Compact seminar 26.-30.11.2012
Volker Helm, Lorenz Lachauer
Filzengraben 8-10, Lab3

The main aspect of this workshop will be the introduction to a 3D-modelling program, respectively the transfer of basic programming skills and implementation of generatively created drafts into a computer controlled manufacturing machine.

Schedule
1. Introduction to Rhino3D/Grasshopper3D/Rhinoscript
2. Development of concepts and its programming
3. Production with a manufacturing machine (laser cutter)

 Prior regristration was necessary.

Georg Trogemann, Martin Nawrath

Grundlagenseminar Material/Skulptur/Code

Wednesdays, weekly 14:00 – 16:00 pm

Filzengraben 8-10, Lab3

Code is a run-of-the-mill material. What only two decades ago belonged to the exclusive field of engineers and programmers today is omnipresent and part of the standard equipment in many different design and production processes. Thereby Code is a material like any other. Its basic possibilities, qualities and behavior have to be explored, routines have to be practiced and the stubbornness of the material has to be experienced. Autonomous behavior, networking, collaboration and interaction are features the new semiotic material supports.

With Norbert Wieners Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948) technology starts to play with life. Since these early days of Cybernetics methologies have made great progress. We no longer just try to explore the common basis of life and technology but technically alter the processes of life and vice versa biologically control technical processes.

The seminar presents a general view of the developments since Wiener and puts relevant researchers and current projects and literature up for discussion.

The seminar examines spaces as spaces for action, that are created by the interconnection of external architecture, physiological or technological perceptive systems and individual action patterns. Part of the seminar will consist in a workshop in Montepulciano, Italy conducted together with Bauhaus-University Weimar.

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.