Where does the wind go when it is not blowing? With The Wind Tunnel Model, artist and scientist Florian Dombois proposes new forms of interaction between art and science. Key to this project is Dombois’s wind tunnel laboratory at Zurich University of the Arts. With an empty test platform, the laboratory is a compelling example of architecture that turns its back on its occupants, forming an invisible, yet disturbingly concrete, secondary model.
208 pages, Scheidegger & Spiess, 2017
ISBN 978-3-85881-792-1
The Wind Tunnel Model features essays by Dombois and his collaborators, reflecting on this innovative concept for transdisciplinary collaboration. Together, they present a new model of interaction in artistic research and creation—the “man engine,” a mechanism of reciprocating ladders and stationary platforms installed in mines to assist miners between different levels, a mechanism that also serves as a metaphor for work at the wind tunnel laboratory. At the cutting edge of transdisciplinary research and education, The Wind Tunnel Model will forge a new path to creative production.
With contributions by Haseeb Ahmed, Jacqueline Burckhardt, Martin Burr, Florian Dombois, Julie Harboe, Christoph Hoffmann, Kaspar König, Dieter Mersch, Isabel Mundry, Mirjam Steiner, Jan Svenungsson, Sarine Waltenspül, and Reinhard Wendler.
The Changing Face of Alterity | David J. Gunkel, Ciro Marcondes Filho, Dieter Mersch (Hg.) [E-Book PDF]
The figure of the ‹other› is fundamental to the concept of communication. Online or offline, communication, which is commonly defined as the act of sending or imparting information to others, is only possible in the face of others. In fact, the reason we communicate is to interact with others—to talk to another, to share our thoughts and insights with them, or to respond to their needs and requests. No matter how it is structured or conceptualized, communication is involved with addressing the other and dealing with the ontological, epistemological, and ethical questions of otherness or alterity. But who or what can be other? Who or what can be the subject of communication? Is the other always and only another human? Or can the other in these communicative interactions be otherwise? This book is about others (and other kinds of others). It concerns the current position and status of the other in the face of technological innovations that can, in one way or another distort, mask, or even deface the other. Ten innovative essays, written by an international team of experts, individually and in collaboration with each other, seek to diagnose the current situation with otherness, devise innovative solutions to the questions of alterity, and provide insight for students, teachers and researchers trying to make sense of the opportunities and challenges of the 21st century.
238 pages (PDF), Rowman & Littlefield, 2016
ISBN 978-1-783-48871-1
ID9606/2a-c. Dispositive eines Virus | Jana Vanecek
CHF 17.90
Ebola, Corona, Monkeypox. Mit den Epidemien und Pandemien der letzten Jahre haben sich auch die Geschäfte mit der medizinischen Biotechnologie immer schneller entwickelt. ID9606/2a-c. Dispositive eines Virus geht der Frage nach, wie biotechnologische Erfindungen als Bereiche kapitalistischer Investitionen politische Entscheidungen im Gesundheitswesen beeinflussen können.
178 Seiten, transversal, 2022
ISBN 978-3-903046-33-7
I lost time and space. Where am I? Erzählen von chronischen Schmerzen | Tabea Rothfuchs
Eine künstlerische Untersuchung zu chronischen Schmerzen
Was passiert mit der inneren und äusseren Welt eines Menschen, wenn kein medizinisches Verfahren die Ursache des erlebten Schmerzes (mehr) zu entziffern vermag? Wenn der Schmerz zum eigenständigen Krankheitsbild Chronischer Schmerz geworden ist?
137 Seiten, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, 2021
ISBN 978-3-9524741-9-8
