EXPERIMENTELLE GESTALTUNG NEUER TECHNOLOGIEN / PROF. RALF BAECKERThroughout the history of technology, inventions and machines have opened up new ways of seeing, understanding and shaping the world. The printing press is a radical machine, as is the digital computer. Now these inventions and machines have become part of a global infrastructure that maintains a certain dynamic of power. The reality of the Internet, for example, has erased the ideals of an open and democratic network.
In this class we want to think about new radical machines that are capable of creating new disruptions and challenging ideas of technology and the machinic. These machines can be a hack, a poetic apparatus, a tool, a software, a performance, an instrument, a deconstruction and many other things. Furthermore, the class offers the opportunity to complete/document a project in progress that fits into the field/area of experimental design/new technologies.
Each participant will research, design, experiment, and implement an individual or group project that will be presented and documented in the form of a presentation or exhibition at the end of the semester.
organisatorial information
The course consists of two “Special Topic in Digital Media/Media Design” courses. You must attend both classes (and register through ARTIST): Wednesday 10:00 - 14:00 and 14:00 - 18:00, for a total of 12 CP.
The class is limited to a maximum of 15 students. The first meeting will be on October 16th at 10:00 in room 2.11.100.
registration
To join the class, please write a short text expressing your interest in the topic of this class by 23:59 CET on October 12th. Please mail it to r.baecker@hfk-bremen.de.