Simulations & Traveling without Moving 12.-17. Sept. 2016
During this one-week intensive course we focused on theoretical and practical production of simulations. The class was introduced to and appropriated simulation methods from scientific predictive studies, professional training, and entertainment for artistic use. Each session of the course introduced a type of simulation, included a practical experiment, and worked towards a final production of a simulation by each student which could also be collaborative.
While simulation can invoke ideas of high-technology Haseeb Ahmed and Eirini Sourgiadaki asked students to consider how can language be used as a tool to invoke, suggest, and create imaginative contexts which are then substantiated through material experiences. Can spaces be written? If so in which ways? We introduced excerpts from science fiction and creative non-fiction as examples. “Memory errors” enable people to recall memories of events that we have never happened, things we have never experienced, times we have never lived, places we have never been. This is a primary experience connected to feelings that are then followed by concept formation. It is this emotive capacity in memory that we used in the creation of our simulations in this course.
Highlights of the Seminar week & links to guests
13.9
Guest: Lorenz Troll
Agora interactive documentary –presentation in class
http://agorasalonika.ch
13.9
Visit to the Archeological Collection (University of Zurich)
http://www.uzh.ch/en/outreach/museums/archaeologische-sammlung.html
14.9
Visit to the Birdly prototype, ZHdK -demo by Max Rheiner
14.9
A virtual approach in the union of Mathematics, Philosophy and Art using Brain to Computer interfaces and Virtual Reality toolsets
skype presentation by John Bardakos (PhD candidate in Paris8)
15.9
Traveling through Hypnosis
Skype session with Richard John Andritsopoulos
17.9
Exhibition – Final presentation @ CounterSpace Zürich
http://www.counterspace.ch/
SIMULATIONS & TRAVELING WITHOUT MOVING
“Today we will land, but in many more places than one. Simulations, souvenirs and teleporters will be presented by participants of the Simulations course in the Transdisciplinarity Department at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). The course is taught by Haseeb Ahmed and Eirini Sourgiadaki.”
Simulators’ Destination Index:
An Other’s Mind – Fabian Gutscher (performance)
Intimacy – Simone Mutti (performance)
Before it all started – Lydia Zimmermann (installation)
Dominic Oppliger’s Fatherhood – Dominic Oppliger (performance)
Finé – Rada Leu & Peter Tränkle (performance)
Destino Final – Diana Lira & Juan Mauricio Schmid Bello (sound installation, intervention in public space)
Anima – Rada Leu (video installation)
