The Intensive Butoh Improvisation Workshop With Yuko Kasekiis a 3-day intensive physical work experience and a generative dialogue with and based on Yuko Kaseki's approach to butoh methods. It takes improvisation performative perspectives, tailored for the Time-Based Art with Contemporary Technology Class, experimenting with the notion of performing the Transindividual Self through the performative bodies, including our physical bodies and its Umwelt, as well as the information systems, machines, and codes.
The workshop strives to provide the students with tools and handcrafts, imagination and pragmatism, spontaneity and planning, structure and chaotic freedom.
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WORKSHOP DETAILS:
One ongoing focus point in this three-day workshop is Following Yuko Kaseki's continuous research with various physical training methods such as Noguchi gymnastics, elements of Tai-Chi Dao-yin, Butoh methodology, and dance improvisation. The workshop starts with finding the core of our body (Tanden) and deep listening to the meridians connected variants of the Inner- and in relation to the Outer. Direct physical attention to other bodies, objects, spaces and data will stimulate and enhance physical imagination, attention and retention and help accumulate a vocabulary of performing the trans individual self with contemporary technology.

13 nov 2023 Vocal laborynthorium - Anne Wellmer 
14 Nov.2023 Utopian Pleasurable Interfaces - MengXuan Sun
15 Nov.2023 Code Embodied -  Bruno Gola, Echo Ho 

yuko kaseki https://www.cokaseki.com/

Digital Education consists of education-about-digital and education-with-digital. 

The seminar will start with a question "What is language and how can You define it ?". Subsequently, we will see how men and women of past and present answered that question - from grammarians of ancient India all the way to most modern theories of phonetics, phonology, morphosyntax, semantics and pragmatics. Special focus will be put on theories of language acquisition, that is, on discussion the process by means of which maternal language is acquired by human children. All this to be able to end the seminar with an answer to the question: "Could artificial intelligences like GPT-X be ever able to understand the meaning of the word meaning ?"

bildung biodigitale; eco-artificial education; worms; insects; amphibians; fish; birds & bird song identification; dogs; cats; cows; inter-species communication; outdoor on-line teaching

Das Filminstitut der UdK Berlin ist eine künstlerische Forschungseinrichtung. Schwerpunkte sind avancierte Filmarbeiten, Publikationen und Veranstaltungsreihen.

Sprechstunde mittwochs 10-12 Uhr in 26A
info@filminstitut.udk-berlin.de
tutor.in@filminstitut.udk-berlin.de

Disrupting normative sexualities and desires

The seminar focuses on artistic forms which explore the definitions and representations of fetishes as a tool of disrupting binary sexualities, identities and normative desires while negotiating queerness as a spectrum.
After a theoretical input and watching/analysing films of the so-called „New Queer Cinema“ and „Post-Porn“ together, the participants develop their own art work which takes a kink or fetish of choice as a starting point. The developed works will be shown in an art space in Berlin at the end of the semester (tba.).

bildung biodigitale; eco-artificial education; worms; insects; amphibians; fish; birds & bird song identification; dogs; cats; cows; inter-species communication; outdoor on-line teaching

The seminar analyzes different “retro phenomena” in Electronic Dance Music Cultures, for example, we take a closer look at the current popularity of early analogue synthesizers, such as the Roland TB-303; we analyze (and potentially visit) Berlin-based party series which aim to revisit the so-called “authentic” rave feeling; and we also take a look at music genres, such as Italo disco, EBM, etc. and their revival, and also newer Internet genres, such as Vaporwave, Mallsoft, etc. that are themed after earlier electronic music to generate nostalgic feelings.
To understand these cultural phenomena, the participants are asked to read selected texts from cultural studies, popular music studies, and sociology.

The aim of this block seminar is to read and discuss Flusser's last book What If? Twenty-Two Scenarios in Search of Images, which was recently translated into English. The course is also a practical one as a video-writing experiment and as an exercise of techno-imagination. Flusser intended What if? to be both a book and a script of an audiovisual series but converting his last work into a video was never realized. Therefore, the aim is to understand how the multimedia (dis)functions in this work and to grasp how the cross-media couplings occur or could occur.

