [[Ursula Damm]] <br>
 ''Credits:'' 18 [[ECTS]], 16 [[SWS]]<br>
-''Date:'' '''Mi, 9.15 bis 12.30''' <br>
+''Date:'' '''Di, 13.30 bis 16.30''' <br>
-''Venue:'' Digital Bauhaus Lab, [[Performance Plattform]]<br>
+''Venue:'' Marienstrasse 5, room 204, <br>
-''First meeting:'' '''12.04.2016'''
+''First meeting:'' '''18.10.2016'''
-  '''Note:'''
-  This is the course for the summer semester 2016.
-  The page for the previous course can be found [[GMU:Human_and_Nonhuman_Performances_II_WS15|here]].
 == Application ==
-   Please send a motivation letter before April 8th, 2016 to '''ursula.damm [ät] uni-weimar.de'''
+  Each participant has to apply: please send a motivation letter before October 7th, 2016 to '''ursula.damm [ät] uni-weimar.de'''
 '''To:''' [[Ursula Damm|ursula.damm [ät] uni-weimar.de]]<br>
-'''Subject:''' Human and Nonhuman Performances (MFA) /// Application<br>
+'''Subject:'''Habitats (MFA) /// Application<br>
 '''Content:'''
 * Your motivation to join the course
-* Name, Surname
+* Previous artworks (links, pdf)
-* program and semester (Studienprogramm und Fachsemester)
+* Name, surname
-* matriculation number (Matrikelnummer)
+* Program and semester (Studienprogramm und Fachsemester)
-* Valid email address @uni-weimar.de
+* Valid email address @uni-weimar.de (if possible)
 == Description ==
-In this course students will work with our Performance Platform to develop interfaces and experiments with motion capture and people tracking. The outcomes of this work will be presented during the Summary.
-Participants in this course must follow the [[GMU:Digital_Puppetry_Lab|Digital Puppetry Lab]] which is a mandatory introduction to the platform where they learn how to properly handle our equipment. Further, they must attend at least [https://www.uni-weimar.de/medien/wiki/GMU:Lehrveranstaltungen/SS16 one other GMU course] such as [[GMU:(In)visible_Networks|(In)visible Networks]], [[GMU:Bioelectronics,_aesthetics_and_other_interesting_things|Biolectronics]], [[GMU:Computing with Thread|Computing with Thread]], [[GMU:Sensor_Hacklab|Sensor HackLab]], etc.
-Students are also welcome to experiment with  amoebas in our [[GMU:Bio-Lab|DIY Biolab]] - for this, participation in [[GMU:Bioelectronics,_aesthetics_and_other_interesting_things|Biolectronics Werkmodul]] is mandatory.
 How can we broaden our experience of communication between humans, animals and things through the use of experimental objects, arrangements and interfaces?
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 == Beschreibung ==
-Das Projekt bietet die Möglichkeit, eigene Interfaces in Experimenten mit Motion Capture bzw. People Tracking einzusetzen und diese zur summaery als Performance aufzuführen.
+The project invites students to work in our DIY Biolab. It is highly recommended to choose one of our 'Fachmodules' dealing with Bioart and electronics.
-Verbindlich ist ein Einführungskurs in die Bedienung der Plattform sowie die Teilnahme an Fachmodulen der Professur (z.B. (in)visible network,computing with thread u.a.) zum Erwerb der notwendigen Techniken.
-Alternativ können synthetische Habitate mit Amöben in unserem DIY Biolab exploriert werden. Hierfür ist die Belegung des Moduls Bioelectronics voraussetzung.
+The students are also invited to participate at the Seminar of Rebekka Ladewig
-Wie können wir über experimentelle Objekte, Anordungen und Interfaces ein vielfältiges Erleben zwischen Menschen, Tieren und Dingen erlangen?
+[https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=32949&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung Medien des Vitalen] which will be in english.
-Es besteht die Möglichkeit, Installationen aus dem vorigen Semester fortzusetzen.
 == Presentations ==
-* Kan Feng. 25th of May. Abacus
-* Ji Xiang Jiang. 1st June. Iannis Xenakis
-* Di Yang. 1st June. Games including Journey
-* Xiangzhen Fan. 1st June. Ars Electronica and cyber arts catalogs
-* Qianqian Li. 1st June. Poetic lines
-* Yun Liu. 1st June. Prince Mio
-* Rachel Smith. 8th June
-* Shih Li. 8th June. Interactive audiovisual performance
-* Christian Doeller. 15th of June. Instruction based software art
-* Yuxin Tan. 15th June. Physical engines
-* Junyuan Wu. 15th June. On Growth and Form
-* Shuyan Chen. 22nd of June. Bagua(eight trigrams)
-* Adnan 22nd of June. Camile Utterbach
-* Aline. Wearable computing/textiles
-* Rama. 5 July. 9 evenings.
