The project Paidia Laboratory: feedback is part of transmediale 2012. It is featured in the official exhibition as well as in a special show at Berlin’s Computerspielemuseum (Computer Game Museum, CSM).

The upcoming machines are self-assembling and permanently restructuring on a physical level, nevertheless they do it on the basis of elementary operations. But their basic characteristics are closer to the concept of autopoietic systems than of mechanical devices, resembling more the setup of an experiment than a classical computer.

Portrait Machine is a perforating machine that punches binary data from Facebook profile images into paper.

A seminar on code and material with a focus on the notion of information: Within the course, students develop material artefacts that transmit information. These artefacts are coupled into a chain (or channel), transmitting a given input via multiple stations and possibly yielding a Chinese whispers apparatus.

The talk addresses the intertwining of a certain discourse of technology with animals, and frames it as an intertwining of aesthetics and the ecocrisis. It addresses current ecological debates as a matter of aesthetics in the very fundamental sense of perception and epistemology, and links it with mediatic contexts.