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KISDtalksTheories and Practice of Design

Winter 2017/18

KISD Köln International School of Design

Technology Arts SciencesTH Köln

Impressum/imprint:Herausgeben von/ published by: Prof. Philipp HeidkampProf. Andreas Wrede

KISD Köln International School of Design der TH Köln

Redaktion/editorial: Philipp Heidkamp Frank Leberecht Titelbild/cover photo: © ART+COM Studios Mobility Shanghai, 2010

KISDtalks Winter 2017/18

Theories and Practice of Design

The KISDtalks are a public lecture series on relevant perspectives of design. They give space for an open-minded and analysis and reflexion of the manifold issues of design, culture, society, technology, and different scientific disciplines. Topics are interdisciplinary, integrative, and provide internationality by domestic and interna tional speakers.

The talks take place on the specified dates an times in the conference room 11 at KISD. The 60-90 minutes-long presentations with “Q&A“ are a public event and free of charge.

Theorien und Praxis des Designs

Die KISDtalks sind eine öffentliche Veranstaltungsreihe zu relevanten Positionen und Arbeitsfeldern des Designs. Die KISDtalks verstehen sich als ein offenes Format, das Raum für aktuelle Fragestellungen und Reflexionen bietet. Die Themen sind interdisziplinär, integrativ und erlauben spannende Einblicke in die Projekte unserer Gäste aus aller Welt.

Die KISDtalks finden zu den angegebenen Terminen und Uhrzeiten in Raum 11 statt. Die 60- bis 90-minütigen Vorträge und Diskussionen sind öffentlich und kostenfrei.

Philipp Heidkamp, Andreas Wrede & KISDtalks-Team

Projecting as Cultural Gesture

Prof. Tomoko Mukai Nihon University, Tokyo

Tuesday 17.10. 2017, 5:30 pm

Tomoko Mukai’s design and artistic focus is on spatial projection with computer-generated visual landscapes.Spatial projection aims not at describing and explaining a narrative story or context, it should provide observers intuitive experience and understanding through their bodily perception evoked by the transformation of images. It could be similar to the Japanese garden where observers sit gazing at its landscapes or walk around there. Gazing at landscapes functions to provide a place of thought for observers. Spatial projection should be a medium or an interface which stimulates observers to remember collective or individual memories, to imagine and consider of social or individual contexts actively by themselves. She understands and defines this type of projection as cultural projection.In her lecture, Tomoko Mukai would like to address potentials and possibilities of projecting as cultural gestures through introducing various kinds of spatial projections in her own projects. In those projects, spatial projections are realized as a part of a community design project that she often combines with and develops from workshops in interdisciplinary cooperations.

Tomoko Mukai graduated at the Department of Scenography, Space and Fashion Design at Musashino Art University in Tokyo, Bachelor in 1991, and also in media design at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Diploma/Master in 1996. She was appointed as Assistant Professor at the Department of Design, College of Art, Nihon University in 2005, since 2008 she is Associate Professor.

The talk will be held in English language.

Debunking Naturalness: Wetware Art and Greenness Studies

Dr. Jens Hauser Department of Arts and Cultural Studies and Medical Museion/Faculty of Health SciencesUniversity of Copenhagen

Tuesday 24.10. 2017, 5:30 pm

In their technical nature, humans tend to culturally hyper- compensate for what they feel they have lost. This media archaeological talk discusses two case studies. The first concerns contemporary art forms that employ biotechnologies in actual practice. Paradoxically, they emphasize both their ‘aliveness’ and authenticity on the one hand, and their explicit technicity and artificiality on the other. Therefore, the terms ‘life’ and ‘nature’ – both terms only putatively non-technological, need to be disentangled. We encounter a similar problem with the culturally pervasive greenness trope: aliveness and greenness are linked through ‘biofacticity’, the idea of biological artifacts that at the same time grow and indeed are technically constructed from the beginning – the concepts ‘green’ and ‘nature’ need to be uncoupled as well. ‘Green’, symbolically often associated with the ‘natural’, will be addressed as the most anthropocentric of all colors, crucial in human self-understanding beyond color, as percept, medium, material biological agency, semantic construct, and ideology.

