Unterwegs zum Öko-Digitalen | Towards the Eco-Digital
Christian Höller
Arts and Society, Art and Knowledge Transfer
2023S, scientific seminar (SEW), 4.0 ECTS, 2.0 semester hours, course number S04260
Description
Digitality and ecology – how can they go together? How could an artistic mediation between these two, admittedly immense, complexes look like? And where exactly would a yet to be defined “eco-digitality” have to start in order to promote a transformational process in a positive sense?
Climate catastrophe on the one hand, advancing digitization on the other – and virtually no connecting idea in-between. This was the standard constellation for a long time: on one side, an advanced technology whose environmentally harmful downside receives little attention; on the other, the attempt to grasp an object that is far too large by human standards (“the ecological” or the “hyperobject” of climate). Here, a driving cultural force that until recently seemed little interested in aspects such as sustainability or ensuring survival; there, the often technology-skeptical struggle for the big picture – the more-than-human interconnection of all life forms including their respective environments.
The seminar wants to go back behind this apparent difference and look for a constructive mediation between the two areas. Concrete starting points are the following questions: (1) Is it possible to hold on to a concept of the digital as an expression of smart, clean immateriality? (2) What approach is possible on the part of a contemporary more-than-human ecology to highly technical information and media dispositifs? (3) Do media possess their own kinds of ecology, and if yes, what exactly is their nature? (4) What is the relationship between digital modes of production (and reception), natural resource consumption, and “extractivist” thinking? (5) On the art side, how can ecological issues be reflexively and “non-extractivistically” incorporated into creative work? (6) What constructive role can artificial intelligence applications play here, especially in relation to problems of sustainability that cannot be solved “humanly”? (7) What new, as yet unimagined configurations could the eco-digital help generate beyond glossy fictions?
We want to explore all this in jointly developed, multi-perspectival thought movements. With an emphasis on movement, beyond any (mono-)disciplinary limitation.
Examination Modalities
Presentation resp. written version
Key Words
environment, video, discussion, media art, electronic media
Dates
08 March 2023, 10:30–12:00 Seminar Room 4
15 March 2023, 10:30–12:00 Seminar Room 4
22 March 2023, 10:30–12:00 Seminar Room 4
29 March 2023, 10:30–12:00 Seminar Room 4
19 April 2023, 10:30–12:00 Seminar Room 4
26 April 2023, 10:30–12:00 Seminar Room 4
03 May 2023, 10:30–12:00 Seminar Room 4
10 May 2023, 10:30–12:00 Seminar Room 4
17 May 2023, 10:30–12:00 Seminar Room 4
24 May 2023, 10:30–12:00 Seminar Room 4
31 May 2023, 10:30–12:00 Seminar Room 4
07 June 2023, 10:30–12:00 Seminar Room 4
14 June 2023, 10:30–12:00 Seminar Room 10
21 June 2023, 10:30–12:00 Seminar Room 3
Course Enrolment
Until 08 March 2023, 00:00
Via online registration
Curriculum Allocation
Art Education: subject kkp (Bachelor): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 067/003.80
Art Education: subject kkp (Master): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: Lehrveranstaltung nach Wahl aus wissenschaftlicher Praxis, SE 067/003.80
Art Education: subject kkp (additional subject): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 067/003.80
Art Education: subject tex (Bachelor): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 071/003.80
Art Education: subject tex (Master): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: Lehrveranstaltung nach Wahl aus wissenschaftlicher Praxis, SE 071/003.80
Art Education: subject tex (additional subject): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 071/003.80
Art Education: subject dae (Bachelor): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 072/003.80
Art Education: subject dae (Master): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: Lehrveranstaltung nach Wahl aus wissenschaftlicher Praxis, SE 072/003.80
Art Education: subject dae (additional subject): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 072/003.80
Art Education: subject dex (Bachelor): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 074/003.80
Art Education: subject dex (Master): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: Lehrveranstaltung nach Wahl aus wissenschaftlicher Praxis, SE 074/003.80
Art Education: subject dex (additional subject): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 074/003.80
TransArts - Transdisciplinary Arts (Bachelor): Theoretical foundations: Theoretical foundations 180/003.01
Expanded Museum Studies (Master): Electives: Art & Knowledge Transfer 537/080.26
Stage Design (2. Section): Kunsttheorie und Kulturwissenschaften: Kunst- und Wissenstransfer 542/207.05
Media Arts: Specialisation in Transmedia Arts (2. Section): Wissenschaft, Theorie und Geschichte : Kunst- und Wissenstransfer 566/208.14
Media Arts: Specialisation in Digital Arts (2. Section): Wissenschaft, Theorie, Geschichte: Kunst- und Wissenstransfer 567/208.14
Studies in Art and Culture (Master): Electives Area 2: Art and Knowledge Transfer 568/006.19
Cross-Disciplinary Strategies (Master): Study Areas: Study Area 4: Philosophy 569/020.04
Design: Specialisation in Graphic Design (2. Section): Theoretical Basics: Humanities 576/203.02
Design: Specialisation in Graphics and Advertising (2. Section): Methodological and Theoretical Basics: Humanities 577/203.02
Fine Arts (2. Section): Scientific and Research Practice: Media Theory,Art&Knowledge Transfer,Th. of Architecture,Th. and Hist. of Design 605/202.02
Fine Arts (2. Section): Scientific and Research Practice: Free Electives out of Scientific and Research Practice 605/202.80
Design: Specialisation in Applied Photography and Time-based Media (2. Section): Artistic Basics: Contemporary Artistic Methods 626/202.05
Design: Specialisation in Applied Photography and Time-based Media (2. Section): Methodological and Theoretical Basics: Humanities 626/203.02
Co-registration: possible
Attending individual courses: possible