experimentality - media

Workshop 4: Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, ‘Creativity outside the boxes’

Diana — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:23:03 +0000

Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino (CEO & Co-Founder Tinker.It, London) opened her presentation by introducing herself briefly. She explained to the participants that she runs a design studio based in London and Milan called Tinker.it!. Deschamps-Sonsino described Tinker.it! as a firm oriented on making interactive products, spaces and events that link the digital to the physical. She stated that she started this company with a man called Massimo Banzi. While a student at IDII in an interaction design program in Italy, Massimo Banzi developed a product called Arduino. Deschamps-Sonsino proceeded to explain that Arduino and following its creations will be the topic of her presentation.

Workshop 2: Wolfgang Ernst, Experimenting media-temporality (Pythagoras, Hertz, Turing)

Diana — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:27:05 +0000

Professor of media theories Wolfgang Ernst (Humboldt University) opened his presentation by stating that the subject of this workshop, ‘experimentality as event’, touches a crucial figure of contemporary epistemology, especially when we take epistemology in its processual, time-based meaning as defines by cybernetics which is – taken by its original self-definition – the insight into ‘Circular Causal and Feedback Mechanisms’ (Heinz von Foerster, 1949). Consequently, Ernst proposed that we investigate the processuality and eventuality of media-enhanced experimentation.

Rod dickinson

rod — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:38:28 +0000

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Rod dickinson

International Conference - The Experimental Society

Experimentality — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:56:23 +0000

7 July, 2010 - 9 July, 2010, Lancaster University

Keywords:

science / politics / economy / publics / religion / music / art
education / design / media / advertising / technology
laboratory / simulating / making / performing / testing / trial
democracy / reflexivity / creativity / event / revolution

The idea of experimentation was at the heart of modernity’s promise of human freedom and self-determination. But is the experiment now too complicit with power to act as a carrier of hope? To close the year-long Experimentality programme, which involved collaborations with the University of Manchester, the Royal Society, FutureEverything and a range of academic and art organisations, participants at this international conference debated different visions of an experimental society in which the emancipatory potential of the experiment could be renewed.

Plenary speakers:

David Byrne (University of Durham)
Dieter Daniels (Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig)
Bülent Diken (Lancaster University)
Josephine Green (Social Innovation, Philips Design)
Stephanie Koerner (University of Manchester)
Michael Krätke (Lancaster University)
Scott Lash (Goldsmiths, University of London)
John Milbank (University of Nottingham)
Helga Nowotny (European Research Council)
James Wilsdon (Royal Society)
Brian Wynne (Lancaster University)