2018-19 Digital Crafts 3rd year
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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 | |||
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| Nov 15 (Thurs) | 9:00 - 21:00u: Interaction Station | |||
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Assignments
Written Assignment
+/- 1000 words answering #5. Please use 1-4 to jump start your writing process.
- What is your craft? (define your discipline, method or approach)
- What are the tools and media of your craft?
- What are the borders of this practice? (what new media technologies have arisen / what is its future of the field))
- Connect to a historical discourse and give concrete examples of contemporary practitioners
- 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
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