Exploring Edges Summer School: Artistic Research, Architecture, Computer/Natural Science and the Digital Humanities
Event details
Date | 11.07.2017 › 14.07.2017 |
Speaker |
Paulo de Assis; Orpheus Institute, Ghent Alan Blackwell; Computer Science, University of Cambridge Dominique Bouiller; Digital Humanities, EPFL Harald Klinke; Art History, LMU Munich Hannes Mayer; Department Architektur, ETH Zurich Shintaro Miyazaki, Critical Media Lab Basel, FHNW Hans-Joerg Rheinberger, Max Plank Institute for the History of Science Michael Stauffacher; Transdisciplinary Lab, ETH Zurich Sabine Süsstrunk; Computer Science, EPFL |
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Category | Miscellaneous |
The Exploring Edges summer school will take place from the 11th to the 14th July, 2017, in EPFL.
Research in applied, interdisciplinary and emerging areas often push beyond the methodological and epistemological conventions of scientific disciplines. This is especially the case for younger fields such as the digital humanities, critical technical practice, artistic research and architectural research.
The Exploring Edges Summer School will encourage new encounters by bringing together a broad spectrum of diverging, sometimes conflicting disciplines: engineering, computer and natural sciences, the humanities, architecture, and art.
The application of digital methods to the humanities has concrete implications for both fields. In the humanities, rather than just mechanising the work of historians, literary theorists or art critics, digital methods allow for: firstly, fundamentally different methodologies, and therefore secondly, fundamentally different objects of study. How does one develop a novel epistemology in the course of a research project, and how can such knowledge interface with the body of traditional work?
For computer and natural sciences, digital humanities projects are often motivated (and funded) by the notion that interdisciplinary exchange forces greater critical reflection about the data and the nature of algorithms used. But just what does such critical knowledge look like, and how is it meant to feed back into state-of-the-art technical research? The field of Critical Technical Practice has long suggested such a process for (GOF)AI research - we hope analogous lessons can be learned for today’s practices of Machine Learning.
In art and architecture, research is often understood to be open to a variety of approaches and findings in these fields are often considered to make contributions to multiple different areas, ranging from the technical/digital sciences to the humanities. However, it is often not clear how artistic and design practices can be related to research approaches of the technical sciences and humanities, and what constitutes artistic and architectural research outputs?
Considering these open questions, this colloquium and summer school is intended to be a space for exchange, in which we share experiences by discussing ongoing research related to digital humanities, critical technical practice, artistic research and architectural research. Furthermore we want to identify similarities and differences between the different fields in terms of practices, approaches and challenges, and reflect on the position of these fields within the context of technical and scientific institutions.
For more information, please consult the school website here: http://li222.user.srcf.net/exploringedges/
Research in applied, interdisciplinary and emerging areas often push beyond the methodological and epistemological conventions of scientific disciplines. This is especially the case for younger fields such as the digital humanities, critical technical practice, artistic research and architectural research.
The Exploring Edges Summer School will encourage new encounters by bringing together a broad spectrum of diverging, sometimes conflicting disciplines: engineering, computer and natural sciences, the humanities, architecture, and art.
The application of digital methods to the humanities has concrete implications for both fields. In the humanities, rather than just mechanising the work of historians, literary theorists or art critics, digital methods allow for: firstly, fundamentally different methodologies, and therefore secondly, fundamentally different objects of study. How does one develop a novel epistemology in the course of a research project, and how can such knowledge interface with the body of traditional work?
For computer and natural sciences, digital humanities projects are often motivated (and funded) by the notion that interdisciplinary exchange forces greater critical reflection about the data and the nature of algorithms used. But just what does such critical knowledge look like, and how is it meant to feed back into state-of-the-art technical research? The field of Critical Technical Practice has long suggested such a process for (GOF)AI research - we hope analogous lessons can be learned for today’s practices of Machine Learning.
In art and architecture, research is often understood to be open to a variety of approaches and findings in these fields are often considered to make contributions to multiple different areas, ranging from the technical/digital sciences to the humanities. However, it is often not clear how artistic and design practices can be related to research approaches of the technical sciences and humanities, and what constitutes artistic and architectural research outputs?
Considering these open questions, this colloquium and summer school is intended to be a space for exchange, in which we share experiences by discussing ongoing research related to digital humanities, critical technical practice, artistic research and architectural research. Furthermore we want to identify similarities and differences between the different fields in terms of practices, approaches and challenges, and reflect on the position of these fields within the context of technical and scientific institutions.
For more information, please consult the school website here: http://li222.user.srcf.net/exploringedges/
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- General public
- Registration required
Organizer
- Leonardo Impett