Jens Hauser is a Copenhagen- and Paris-based media studies scholar and art curator focusing on the interactions between art and technology. He holds a dual research position at both the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies and the Medical Museion at the University of Copenhagen, and directs the (OU)VERT research center for Greenness Studies.

http://ou-vert.ku.dk


Poetry Is the New Black – The Renaissance of the Tangible

Prof. Joachim Sauter University of the Arts/ART+COM, Berlin

Tuesday 7.11. 2017, 6:00 pm

In a time where any information at any time and anywhere is accessible immediately and directly, poetry comes back to focus. It is a form of communication, which is indirect, has to be deciphered and metaphorically decoded. This goes hand in hand with a renaissance of the tangible as a reaction to the virtualization of our world. As media designers, we refocused from expressing information virtually to tangible poetry. We build spaces and experiences not any longer digitally, but merge the best of the digital and the tangible world. After graduating from the academy of fine arts in Berlin, Joachim Sauter studied at the ‘German Academy for Film and Television’, Berlin. Since mid of the 1980s, he has been working as a media artist and designer. Together with other artists, designers, scientists, hackers and technicians, he founded ART+COM in 1988. He received several awards like, among others, the ‘Golden Lion, Cannes’, the ‘Ars Electronica Interactive Award’, the ‘British Academy for Film and Television Interactive Award’, ADC New York and ADC Germany Gold, and Red Dot. Since 1991, he is Full Professor for “New Media Art and Design” at the ‘University of the Arts’ Berlin and since 2001 Adjunct Professor at UCLA, Los Angeles.

www.joachimsauter.com


Smart Cities – Smart Citizens

Prof. Florian Pfeffer one/one studio, Amsterdam

Tuesday 14.11. 2017, 5:30 pm

“Will the real Smart City please stand up?“ is the title of an article published by sociologist Robert G. Hollands in 2008 (!), in which he discusses the ingredients necessary to make a city truly smart. Driven by technology, cities are in danger of becoming a rather corporate idea run by big data monopolies and large providers of IT infrastructure.The success of the city as a cultural, economic, and social model however is not based on its efficiency. The city offers a multitude of contradicting options and has the magic capability to make the clash of those options productive. Following this logic, a squatter is equally essential to the Smart City as Cisco or Google are – the dilemma as a hot spot for democracy. In his talk, Florian Pfeffer will investigate the opportunities for design being a provider of spaces for interactions between the various players and makers in the Smart City (rather than a provider of solutions). Florian Pfeffer is a partner in the design studio one/one with offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, and Bremen and director of the ‘:output-foundation’ in Amsterdam, which annually hosts the eponymous award for your designers. Florian Pfeffer lectured as professor at Karlsruhe College of Arts and Design and Design Academy Eindhoven.

www.oneone-studio.com/


The zoOH Praxiscope, a Project in Applied Media Archaeology

Dr. Christian Faubel Academy of Media Arts Cologne

Tuesday 21.11. 2017, 5:30 pm

In this talk, I will present an experiment in applied media archaeology, a project I call the zoOHPraxiscope. This device is a re-invention of the Zoopraxiscope, a projector for showing short animated sequences of images. The Zoopraxiscope was developed by the chronophotographer Eadweard Muybridge, who is most famous for having proven that a horse, during running, has at one moment in time all feet off the ground. I will dive into the history of projection and animation, connecting the Laterna Magica, early experiments on flicker and afterimages and the internet phenomenon of animated GIFs. A project Andre Rangel paraphrased as a merging new and traditional media, new and traditional techniques, and new and traditional thoughts proving an untimely point of view, where the age of the media has no longer any sense, because all media were young and will become old, all media were high-tech and will become low-tech.

Dr. Christian Faubel is an interdisciplinary researcher and artist. He is currently working at the laboratory for experimental computer science within the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. He holds a PhD in electrical engineering and has completed research on autonomous systems at the Institute for Neural Computation from 2002-2012. In 2002, he founded derstrudel, a collective for the mediation of a relaxed approach to electronics robotics.

http://christian.faubel.derstrudel.org


The Art of Aggressive Humanism

Cesy Leonard Zentrum für Politische Schönheit, Center for Political Beauty, Berlin

