Surveillant Architectures Multimedia Performance
control society and media in cultural praxis today
The focus is on the development of new methodologies for artistic practice, especially those that cross diverse media in a performative way. The seminar deals with how public and private space is created, defined and controlled through surveillance and security measures, and how room for play and action is being created. We negotiate issues of visibility and invisibility, hiding and reconnaissance.
The seminar deals with how public and private space is created, defined and controlled through surveillance and security measures, and how room for play and action is being established. We negotiate issues of visibility and invisibility, hiding and reconnaissance.
The focus is on the development of new methodologies for artistic practice, especially those that cross diverse media in a performative way.
Lehrende
Current
Summer Term 2017: The Body and the Network
A discussion and production seminar, geared to critically engage contemporary surveillance and control measures in artistic practice. The focus is on the development of new methodologies, identities, and narratives, especially those that cross diverse media in a performative way.
Building on the winter term's „Systematic Observation and Recall“ the seminar will look at body extensions in societies of control and how they manifest in networked media. This includes art works, network activity, performances or videos that reconfigure, refocuse and recontextualize current technologies of connection and display.
We will investigate new transient cultures of extending and marking the body for security, surveillance, pleasure and storytelling, and contemporary platforms for live display including the theatre, the databank and the MAX Patch.
Workshops:
Raspberry Pi Basics
A practical workshop with help from Martin Nawrath to configure and install network devices with the Raspberry Pi as a basis. Aimed at all experience levels, the workshop will introduce the basics of networking technology, the command line, scripting and automation, as well as working with external sensors.
Media for Live Events
Building on this, there will later on in the term be the opportunity to work with Prof. Larry Shea, from School of Drama, Carnegie Mellon University. In this several-weeks long workshop we‘ll use the new skills to imagine and build new networked and sensor-based set-ups for installations, performances and open scenarios, working towards Rundgang.
Mid Term Review: 9 &10 May 2017
Excursion to opening days of documenta 14
Building on the winter term's „Systematic Observation and Recall“ the seminar will look at body extensions in societies of control and how they manifest in networked media. This includes art works, network activity, performances or videos that reconfigure, refocuse and recontextualize current technologies of connection and display.
We will investigate new transient cultures of extending and marking the body for security, surveillance, pleasure and storytelling, and contemporary platforms for live display including the theatre, the databank and the MAX Patch.
Workshops:
Raspberry Pi Basics
A practical workshop with help from Martin Nawrath to configure and install network devices with the Raspberry Pi as a basis. Aimed at all experience levels, the workshop will introduce the basics of networking technology, the command line, scripting and automation, as well as working with external sensors.
Media for Live Events
Building on this, there will later on in the term be the opportunity to work with Prof. Larry Shea, from School of Drama, Carnegie Mellon University. In this several-weeks long workshop we‘ll use the new skills to imagine and build new networked and sensor-based set-ups for installations, performances and open scenarios, working towards Rundgang.
Mid Term Review: 9 &10 May 2017
Excursion to opening days of documenta 14
Required reading:
- Flesh and Stone, The Body and the City in Western Civilization, Richard Sennett, New York, 1994
- Nervous Systems, HKW Berlin, 2016, introduction by Anselm Franke, Stephanie Hankey and Marek Tuszynski (online)
- Out of Body, Skulptur Projekte Münster, 2016: The Body of the Web (online)
- Surveillance, Performance, Self-Surveillance. Interview with Jill Magid by Geert Lovink (online)
Gäste / invited speakers
Geert Lovink: Medienkatastrophe, 20.4., 19 h, Aula
Simon Denny: Medienkatastrophe, 26.4., 19 h, Aula
Mark Bain
Prof. Larry Shea (June-July)
- Flesh and Stone, The Body and the City in Western Civilization, Richard Sennett, New York, 1994
- Nervous Systems, HKW Berlin, 2016, introduction by Anselm Franke, Stephanie Hankey and Marek Tuszynski (online)
- Out of Body, Skulptur Projekte Münster, 2016: The Body of the Web (online)
- Surveillance, Performance, Self-Surveillance. Interview with Jill Magid by Geert Lovink (online)
Gäste / invited speakers
Geert Lovink: Medienkatastrophe, 20.4., 19 h, Aula
Simon Denny: Medienkatastrophe, 26.4., 19 h, Aula
Mark Bain
Prof. Larry Shea (June-July)
Previously
Winter Term 2016/17: Systematic Observation and Recall
Wednesdays 10 – 13 h, room 2, Filzengraben 2a
A discussion and production seminar, geared to critically engage contemporary surveillance and control measures in artistic practice.
The seminar deals with how room for play, action and critique is being established by artists and filmmakers today. Using public and private space as examples, issues of “controlled states” under surveillance and security will be examined.
The focus is on the development of new methodologies, identities, and narratives, especially those that cross diverse media in a performative way.
Required reading includes Foucault‘s ‚Discipline and Punish‘, Deleuze‘s ‚Postscript on the Societies of Control‘ and the introductory essay to HKW's "Nervous Systems" catalogue.
