The UdK Collision Week took place again at the beginning of 2019 - in the Hybrid Lab this time the project "THE NEW ALPHABET" with the project leaders Franziska Wildt (UdK/Free Art) and Baruch Gottlieb (media artist/cultural scientist).
Question and content:
Are binary code, algorithms and DNA the alphabets of today? The current knowledge explosion goes hand in hand with the decomposition of the world into the smallest possible units. The binary code - with only two elements the highest abstraction of the alphabetic principle - reduces the multiformity of the analog and makes it calculable. Projects in synthetic biology and artificial intelligence are based on a reading of life as a code that can be decoded and thus manipulated. How objective is data? What social power structures and ownership logics do they reproduce? What linguistic developments accompany the data-formedness of knowledge? What is being displaced? Who dominates the new knowledge orders? And what ethical questions do these literacies raise? What happens between 1 and 0?
The project was a colloboration of students from different courses of study- from theater education to architecture to social and business communication.
All participating students were able to contribute their impressions of the theme "THE NEW ALPHABET." Poems, memes, graphics and texts.
In the run-up, the project already thematically picked up on the exhibition of the same name "THE NEW ALPHABET" took place from January 10-13 at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, in which the project participants could have also participate afterwards.
Target group:
The course was aimed at students of the TU and UdK Berlin.
Support by the Hybrid Platform:
Communication