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What's On

Sep 6, 2024

Mark Mushiva & Tobechukwu Onwukeme

For the Ars Electronica edition of our Loops series we are joined by Mark Mushiva and Tobechukwu Onwukeme (members of the Forensic Architecture team among other things), for a conversation on their interdisciplinary practices. The talk will discuss the political affordances of Operational imaging within 3D softwares in current discourses of environmental change and colonial reckoning. Through a presentation of two case studies by the investigative agency Forensic Architecture, the speakers unpack the importance of artistic direction, scientific analysis, and technology in creating evidentiary material used for activism.

Sep 3, 2024

Virtual Matters @ Ars Electronica 2024

The interdisciplinary MA Design & Computation between the University of the Arts Berlin and Technische Universität Berlin presents an exhibition that explores the diverse challenges arising from contemporary technological and societal transformations. “Virtual Matters” moves beyond the constructed binary of ‘reality’ and ‘virtuality’, focusing instead on the continuous spectrum in-between.

Jul 19, 2024

DC @ Rundgang 2024

From the 19th to the 20th of July, the Berlin University of the Arts invites you to the Rundgang – Open Days. Selected works from the MA Design & Computation will be shown in the UdK Main Building at Hardenbergstraße 33 (Rooms 314 & 353).

Jul 18, 2024

Ariana Dongus & Johanna Mehl

We are joined by Ariana Dongus and Johanna Mehl for a conversation imaginations of ‘humanness’ in the context of refugee camps fueled by design solutions and Silicon Valley's approach to technology testing.

Jun 22, 2024

Lukas Grundmann, Johanna Hardt and Pierre Depaz

During LNDW 2024, we are joined by Lukas Grundmann, Johanna Hardt, and Pierre Depaz for a special event on the social dimensions of sound, the role of community radios, digital platforms and art institutions in facilitating more community-oriented modalities of listening and broadcasting.

Jun 22, 2024

LNDW 2024

New Practice and the MA Design & Computation will open the doors to the studio in the main building of TU Berlin for Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften 2024 on the 22nd of June from 17:00 to 24:00. You could enjoy drinks at our bar and meanwhile have a look at our research projects, follow our workshops or join us in a panel discussion on the topic of sound.

Jun 20, 2024

Tiara Roxanne & Pedro Oliveira

We are joined by Dr. Tiara Roxanne and Dr. Pedro Oliveira for a conversation on intersections of decolonial practices in sonic arts, design and visual representations as well as the ethics of AI through an anti-colonial and cyberfeminist lens.

Jun 6, 2024

allapopp & Sophie Korschildgen

We are joined by interdisciplinary artist allapopp for a conversation on approaches towards Decolonial AI and the necessity of other forms of technological envisioning. allapopp (no pronouns) is an interdisciplinary digital media and performance artist based in Berlin and from Tatarstan, Russia, whose work with machine learning, interactive live phygital formats, performance and sound fuses immersive, tech-inclusive envisioning with an activist agenda, speculating on various states of mind, relationships and self-perception altered by socially and emotionally intelligent digital technologies.

Jun 5, 2024

University:Future:Festival 2024

How can academic learning and working spaces be designed in the future? How can post-disciplinary, hybrid and experimental learning and research be promoted through spatial settings? To answer these questions, a ‘spatial laboratory’ has been created over the last two years in the Old Reading Room of the TU Berlin in cooperation with the UdK Berlin. The spatial concept is radically participatory and is based on the independent activity of the users - i.e. students, teachers and researchers from the arts, technology, natural sciences and humanities.

May 30, 2024

Talks@eTeach: Johannes Pointner & Albert Lang

Johannes Pointer (Research Associate at New Practice) and Albert Lang (Head Coordinator at New Practice) are presenting the findings of the research project "Dynamische Systeme in Lehr- und Lernraumarchitekturen" funded by the Stifterverband and the Dieter-Schwarz-Stiftung at the Talks@eTeach this Thursday, the 30th of May. How could academic learning and working spaces be designed in the future? How can post-disciplinary, hybrid and experimental learning and research be promoted through spatial settings?

May 28, 2024

Berlin Design Circle BDC#02 - Design for Democracy

BDC | Berlin Design Circle cultivates an exchange of design experts committed to promoting design on a systemic level. The Circle unites Berlin's Design expertise to tackle shared challenges and opportunities. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, it seeks to develop innovative ideas and projects.

May 2, 2024

Peter Polack & Anna Engelhardt

What does it mean to critically investigate crime and its entanglement with computational technologies? We are joined by Anna Engelhardt and Peter Polack for a conversation on investigatory practices between art and technology and the role of algorithmic and parametric techniques in the reconstruction of a crime.

Apr 18, 2024

Milagros Miceli & Sana Ahmad

Artificial intelligence and platforms rely heavily on a system of global extraction and exploitation of data workers. Dr. Milagros Miceli (Head of Research at Weizenbaum, DAIR researcher) and Dr. Sana Ahmad (researcher at Helmut Schmidt University) will join us to discuss the power asymmetries and working conditions of hidden and precarious data workers that are often swept under the rug in the promotion of "ethical AI" by multinational tech companies.

