GMU:Habitats

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

Das Projekt

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
• 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
• 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
• Martin Warnke: Kunst aus der Maschine: Informationsaesthetik, Virtualitaet und Interaktivitaet, Digital Communities
• Valentino Braitenberg: Vehicles – Experiments in Synthetic Psychology
• Stafford Beer: What is Cybernetics (Talk)
• Andy Pickering: The Science of the Unknowable: Stafford Beer's Cybernetic Informatics
• Jasia Reichardt: Cybernetic Serendipity: The Computer and the Arts
• K. Stiles, E. Shanken: Missing In Action: Agency and Meaning In Interactive Art
• Drawing A Hypothesis: Figures of Research ISBN 978-3709108024
• 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
• Claus Emmeche: Does a robot have an umwelt?
• Oliver Grau on Immersion

Artists

• David Bowen

Resources

• links about software art
• Collection of Digital Art "Compart"
• Negropontes Architecture Machine
• EAT: Nine evenings...