Martin Pflüger
E-Mail: m.pflueger@udk-berlin.de

Technische Beratung und Betreuung der Studierenden bei Ihren AV-Projekten
Verleih von Kamera-, Ton- und Lichtequipment, sowie technische Einweisung in die Geräte


Raum 24 und 25
Mo - Fr 10-13 Uhr Geräteausgabe und - Rückgabe (nach Terminvereinbarung)
Mo - Fr Beratung und Betreuung (nach Terminvereinbarung)

Das Projekt ‘la mer blessée’ in Kooperation mit Sea Shepherd Germany, als eine internationale, gemeinnützige Meeresschutzorganisation zum Erhalt der Artenvielfalt und des marinen Ökosystems, dient zur Erweiterung unserer Kenntnisse über das Meer, dem größten Ökosystem der Welt, und über effektive Maßnahmen zum Schutz bedrohter Arten, spezifischer Lebensraumtypen und Lebensraumansprüche. Die Klasse Gestaltung des Bewegten Bildes wird an der „Baltic Sea Campaign 2023" aktiv teilnehmen und sich mit Themen wie Artenschutz und Klimawandel auseinandersetzen.

Ziel des Projekts ist es, die Bedrohungen des Meeres, filmisch zu beleuchten. Reflektiert wird dabei nicht nur die Umweltzerstörung, sondern vor allem das Verhältnis des Menschen zur
Umwelt, die langsamen Prozesse der Veränderungen (‚Shifting Baseline Syndrome‘) und das fehlende Referenzsystem für unsere Handlungen. Die Arbeiten können einen dokumentarischen oder experimentellen Ansatz verfolgen - narrativ/non-narrativ/anti-narrativ sein. In jedem Fall sind sie eigenständige, künstlerische Werke, die Eure persönlichen Gedanken kompromisslos in die Gesellschaft transportieren. Wir stellen Fragen, suchen nach Antworten, ohne zu ästhetisieren, denn wir arbeiten mit der ‚Practice of Care‘.

Begleitend werden mit Sea Shepherd eine Exkursion nach Heiligenhafen unternehmen und mit dem Filmemacher Till Beckmann in Sauen shooten, ein Buch lesen und Dokumentationen ansehen. Das Entwurfsprojekt wird ergänzt durch das Seminar von Rachel Romanowsky „Notated Thoughts – Introduction to Hand-drawn Animation“ und einen Workshop mit Florian Thalhofer, New Media Artist, Forscher und Mitbegründer des Korsakow Instituts, Vorträge und Screenings.

#animation #bewegtbild #care #chaosmos #documentary #everythingtochange #experiment #film #makingadifference #ocean #practiceofcare #theboilingfrog #wirklichkeitserzählung

Bild (Auszug aus): Manuscript painting of Heezen-Tharp "World ocean floor", Berann, 1977.

This intensive 2-day workshop (Mo 22.05.2023, Di 23.05.2023) will focus on self-shooting documentary. The workshop will be based on a series of experiments in the local area in Sauen using industry standard equipment. You will be encouraged to stretch yourself in a collaborative, positive environment and will receive plenty of feedback on your progress.

Complementing the semester theme "la mer blessée" of the Moving Image class.

You can't believe simple stories anymore and you don't want to tell any? Then Korsakow should interest you. Whether you are developing interactive, generative films, looking for methods to look at things other than causally, or if you feel what Nobel Chemistry Prize winner lIya Prigogine means when he says: "Chaos is a type of order, a kind of unstable order, in which temporal sequences are very complex", then Korsakow is for you. Prigogine describes (without knowing) Korsakow. Lecture, crash course of the software and discussion.

Das Seminar bietet eine Einführung in die handgezeichneten Frame-by-Frame-Animation mit der Software TVPaint. Im Zuge dessen lernen wir die ‚12 Prinzipien der Animation‘ kennen, studieren Bewegung anhand von Referenzen und übertragen diese Prinzipien in die individuelle künstlerische Praxis.

Die Teilnehmenden lernen die Gestaltungsgrundlagen von Film und Video kennen und erproben diese in der praktischen Arbeit. Sie erhalten Einblick in das breite Feld der zeitbasierten Medien, eine Einführung in die Geschichte und Theorie des Films und der Medienkunst sowie Beratung und Hilfestellungen bei der Planung und Umsetzung ihrer Videoprojekte. Das können performative, dokumentarische, narrative oder gestalterisch-experimentelle Arbeiten sein, mit reinen Realaufnahmen oder animierten Elementen.

Der praktische Umgang mit Kamera, Licht und Ton (Till Beckmann) sowie der digitalen Film- und Tonmontage (Magdalena Kallenberger) werden begleitend in Workshops vermittelt.

KuM- und VK-Studiengänge (BA ab 2. Semester).

Gruppe A: Fr. 02.06. + Sa 03.06.2023, 10-16 Uhr
Gruppe B: Fr. 09.06. + Sa 10.06.2023, 10-16 Uhr

Einführung in die technisch-praktische Handhabung von Videokameras, Mikrofonen und Licht und deren Einsatz- und Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten.

