Project seminar 2, Master Transdisziplinarity and Research Focus Transdisciplinarity
\nTeachers: Florian Dombois, Katja Gl\u00e4ss, Patrick M\u00fcller and guests<\/p>\n
Goals \/ competences<\/strong> Content
\nKnowledge and reflection of distant learning \/ artistic practices
\nExperiences in communication processes over distance including not only speech, but also materialities, atmospheres\u00a0and spatial elements.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>We live in a distributed world. We have friends and colleagues here and there, and we connect with people from all\u00a0over the world, almost daily. Digital technologies assist in this task, but when we study the technology critically, we\u00a0have to admit, they allow best for the spoken and written word: mail, telephone, video conferencing. But, connecting\u00a0objects and spaces is still missing, the dream of \u201cBeam me up, Scotty\u201d hasn\u2019t become true. This causes hurdles\u00a0especially for those disciplines, which centre around the domain of physical objects and experiences.
\nIf we assume the arts to produce sense and to produce objects, we can ask: so how could artists connect their\u00a0practices? And if we put a special focus on art schools,\u00a0what could be done, to connect students in their practices and\u00a0education?
\nThe seminar sketches a connecting set-up between distant art schools and distant places. On the one hand we look\u00a0into history and analyse good practice-examples from the artistic, design and related fields. On the other hand we test\u00a0our own dispositives derived from our practices, our research and our own needs, partly together with students from\u00a0Asia and the US.
\n<\/span>Our distant partners are located in Cambridge Massachusetts (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT) and Hong\u00a0Kong (School of Creative Media).<\/p>\n