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Technology and Media Art (Seminar)

Termin:
Einzeltermin | Do, 17.04.2025, 09:45 - Do, 17.04.2025, 13:15 | HMS 231 + 232 | The course will start in the 2nd week (room HMS E08) and is continued every 14 days from the 3rd week (room HMS 231/232)
14-täglich | Donnerstag | 09:45 - 13:15 | 24.04.2025 - 10.07.2025 | HMS 231/232

Inhalt: How can media art help us critically engage, disrupt, or reimagine the ways we interact with technology? This seminar explores the dynamic intersection of media art and digital technology, combining insights and methodologies from critical theory and artistic examples. We will examine the technical side of digital media—its hardware, software, and data—through the lens of media art that reflects, critiques, or subverts these technological foundations. From early generative art to internet and browser-based art, we will look at how artists engage with digital technology as a tool, a subject, and a weapon. Assigned readings will ground our discussions within broader theoretical frameworks, drawing from software studies, media archaeology, and science and technology studies. References: "How We Became Posthuman" by Katherine Hayles "Programmed Visions" by Wendy Chun "A Prehistory of the Cloud" by Tung-Hui Hu "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" by Shoshana Zuboff

Leuphana Bachelor - Major Digital Media - Agents and Interfaces

The Body as Interface (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Laura Hille

Inhalt: When we think about interfaces, we traditionally envision screens, dashboards, websites, and apps. But what happens when the body itself becomes an interface? How is the body envisioned, calculated, and edited? What are the interfaces of our fingers, skin, or genes? This seminar explores the intersection of media, technology, and the body, examining how contemporary and historical practices render the human body an interface for information, measurement, and control. Drawing from Science and Technology Studies (STS), the course critically engages with the informatisation of the human. Key theoretical frameworks include Trans- and Posthumanism, biometrics, and body politics. By analyzing contemporary media practices alongside historical precedents, students will develop a critical understanding of how technologies mediate and redefine human existence. Through close readings, case study analyses, and class discussions, the course provides conceptual tools to interrogate the body as both a site of agency and an object of technological intervention. *** First readings: Distelmeyer, Jan. 2018. “Drawing Connections – How Interfaces Matter” In: Interface Critique, Vol.1, https://interfacecritique.net/journal/volume-1/distelmeyer-drawing-connections/ Ferrando, Francesca. 2015. „The Body“. In: Ranisch, Robert, Stefan Lorenz Sorgner (Eds.) Post- and Transhumanism. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, p. 213-226, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Francesca-Ferrando/publication/304675451_The_Body/links/582b54ba08ae004f74afb054/The-Body.pdf Case study examples: Wentz, Daniela. 2023. „Through the autism glass. Behaviourist Interfaces and the (Inter)action order. In: Interface Critique, Vol. 4, p. 87–93, https://doi.org/10.11588/ic.2023.4.93412. Chan, Anita Say. 2025. Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future. Berkeley: University of California Press. Rosenbaum, Susanna, und Ruti Talmor. 2022. „Self-Care“. In: Feminist Anthropology, Vol 3(2), p. 362–72, https://doi.org/10.1002/fea2.12088.

Leuphana Bachelor - Major Digital Media - Agents and Interfaces