Site Specific Media Interventions
Course MD901 Winter 2010/11 | Prof. Fetzner, B. Dudzik?, C. Fischer?
Explorative Media Exploration in Mobile Spaces
"Perception is action" Heinz von Foerster
Through the massive dissemination of location based media systems during the last decade site specific adaptions are gaining a growing importance. The course "Site specific media interventions" is dealing with the permeation of interactive media technologies and real environments in cultural and commercial contexts.
Keywords: mobile spaces, linearity vs cyclicity, body memory, mega city, translocality
Tuesday, 10:15 in C3-122 or individual meetings
| DATE | TOPIC | DESCRIPTION | ASSIGNEMENTS | |
| 1 | Mar 08 | Kick off | Review of Topics | Timeline for Implementation |
| 2 | Mar 15 | Review of Topics | Start according to timeline | |
| 3 | Mar 22 | Individual Meetings (10.15 - 13.30) | ||
| 4 | Mar 29 | Individual Meetings (if requested 11-13h) | ||
| 5 | Apr 04/05 | Individual Meetings with Daniel (only if arranged via email) | ||
| 6 | Apr 07 | CairoRoundabout | Presentation of a GUC Media Exploration with the performance artist Harald Kimmig at Goethe Institute Downtown at 8pm | |
| 7 | Apr 12 | No class - Midterm Exams | ||
| 8 | Apr 19 | Midterm Presentation | Review the state of the Project | |
| 9 | Apr 26 | Individual Meetings (10.15 - 13.30) | ||
| 10 | May 03 | Individual Meetings (10.15 - 13.30) | Just pass by when you have questions | |
| 11 | May 10 | No class - Activity Week | ||
| 12 | May 17 | Obligatory Individual Meetings (10.15 - 13.30) | Meeting reservations via mail | |
| 13 | May 24 | Individual Meetings (10.15 - 13.30) | Meeting reservations via mail | |
| 14 | May 31 | Individual Meetings (10.15 - 13.30) | Meeting reservations via mail (Bernd & Christian only) | |
| 15 | Jun 7 | Individual Meetings (8:30 - 10.30) | Meeting reservations via mail (Bernd only) | |
| 16 | Jun 14 | 10.15 - 13.30h - Deadline and Final Presentation! | Update the WIKI and have your papers and documentaries! |
Course Outcome
Students will develop the ability to develop appropriate media solutions for urban, social and corporate contexts. They will aquire technical skills as well as a conceptional competence to deal with complex medial interventions from art shows to trade shows.
The learning objectives are divided into 7 fields:
- Site Analysis and Genius Loci
- The Public and the Private Spheres
- Body and Media
- Spatial Design
- Situation Based Interfaces
- Interaction Design
- Usability
Groups
- group1? --> Street Performance | مسرح شارع
- group2? //Public transportation along the Nile
- group3? //Donkeys Call for Reconciliation
- group4? //Mobile Markets
- group5? //dissolved
- group6? //Mobile Honking Device
- group7? //Whomever sold the tram?
- group8? //Bus Intervention
- group9? //Horse Cart
- group10? //dissolved
- group11? //Map of the People
- group12? //Ayman
- group13? //Express Mail
- group14? //The Effect of Social Networks on the Revolution in Egypt
Background/Material
- The Danube Panorama Project Experimental approach to photographic mapping and cartography using the slitscan-technique
- The Walkman Effect New concepts for mobile spaces and sound architectures
- Acoustic Communication - Noise and the Urban Soundscape Text and work page with sounds and images - download filesize ~ 30MB!
- The Mobile Bristol Project (2002-2005) Investigating how mobile devices and pervasive information technology can be used to enhance the ways in which residents and visitors experience and interact with their physical environment and with each other in urban and public spaces.
- SOUNDSCAPE Vol.1, No.2 - 2000 - Silence, Noise and the Public Domain
- Body Memory by Thomas Fuchs, Heidelberg University
- Dan Saffer, Designing Gestural Interfaces, O'Reilly Media. 2008
- Mapping Stockport, 2007
- Diprose&Reynolds: Merleau-Ponty, Key Concepts, Acumen 2008
References and Textbooks
- Lucy Bullivant: Responsive Environments, V/A Publications, 2006
- Claire Doherty: Situation, MIT Press 2009
- Erin Manning: Relationscapes, MIT Press 2009
- Bill Moggridge, Designing Interactions, MIT 2006
- Dan Saffer, The Elements of Interaction Design, UXmatters, 2006
- Sandra Kaji-O'Grady, Public Art and Audience Reception - Theatricality and Fiction, from Back to the city: strategies for informal urban interventions : collaboration between artists and architects, Hatje Cantz, 2009
- Michael J. Ostwald, Public Space and Public Art - The Metapolitics of Aesthetics, from Back to the city: strategies for informal urban interventions : collaboration between artists and architects, Hatje Cantz, 2009
- J. Meejin Yoon, Projects at Play - Public Works, from Back to the city: strategies for informal urban interventions : collaboration between artists and architects, Hatje Cantz, 2009