If this course was a Digital Arts Programme, #1 would be the Bachelor, #2 the Master, but since it is just a course within the curriculum of Ortsbezogene Kunst, the first hashtag covers the basics, the second explores the deeper layers of how to computer. Kind of: Pflicht vs. Kür. 

Unsound ecologies – performative assemblages:

We will discuss current theories & positions on the relation of nature and technology, of ecologies beyond biological systems and post-humanism. Employing methods of performative research and auditive settings, the course will play and enact a sound studio environment to trigger, record and process Frankenstein’s monsters as radio pieces. 

Das Seminar bietet die Möglichkeit, ein hochaktuelles Verständnis von Raum kennenzulernen und experimentell anzuwenden. Im Unterschied zu vielen Arten des Räumlichen geht es beim existenziellen Raum um den Raum, der man selbst ist und mit dem man es permanent zu tun hat. Da alles eine räumliche Wirkung hat ist dieser Raum auf vielfache Weise beeinflussbar. Daraus ergeben sich für die Kunst viele Möglichkeiten.

This course will be a journey through the material culture of outer space, from the surface of the Earth to the limits of the solar system. Space age artefacts include components of massive technological systems, such as satellites in Earth orbit and the terrestrial antennas which receive their signals, blast-corroded surfaces at launch pads and on the moon, and disposable cable ties which are manufactured and discarded in their millions.

An Observation on CERN.

Researchers at CERN use the world’s largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to reproduce the primordial soup that made up the universe a few billionth of a seconds after the Big Bang. After our excursion last December to the socio-technical machine CERN, where more than 100.000 researchers from over 100 nations are trying to find the building blocks of our universe, we have become pixel-recorders by ourselves.

The course deals with the phenomenon landscape and, most importantly, with the forces behind the visual appearance of individual landscapes. What exactly is “landscape”? How do landscapes evolve? What are the reasons why cultural landscapes exhibit certain characteristics – or in other words – why do they look like they look? Which are the natural conditions they are based on? Which economic, social and political circumstances and developments have shaped them?