Rundgang 2022 As with every end of the winter 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 …
Mercury Retrograde: energetic kinships and non-rational inquiry in the artistic process
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
SYMPOSIUM: More-than-human perspectives and regenerative art practices toward climate justice
SYMPOSIUM More-than-human perspectives and regenerative art practices toward climate justice A collaboration between Experimental Film and Media Art, Universität der Künste (UdK, Berlin) and the Climate Crisis Thinking Network, University of Oxford. 3–4 June 2022 Universität der Künste (UdK) Aula, Medienhaus, Grunewaldstr. 2–5, 10823 Berlin The venue is wheelchair accessible. …
Smooth Operator- Gimbal Workshop with Lilli Kuschel
A gimbal is a device to stabilize cameras with the help of inbuilt motors and sensors, to get fluid and smooth video footage while moving the camera through space. In this practical camera workshop we practiced the workflow of a filmshooting using a gimbal and smaller digital cameras: mounting and balancing the camera on …
Expanded Reality Worlds II Workshop mit Kathrin Hunze
Expanded Reality Worlds II Workshop, Kathrin Hunze Mit Expanded Reality (XR) ist ein Überbegriff gemeint der für Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) und Mixed Reality (MR) Technologien steht.In dem zweiten Teil dieses Seminars werden wir in Expanded Realities eintauchen und deren verschiedene Formen (VR, AR, MR) als künstlerische Ausdruckform …