Dr. Baruch Gottlieb
Cyber-Aesthetic Methods
Intensive Workshop, English, 2 SWS, 2 ECTS
Thursday-Sunday, 21.-24.6.2018, 10-17 h, HybridLab, Villa Bell, Marchstr. 8, 10587 Berlin

Location plan: http://www.hybrid-plattform.org/ueber-uns/hybrid-lab/

How can we develop own methodologies towards strategies for networked aesthetics with social cybernetic feedback effects available today? In the seminar, we will look at ideas, motivations and different ways of engaging with the new fluid and malleable notions of reality based on lectures, demonstrations and discussions.

This workshop is presented in cooperation with the Berlin Summer University of the Arts. Thus the workshop-group is a mixture of regular students and international participants.

Activity requirements for the ungraded Studium Generale credits: continuous and active participation.

Focus: Orientieren, Forschen und Denken, Werkzeuge aneignen

Baruch Gottlieb, trained as a filmmaker at Concordia University, has been working in digital art with specialization in public art since 1999. He has exhibited and produced permanent works globally including: Prince Takamatsu Gallery Tokyo (2005), ZKM Museum for Art and Media Karlsruhe (2011) Dakar Biennale (2002, 2004, 2006) transmediale, Berlin (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012). Gwangju Biennale (2004), Yeosu World Expo (2012), ISEA Istanbul (2011), LABORAL (2011), Canadian Embassy Berlin (2011) etc. From 2005-2008 he was assistant professor of Media Art at Yonsei University Graduate School for Communication and Arts in Seoul, Korea. He is currently Artist-researcher in Residence at the Institute for Time-based Media and lecturer in philosophy of digital art at the University of Arts Berlin and honorary fellow of the Vilém Flusser Archiv. He is also artistic director of the exhibition series “Flusser & the Arts”. He writes extensively on digital media, on digital archiving, generative and interactive processes, digital media for public space and on social aspects of networked media. More information on http://www.g4t.info.