Workshop „Digitalization“

Understanding Digitality

International Winterschool „Spectra of Transformation“Akademie für Schultheater und performative Bildung

Nuremberg, Feb 21, 2017

Prof. Dr. Benjamin JörissenLehrstuhl für Pädagogik mit dem Schwerpunkt

Kultur, ästhetische Bildung und Erziehunghttp://joerissen.name

benjamin@joerissen.name

„The Digital“ as Software, Data,

Networks, & Interfaces with regard to arts & aesthetics

https://www.ableton.com/de/live/

https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/searching-for-sound-simon-mejia/

Software & Code/Algorithms

Data & Data Structures

Networks & Protocols

Interfaces & Materialities

Software/Code/Algorithms Data

Networks Interface

Digital entities as „material“ in artistic processes

„Live coding“: coding as musicking

http://sonic-pi.net/

New Virtual Instruments not based upon sample technology, but on

simulation models of the physical models of the complex, dynamically interacting materiality of

musical instruments by means of complex, dynamically interacting

algorithms.

These platonic instruments are not „false real“ things, but „true virtual“ things, coming along with many or

even more of the expressive possibilities than their material

counterparts.

Software/Code/Algorithms Data

Networks Interface

2007

Software, as a hyperversatile logic/symbolic actor, requires the most

versatile materialities.19641950

1970ies

2007

Today, we are surrounded by super versatile materialities:

silicone (logical/temporal resolution) Displays (visual resolution)

Speakers (auditive resolution) Nanomaterials, 3d Printing Materials

(spatial & mechanical resolution)

Hardware as an extension of software,

buiding a new type of

instrument/ music

production hybrid.

Eigenharp

Roli Seaboard Rise

Roli Blocks

Pressure sensitive touchscreens + multiple sensors as universal

musical interfaces

Roli Seaboard 5D

Roli Noise

Geoshred

Software/Code/Algorithms Data

Networks Interface

Data = digital cultural objects

defined by Protocols

performed by Software/Code/Algorithms

Look, it’s the Mona Lisa!

0xFF 0xD8 0xFF 0xE0 0x00 0x10 0x4A 0x46 0x49 0x46 0x00 0x01

…

Protocols and formats „lock in“ the relation of cultural objects and

perception

mp3 – psychoacoustics jpg – psychovisualistics .h264 – ps.vis. in time

MIDI (Music Instrument Digital Interface)

byte 1: note on/off byte 2: coded note value (diachronic)

byte 3: velocity (0-128)

MIDI (Music Instrument Digital Interface)

not only defining basic understandings of notes, but being an industry standard of music production globally (synchronizing studio production and

postproduction tools).

Software/Code/Algorithms Data

Networks Interface

1) A structuralist view upon networks

Heidler, R. (2010). Positionale Verfahren (Blockmodelle). In C. Stegbauer & R. Häußling (Eds.), Handbuch Netzwerkforschung (pp. 407–420). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, S. 410.

Networks as resources

Granovetter, M. S. (1973). The strength of weak ties. American Journal of Sociology, 1360–1380; S. 1363/1365.

„The fewer indirect contacts one has the more encapsulated he will be in terms of of knowledge of the

world beyond his own friendship circle […].“

Granovetter, M. S. (1973). The strength of weak ties. American Journal of Sociology, 1360–1380, S. 1370 f.

Scheidegger, N. (2010). Strukturelle Löcher. In C. Stegbauer & R. Häußling (Eds.), Handbuch Netzwerkforschung (pp. 145–155). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, 146 f.

structural holes

„Ego“ als Beziehungs-

makler

Scheidegger, N. (2010). Strukturelle Löcher. In C. Stegbauer & R. Häußling (Eds.), Handbuch Netzwerkforschung (pp. 145–155). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, 149.

The position between structural holes bears chances of learning and creativity: „Brokerage puts people in a

position to learn about things they didn’t know they didn’t know“ (Burt 2005: 59). „This way, creativity arises from an access to knowledge which has not yet been discovered

als knowledge gap“ (Scheidegger 2010)

network theory

educational theory

this presentation

arts education

digitalization

our workshop

2) A relational-sociological view on networks

White, H. C. (2008). Identity and Control: How Social Formations Emerge.

