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Lehrende: Victor Artiga Rodriguez; Prof. Dr. Andrea Sick
Veranstaltungsart:
Seminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan:
DM.M-MT
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
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Veranstaltungsname:
Collectivity in Action:
Practices T o g e t h e r in (Digital) Media, Art, Design and Theory
Veranstaltungsbeschreibung:
Everywhere, people are creating and making things together. That’s how the internet was built. That is what shapes the trans- and para-disciplinary production of knowledge, but it also forms the backbone of social movements, too.
Although this collectivity is nothing new—for example, it has a long history in different cultures all over the world. In current collective operating systems individual entities (institutions, companies) often take both the credit for these collective forms of authorship and the profit they make.
Co-creation is defined by methodologies that offer alternatives to the notion of the single author’s vision and seek collaborative paths toward discovery and justice. (see: Collective Wisdom 2022). These include workshop methodologies (encompassing scripts and hosting, too) that provide a temporary, dynamic environment for creation and learning; collective practices in art, design, activism, and learning; platform politics; network technologies; anonymous authorship; and collectivity with the nonhuman systems (see: Michel Serres, Le Contrat naturel, 1992 and the concept of kinship in Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble, Durham: Duke UP 2016.)
Collectivity is not the same as collaboration, cooperation, collectivism, and commons or teamwork. All include methods of sharing, distribution techniques, and learning to experiment—often with and through technical objects. This kind of collectivity and its techniques are responsive to changing conditions. Collectives are constantly in the making and accommodate disorientation.
But what are the specifics of collectivity? This will be discussed, read, experimented with, and shared in the seminar.
Could collectivity be an organism without fixed structures (see for example Ruangrupa), an open-ended assemblage (see Judith Butler, Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly, 2015), a peer-to-peer network (lacking any centralization)? How is access to such a “collective” organized (where are the inclusion and exclusion mechanisms situated)? Often, collectivity is not efficient, although sometimes it is called efficient.
Some of the examples we will look at and discuss:
The Dynamic Archive (HfK, ongoing)
Open Mic (Brendan la Belle) (Lebanon, 2021)
Array Collective (Belfast, creating collaborative actions, Turner Prize 2021)
Circa 106 (HfK)
Ruangroupa (Dokumenta 15, 2022)
The Art of Being Many (Theater der Versammlung, Kampnagel, HH, 2014)
Anon Collective (art and design studio in Romania)
Hackers and Designers (Amsterdam)
Solarpunk Movement
Chatty Pub (design software, platform, publishing experiment since 2020)
Feminist Search Tools (ongoing artistic research project, NL)
Display Distribute (exhibition space, shop based out of Kowloon,?Hong Kong)
“Laboratory: Coapparation” at thealit Bremen (2020-2022)
Plattform Nocturne: https://nocturne-plattform.de/ (Publication: Choreography of As If)
NFT and Blockchain in the Arts
Seminar participants are more than welcome to bring additional examples.
For questions, please contact us.
Zusätzliche Informationen:
Students from Integrated Design Master (Theory) and Students from Fine Arts (Theorie oder Interdisziplinäres) are very welcome!
CP:
6CP for DM M-MT
less credits are possible with less work
Raum:
room 4-15-070
Tag/Zeit:
Thursday 14-17h and Blockseminar
Introduction on 19th of October at 14h
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