Apr 12, 2024

Loops wins Prize for International Visibility

The Berlin Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises is honouring our event series Loops as a winner of the Design Innovation Challenge 2024 in the category "International Visibility". The curators - students and researchers from the New Practice research platform - are delighted by this recognition and support.

Apr 1, 2024

Master Applications For Winter 2024 Are Open

Applications for the MA Design & Computation are now open, for a start in the Winter Semester 2024. The Application Period runs from the 01. April to the 15th of May. Take a closer look at the program as well as the application requirements page, where you can also find answers for the most frequently asked questions.

Feb 16, 2024

Entangled - Exhibition

New Practice opens its doors to showcase projects from the postdisciplinary masters programme Design & Computation between UdK and TU Berlin. Coming from highly diverse fields of study, we utilize our unique knowledge and experiences to work collaboratively across practices, creating a space for experimentation.

Feb 15, 2024

Tekla Aslanishvili & Adem Ferizaj

Tekla Aslanishvili (Artist, Film Maker & Essayist) and Adem Ferizaj (Researcher at SOAS London) explore the power dynamics and societal hierarchies within regions at the borderlands between concepts of Europe and Asia on the Eurasian plate (South Caucasus, Caspian regions, and the Balkans).

Feb 8, 2024

kennedy+swan

We are joined for this LOOPS SESSION by kennedy+swan (founded in 2013), comprising of the work of the two artists Bianca Kennedy and Swan Collective. When working together, they explore the future of evolution and its impact on plants, animals, and humans.

Jan 25, 2024

Fronte Vacuo

How do performative arts intersect and reflect contemporary society and the socioeconomic and cultural situation? We are joined by Fronte Vacuo, a Berlin-based transdisciplinary performance group, blends body art, dance-theater, audiovisuals, and technology.

Jan 18, 2024

Alison Sperling, Emiliano Guaraldo & Marco Malvestio

Alison Sperling, Marco Malvestio and Emiliano Guaraldo joins us for a discussion on the critical significance of data extraction and scenario making as they shape social perceptions of the planet’s futures and humanity’s presence, or absence, within them.

Dec 18, 2023

Mid-term Presentations 2023

The masters programme Design & Computation between UdK Berlin and opens the doors to its studio space at New Practice to the public for a peek at semester projects and works in progress from the Perspectives modules and the Studio year.

Dec 7, 2023

Agnes Meyer-Brandis

For this LOOPS SESSION, we are joined by Agnes Meyer-Brandis, a Berlin based artist with a background in sculpture and new media, who will introduce us to her practice. She creates works on the fringes of science, fiction and fabulation.Educated first in mineralogy, followed by studies at the art academies in Maastricht, Düsseldorf and Cologne, she has founded the Research Raft, a fictitious Institute for Art & Subjective Science that purposefully ‘is asking questions but gives no answers’ in fields such as climate research, environmental studies, meteorology, as well as synthetic and artistic biology.

Nov 30, 2023

Matteo Pasquinelli

What is AI? We are joined for a public talk and conversation with Matteo Pasquinelli (Associate Professor at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice), who instead suggests that the “mystery” of AI is just the automation of labour at the highest degree, not intelligence per se.

Nov 23, 2023

John-Dylan Haynes, AA Cavia & Beate Krickel

The increasing incorporation of machine learning in neuroscience research as well as the use of the human brain as metaphor in current and historical conceptions of artificial intelligence, bring up the need for a (re)negotiation of intelligence, mind and brain, and consciousness.

Nov 23, 2023

Tangible Climate Futures Workshop with Nick Houde & Chiara Di Leone

This workshop extends the Tangible Climate Futures project, aiming to use tech for visualizing diverse climate scenarios in Berlin. Participants will create datasets to shape new models, not just to understand Berlin’s climate better, but also to rethink how we observe and interpret complex systems like climates.

Nov 16, 2023

Michelle-Marie Letelier

For this LOOPS SESSION we are joined by Michelle-Marie Letelier, an artist and researcher based in Berlin, who will introduce us to her practice. There will be a screening of the work "The Bone", both on screen and in VR.

Nov 9, 2023

Mustafah Abdulaziz

For this LOOPS SESSION, we are joined by Mustafah Abdulaziz, a Berlin-based photographer & director. For over ten years his work has focused on the human impact of climate change by bringing vital stories to the public through large-scale installations around the world.

Nov 2, 2023

Unreal Workshop

In this workshop, we will engage in a comprehensive overview of Unreal Engine, a real-time 3D creation platform that has broad applications across video game development, media arts, design, and various experimental contexts. Our exploration will delve into the engine's multifaceted use-cases and elucidate the foundational concepts that drive its functionality.

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

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