GMU:Media Art Strategies

Art in crisis? It may seem that right now everything else is more important than art. However, many people experience the cancellation of cultural events as a great loss, especially now when world views are changing.

Moreover, because of Corona, the digital media are becoming much more important and accepted as a given.

This module will explore the question of how everyday life should look in the future, what aims we want to pursue and what values we want to see as the basis for action and what we want to consider to be art in the future. In the module I offer you a collection of material about historical and current developments in media arts and design. We will discuss recent and future strategies to work with audiovisual and strategic media. You will have the opportunity to carry out your individual artistic or design related project. I offer professionale advice, moderation and support. These self-motivated and self-organized projects have to be realized until the end of the module in March. The plenum initiates open dialogue about these projects. It is planned to hold face-to-face meetings every two weeks at Coudraystrasse.

In the remaining weeks, our meetings take place virtually as online conferences.

First meeting: November 3rd, 9.15-12.30 at Coudraystrasse 11 C ground floor

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Course PDF's:

Lectures on Media Art Semester_2

for beginners (you are allowed to do the first semester instead): Lectures on Media Art Semester 1

First Lecture on Media Art with first task

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Contact and Info: ursula.damm at uni-weimar.de

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Material:

• A book on diagrammatic drawing: Drawing a Hypothesis, preview of the book
• The Social Amoeba: The biology of Cellular Slime Molds ISBN 978-0691139395
• Rhytmen Experimente (Euglena)
• Dieter Mersch: (Un)Creative Artificial Intelligence - A Critique of 'Artificial Art'

Schedule:

• 10.11.2020 (presence) Presentation of prior works, presentation of semesterproject ideas
• 17.11.2020 (presence)
• 24.11.2020 (virtual)
• 01.12.2020 (presence)
• 08.12.2020 (virtual)
• 15.12.2020 (presence)
• 22.12.2020 Midterm presentation (virtual)
• 05.01.2021 (virtual)
• 12.01.2021 (presence)
• 19.01.2021
• 26.01.2021
• 02.01.2021
• 09.02.2021
• 16.02.2021
• 23.02.2021 Endpresentation

Student projects:

• Sandra Rücker
• Benazir Basauri Torres
• Magda Gvelesliani
• Sevgin Basari
• Angie Sabrina Eckart
• Carolina Garcia
• Clemens Hornemann
• Eirini Kokkinidou
• Leon-Etienne Kühr
• Christian Manzano
• Lennart Oberlies
• Helin Özdemir
• Beatrice Perlato
• Sam Ryu
• Markus Siegel
• Ksenia Tajsic
• Funda Zeynep Aygueler
• Quan Zhou
• Zihxuan Zhou