Tuesday 28.11. 2017, 5:30 pm

The CPB – Center for Political Beauty, Berlin, visits KISD for a presentation on aggressive humanism and the art of promoting public disorder. The Center for Political Beauty is an assault team that establishes moral beauty, political poetry, and human greatness while aiming to preserve humanitarianism. The CPB engages in the most innovative forms of political performance art – an expanded approach to theater: art must hurt, provoke and rise in revolt. In one basic alliance of terms: aggressive humanism. A presentation by Cesy Leonard, artistic director, film producer and organisatory committee chair woman of the Center for Political Beauty will be followed by a discussion with the audience.

www.politicalbeauty.com


Sooth Me, Wow Me: My Cross-Disciplinary, Multi-Personality Romance with Light

Prof. Lyn Godley Philadelphia University, Philadelphia, USA

Wednesday 13.12. 2017, 5:30 pm

Creativity is not a slow steady affair. Curiosity does not reside in silos. Mood swings are as natural as breathing. Light has the wonderful ability to cross these multiple boundaries and speak in many languages, both literal and emotional. My creative process, and thus my design studio explores light in its many moods and across multiple disciplines: from functional performance, to health, to sparkling wonder. Light can sooth as it hovers over environments, dampening contrast and hard edges. It can focus attention, drawing us in on a specific subject. It can excite us with sparkle and brilliance. It can heal, on a biophysical level, our imbalance with the artificial world. It merges science and art, function and beauty. Light inspires. Light excites. From large scale installations to small models, my studio explores the magic of light. Lyn Godley began her career in fine arts, then spent 30 years working as a designer, bringing form and beauty to functional objects. Her work has crossed the borders of interiors, product, furniture, lighting, and jewelry. Her designs, done both individually and as partner of Godley-Schwan (1984-1998), have been exhibited internationally. The Crinkle Lamp, the last piece designed jointly by Godley-Schwan, was accepted into the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art in 1998. Her work is also in numerous public and private collections. In addition to her studio work, she is an Associate Professor of Industrial Design at Philadelphia University.

lyngodley.com


Matter Matters

Prof. Ralf Baecker University of the Arts Bremen

Tuesday 19.12. 2017, 5:30 pm

The digital procedure, introduced in the 1940s, was intended to eliminate not only the noise in the channel and its surroundings but matter itself. This lecture looks at the origin of the digital and how artists and designers nowadays are trying to reclaim matter and raw material processes into their artistic practice. For this lecture I will use my own artistic practice to reflect and comment on the above-mentioned phenomenon.

Ralf Baecker (*1977 Düsseldorf, Germany) is an artist working at the intersection of art, science and technology. Through installations and machines, Baecker explores fundamental mechanisms of action and effects of new media and technologies. In his representations and spatializations of digital and technological processes, he seeks to expand our perception. At the core of his objects lies the entanglement of the virtual with the real, or rather, with the world. With a media-archaeological outlook, Ralf Baecker digs within obsolete devices for traces and functions that are still detectable in technologies today. Since 2016, he teaches at the University of the Arts Bremen as Professor for Experimental Design of New Technologies.

www.rlfbckr.org/


Musikalische Konzeption, Szenografie u. Ausstattung der Oper »L. C. Silla« von Georg Friedrich Händel

Prof. Dorothee Oberlinger Dipl. Des. Johannes Ritter Universität Salzburg – Mozarteum, Salzburg, Köln

Montag 15.1. 2017, 17:30 Uhr

Lucius Cornelius Silla (Sulla), ein skrupelloser Tyrann, der im antiken Rom eine Schreckensherrschaft führte, ist der unge- wöhnliche Titelheld, um den G. F. Händel seine 10. Oper im Jahr 1713 kreierte. Dabei schufen Händel und sein Librettist Giacomo Rossi einen Politthriller und ein musikalisches Meisterwerk. Dorothee Oberlinger und Johannes Ritter haben diese Oper mit den Stilmitteln aus ihrer Entstehungszeit rekonstruiert und neu inszeniert. Erste konzertante Aufführungen wurden von Publikum und Kritik gleichermaßen gefeiert. In ihrem KISDtalk gewähren die beiden nunmehr Einblicke in ihren Gestaltungsprozess. Hierbei werden sowohl die musikalischen Aspekte als auch die szenografischen Heraus-forderungen (Bühnenbild, Kostüme etc.) dieses einzigartigen Projekts erörtert.

