Retune Podcast

What are the new forms of storytelling, design and expression made possible with machine learning? How do these tools influence the artist? With »Black Boxes for Artists: Short Talks« Albert Barqué-Duran, Samim Winiger, Appu Shaji and Sofia Crespo will present their work on Creative AI. Albert Barqué-Duran will introduce his Artificial Muse – a performance in collaboration with Mario Klingemann and Marc Marzenit, exploring how an Artificial Neural Network can collaborate with humans in the creative and artistic processes. Samim Winiger will cover the development of deep and reinforcement learning algorithms that expanded the range of technologies available to today’s artists and designers to include self-learning systems. The trained computer vision researcher Appu Shaji discusses in »Recording the Visual« whether or not machines can help us capture a part of visual taste and identity. Sofia Crespo is an Art Director (and long-term aspiring Computer Scientist). Her interests go from memes (being the most relevant one) to microbiology, neuroscience, botany and human-machine collaboration. Curated and moderated by Luba Elliott and organized in collaboration with Impakt Festival, Utrecht.

Lina Wassong's talk »Aesthetics of Technology« will focus on the intersection of technology and design to introduce you to physical computing and digital fabrication techniques for fashion design. Berlin-based engineer Lina Wassong is a pioneer in integrating digital fabrication and electronics into fashion. She has designed pieces using 3D printing, laser cutting, and physical computing. Through her work, she wants to make technology more emotional and aesthetic. Besides running her design studio, Wassong lectures at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam and published three books about electronics and programming. More information: http://linawassong.com

The talk »People, Places, Spaces and Things« will focus on interesting technologies on the horizon and the ways they might impact our worlds, like flying dresses that ended up on world-famous music artists. Computation and technology has moved from rooms, to tables, to laps, pockets, wrists and now on bodies. As a new generation of products and services are developed in a world with ubiquitous internet and ‘smart’ devices, Benjamin Males will reflect on over 8 years or developing wearable technology for stage and screen and will propose some expectations for a future where technology is embedded in the fibre and fabric of everyday life. Emma Laugier works with Benjamin Males to conceive of new ways in which technology can enhance the way we perceive, engage and interact with live experiences.

When AI agents are part of everyday objects, how can we go beyond human-centered-design? Drawing from Design Anthropology and a new discipline called Machine Behaviour, Iohanne Nicenboim examines in her talk »More than Human Centered Design« how algorithms are enacted by everyday objects in the Internet of Things. And proposes new design methods to practice a more-than-human-centered-design. Check out her work on: http://iohanna.com Iohanna Nicenboim is a design researcher at the Connected Everyday Lab (TU Delft). She focuses on connected objects as part of complex socio-technical systems in everyday futures.

In »Design Mysticism« Emma Baker examines the tension between creative intuition and rational processes, and discuss the case for irrational, intuitive leaps in design. As designers, we are intimately familiar with a set of ideologies, legends, and rituals related to our work. As artists, we're very in tune with our ability to channel our intuition into creative output. To the layperson, the creative process can seem opaque and mysterious, even arcane. Have a look at her work on: http://emmajbaker.com Emma Baker is a designer and artist based in Boston. In her work as a Communication Designer at IDEO, she uses the tools of human-centered design to envision hopeful futures. Her artistic practice combines traditional media with immersive environments and performance.

Studio Above&Below's talk »Sustainable AR« discusses future opportunities of shaping new territorial spaces, natural and technological materials and social interactions in the emerging Augmented Reality sphere. The studio believes in the rise of a new landscape between our digital and physical environment showing this through their newest work “Terrain”. Will human kind design a new sustainable society for our Augmented Reality sphere? Check out their work on: http://studioaboveandbelow.com Studio Above&Below was founded by media artists and designers Daria Jelonek and Perry-James Sugden, after graduating from the Royal College of Art in Information Experience Design in 2017.

Using selected series, Banz & Bowinkel will show in their talk »Painting Analytics / the development of digital painting and AR« their development from classical painting to a computer-artist duo. They provide insights and backgrounds into their topics, which arise from the examination of our digitized present. Check their work online: http://banzbowinkel.de Giulia Bowinkel and Friedemann Banz form the artist duo Banz & Bowinkel. In their work, Banz & Bowinkel deal with the computer as an everyday medium and its influence on our society. The focus here is on the perception of the world, which humans understand as reality and which can now be simulated with the help of computers. The award-winning works by Banz & Bowinkel have been exhibited in numerous exhibitions in Germany and abroad, including the NRW Forum Düsseldorf, the Haus der elektronischen Künste in Basel and the Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach.

