Orit
Halpern
Orit Halpern: “It is about our way to deal with a planetary condition. It demands that we rethink how we are relating to materials, […], and how we produce new types of experience and experiments, as well as and new kinds of aesthetics and storytelling that can produce meaning and care in a situation of absence of both. […] It is about imagining other futures.”
Orit Halpern is Lighthouse Professor and Chair of Digital Cultures at Technische Universität Dresden. Her work bridges the histories of science, computing, and cybernetics with contemporary studies of infrastructure, design, and urban planning. She is currently working on two projects. The first is a history of automation, intelligence, and freedom; the second project examines extreme infrastructures and the history of experimentation at planetary scales in design, science, and engineering.
She has also published widely in many venues including Critical Inquiry, Grey Room, and Journal of Visual Culture, and E-Flux. Her first book Beautiful Date: A History of Vision and Reason (Duke UP 2015) investigates histories of big data, design, cybernetics, and politics. Her current book with Robert Mitchell (MIT Press) is titled the Smartness Mandate. The book is a genealogy of our current obsession with smart technologies and artificial intelligence. Orit is interested in new methods and formats bridging design, technology, and the humanities. In particular, she is currently engaged in projects bringing artists, designers, scientists, and humanities scholars together to collaborate on imagining building technologies for non-catastrophic futures. To this end, she directs a practice research platforms Against Catastrophe.
tu-dresden.de/gsw/slk/germanistik/digitalcultures
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544511/
Die Interviewserie about Art and Research (aAaR) wurde konzipiert von PD Dr. Martina Leeker und wird gemeinsam mit Prof. Dr. Konstanze Schütze durchgeführt; Launch im September 2023. Sie ist eine Kooperation zwischen dem Fachbereich Kunst & Kunsttheorie am Department Kunst und Musik der Universität zu Köln und dem Institut Kunst an der Pädagogischen Hochschule Karlsruhe.
Credits:
Aufzeichnung und Postproduktion: Tom Schoberth
Trailer (Konzept und Umsetzung): Rubina Uenzelmann-Balotsch, Tom Schoberth (inkl. Musik), (Performance) Katzenkünstler*innen: Momo und Gimli
Logo und Typo: Nathalie Commandeur
Website: Tom Schoberth
Idee, Konzept, Organisation, Leitung: Martina Leeker, Konstanze Schütze
Kooperation: MBR - Medienbildungsraum mit Professur Ästhetische Praxis und Theorie
Produziert von: Universität Köln, Kunst & Kunsttheorie
Imprint:
© 2023 kunst.uni-koeln.de/aboutArtandResearch
Department Kunst und Musik, Kunst & Kunsttheorie, PD DR. Martina Leeker und Prof. Dr. Torsten Meyer
#OritHalpern #Leeker #Schuetze #aboutartandresearch, #wissensproduktion, #wissenskulturen, #digitalcultures, #digitality, #knowledge, #knowledgeproduction, #OPEN ENCOUNTERS, #ERKENNTNIS, #künstlerischesforschen, #künstlerischeforschung, #art, #kunst, #research
Orit
Halpern
Orit Halpern: “It is about our way to deal with a planetary condition. It demands that we rethink how we are relating to materials, […], and how we produce new types of experience and experiments, as well as and new kinds of aesthetics and storytelling that can produce meaning and care in a situation of absence of both. […] It is about imagining other futures.”
Orit Halpern is Lighthouse Professor and Chair of Digital Cultures at Technische Universität Dresden. Her work bridges the histories of science, computing, and cybernetics with contemporary studies of infrastructure, design, and urban planning. She is currently working on two projects. The first is a history of automation, intelligence, and freedom; the second project examines extreme infrastructures and the history of experimentation at planetary scales in design, science, and engineering.
She has also published widely in many venues including Critical Inquiry, Grey Room, and Journal of Visual Culture, and E-Flux. Her first book Beautiful Date: A History of Vision and Reason (Duke UP 2015) investigates histories of big data, design, cybernetics, and politics. Her current book with Robert Mitchell (MIT Press) is titled the Smartness Mandate. The book is a genealogy of our current obsession with smart technologies and artificial intelligence. Orit is interested in new methods and formats bridging design, technology, and the humanities. In particular, she is currently engaged in projects bringing artists, designers, scientists, and humanities scholars together to collaborate on imagining building technologies for non-catastrophic futures. To this end, she directs a practice research platforms Against Catastrophe.
tu-dresden.de/gsw/slk/germanistik/digitalcultures
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544511/
Die Interviewserie about Art and Research (aAaR) wurde konzipiert von PD Dr. Martina Leeker und wird gemeinsam mit Prof. Dr. Konstanze Schütze durchgeführt; Launch im September 2023. Sie ist eine Kooperation zwischen dem Fachbereich Kunst & Kunsttheorie am Department Kunst und Musik der Universität zu Köln und dem Institut Kunst an der Pädagogischen Hochschule Karlsruhe.
Credits:
Aufzeichnung und Postproduktion: Tom Schoberth
Trailer (Konzept und Umsetzung): Rubina Uenzelmann-Balotsch, Tom Schoberth (inkl. Musik), (Performance) Katzenkünstler*innen: Momo und Gimli
Logo und Typo: Nathalie Commandeur
Website: Tom Schoberth
Idee, Konzept, Organisation, Leitung: Martina Leeker, Konstanze Schütze
Kooperation: MBR - Medienbildungsraum mit Professur Ästhetische Praxis und Theorie
Produziert von: Universität Köln, Kunst & Kunsttheorie
Imprint:
© 2023 kunst.uni-koeln.de/aboutArtandResearch
Department Kunst und Musik, Kunst & Kunsttheorie, PD DR. Martina Leeker und Prof. Dr. Torsten Meyer
#OritHalpern #Leeker #Schuetze #aboutartandresearch, #wissensproduktion, #wissenskulturen, #digitalcultures, #digitality, #knowledge, #knowledgeproduction, #OPEN ENCOUNTERS, #ERKENNTNIS, #künstlerischesforschen, #künstlerischeforschung, #art, #kunst, #research
