The fourth Symposium on Digital Art at Kunsthalle Bremen asks for the specificities of the digital image and its documentation. It is organized by Frieder Nake and compArt and focuses on early algorithmic art and the relation of image and algorithm as one of sign and signal. › Georg Trogemann participates with a talk about “the machine’s calculated grasp for art”.
Working with code and material, artists, designers and architects face similar problems but treat differing questions and draw on diverse traditions and methodologies. In a meeting at Bauhaus-University Weimar, students of Lab3, Weimar (design of medial environments/art), FH-Mainz (design, time based media, interior architecture) and FH-Ansbach (multimedia) come together to discuss and share artistic strategies, technological approaches and concrete objects.
The piece › active by Jongwon Choi is part of the exhibition of the second Festival for Applied Acoustics in Cologne.
For the congress “Die Untoten – Life Sciences and Pulp Fiction” a cadaster of Undead Places has been established. The “Handshake” cadaster software used for the project has been developed within the › Citizen Media research project at Lab3.
Programmable Material? A lecture at the Symposium on Philosophical Perspectives on Synthetic Biology.
Artist and engineer Chris Csikszentmihályi is giving a presentation at the Surveillance Architectures seminar (Julia Scher).
Within the seminar we visit research institutions that develop the visibilities of the future: at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (featuring the fastest computer in Europe), Fraunhofer IGD and Fraunhofer FIT we get in touch with the technologies, methods and aesthetics of state-of-the-art research and meet some of the scientists behind these projects.
How to make a machine do more than it has been told? We examine theories, methods and concrete examples of how to use code and materials in order to get complex and even unexpected results “ex machina” from simple set-ups. Special attention will be paid to the interplay of programming and production and to the notion of feedback in technical systems.
A workshop on the development of Apps for smart phones which does not require any programming skills – even no smart phone is necessary to participate.
“Sarajevo: Sampling a City“ is a homage to Sarajevo – a city which like a microcosm reflects middle and southern European history. This history is told by the facades of the city’s buildings that seem composed of four layers: Ottoman, Habsburgian, socialist and post-modern periods of administration.