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The class usually takes place on Mondays, from 15.0015-16.3045, on Zoom (with exceptions during the parallel seminar Soft Architecture). In each session four students will give a presentation: two based on readings and the other two based on art and design projects. Each presentation is followed by a discussion and/or an in-class assignment. Each student has to write a final essay based on a topic chosen by the student in relation to a class assignment and his/her practical work in the seminar Soft Architecture or Data Visualization.
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Readings:
a) Starosielski, Nicole (2012). "Warning: Do Not Dig: Negotiating the Visibility of Critical Infrastructures." Journal of Visual Culture. 11(1): 38–57.
b) Klinenberg, Eric (2018). "Palaces for the people". Crown: New York, USA. 184-197.
presented by ?? by Jin (Starosielski) and ?? and Basil (Klinenberg)
Project Topics:
- Speculative service design
- Biological services
presented by Elia (SSD), ?? Dario (BS)
Class 4 - 02.10. - Anthropocene
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Project Topics:
- Energy low design
- Anthropocene in art & design
presented by David (ELD) and ?? and Luca (AAD) & Dario (catch-up from class 3)
Class 5 - 09.10. - Systems and Bodies
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presented by Laberi (Hosokawa) and Tara (Franinovic et al.)
Project Topics:
- Sound Art/Design
- Device Art
- Sound and Ecologies
presented by Basil (SA/D) and , Laberi (DA) and Jin (S&Eco)
Class 7 - 23.10. - Essay preparation
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Project Topics:
- information art (historical & latest)
- creative tracking
- tbc (boundaries of data worlds)
presented by Stepan Cyril (Information Art) Cyril, Stepan(CT), Aisha (tbc)
Class 9 - 13.11. - Artificial Intelligence
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a) Zuboff, Shoshana (2015) "Big other: surveillance capitalism and the prospects of an information civilization". Journal of Information Technology 30: 75–89.
b) Ryser, Daniel and Sprenger, Ramona (2023) "Do not feed the google", news report in 10 parts on republik.ch (covered by 3 2 students: create discussion!)
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presented by Elias (Zuboff), DaruDario, Basil, Luca (Ryser/Sprenger)
Project Topics:
- social media interventions/hacks/hoaxes
- citizen activism using digital platforms
- participatory projects in Switzerland (mixing digital and real world)
presented by Luca (interventions), Elias (activism), ?? Tanya (Switzerland)
Class 11 - 27.11. - Essay support
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