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Fachmodul/Werkmodul
Lecturer: Darsha Hewitt
Credits: 6 ECTS, 4 SWS
Date: Blockmodul (see timetable below)
Venue: Marienstraße 5, Room 201
First meeting: Friday, 23 October 10:00 - 15:00
Course Hashtag: #wemakemachinesnotart

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imagining and inventing new mechanisms for interpreting the environment

This is a rigorous introduction to Do-It-Yourself Electronics. The Conceptual Sensor proposes an art-making methodology where concept and aesthetics emerge through hands-on investigation of electricity and the materiality of technology. Here, we will focus on building devices and prototypes that consider alternative ways of sensing and responding to the environment. We aim to go beyond the capabilities of consumer electronics made to measure the world by imagining technology that connects us to the environment (and the environment to us) in adventurous ways.

This course takes a bottom-up approach to the electronic medium through techniques such as deconstruction; experimental circuit design; pattern recognition and reverse-engineering. By employing processes that make the hidden inner world of machines accessible, it also seeks to critique the economic systems embedded throughout electronic media and its impact on humans and nature. ~~ Dieser Kurs ist eine rigorose Einführung in DIY Elektronik. The Conceptional Sensor schlägt den Pfad einer Kunstmethodik ein, aus der Konzept und Ästhetik aus einer haptischen Untersuchung vom Elektronik und der Materialität von Technik erwächst. Wir konzentrieren uns hier darauf Geräte und Prototypen zu bauen die alternative Möglichkeiten bereitstellen die Umwelt zu erfahren und darauf zu reagieren. Wir zielen darauf ab uns auf ein Abenteuer einzulassen die Grenzen und Möglichkeiten von Geräten, die gemacht sind die Welt zu quantifizieren, hinter uns zu lassen in dem wir Technologien entwickeln die uns mit der Umwelt (und die Umwelt mit uns) verbinden.

Dieser Kurs basiert auf einem bottom-up Ansatz sich dem elektronischen Medium durch Dekonstruktivismus, experimentellem Schaltungsdesign, Erkennen von Mustern und Reverseengineering zu nähern. Der Kurs strebt auch nach einer Kritik in wirtschaftlichen Systemen integrierter elektronischer Medien und deren Einfluss auf Menschheit und Natur mittels Prozessen, die die verborgenen inneren Welten von Maschinen offenbaren.

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1 - This is a studio course where students are given time and space in class to develop their work. Presence is taken very seriously. Late arrivals and absence are not tolerated.

2 – Students studying in Media Arts Environments (GMU) have priority for this course

3 – Register with letter of motivation via email before 13.10.2015 (darsha.hewitt@uni-weimar.de) that includes

  • Your program, semester of study
  • A brief statement of interest
  • A statement acknowledging that they have read the course description and can commit to the class schedule

4 – There is at 20€ material fee for this course


  • This is a block module course condensed into three weeks - students please ensure you are available for the dates outlined below.

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  • 1. Assignments 60%
  • 2. Attendance 20%
  • 3. Documentation 20%

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Subject to change

23.10.15 10:00 - 15:00 BLOCK 1 LECTURE DAY: CONCEPTUAL SWITCH
24.10.15 10:00 - 15:00 BLOCK 1 STUDIO DAY
25.10.15 10:00 - 15:00 BLOCK 1 STUDIO DAY + ASSIGNMENT PRESENTATION (20%)
30.10.15 10:00 - 15:00 BLOCK 2 LECTURE DAY: IMPROBABLE SENSOR
31.10.15 10:00 - 15:00 BLOCK 2 STUDIO DAY
01.11.15 10:00 - 15:00 BLOCK 2 STUDIO DAY + ASSIGNMENT PRESENTATION (20%)
20.11.15 10:00 - 15:00 BLOCK 3 LECTURE DAY: THE FUNNEST ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT IMAGINABLE
21.11.15 10:00 - 15:00 BLOCK 3 STUDIO DAY
22.11.15 10:00 - 15:00 BLOCK 3 STUDIO DAY + ASSIGNMENT PRESENTATION (20%)
18.12.15 ~ ~ SUBMIT FINAL DOCUMENTATION/SUPPORT MATERIAL (20%)

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Once you are registered for the course you must sign up for the GMU mailing list: http://www.uni-weimar.de/medien/wiki/GMU:Mailinglist

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BA + MA:

  • Medienkunst und Gestaltung
  • Medienarchitektur
  • Visuelle Kommunication
  • Productdesign
  • Medienwissenschaften

Note: Priority is given to Medienkunst und Gestaltung students

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The course will be in taught in English