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Instructor: Dr Joëlle Bitton
joelle.bitton@zhdk.ch
Guest Lecturer: Roman Kirschner
roman.kirschner@zhdk.ch
Office hours: Thursdays 12.30 - 14.00 (by appointment)
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Additional sources can be added to inform the discussion if necessary.
The reading-based presentation should include answers to these questions: who are the authors? where do they work? what concepts do they propose? what year was the document published? what was the context at the time of publication? what are other contemporary theorists and practitioners perspectives on the authors proposal? what influence did the proposal have?
The project-based presentation should include at least 5 projects illustrating each topic, that are gender-balanced, from various countries of origin. What 'taxonomy' can you provide to categorize the 5+ projects? How these 5+ projects help get a sense of the field that you're presenting?
- Final Essay
The essay is a final 3000-words essay with a diversity of sources and bibliography (classified by genre: book, book chapter, journal article, conference article, academic thesis, newspaper article, web article, etc).
The topic of the essay is chosen by the student and proposed by Week 8 7 in the form of a short paragraph (100 words) explaining the topic and the questions at stake. I will inform the student if the topic is accepted in that week, and in the form of presentation (3mn) to the class. The final essay has to be submitted by Week 12December 8.
The paper should be written in English.
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Readings are made available in the shared IAD server per session.
Additional readings can be proposed to underline a particular aspect and should be considered.
CALENDAR
Week 1 - Wednesday, 20.09.17 - Aesthetics
Historical overview
Discussion around words: phenomenology, ontology, epistemology, gestalt, aesthetics, hermeneutics, experience,
Reading:
Hartmann, Klemmer, Takayama. 2006. How Bodies Matter: Five Themes for Interaction Design. In DIS 2006.
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Week 3 - Wednesday, 04.10.17 - Instability
Week 5 4 - Wednesday, 18.10.17 - Instability II
Week 6 5 - Wednesday, 25.10.17 - Systems
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Topics:
- Net Art, Software Art
- Blockchain
Week 7 6 - Wednesday, 1.11.17 - Matrix
Readings:
Lindtner, Silvia, Bardzell, S. & Bardzel, J. 2016. “Reconstituting the Utopian Vision of Making: HCI After Technosolutionism”. In CHI ‘16.
Foucault, Michel, Martin, L. H., Gutman, H., & Hutton, P. H. 1988. Technologies of the self. A seminar with Michel Foucault. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.
Topic 1 Game Topics:
- Game & Realities
Topic 2 Artificial - Artificial Intelligence
Week 7 - Wednesday, 22.11.17 - Materiality
Readings:
Text 1 Susanne Susanne Kuchler: . "Technological Materiality Beyond the Dualist Paradigm" (up to p. 11)
Text 2 Form_and_Relation_-Materialism_on_an_Unc
Topic 1 Wearables
Topic 2 Smart City
Hui, Yuk. 2014. “Form and Relation. Materialism on an Uncanny Stage”. In Intellectica. 1:61. 105-121.
Topics:
- Wearables
- Smart City
Essay Proposal Deadline:
You'll present in class your essay proposal (3mn) which should include: the topic area with reference to literature, an abstract of approx. 8-10 sentences, and your rough structure / structure of the essay in key points.
Week 8 - Wednesday, 29.11.17 - Disruption
Text 1 Joey / Bettelheim
Text 2 Garnet Herz book
Topic 1 Bio Hacking
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Readings:
Bettelheim, Bruno. 1959. “Joey: A ‘Mechanical Boy,’” in Scientific American, March 1959, 116–127.
Feynman, Richard F. 1960. “There’s plenty of room at the bottom”. In Engineering and Science Magazine. 23. February 1960. 22–36.
Topics:
- Bio Hacking
- Disobedience
Essay Deadline: 8 December 2017 (sent by an email)
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