Dorothee Oberlinger ist als Flötistin, Dirigentin und Inten-dantin (u.a. dreifache Echo-Preisträgerin) regelmäßig zu Gast bei großen Festivals und Konzertreihen in Europa, Amerika und Asien. Seit 2004 ist sie Professorin an der Universität Mozarteum Salzburg, wo sie das dortige Institut für Alte Musik leitet.Johannes Ritter studierte Architektur und Design und ge-hört zu den ersten Absolventen des damaligen Fachbereichs Design an der FH Köln (heute KISD an der TH Köln). Neben seinen vielfältigen Tätigkeiten als Kommunikations-designer beschäftigt er sich intensiv mit den gestalterischen Aspekten historischer Szenografie und Aufführungspraxis.

www.dorotheeoberlinger.de

Der Talk findet in deutscher Sprache statt.

The Future of Mental Wellbeing Services

Jennifer Bagehorn M.A. Live|works, London

Tuesday 16.1. 2018, 5:30 pm

London has poorer levels of wellbeing than elsewhere in the UK. Many Londoners don’t receive treatment for their mental health difficulties, straining public and private resources. In this session, we will look at how we used service design to co-create an ecosystem of mental wellbeing services for the city of London. Instead of duplicating channels and creating another platform, we imagined a solution that distributes services into the digital communities that Londoners already inhabit.

Jennifer Bagehorn holds an M.A. in European Design from the Master of European Design Program at Köln International School of Design, the Glasgow School of Art Product Design Department, and the École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle Paris. She recently works as a service designer for live|work, a design studio with branches in London, Oslo, Rotterdam, São Paulo, Helsinki, Beirut, and Brussels.

www.liveworkstudio.com


Video Killer

Prof. Michael Beil Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln

Tuesday 23.1. 2018, 5:30 pm

Michael Beil’s work focuses on the combination of electronic music, instrumental music, and video. His compositions are based on concepts concerning the situation on stage in a concert in connection with the development process of musical works. Therefore, the instrumentalists are mostly involved in the compositional process and their participation is documented to be part of a composition. So, the temporal formation and coherence of a musical work becomes perceivable and transparent for the audience in the performance. In order to do this, Michael Beil employs live and prerecorded audio and video. Thus, what is then the genuinely exciting moment is to transform the obvious dou-bling into an imaginary and ambiguous one and, in doing so, to generate uncertainty made possible only through the precedent clarity. Michael Beil studied piano, music theory, and composition. In 1996, he taught music theory and composition at the music conservatory in Berlin-Kreuzberg as director of the precollege department and the department of contemporary music. At this time, Michael Beil also directed the Klangwerk-statt – a contemporary music festival in Berlin and founded in 2000 together with Stephan Winkler the team Skart to present concerts based on interdisciplinary concepts. In 2007, he became Professor for Electronic Composition at Hoch-schule für Musik und Tanz Köln and director of the studio for electronic music.

www.michael-beil.com/


Dawn of the Living Hairbrushes

Dr. Oliver Olsen Hasa-Labs, London/Zürich

Tuesday 30.1. 2018, 5:30 pm

In his talk, Oliver Olsen will present the research carried out during his PhD exploring the role of movement on peoples perception of technical objects. He will present context and concepts as well as methodology and empirical work. One of the key findings brought forward is that movement motivates a social interpretation. This is indicated in the empirical work using a non-anthropomorphic object of a hairbrush lacking resemblances, e.g. of faces or body structure similar to animals and humans, and participants interpretation of the brush as animate and intentional as soon as it moves. This corresponds to screen-based works, for instance Heider’s and Simmel’s seminal work displaying that movement of non-anthropomorphic objects like triangles and dots are predominantly interpreted in social terminology as actions of animate beings. However, as the work comprises a ‘real world‘ scenario with a robot and people, it transfers these findings from social psychology and computer graphic animation to the field of human-robot interaction.

Oliver Olsen is the executive sesselastronaut of the HASA. Olsen serves as the agency’s first in command and oversees the day to day work of HASA’s functional offices. In his posi-tion, he consults in various affairs, e.g. how to reconcile sci-ence with the exploration of the fantastic and the imaginary. Area of Research: technology as antennas for imagination

www.hasa-labs.org


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