Drone workshop
Mid Term Review: 6. & 7. December 2016
The seminar deals with how room for play, action and critique is being established by artists and filmmakers today. Using public and private space as examples, issues of “controlled states” under surveillance and security will be examined.
The focus is on the development of new methodologies, identities, and narratives, especially those that cross diverse media in a performative way.
Required reading includes Foucault‘s ‚Discipline and Punish‘, Deleuze‘s ‚Postscript on the Societies of Control‘ and the introductory essay to HKW's "Nervous Systems" catalogue.
Drone workshop
Mid Term Review: 6. & 7. December 2016
Summer Term 2016: Surveillance is the Business Model of the Internet, and Other Hollywood Stories
Discussion and production seminar, geared to critically engage contemporary issues in artistic praxis today.
The seminar intends to focus on the effects of observational technologies and recording strategies used in projects. Structures investigated include: moving image; video “labs”; internet data accumulators; performance; installation; and surveillant objects.
Mid Term Review May 10 & 11, 2016
Cryptoparty May 19, 2016 (in collaboration with Glasmoog and Jonas Hansen)
Drone workshop
Final project
The seminar intends to focus on the effects of observational technologies and recording strategies used in projects. Structures investigated include: moving image; video “labs”; internet data accumulators; performance; installation; and surveillant objects.
Mid Term Review May 10 & 11, 2016
Cryptoparty May 19, 2016 (in collaboration with Glasmoog and Jonas Hansen)
Drone workshop
Final project
Women under Surveillance Symposium
The two-day Women under Surveillance Symposium took place on December 2 and 3, 2015.
For more info please see wus.khm.de. Video documentation to follow.
For more info please see wus.khm.de. Video documentation to follow.
Winter term 2015/16: Up in the Air
The rise of consumer-grade drones brought an avalanche of bird's eye
view footage into everyday media. A formerly privileged view has been
made available to the masses, extending into airspace one of the core
principles of the Internet: Transparency goes both ways. "Technology
magnifies power in both directions" (Bruce Schneier).
We quickly become habituated to seeing ourselves from an overhead perspective, and we start thinking about our bodies as figures on a grid. The view from above is inseparable from its use for mapping (with the utilitarian, market and military implications that this carries). As more and more of modernity and surveillance goes from liquid (Zygmunt Bauman/ David Lyon) to vaporous (uncertainty/ The Cloud), we get used to the idea that there is activity overhead, looking down on us. While it is entirely possibly that this isn't new at all, and just an update of the old fashioned all seeing eye of god, the disconnect of the fixed position of the controlling body and its multiple, mobile, remote controlled viewpoints is central to the argument.
We quickly become habituated to seeing ourselves from an overhead perspective, and we start thinking about our bodies as figures on a grid. The view from above is inseparable from its use for mapping (with the utilitarian, market and military implications that this carries). As more and more of modernity and surveillance goes from liquid (Zygmunt Bauman/ David Lyon) to vaporous (uncertainty/ The Cloud), we get used to the idea that there is activity overhead, looking down on us. While it is entirely possibly that this isn't new at all, and just an update of the old fashioned all seeing eye of god, the disconnect of the fixed position of the controlling body and its multiple, mobile, remote controlled viewpoints is central to the argument.
Summer term 2015: Women under Surveillance II
Continuing the previous seminar, we will look at the role of women in the development of techno culture, leading up to the current state of ubiquitous surveillance.
Ada Lovelace
Cornelia Sollfrank
Hito Steyerl
Joan Jonas
Kristin Lucas
Laura Poitras
Martha Rosler
Sophie Calle
Suzanne Treister
Event:
15. to 17. May 2015, Chaos Cologne: „Edge of Control“
The first Chaos Cologne conference, a cooperation of KHM and Chaos Computer Club Köln:
Workshops and talks, exchange and networking,
keynotes by the artist Cornelia Sollfrank
Reading:
Zielinski, Siegfried, Deep Time of the Media. Towards an Archeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technica Means. / Archäologie der Medien: zur Tiefenzeit des technischen Hörens und Sehens
Signatur MED B.1 - 18
Continuing the previous seminar, we will look at the role of women in the development of techno culture, leading up to the current state of ubiquitous surveillance.
15. to 17. May, Chaos Cologne „Edge of Control“ http://chaos.cologne
The first Chaos Cologne conference, a cooperation of KHM and Chaos Computer Club Köln: Workshops and talks, exchange and networking, keynote by artist Cornelia Sollfrank
15. to 17. May, Chaos Cologne „Edge of Control“ http://chaos.cologne
The first Chaos Cologne conference, a cooperation of KHM and Chaos Computer Club Köln: Workshops and talks, exchange and networking, keynote by artist Cornelia Sollfrank
Winter term 2014/15: Women under Surveillance
Summer term 2014: Liberation Movements
Winter term 2013/14: The Future
Summer term 2013: The Surge
