Schedule
Schedule
Niklas Roy a.k.a. royrobotiks
The talk introduces technology-driven urban art projects that emphasize public participation and creativity. Each project employs a DIY machine to transform public spaces and create art collaboratively. How were these machines built? How do ideas evolve, and how can creative machines foster community connections? Find the answers and get some inspirations in this entertaining and insightful talk by Niklas a.k.a. royrobotiks.
moritz simon geist
In this talk, artist and robotic musician Moritz Simon Geist explores whether robots and avatars can establish an emotional connection with a human audience, and examines the implications this has for arts and culture.
Gunther
Der Vortrag ist ein persönlicher Blick auf die Geschichte, Vielfalt und Entwicklung im Bereich der Flipperautomaten und ist motiviert durch die eigene Begeisterung für diese Form von Unterhaltungstechnik. Geschichte und Geschichten der Geräte wird anhand eigener Erfahrungen, Sammlung und Recherche sowie Geschehnissen und eigene Anwendungen der Geräte (Kauf, Reparatur, Restauration, Modifikation, ...) präsentiert und soll die Faszination und das Interesse dafür wecken oder Interessierte zusammenbringen. Es ist geplant, auch Geräte zum Kongress mitzubringen, die bespielt und/oder im Detail erklärt werden können und vielleicht sogar ein Gerät zum Basteln bereit zu stellen.
Ioana Vreme Moser
This lecture follows the path of an ex-ballerina through fluid computers, handmade semiconductors, and cosmetic synthesisers. We will tackle the seductive side and hidden narratives of circuitry to natural systems, salty fluids, and minerals and discuss the importance of alternative hardware morphologies.
Ting-Chun Liu, Leon-Etienne Kühr
The global chip shortage during the COVID-19 pandemic brought semiconductor production into focus, sparking accelerated efforts to meet the surging demand for digital infrastructure. This phenomenon not only expanded AI capabilities but also introduced unexpected computational artifacts. One such artifact is the word “arafed”, a term absent from any dictionary yet mysteriously appears across contexts from image prompts to Amazon product descriptions. Such unintended linguistic artifacts, born from transformer-based AI models, exemplify how digital artifacts emerge into realities with which we cohabitate. The talk investigates how supply-chains break and AI-words spread from an artistic research perspective. Mapping both the abstract landscapes of embedding spaces, that are filled with emergent words and images, and the tangible, geopolitical realities of global semiconductor supply chains.
Peli Grietzer
One of the basic ways we navigate the world is through ‘feelings of structure’ -- our experience of the inner logic of a system or a situation as a tone, a vibe, a mood. I argue that building a technical analogy between ‘feelings of structures’ and autoencoder neural networks lets us construct a kind of theory of vibe: a theory that lets us see how sets of material (/digital) objects express a worldview and vice versa, and that can explain the deep role art plays in expressing, developing, and challenging our understanding of the world.