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SUMMARY:Exploring Edges Summer School: Artistic Research\, Architecture\, 
 Computer/Natural Science and the Digital Humanities
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170711
DTSTAMP:20260408T025856Z
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CATEGORIES:Miscellaneous
DESCRIPTION:Paulo de Assis\; Orpheus Institute\, Ghent\nAlan Blackwell\; C
 omputer Science\, University of Cambridge\nDominique Bouiller\; Digital Hu
 manities\, EPFL\nHarald Klinke\; Art History\, LMU Munich\nHannes Mayer\; 
 Department Architektur\, ETH Zurich\nShintaro Miyazaki\, Critical Media La
 b Basel\, FHNW\nHans-Joerg Rheinberger\, Max Plank Institute for the Histo
 ry of Science\nMichael Stauffacher\; Transdisciplinary Lab\, ETH Zurich\nS
 abine Süsstrunk\; Computer Science\, EPFL\nThe Exploring Edges summer sch
 ool will take place from the 11th to the 14th July\, 2017\, in EPFL. \n\nR
 esearch in applied\, interdisciplinary and emerging areas often push beyon
 d the methodological and epistemological conventions of scientific discipl
 ines. This is especially the case for younger fields such as the digital h
 umanities\, critical technical practice\, artistic research and architectu
 ral research.\nThe Exploring Edges Summer School will encourage new encoun
 ters by bringing together a broad spectrum of diverging\, sometimes confli
 cting disciplines: engineering\, computer and natural sciences\, the human
 ities\, architecture\, and art.\nThe 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 differ
 ent methodologies\, and therefore secondly\, fundamentally different objec
 ts 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 t
 raditional work?\nFor computer and natural sciences\, digital humanities p
 rojects are often motivated (and funded) by the notion that interdisciplin
 ary exchange forces greater critical reflection about the data and the nat
 ure of algorithms used. But just what does such critical knowledge look li
 ke\, and how is it meant to feed back into state-of-the-art technical rese
 arch? The field of Critical Technical Practice has long suggested such a p
 rocess for (GOF)AI research - we hope analogous lessons can be learned for
  today’s practices of Machine Learning.\nIn art and architecture\, resea
 rch is often understood to be open to a variety of approaches and findings
  in these fields are often considered to make contributions to multiple di
 fferent areas\, ranging from the technical/digital sciences to the humanit
 ies. However\, it is often not clear how artistic and design practices can
  be related to research approaches of the technical sciences and humanitie
 s\, and what constitutes artistic and architectural research outputs?\nCon
 sidering these open questions\, this colloquium and summer school is inten
 ded to be a space for exchange\, in which we share experiences by discussi
 ng ongoing research related to digital humanities\, critical technical pra
 ctice\, artistic research and architectural research. Furthermore we want 
 to identify similarities and differences between the different fields in t
 erms of practices\, approaches and challenges\, and reflect on the positio
 n of these fields within the context of technical and scientific instituti
 ons.\n\nFor more information\, please consult the school website here: h
 ttp://li222.user.srcf.net/exploringedges/
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