The Art of the Data Set
Welcome to Lecture and Workshop
- LECTURE by Brendan Howell - MARCH 31
- WORKSHOP by Brendan Howell and Michelle Teran - APRIL 1
Lecture: Reading, Writing and 'Rithmetic Machines
March 31, 16.00 / 4th Floor lecture room
Algorithms are machines based on arbitrary series of rules. While as artists, we often long for freedom from constraints, it can often be more liberating to bind ourselves or our technology within walls of our own devising. In this lecture, Brendan will describe his background and work with rule based systems for mediating text. Specifically, he will explain the algorithms used for collaborative writing in the recent exquisite_code life-novel projects as well as current works in progress under the umbrella term "reading machines".
Workshop: The Art of The Data Set
April 1 / 10-17.00 / 3rd Floor project room
The human experience and information have merged through the digitization of daily life. How did we end up here? In this one day workshop we will look at data as a cultural material and use critical, conceptual and artistic strategies for working with and understanding data sets. We will compare notions of the database to those of the archive, not only as they are technically defined but also in how they are approached and viewed.
The workshop will begin with a lecture by research fellow Michelle Teran where she will introduce some critical and theoretical concepts around working with data sets and show examples of artists / designers who are working with data as a material. Her talk will be followed by a demonstration of 'Stadt-Archive', a data-mining tool for collecting geo-located YouTube video that she has been developing with artist/programmer Brendan Howell. The demonstration will be followed by practical exercises for building simple data mashups that require little knowledge of programming.
* For those that have personal computers, please bring them!
Brendan Howell is an artist/programmer from Berlin and currently a lecturer in interaction design and the Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule. He creates software works and interactive electronic inventions that use random technological interventions for subverting the processes of storytelling and inserting the potential of non-linear narrative. His work has been presented at The Kunsthochschule für Medien, Köln, The Biennial of Seville, ISEA 2009 Belfast, Transmediale, Berlin and DC Art Center, Washington, DC.
Michelle Teran, is currently working as research fellow at KHIB. Within the project "Future Guides for Cities", she investigates the relationship between online video production and urban space.
Workform:
Lecture and workshop
Prequalifications:
Nothing special
The course starts 31/03/2011 / Week 13, and ends 01/04/2011 / Week 13
Location: Avd. kunstakademiet (Dept of Fine Arts), 4th Floor Lecture Room and 3rd Floor project room
Provider: Akademiet
Target group: Akademiet
Target year of study: Alle årstrinn
Capacity: 12
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