Nahweh: The Unreachable Years | 2023 Material | Kinect camera, monitors, computer Length | Loop In German Fernweh describes a feeling of desire to go to a faraway place, a desire toward the Fern. On the other hand, it also contains the meaning of escaping the desert of the familiar, …
Özcan Ertek Graduation Project
Devil’s Rope barbed wire, turnbuckle, speaker, amplifier, MAX, arduino, microphone stand, For over a century, barbed wire has been utilized extensively to demarcate territorial boundaries and define spaces, such as fields, pastures, urban areas, factories, military barracks, and countries. “Devil’s Rope,” employs barbed wire as a medium to contemplate the …
Juan Pablo Gaviria Graduation Project
Juan Pablo Gaviria The voice, heard in chorus, recites a text about the straight sun, a solar event that happens in the tropics twice a year, disappearing the shadows of dazzled objects. Dilated eyes observe the actions of bodies that amplify digestion processes. The green plantain, metaphor of the appearance …
Rundgang WS 2023
As with every end of the summer semster, the students show their works at Rundgang. Medienhaus has opened its doors to welcome curators and curious guest. The classrooms are open to the public and each room exhibits the most recent works of the students, which they made over the course …
Mercury Retrograde: energetic kinships and non-rational inquiry in the artistic process
In the block seminar “Mercury Retrograde: energetic kinships and non-rational inquiry in the artistic process” the students attempted to observe reality as a “controlled hallucination” and embrace a type of knowledge that is immaterial, non-rational, and usually nondemonstrable with traditional scientific methods. Distant from the city of Berlin, the students …
The woman who flew into space from her apartment
Seminar imparted by Nina Fisher and Curator Vanina Saracino in Sommer Semester 2022 at Floating University. The woman who flew into space from her apartment will unfold as a non-exhaustive survey of female perspectives on science fiction in literature, cinema, and visual arts, attempting to highlight the unique narratives of …
Excursion to Screen City Biennial In Berlin: Other Minds
Screen City Biennial (SCB) Other Minds looks into the liminal states of consciousness that arise in the symbiotic relationship between the human mind and that of other living and non-living matter—including plants, bacteria, fungi, and technology. The project interrogates and challenges the notion of the human, embracing instead an idea …
Rundgang 2022
As with every end of the summer semster, the students show their works at Rundgang. Medienhaus has opened its doors to welcome curators and curious guest. The classrooms are open to the public and each room exhibits the most recent works of the students, which they made over the course …
Workshop with Pedro Risse
Many thanks to Pedro Risse for last weeks workshop about body and space sensitivity at the Floating University site as part of the seminar “The woman who flew into space from her apartment: SF worldbuilding from a feminist perspective”, of Nina Fischer and Vanina Saracino What does what I do …
Art, Research, and Ecology – what is it like to be a non-human being?
The seminar with Eiko Soga introduces an idea of animistic gestures as ecological practices. Soga first introduces her experiences and learnings through art projects engaging with an indigenous community in Hokkaido, Japan called the Ainu. The students are then invited to explore bodily understanding of non-human beings and discuss making …