Studierende der Studiengänge KuM und VK-BA ab 2. Semester.

Teilnehmer*innen des Seminars „Grundlagen Bewegtbild I“ vom Manja Ebert haben Vorrang.

Das theoretisch-praktische Blockseminar wird begleitend zum Seminar "Grundlagen Bewegtes Bild I" angeboten. Die Studierenden erlernen Techniken und Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten der digitalen Film- und Tonmontage, anhand von Filmbeispielen und Mitteln der Filmanalyse.

Es sind keine Vorkenntnisse erforderlich, regelmäßige und aktive Teilnahme sowie die Erfüllung der geforderten Aufgaben.
KuM- und VK-Studiengänge (BA ab 2. Semester).

Teilnehmer:innen von Grundlagen Bewegtbild I haben Vorrang.

Eine technische Einführung in Video-Editing-Software findet im Seminar "Grundlagen Bewegtes Bild I" statt.

The class will engage with its members' individual work and support the development of new projects at all levels and in all media. In parallel we will be making compost and generating cosmos.

"[...] unlike the universe, a book does not spontaneously arise out of nothing." (Stephen W. Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow, The Grand Design, p. 187.)

"We are all compost." (Donna Haraway)

The course is about living and creative transformations. While the title of the project relates to this theme metaphorically, the plan is to deal physically with the production and exploration of compost. The idea of making compost is the idea of making soil. Soil for something else, maybe a cosmos or two, maybe natural or virtual weeds, maybe all of the above….

Before we move into digital worlds and realities, we get our hands dirty and start our own experiment with compost and cosmos. We combine different media, digital and green waste and create a hot compost pile, and eventually we could cook our tea with it.

The course is project-based and each student or group of students will develop his/her/their own experiment or work. We look at old and new, digital and physical media that form the basis for growing new realities, presences and futures.
Whether in soil science, microbial communities, data compost files and poetic piles or software compost: a cosmos can be found everywhere, at all times and in all scales or as a shift in relationships and perspectives.

How to look for epistemic things? In this semester we will compose our own framework and tools for performing artistic research, dive into experimental systems of knowledge production, and dwell on geontologies of (techno-)imagination.

The course will happen two-fold. From 10 to 12:00, we will engage with sensemaking processes and work practically on the establishment of your own experimental framework (prototyping tools, materials, systems, research processes) through the development of experiments that assist on the realization of your main class project. From 12 to 14:00, we will engage in geoontological conversations around living systems, (rare) Earth, and techno-ecologies by means of collectively discussing selected texts within the fields of artistic research, ecology, science studies and postcolonial studies.

You may choose to participate on only one or the other part of this course. 3CPs (in practice points) are granted for a continued & iterative experimental practice developed in the first part, and 2CPs (in theory points) can be granted by the continued reading and participation in the discussions of the second part.

In 1972 the famous report "The Limit of Growth" was published. The report was based on a simulation of the earth as an interconnected system of feedback loops. The conclusions outlined in that report, predicted that the World was heading for disaster.

Almost 50 years later, computer simulations are still used to understand and predict the world in which we live, but despite the enormous availability of computational power, this world is far away to be understood and condensed into a numerical model.

In this course we will encounter several algorithms that simulate a process of growth. How are data fed into the algorithm? How does the initial state of the simulation affect the final result? In which terms can this process be experienced and communicated? How are the boundaries of the simulation defined?

Consultation hours for the development of projects in the fields of: Mechanical Design (designing mechanical assemblies, components, 3D design in Fusion 360, 3d Printing,
material selection, manufacturing methods); Prototyping & Electronics (Arduino, Teensy, sensors, motors, actuators, robotics); Coding (Processing, Arduino, C++) and Systems Architecture. To sign up, please send an E-Mail.

What's new? New media art has become a parade marching toward the future together with the latest scientific discoveries, technological achievements, or whatever is new. People are eager to experiment, criticize, and reflect on what's coming, but often forget to look back and see what has happened. New media art is still a male-dominated field with gender inequalities. Maybe we have looked too far forward and haven't seen the relatively old problem.
(New)Perspective, a series of lectures initiated by students, invites current female/non-binary new media artists to share their experiences. We hope that through the news from the front line, we can further understand the current situation in the art field and the challenges that may be faced.

15.05 Mon/ Agnes Meyer brandis - Lecture series opening
23.05 Tue/ Olivia jack
30.05 Tue/ Solaris Space
06.06 Tue/ Darsha hewitt
13.06 Tue/ Verena friedrich
20.06 Tue/ Petja ivanova