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''[[Zeitraster|Date]]:'' Plenum: Tuesdays, 11:00-18:30; Consultations: Wednesdays by appointment<br/> | ''[[Zeitraster|Date]]:'' Plenum: Tuesdays, 11:00-18:30; Consultations: Wednesdays by appointment<br/> | ||
''Location:'' <s>Marienstrasse 7b, Room 104</s> Now Online!<br/> | ''Location:'' <s>Marienstrasse 7b, Room 104</s> Now Online!<br/> | ||
''First Meeting:'' 3 November 2020, 13:30 (Link to online meeting will be sent to accepted participants by email.)<br/> | ''First Meeting:'' 3 November 2020, 13:30<br />(Link to online meeting will be sent to accepted participants by email.)<br/> | ||
''BISON Course ID:'' 320220028<br/> | ''BISON Course ID: ''[https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung&publishid=48339 320220028]<br/> | ||
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==Syllabus (subject to change)== | ==Syllabus (subject to change)== | ||
TBA<br /> | '''3 November 2020 / Week 1'''<br /> | ||
Introduction<br /> | |||
Course Organization<br /> | |||
Administrative Housekeeping<br /> | |||
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Assignment: For next week, please review ''Computer Lib/Dream Machines'' by Ted Nelson:<br /> | |||
http://www.newmediareader.com/book_samples/nmr-21-nelson.pdf<br /> | |||
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Please be ready to share your preliminary ideas for your concept for your semester project.<br /> | |||
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'''10 November 2020 / Week 2'''<br /> | |||
Computer Liberation<br /> | |||
From Augmenting Human Intellect to Unsupervised Machine Learning<br /> | |||
Online Collaborative Brainwriting<br /> | |||
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[Links and Resources from the Lecture]<br /> | |||
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Assignment: Building on the ideas generated during the Brainwriting experiment, you should begin to formalize your concept for your semester project and be ready to present for ten minutes during next week's roundtable. You presentation should include any materials, sources or existing projects that you have come across in your initial research, and show which platform(s) you are using to document your process this semester.<br /> | |||
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'''17 November 2020 / Week 3'''<br /> | |||
Project Concept Roundtable 1<br /> | |||
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[Links and Resources from the Lecture]<br /> | |||
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Assignment: For next week, please review "What is Generative Art? Complexity Theory as a Context for Art Theory" by Philip Galanter:<br /> | |||
http://philipgalanter.com/downloads/ga2003_what_is_genart.pdf<br /> | |||
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'''24 November 2020 / Week 4'''<br /> | |||
Parametric, Computational and Generative Processes<br /> | |||
Cybernetics, Artificial Intelligence and Synthetic Media<br /> | |||
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[Links and Resources from the Lecture]<br /> | |||
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Assignment: For next week, please review the following article here: https://www.ideo.com/blog/the-rules-of-brainstorming-change-when-ai-gets-involved-heres-how<br /> | |||
Afterwards, formulate a brief written project statement (less than one page) outlining your semester project concept, as well as your ideas for the technical realization of the work. Feel free to draw on the technologies mentioned in the Collective Vision of Synthetic Reality workshop cards. Once you have completed your statement, experiment using it (either complete or in component sentences) as a prompt for the text generation demos [https://transformer.huggingface.co/ Write With Transformer] and [https://app.inferkit.com/demo Talk to Transformer]. Document your experiments and be ready to share your original statement and ten iterations from the demos in next week's roundtable. | |||
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'''1 December 2020 / Week 5'''<br /> | |||
Project Concept Roundtable 2<br /> | |||
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Assignment: For next week, please review the following:<br />''Design Fiction: A short essay on design, science, fact and fiction'' by Julian Bleecker<br />http://drbfw5wfjlxon.cloudfront.net/writing/DesignFiction_WebEdition.pdf<br /> | |||
and "Patently untrue: fleshy defibrillators and synchronised baseball are changing the future" by Bruce Sterling<br/>https://www.wired.co.uk/article/patently-untrue<br /> | |||
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'''8 December 2020 / Week 6'''<br /> | |||
Neural Networks<br /> | |||
The Black Box: Working with CNNs, RNNs and GANs<br /> | |||
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Assignment: For next week, please finish preparing your midterm presentation. You will have 10 minutes to present your semester project concept. Be sure to show the background research you have already conducted, as well as your plans for the technical realization of your work and a production timeline for the rest of the semester. | |||
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'''15 December 2020 / Week 7'''<br /> | |||
Midterm Presentations<br /> | |||
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Assignment: TBA | |||
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'''5 Januar 2021 / Week 8'''<br /> | |||
Edge Computing and Lightweight ML<br /> | |||
Environmental Sensing<br /> | |||
Participatory Platforms<br /> | |||
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Assignment: For next week, please review Milgram & Kishino's ''A Taxonomy of Mixed Reality Visual Displays'', available as PDF here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/231514051_A_Taxonomy_of_Mixed_Reality_Visual_Displays | |||
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'''12 Januar 2021 / Week 9'''<br /> | |||
Mixed Realities<br /> | |||
[[/ARLab |Augemented Reality Lab with Guest Lecturer Silvana Callegari]]<br /> | |||
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Assignment: Continue preparing for the Project Development Roundtable (26.01) and Final Presentations (02.02.). | |||
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'''19 Januar 2021 / Week 10'''<br /> | |||
Asynchronous Meeting: Wearbles, Cyborgs and Hybrids<br /> | |||
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Assignment: This week you will be reviewing the following resources independently:<br /> | |||
[https://www.ted.com/talks/amber_case_we_are_all_cyborgs_now?language=en "We Are All Cyborgs Now" / Amber Case]<br /> | |||
[https://www.brookings.edu/research/our-cyborg-future-law-and-policy-implications/ "Our Cyborg Future" Law and Policy Implications / Brookings Institution]<br /> | |||
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_mmwrbDGac "The Human Eyeborg" / Neil Harbisson]<br /> | |||
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTPJI9ghzAk "In Conversation with Steve Mann: The Godfather of Wearable Tech"]<br /> | |||
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrNaaz1isEQ "When Humans Become Cyborgs" / World Economic Forum 2020]<br /> | |||
[http://lab.cccb.org/en/the-singularity/ "The Singularity" / José Ignacio Latorre]<br /> | |||
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uIzS1uCOcE "Ray Kurweil: The Coming Singularity"]<br /> | |||
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'''26 Januar 2021 / Week 11'''<br /> | |||
Physical Interactions in the Built Environment<br /> | |||
Project Development Roundtable<br /> | |||
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Assignment: TBA | |||
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'''2 Februar 2021 / Week 12'''<br /> | |||
Final Presentations<br /> | |||
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