DIGITAL MEDIA AND EXPERIMENT
Digital Media and Experiment
Together we are investigating interdisciplinary practices from extended reality to immersive installations. Our goal is to establish a language for the ever evolving fields of digital design and media art. Through a rigorous involvement of practice into theory we aim to partake in manifesting the establishment of these disciplines and play a visible role in the upcoming challenges that we face as creators as well as a society in general.
I Wish This Would Be Your Color
This artistic seminar aimed to explore transhumanist concepts through the use offace masks. The focus was on critically questioning the history and contemporaryculture of masks, as well as introducing new ideas. Masks are seen as a way totranscend one's own identity and engage with non-human life forms, as observed inanimist cultures. They provide agency to spirits, ancestors, or natural forces.However, in a contemporary context where gods are not widely acknowledged andnature is often viewed as "the other," the significance of this practice is worthexamining.
Identity and anonymity are fraught with political implications and power dynamics. Inthe digital age, the right to anonymity is constantly under threat, with biometric databeing stored and centralized without consent. Therefore, concealment can be seenas a political act. The seminar explored how concealment and the use of masks cancontribute to self-determination and protect gender identity and other forms of self-expression from external influence.
Studienrichtung: Digital Media & Experiment
Seminarleitung: Prof. Herwig Scherabon
3D Druck Assistenz: Serigne Buck & Hanno Hlacer
Photographie: Luis DietrichModels: Luca Ackermann, Serigne Buck, Marie Schmitt
Kursteilnehmer*innen:Timur Akhmetov, Charlie Baumgärtel, Serigne Buck, Rey Elert, Vladimir Gutschmidt,Leonie Hartmann, Hanno Hlacer, Kathrin Jazenjuk, Jessica Schliwa, CarloSeemann, Margarita Werwein, Sihyun Woo
Together We Are Robots
Die Studierenden des Kurses "Together We Are Robots" unter der Leitung von Prof. Herwig Scherabon haben im Juni 2023 eine Ausstellung im Dock 11 in Berlin konzipiert, die den Abschluss eines Semesters der Forschung und des Experimentierens mit künstlicher Intelligenz bildet. Während sich die aktuellen Bedenken und Diskurse zu diesem Thema auf die Ethik der Verwendung von fremdem Künstlermaterial zum Trainieren von KI-Modellen konzentrieren, wollten die Studierenden auch über den Standarddiskurs hinausgehen und haben auch philosophische, politische und soziologische Positionen in ihre Forschung einbezogen. In Together We Are Robots zeigen sie ein breites Spektrum an Positionen wie nicht-menschliche Perspektiven, post-humane Konzepte und utopische sowie dystopische Szenarien. Themen wie Handlungsfähigkeit, Empfindungsvermögen und Ethik liegen tief im Gewebe ihrer Konzepte.
Pauline Tillmann, Fotos
Louis Wiemann, Dokumentations Video