-* Fahad. 5 July. Generative art (Netochka Nezvanova & Adrian Ward)
 == Links ==
+* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=32949&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung Accompanying theory modul by Rebekka Ladewig]
 == Literature/Materials ==
-* A touch of Code ISBN 978-3-89955-331-4
-* Katja Kwastek: Aesthetics of Interaction in Digital Art ISBN 9780262019323
-* Performing Mixed Reality by Steve Benford and Gabriella Giannachi ISBN 978-0262015769
-* [http://mujweb.cz/horvitz/burnham/aesth-sys.pdf Jack Burnham: The Aesthetics of Intelligent Systems]
-* Arjen Mulder: From Image to Interaction: Meaning and Agency in the Arts ISBN 978-9056628192
-* Arjen Mulder, Lars Spuybroek: Vital Beauty - Reclaiming Aesthetics in the Tangle of Technology and Nature ISBN 978-9056628567
-* Nathaniel Stern: Interactive Art and Embodiment: The Implicit Body ISBN 978-1780240091
-* Frank Wörler: Das Symbolische, das Imaginäre und das Reale: Lacans drei Ordnungen als erkenntnistheoretisches Modell ISBN 978-3837632613
 * [https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/sv/sai/SOSANT4400/v14/pensumliste/barad_posthumanist-performativity.pdf Karen Barad: Posthumanist Performativity]
 * Karen Barad: Agentieller Realismus ISBN 978-3518260456
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 * [http://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/papers/representation.pdf Rodney Brooks: Intelligence without Representation]
 * [http://www.arteclab.uni-bremen.de/publications/artec-04-BrunsRichardAestheticCybernetics.pdf Bruns & Richard: Aesthetic Cybernetics – Turning towards Senses of Man and Machine]
-* [http://opus.uni-lueneburg.de/opus/volltexte/2007/11047/pdf/Kunst_aus_der_Maschine.pdf Martin Warnke: Kunst aus der Maschine: Informationsaesthetik, Virtualitaet und Interaktivitaet, Digital Communities]
 * [http://www1.appstate.edu/~kms/classes/psy5150/Documents/Braitenberg1984.pdf Valentino Braitenberg: Vehicles – Experiments in Synthetic Psychology]
-* [http://www.nickgreen.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/beerWhatisCybernetics.pdf Stafford Beer: What is Cybernetics (Talk)]
-* [https://www.asis.org/History/02-pickering.pdf Andy Pickering: The Science of the Unknowable: Stafford Beer's Cybernetic Informatics]
-* [http://cyberneticserendipity.com/cybernetic_serendipity.pdf Jasia Reichardt: Cybernetic Serendipity: The Computer and the Arts]
-* [https://artexetra.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/stiles-shanken_missinginaction-proof.pdf K. Stiles, E. Shanken: Missing In Action: Agency and Meaning In Interactive Art]
-* Drawing A Hypothesis: Figures of Research ISBN 978-3709108024
 * [https://smartsite.ucdavis.edu/access/content/group/d7cd5927-cc77-43da-857b-3abebfc3d22f/30349316-Jakob-Von-Uexkull-A-Stroll-Through-the-Worlds-of-Animals-and-Men.pdf Jakob von Uexkull: A Stroll Through the Worlds of Animals and Men]
 * Margulis, Asikainen, Krumbein: Chimeras and Consciousness - Evolution of the Sensory Self ISBN 978-0262515832
 * Hugh Raffles: Insectopedia ISBN 978-1400096961  recommended chapters: Generosity (the Happy Times), Heads and How to Use Them, The Sound of Global Warming
-* [http://www.nbi.dk/~emmeche/cePubl/2001d.robumwelt.html Claus Emmeche: Does a robot have an umwelt?]
+* further material provided by the study modul Medien des Lebendigen
-* [http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themes/overview_of_media_art/immersion/ Oliver Grau on Immersion]
+== Artists ==
+* [http://ellieirons.com/ Ellie Irons]
+* [http://smitesmits.com/ Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits]
-== Artists ==
-* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmmxVA5xhuo Myron Krueger Videoplace]
-* [http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=294 9 Evenings: Theatre and engineering Fonds]
-* [http://www.davidrokeby.com/vns.html David Rockeby]
-* [http://www.dwbowen.com/ David Bowen]
-* [http://www.lozano-hemmer.com Rafael Lozano Hemmer]
-* [http://www.flong.com Golan Levin ]
-* [http://www.inoutsite.de Ursula Damm's early videotracking works]
-* [http://camilleutterback.com Camille Utterback]
 == Video lectures ==
-* [http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/media.php?NumObjet=68100 Golan Levin on the visibility of interaction]
-* [https://vimeo.com/52544062 From Image to Interaction, lecture at V2]
 == Resources==
-* [http://monoskop.org/Software_art links about software art]
-* [http://dada.compart-bremen.de/ Collection of Digital Art "Compart"]
-* [http://d-503.com/corpus/ Negropontes Architecture Machine]
-* [http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=294 EAT: Nine evenings...]
 == Basic texts ==
-[[Category:WS2016/2017]]
+== Student projects ==
-[[Category:Ursula Damm; N.N.]]
+[[Category:WS16]]
+[[Category:Ursula Damm]]
 [[Category:Projektmodul]]
-== Student projects ==