New Practice in Art and Technology - Find out what's on, who we are, our studio, research + study programme. Don't miss: journal / 3021 project space & loops event series.

Sep 8, 2023

Project Showcase: Dialectics of Climate Futures

Take a closer look at the Project 'Dialectics of Climate Futures' by Philipp Proff and Milli Keil presented at this years Ars Electronica as part of the Breaking Patterns Exhibition. The project was developed in the context of the research project 'Tangible Climate Futures' funded by the Climate Change Center Berlin Brandenburg.

Sep 6, 2023

'Breaking Patterns' Exhibition @ Ars Electronica 2023

Once again, the MA Design & Computation between University of the Arts Berlin and Technische Universität Berlin is exhibiting at Ars Electronica Campus. This year, the exhibition "Breaking Patterns" showcases a diverse array of installations and research projects that playfully engage with emerging technologies and their implications for society.

Jul 31, 2023

MY-CO-PLACE Finissage & Panel

Prof. Albert Lang will be part of a Panel Discussion on inter- and transdisciplinary processes, opportunities and challenges for the Finissage of the space of encounter MY-CO PLACE in the BHROX Bauhaus Reuse Space on Ernst-Reuter-Platz.

Jul 21, 2023

Rundgang 2023

This year, the MA Design & Computation will exhibit in Medienhaus (Ground Floor, Rear Building, Room 21, 20, 19). The exhibition runs from 21.-23. Juli 2023, with an opening on the 21. Juli 2023 at 5pm in Medienhaus. On display will be projects from students of all years, the first-ever master projects, as well as works from the current year-long research studio. Find out more on the official Rundgang Website.

Jul 13, 2023

Su Yu Hsin & Jens Turowski

‍Su Yu Hsin and Jens Turowski join us for a screening with video installation settings and shared talk on their collaboration between geoscience and art. The works on display "frame of reference I + II" are the result of fieldwork at the Taroko Gorge site in Taiwan in collaboration with GFZ GermanResearch Centre for Geosciences and NCTU Disaster Prevention and Water Environment Research Center.

Jul 6, 2023

Orit Halpern & Jeffrey Kirkwood

Orit Halpern and Jeffrey Kirkwood join us for a conversation on the models, infrastructures and histories of financial markets and computational capitalism. Models as “engines” that produce markets and meaning align with the historic reformulation of human intelligence as machinic and networked.

Jun 29, 2023

Victorine van Alphen

On the verge of immersive theatre, social experiment, hybrid reality and audio visual installations, Transmedia Artist and philosopher Victorine van Alphen explores how various mediated contexts can invite the audience through different perceptive states.

Jun 22, 2023

Anna Ehrenstein & Cibelle Cavalli Bastos

This week we are joined by Anna Ehrenstein and Cibelle Cavalli Bastos, who will present and discuss their artistic practices, focusing on fair decolonial and non-conforming collaboration and solidarity both physically and in the virtual.

Jun 17, 2023

Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften 2023

New Practice und der MA Design & Computation will open the doors to the studio at the LNDW (Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften), a yearly event of universities and other academic and research institutions in Berlin and Potsdam open their doors to spectacular experiments, interesting lectures, talks and workshops.

Jun 15, 2023

Homi K. Bhabha

For the first time, the pioneering theorist of postcolonialism Homi K. Bhabha will be a guest at the UdK Berlin. Berlin University of the Arts and LOOPS are pleased to welcome you to Prof. Homi K. Bhabha's keynote address and subsequent panel discussion.

Jun 8, 2023

Vladan Joler & Kim Albrecht

How can information visualisation and diagrammatics be used to understand and render visible the entanglements between complex technological systems and society? Vladan Joler and Kim Albrecht will present and discuss their research practices and approaches towards different phenomena of digital culture.

Jun 6, 2023

Newsletter Forum Hochschulräte: Repurposing University Spaces

This month, head coordinator of New Practice Albert Lang published an article in the Newsletter "Forum Hochschulräte", commenting on the importance of repurposing of spaces and inventory and its role in the sucessful transformation of the university.

Jun 1, 2023

Michael Nitsche, Stephan Günzel & Fabian Schneider

For this Loops event, we are joined by Michael Nitsche, Stephan Günzel and Fabian Schneider, who will approach the concept of reduction from different points of view. What becomes possible through the reduction of complexity?

May 25, 2023

Aram Bartholl

Through sculptural interventions, installations and performative workshops, Aram Bartholl questions the public economies of social networks, online platforms and the interconnected aspects of surveillance, data security and dependency on technology. In his works, the absurdity of global platform capitalism is transferred into public spaces.

May 4, 2023

Birgit Schneider & Klasse Klima

How is climate change represented visually and what does this mean for social action? Birgit Schneider is Professor of Cultures of Knowledge and Media Environments at the University of Potsdam and researches climate images and visual climate change communication.

Apr 27, 2023

Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau

Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau, who are considered pioneers of the "Art of Interface", were invited to kick off the LOOPS series of events. Their art combines biology and technology, nature and algorithms.

Feb 16, 2023

Open Studio 2023

Design & Computation opens the doors to its studio again. See the semester results of the Perspectives modules and the Studio year.

Feb 3, 2023

Transmediale / CTM Vorspiel 2022

Together with the Classes for Generative Art, Experimental Film, and Narrative Film, students from D&C showed a selection of current works and performances in the big hall at MaHalla.

Sep 6, 2022

Ars Electronica 2022 Exhibition

From 6th to 11th of September Design and Computation will be exhibiting within Ars Electronica in Linz this year!

Feb 25, 2022

Symbiotic Sites

Sympoietic Sites refers to collaborative, transdisciplinary spaces - physical, virtual and metaphorical -, from which the exhibited works emerge.

Jul 18, 2021

Open Studio: Virtualities

Open Studio "VIRTUALITIES" at the Design&Computation studio