Breathtaking Greenhouse Parastructures | Luis Berríos-Negrón [E-Book PDF]
A supplement to the Arcades Project from a Caribbean Perspective [and a call for a careful practice of epistemológica].
Doctoral Thesis in Art Technology Design
Breathtaking Greenhouse Parastructures is a doctoral work that supplements the unfinished modern opus The Arcades Project [Das Passagen-Werk]. The supplement takes the form of a sculptural, historical, and technological deposition of ‹greenhouse› that presently oscillates between a past-background and future-foreground to Walter Benjamin’s ‹theatrical› handling of the Parisian arcades.
Berríos-Negrón’s Caribbean perspective projects an oscillating treatment of ‹greenhouse› as a prop from which to activate the following question: is colonial memory the drive of Global Warming? That core question has led to retrospectively hypothesise that the technology of ‹greenhouse› is—beyond metaphor—the illusory (dis)embodiment of the toxic binaries of interior & exterior that are still shaping Western technological frameworks, no less the natural sciences (and their histories). Because of that illusory, spectral, if paranormal power, ‹greenhouse› becomes at once the Western colonial enframing to both the messianic promise for conserving biological history, as well as the messianic remedy to suppress the traumata that are destining Global Warming. That potent (dis)embodied character leads Berríos-Negrón to set ‹greenhouse› as primary site to the geological timeline of the Anthropocene, as well as research specimen for a careful, life-affirming study and practice of object-relations and display he calls epistemológica.
Luis Berríos-Negrón is the first doctoral student to complete his PhD on the KTD programme, a collaborative transdisciplinary PhD programme established in 2015 between Konstfack and The Royal Institute of Technology, KTH.
This doctoral work has been made possible by the Konst Teknik Design / Art Technology Design doctoral programme between the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design of Sweden. The publication has also been funded by the Research Focus in Transdisciplinarity Programme of the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK).
Wirklich? | Lucie Bader Egloff, Anton Rey, Stefan Schöbi (Hg.) [E-Book PDF]
Strategien der Authentizität im aktuellen Dokumentarfilm
Ausgehend von zwei aktuellen Dokumentarfilmen, «Der Kick» (Andres Veiel) und «Zur falschen Zeit am falschen Ort» (Tamara Milosevic), die sich mit unterschiedlichen Verfahren demselben Mordfall widmen, rückt subTexte 02 die Frage des Wahrheitsgehaltes von nicht-fiktionalen Bildern in den Mittelpunkt. Können wir den technisch aufbereiteten Bilderwelten noch trauen? – In Gesprächen und Essays erörtern Filmschaffende, Theoretikerinnen und Theoretiker die gedanklichen und gestalterischen Prozesse, die zur individuellen Darstellung der vorgefundenen Wirklichkeit führen. Mit Beiträgen von Christoph Egger, Lucie Bader Egloff, Marille Hahne, Christian Iseli, Franz Reichle, Jan Sebening und Daniel D. Sponsel.
Too Big to Scale. On Scaling Space, Number, Time and Energy | Florain Dombois, Julie Harboe (eds.)
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The result of a 2015 symposium at Zurich University of the Arts, Too Big To Scale brings together essays by a diverse interdisciplinary group of artists, designers, engineers, and scholars who explore the significance of scale within their respective disciplines. The contributions take as their point of departure the camera, which combines three pathways for scaling—film speed, lens size and speed, and frame rates for fast and slow motion. The possibility of copying images adds a fourth variable, replication. The camera, as the contributors show, does not merely depict our world but can also be seen as actively producing our thoughts and imagination.
208 pages, Scheidegger & Spiess, 2017
ISBN 978-3-85881-793-8
Das Wind Tunnel Bulletin wird vom Forschungsschwerpunkt Transdiziplinarität produziert und herausgegeben, um Materialien aus der eigenen Forschung zu teilen, die wir für interessant halten. Dabei geht es darum, die Materialien nur so weit zu verdichten, dass sie disziplinär uneindeutig bleiben. Wir nennen das «proto-disziplinär» oder auch «not-yet art», weil wir davon ausgehen, dass Forschungsergebnisse für alle verfügbar sein sollen und dass das im Falle der Kunst bedeuten kann, dass andere Künstler*innen mit unseren Materialien neue Werke schaffen.