What happens when our tools no longer work as intended—when systems break, devices glitch, or instructions fail? In this workshop, we turn our attention to the productive potential of dysfunction: not as an endpoint, but as an entry into new ways of relating to technology, art, and each other.
The technical means provide users with detailed instructions on how to operate them. Expectations about outcomes envisage a range of defined actions in relation to the devices, setting aside another range of possibilities within technological management. In this workshop we will try to bring to light these other ways of understanding technology, embracing failure and the unexpected. To do so, we will analyze certain artistic productions in line with the dysfunctionality applied to technological devices and we will explore from a creative and critical point of view the possibilities of technical means to produce the so-called aberrations.
We will use for this purpose photographic devices (camera, cell phone), but opening the possibility to use other electronic or digital devices. On the other hand, we will try to transfer these learnings from the technical level to physical life. This pursues the objective of perceiving the dysfunctional as a productive encounter, capable of generating learning within the artistic plane and proposing new ways of understanding the world around us.
The workshop is connected with the seminar The Floor is Lava by Charlotte Eifler and a continuous collaboration with the La Laguna University Santa Cruz.
The technical means provide users with detailed instructions on how to operate them. Expectations about outcomes envisage a range of defined actions in relation to the devices, setting aside another range of possibilities within technological management. In this workshop we will try to bring to light these other ways of understanding technology, embracing failure and the unexpected. To do so, we will analyze certain artistic productions in line with the dysfunctionality applied to technological devices and we will explore from a creative and critical point of view the possibilities of technical means to produce the so-called aberrations.
We will use for this purpose photographic devices (camera, cell phone), but opening the possibility to use other electronic or digital devices. On the other hand, we will try to transfer these learnings from the technical level to physical life. This pursues the objective of perceiving the dysfunctional as a productive encounter, capable of generating learning within the artistic plane and proposing new ways of understanding the world around us.
The workshop is connected with the seminar The Floor is Lava by Charlotte Eifler and a continuous collaboration with the La Laguna University Santa Cruz.
- Dozent/in: Charlotte Eifler