Princeton University Press.

Identität

Fundierung „footing“

Orientierung

Kontrolle

Bedeutung

Einbettung

Entkopplung

Netzwerk-Domäne

(„netdom“)

Netzwerk-Domäne

(„netdom“)

Switching

Ereignis

Kontrollaktionen sind Ereignisse Steigerung der Kontingenz für andere

Ressourcen- konflikte

Chaos,

Narrationen („stories“)

Narrationen („stories“)

Kontingenz

+ Kontingenz – Kontrolle

Identität

Unsicherheit

3) A critital/antihegemonial view on networks

„Perhaps there is no greater lesson about networks than the lesson about control: networks, by there mere existence, are not liberating; they exercise novel

forms of control that operate at a level that is anonymous and

nonhuman, … eradicating the importance of any distinct or isolated node. … even while

networks are entirely coincident with social life, networks also

carry with them the most nonhuman and misanthropic

tendencies.“Galloway, A. R., & Thacker, E. (2007). The Exploit: A Theory of Networks.

Univ of Minnesota Pr.

Galloway, A. R., & Thacker, E. (2007). The Exploit: A Theory of Networks. Univ of Minnesota Pr..

Participation under the condition of strategic network(ed) operations and manipulation not just means co-determination in networks, but

also co-determination about networks – about its codes, protocols,

and operational modes.

„‚User‘ […] designates those who participate in the algorithmic unfoldings of code. […] Users are

executed, but programmers execute themselves. […] Taken in this sense, anyone can be a

programmer if he or she so chooses. If a person installs a game console modchip, he is

programming his console. If she grows her own food, she is programming her biological intake“

Galloway, A. R., & Thacker, E. (2007). The Exploit: A Theory of Networks. Univ of Minnesota Pr., S. 143

glitch-aesthetics

Menkman, Rosa (2011). The Glitch Moment(um). S. 25 http://www.networkcultures.org/networknotebooks

click & cuts/glitch

Farmers Manual : No Backup (2006)

„Take“

Menkman, Rosa (2011). The Glitch Moment(um). S. 25 http://www.networkcultures.org/networknotebooks

glitch-Ästhetik

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https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/explore-north-african-music-max-live-sufi-plug-ins/

„Sufi“ Plugins: Software as anti-(western-) hegemonial agent

The DIY way: Onyx Ashanti – BeatJazz

https://www.ted.com/talks/onyx_ashanti_this_is_beatjazz

4) A transactional view on (actor-) networks

The transactional approach, as discussed by John Dewey together with Arthur Bentley refuses to presuppose a basic difference

between subject and object, thus strategically suspending the border between

humans and things in order to observe how both are emerging out of associational, historical and

biographical practices.

Nohl, A.-M. (2013). Sozialisation in konjunktiven, organisierten und institutionalisierten Transaktionsräumen: Zum Aufwachsen mit materiellen Artefakten. Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft, 16(2), 189–202. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11618-013-0419-8

Dewey, J. (1990). The Later Works of John Dewey, Volume 16: 1949-1952 Essays, Typescripts, and Knowing and the Known. SIU Press.

Dewey, J. (1990). The Later Works of John Dewey, Volume 16: 1949-1952 Essays, Typescripts, and Knowing and the Known. SIU Press.

With regard to reserarch on AACE, this means to look upon the relational settings out of which

aesthetic practices arise, as well as to observe how and in which ways and forms different actors

emerge out of aesthetic practices.

How, for example, would YOU emerge in a technically-related aethetic practice as an

artistic subject?

Workshop „Digitalization“

Understanding Digitality

International Winterschool „Spectra of Transformation“Akademie für Schultheater und performative Bildung

Nuremberg, Feb 21, 2017

Prof. Dr. Benjamin JörissenLehrstuhl für Pädagogik mit dem Schwerpunkt

Kultur, ästhetische Bildung und Erziehunghttp://joerissen.name

benjamin@joerissen.name