Course Schedule
Lehrveranstaltungen
Designing fundamentally new Digital Media (Seminar)
Dozent/in: Götz Bachmann
Termin:
14-täglich | Dienstag | 14:00 - 17:30 | 23.04.2019 - 02.07.2019 | HMS 211/215
Einzeltermin | Di, 18.06.2019, 09:45 - Di, 18.06.2019, 17:30 | HMS 211/215
Inhalt: The title of this seminar – "Designing a Fundamentally New Medium" – is a provocation, if not an oxymoron (= a contradictory figure of speech): A medium is hardly ever "fundamentally new", and it can not be brought about simply by designing it. However, at the same time we all know that the field of computational media is full of changes of varying radicality - and these changes are often influenced by attempts to design them. This seminar will look at ideas about what a medium is, how these ideas relate to computers, and how we can envision radically different ideas about a computational medium of the future. Apart from discussing such questions theoretically, we will look in depth at the work of two practitioners: Silicon Valley based engineer and designer Bret Victor (whose ideas play a big role in the first part of the seminar) and Dutch designer and researcher Joana Chicau (who will be a guest in the seminar’s second half): Jona Chicau will give you in a one-day workshop first hand experience of what it means to develop profoundly new paradigms for the computational medium!
Social Actors & Big Data (Seminar)
Dozent/in: Ioana Jucan
Termin:
14-täglich | Dienstag | 14:00 - 17:30 | 09.04.2019 - 02.07.2019 | HMS 139
Inhalt: Big Data, it has been said, will “transform how we live, work and think” (Mayer-Schönberger and Cukier). This course critically examines the promises and limitations of Big Data, and the structures of power with which data is imbricated. We will investigate key concepts, practices, and agents associated with Big Data and their effects on society and social issues as well as their connections to knowledge production. Readings will be complemented by case-studies; theoretical investigation will be combined with a study of objects. Each course session consists of a seminar and a lab section.