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Classes held on Thursdays and Fridays. The rest of the week is reserved for independent working on your project (one self directed project per workshop)
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Classes held on Thursdays and Fridays. The rest of the week is reserved for independent working on your projects (one self-directed project per workshop)
  
 
Tutors:
 
Tutors:
Ivan  
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Ivan, Shailoh, Javier
Shailoh  
 
André
 
  
Interaction station overlapping/bridging either the technical or conceptual discussions, before focusing on your practice based project development.  
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Welcome to the 3rd year program of Digital Crafts. From September to December, you will be introduced to a wide range of skills, issues, critical perspectives and concrete examples relevant to the emergent field of digital crafts. Before the Christmas break, you will have developed a number of small group projects, and a final project in the form of a stand-alone presentation, with accompanying research documentation.  
  
1. (DATE) you will present two self-directed works (independent, max 3 people per group /relating some form of ecologically embedded machine in an mid-semester review exhibition.
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The theme of this block is Beyond Human: Rewiring Technology in the Anthropocene. We will be exploring the complex relationships between humans and machines, nature and technology. We seek to challenge you to become critical of technology, and able to use technology to express critique. Every solution creates new problems: how will you position your work in a broader political, social and ecological context?
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Deliverables:
  
 
Each project will have a packaged wiki page with proper documentation/ contextualization of the project. During the mid-semester review, your will need to discuss your direction for the final quarter.  
 
Each project will have a packaged wiki page with proper documentation/ contextualization of the project. During the mid-semester review, your will need to discuss your direction for the final quarter.  
  
(DATE) you will present your research question, your planning, and a conceptual and technical experiment for a final project.  You will intensely explore and develop over the following 6 weeks to present in the end term exhibition.
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Project 1: Posthuman Prosthetic: you will present a self-directed work as a prototype of a new human-machine relationship, relating to reimagining technology in the posthuman age. The prototypes should be materialized in 3D form, and simulate interactive feedback loops.  
 
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(max 5 people per group). DEADLINE: (..)
Training to become critical of technology. Every solution creates new problems.  
 
 
 
Posthuman - technology & nature
 
  
Project 1: Beyond the Body: denaturalizing technology
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Project 2: Inhuman factors: sensors and sensitivity training: you will open the 'black box' of a technical device in an anatomical machine learning lesson. Document and research all of the parts, how they work, where they come from. Redesign and add new circuits. Put it back together with a new function and added sensor feedback loops. The basic electronics should be fully functional.
Re-imagining technology
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DEADLINE: (..)
cybernetics, feedback loops
 
design cyborg communication
 
sketching & 3D prototyping
 
work in groups of 5
 
Prototype new human-machine relationship.
 
  
Project 2: Inhuman factors / sensors and sensitivity training
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Project 3: Complex Systems & the Anthropocene. How is technology linked to economical, political and ecological wicked problems and human-made catastrophes? Where is a line out? How to break the feedback loops? How is the supply chain linked to the device you are working with? Pick a problem or issue to engage with and resign an ecological system.  
machine learning and learning from machines, mind of the machine
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DEADLINE: (..)
Anatomical machine lesson. Opening the 'black box' and understanding technology.
 
Put it back together with a new function.
 
Learn: basic electronics (how not to electrocute yourself
 
  
Project 3: complex systems & the anthropocene
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Final project
Human made catastrophes / reversing the supply chain
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you will present your research question, your planning, and a conceptual and technical experiment for a final project. You will intensely explore and develop over the following 6 weeks to present in the end term exhibition.
how is technology linked to economical, political and ecological wicked problems. Where is a line out? How to break the feedback loops.
 
  
 
= Schedule =
 
= Schedule =

Revision as of 20:01, 19 July 2018

Digital Crafts Minor Q 9 & 10

Classes held on Thursdays and Fridays. The rest of the week is reserved for independent working on your projects (one self-directed project per workshop)

Tutors: Ivan, Shailoh, Javier

Welcome to the 3rd year program of Digital Crafts. From September to December, you will be introduced to a wide range of skills, issues, critical perspectives and concrete examples relevant to the emergent field of digital crafts. Before the Christmas break, you will have developed a number of small group projects, and a final project in the form of a stand-alone presentation, with accompanying research documentation.