In the keynote »Drawing in the Air« Elliot Woods discusses the flows of thinking between Kimchi and Chips artworks including their series Drawing in the Air. The talk visits how artworks can attempt to present phenomena which highlight gaps in the paradigms of the viewer, and that by highlighting this incompleteness, the viewer is invited to rebuild their own reality paradigms. You can follow his presentation by clicking through Elliot's slides here: retunefestival.de/2018/elliot-woods Elliot Woods is a digital media artist from Manchester. He tests possible futures between humans and visual design technologies (e.g. cameras, projectors, computation). Elliot co-founded Kimchi and Chips, an experimental art studio based in Seoul with Mimi Son which creates public artworks that uncover new technical and aesthetic territory. Here he applies his past studies in physics to produce palpable phenomena from abstract domains.

A scientist and an artist collaborate on a common ground creating an audio-visual experience. In the performance lecture »Touching the Invisible – A sparkling quantum plasticine« the duo will make you feel and understand fascinating quantum phenomena that are beyond your imagination. Jeremi Niedziela, physicist at CERN, tells the story of elementary particles and high energy physics, while the media designer Laura Couto Rosado is following him and expressing the intangible quantum world with sounds and unique visuals (visuals are not recorded though).

In diesem Podcast haben wir den Musikroboter-Künstler Moritz Simon Geist zu Gast.

This is #03 of our Retune Talk series. In this series, we are publishing the talks that were held at Retune Festival 2018 in Berlin on the main stage. Ralf Baecker is an artist working at the intersection of art, science and technology. Through installations and machines, Baecker explores fundamental mechanisms of action and effects of new media and technologies. At the core of his objects lies the entanglement of the virtual with the real, or rather, with the world. With a media-archaeological outlook, Ralf Baecker digs within obsolete devices for traces and functions that are still detectable in technologies today. Since 2016, he teaches at the University of the Arts Bremen as Professor for Experimental Design of New Technologies. You can find his work on: http://rlfbckr.org

This is #02 of our Retune Talk series. In this series, we are publishing the talks that were held at Retune Festival 2018 on the main stage. Our speaker Rosa Menkman is a researcher, whose work focuses on noise artifacts that result from accidents in both analogue and digital media (such as glitch, encoding and feedback artifacts). These artifacts can facilitate an important insight into the otherwise obscure alchemy of standardization via resolutions.

Link to the slides of Evan Roth's talk "Landscape, Signal & Empire": http://www.evan-roth.com/presentations/retune/

Recorded in April 2018.

Im ersten Retune Podcast ist Nadja Buttendorf zu Gast. Wir sprechen über ihre Arbeit, Ostidentität, prekäre künstlerische Arbeitsverhältnisse und die Welt. Hier noch ein paar Links: - Nadjas Website findet Ihr hier: http://nadjabuttendorf.com - 1-Euro Jewllery: http://1-euro-jewellery.eu - 100-Euro Jewllery: http://100eurojewellery.tictail.com - Fingerring: http://nadjabuttendorf.com/fingerring/ - Mehr Infos zur aktuellen Ausstellung von Nadja Buttendorf in Leipzig sind hier zu finden: http://www.halle14.org/aktuelle-ausstellungen.html Außerdem spielen wir ein bisschen Musik: 0) Unsere Station ID: Moritz Simon Geist – Superstarter 1) djsniff - Re-Klocking (https://soundcloud.com/djsniff/re-klocking) 2) Center of the Universe – High Order Ambisonics (https://soundcloud.com/sissyfus/sets/extended-play) 3) herrenzimmerorkester - Schlangenlederschuhe (https://neuebude.tumblr.com/post/161846680078/herrenzimmerorkester-schlangenlederschuhe) 4) Hello Psychaleppo - HAWA هوا (https://soundcloud.com/hellopsychaleppo/hawa?in=hellopsychaleppo/sets/toyour) 5) Moritz Simon Geist – Entropy (https://soundcloud.com/user2340597854/entropy)

Der Trailer für den bald startenden Podcast von Christian Zöllner und Julian Adenauer. Zu Gast sind per Telefon Nadja Buttendorf und Jasmin Grimm.