Description
Systems and Imagination
By deploying a technique, which she called, “Machine Imaginaire”, Vera Molnar tried “to distance herself from the inherited cultural baggage that shape us and from the cultural “ready-mades”, to fi nd combinations of forms that had never been seen before. Now, immersed in a web of post-digital culture, the Visual Studies Seminar “Systems and Imagination” asks the question, if it is still possible today for designers and artists, to escape cultural “ready-mades” through the use and employment of algorithms and machines, and if so, what role interfaces and material might play in recombining and creating new, never experienced forms of meaning or interaction. This course exposes students to a series of exercises, tools and lectures that look at the use of algorithms in the generation of analogue and digitally manufactured images and systems. Using distributed learning and play as the modus operandi, students will employ a variety of techniques that instruct the pe