This ongoing seminar is derived from earlier iterations of Decoding the Colonial Algorithm and is shaped with ongoing student research. It continues navigating through the myriad histories crossing over, under and through Karlsruhe. Borrowing tools from feminist practices and psycho-geography, students will generate their own embodied routes, evidence and narratives through time and space. The navigations have shifted to investigations and will continue to delve into Karlsruhe’s own ongoing connections with colonialism.
This is derived from looking at how culture is embedded in codes and how those codes are embedded in software and hardware and how this cycle repeats to reproduce cultural norms. It further looks at the colonial project and how its ghosts haunt the everyday and inhabit not just the devices we use and take for granted, but the social actions we all perform. The issues addressed involve questions like: Which of these actions are codified within the colonial operating system? How and where were they implemented and by whom? To what ends? How are they still in operation today? How are they present in the tools we use? What are the ghosts in the machine? This will be complemented by the counter measures of the post-colonial, de-colonial and and anti-imperialist struggles and practices, both contemporary and historical and how those take form in the social and political and in arts and cultural practices.
We will also delve into the sometimes murky territory of terminology: how language itself functions as a code. When you know the codes, you have the keys. The seminar will include ongoing research, local excursions and navigating routes that demonstrate the multiple dimensions present in the every day. Experiments in testing water quality, magnet fishing and generating urban scores and active research will complement readings and project development.
Students that did not participate in the earlier seminars are welcome to join and advised to request advance research notes and material. Depending on the level of engagement, students can receive one of two credit options: (eistungsschein Medienkunst, Leistungsschein Fachtheorie Medienkunst).
This is derived from looking at how culture is embedded in codes and how those codes are embedded in software and hardware and how this cycle repeats to reproduce cultural norms. It further looks at the colonial project and how its ghosts haunt the everyday and inhabit not just the devices we use and take for granted, but the social actions we all perform. The issues addressed involve questions like: Which of these actions are codified within the colonial operating system? How and where were they implemented and by whom? To what ends? How are they still in operation today? How are they present in the tools we use? What are the ghosts in the machine? This will be complemented by the counter measures of the post-colonial, de-colonial and and anti-imperialist struggles and practices, both contemporary and historical and how those take form in the social and political and in arts and cultural practices.
We will also delve into the sometimes murky territory of terminology: how language itself functions as a code. When you know the codes, you have the keys. The seminar will include ongoing research, local excursions and navigating routes that demonstrate the multiple dimensions present in the every day. Experiments in testing water quality, magnet fishing and generating urban scores and active research will complement readings and project development.
Students that did not participate in the earlier seminars are welcome to join and advised to request advance research notes and material. Depending on the level of engagement, students can receive one of two credit options: (eistungsschein Medienkunst, Leistungsschein Fachtheorie Medienkunst).
- Dozent/in: Diana McCarty