The theme of this block is Beyond Human: Rewiring Technology in the Anthropocene. We will be exploring the complex relationships between humans and machines, nature and technology. We seek to challenge you to become critical of technology, and able to use technology to express critique. Every solution creates new problems: how will you position your work in a broader political, social and ecological context?

Deliverables:

Each project will have a packaged wiki page with proper documentation/ contextualization of the project. During the mid-semester review, your will need to discuss your direction for the final quarter.

Project 1: Posthuman Prosthetic: you will present a self-directed work as a prototype of a new human-machine relationship, relating to reimagining technology in the posthuman age. The prototypes should be materialized in 3D form, and simulate interactive feedback loops. (max 5 people per group). DEADLINE: (..)

Project 2: Inhuman factors: sensors and sensitivity training: you will open the 'black box' of a technical device in an anatomical machine learning lesson. Document and research all of the parts, how they work, where they come from. Redesign and add new circuits. Put it back together with a new function and added sensor feedback loops. The basic electronics should be fully functional. DEADLINE: (..)

Project 3: Complex Systems & the Anthropocene. How is technology linked to economical, political and ecological wicked problems and human-made catastrophes? Where is a line out? How to break the feedback loops? How is the supply chain linked to the device you are working with? Pick a problem or issue to engage with and resign an ecological system. DEADLINE: (..)

Final project you will present your research question, your planning, and a conceptual and technical experiment for a final project. You will intensely explore and develop over the following 6 weeks to present in the end term exhibition.

Schedule

Date Location Content Related Reading Related Lab / Experimentation
Sept. 6 (Thurs) 10:30 - 15.00u: Interaction Station Kick Off Intro + first workshop with Ivan and Shailoh + critical making cards
Sept. 7 (Fri)
Sept. 13 (Thurs)
Sept. 14 (Fri)
Sept. 20 (Thurs)
Sept 21 (Fri)
Sept 27 (Thurs) 10 - 15.00u: Workshop 1A: skills with Javier
Sept 28 (Fri) 10 - 15.00u: Eindhoven Maker Faire Fieldtrip
Oct 4 (Thurs) 10 - 13.00u: Interaction Station Workshop 1BI: skills with Javier
Oct 5 (Fri)
Oct 11 (Thurs) 10 - 15:00u: Interaction Station Workshop 2A Skills 2 with Javier
Oct 12 (Fri) 10 - 13:00u: Interaction Station Class
Oct 17-19 Wed-Thurs-Fri Unravel the Code: workshop with students from Baltimore N.A.
Nov 1 (Thurs) 9:00 - 18:00u: Interaction Station Workshop 2B with Javier
Nov 2 (Fri) full day: Interaction Station
Nov 8 (Thurs)
Nov 9 (Fri)
Nov 15 (Thurs) 9:00 - 21:00u: Interaction Station
Nov 16 (Fri)
Nov 22 (Thurs)
Nov 23 (Fri)
Nov 29 (Thurs)
Nov 30 (Fri)
Dec 6 (Thurs)
Dec 7 (Fri)
Dec 13 (Thurs)
Dec 14 (Fri)
Dec 20 (Thurs)
Dec 21 (Fri)

Assignments

Written Assignment

+/- 1000 words answering #5. Please use 1-4 to jump start your writing process.

  1. What is your craft? (define your discipline, method or approach)
  2. What are the tools and media of your craft?
  3. What are the borders of this practice? (what new media technologies have arisen / what is its future of the field))
  4. Connect to a historical discourse and give concrete examples of contemporary practitioners
  5. Define your position of your practice in relation to newer technologies.

Discussion: Sept 27 1st Draft Due: Oct 11 Final uploaded on the wiki: Oct 24th

Evaluation

Quarter 1 Evaluation

Deliverables:

DATE

Final +/- 1000 words Position Paper (defining the position of your practice in relation to newer technologies) uploaded to the wiki.

Presentation and Documentation of quarter work

DATE


  • Image 1: What did you make?

(Show one image of your semester work that was the most inspiring)

  • Image 2: What did you miss?

(What do you to connect to, bring in, or explore that is not covered by the curriculum)

  • Image 3: What is your topic of interest?

(Explain though a visual what area you wish to further explore)

  • Image 4: What is your medium?

(Explain what materials and tools you wish to use)

  • Image 5: What is your question?

(Try to formulate one (preliminary research) question that will guide your investigation)

People

Add your names with link to your wiki here

Final Minor Meeting

schedule


Graduation Meetings