Erinnerung als Arbeit an der Gegenwart, Website and Identity
👻 notes of ghosts with generated AI handwriting and overall programming by @simonknebl
“How must the culture of remembrance change in a society that has recognized its own radical diversity?
We interweave historical research with artistic work and explore little-noticed spatial, biographical and historical interdependencies. Can art contribute to remembrance work? We will enrich our view of our past in many voices, expand our understanding of history and look at our present through this kaleidoscope.”
- Martín Valdés-Stauber (@martinvaldesstauber )
Erinnerung als Arbeit an der Gegenwart started as an artistic field of research @muenchner_kammerspiele
Generated handwriting for the exhibition catalogue of »Entangled Realities – Living with Artificial Intelligence« at @hek_basel .
Catalogue designed by the Laboratory of Manuel Bürger (@simonschindele & @manuelbuerger ).
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Handwriting generated using recurrent neural networks in TensorFlow, utilizing Grzegorz Opoka’s »handwriting-generation«, based on Alex Graves paper »Generating Sequences With Recurrent Neural Networks«.
📈📉 James Langdon and I developed an image processing application that enables creating a meta-image out of an image’s histogram for purely visual purposes. The application, called »sandpit«, automatically adjusts and shifts the image’s grayscale values in order to create a histogram that itself works as a visual output without losing the original integrity of the image.
You can read more about this and much more in the current issue of @servinglibrary »The Serving Library Annual 2019/20«, which is dedicated to Bruno Munari’s Codice ovvio (Obvious code) and also exclusively comprises its first English translation.
☯️☯️☯️ While walking through the area and studio buildings of Inge Aicher-Scholl’s and Otl Aicher’s »autonome republik rotis« we stumbled upon some printed drafts for the 1972 Summer Olympics and used the typographic sketches as a basis for designing »Aach«, the font used in the publication »Questions? Looking for answers in the middle of somewhere«.
This 🍭🍬🍩 of a book is fresh off the printer: “Questions? Looking for answers in the middle of somewhere.” started with Sereina Rothenberger & David Bennewith inviting a selection of graphic designers to Otl Aicher’s ‘Institut für analoge Studien’ in Rotis, in May 2015 and then again in November 2017. Over two days these designers were interviewed in a myriad of ways by graphic design students from the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, whose assignment it was to learn to ask, and design, questions.
The book documents 24 interviews with designers from all over Europe: Marietta Eugster and Manuel Krebs (Norm) from 🇨🇭Switzerland, Wayne Daly and Veronica Ditting from the 🇬🇧 UK, Elisabeth Klement & Laura Pappa and Vinca Kruk (Metahaven) from the 🇳🇱 Netherlands, Monika Maus from 🇩🇪 Germany, Boy Vereeken from 🇧🇪 Belgium, Vier 5 from 🇫🇷 France and Honza Zamojski from 🇵🇱 Poland.
Grab a copy over at Spector Books. @spectorbooks 📣📣📣 to Friederike Spielmannleitner @frieke.sp & Béla Meiers
#marshmallow #glace
New logo for the research group on Artificial Intelligence and Media Philosophy »KIM« (@kim_hfg ) which I started working on with Barbara Acevedo Strange (@bbastrange ) for the annual exhibition at HfG Karlsruhe last year.
You will be seeing more of this at the transmediale festival from 31 Jan – 03 Feb 2019 in Berlin, where the research group will be giving lectures and workshops.
The most focused lecture series „2400“ will return for a second time this thursday with James Langdon at @hfg_karlsruhe . Don’t be late or you will miss out!
