Material & Materiality

Topic Material & Materiality

the following page and subpages are meant as an open-ended process, ongoing dialogues, under construction

Starting the summer semester with a group (Myrto, Hye, Josh, Maja, Karin) to discuss our current projects and topics, relating them to the topic of material & materiality. Trying to find out how to work with the restrictions and different formats of communication due to corona-circumstances. Questioning how to work on topics in general, how to research and how to find the appropriate tools to do this.

April 2020
First questions, for the group, for each one of us.

What are our starting points and point of interests?

How do we approach material and materiality in our topics?

How could we categorize, structurize, construct and deconstruct these? What kind of materiality do we speak of and what kind of materials are represented?

Are methods like preparing lists of categories and establish a sort of taxonomy applicable and useful? What kind of methods could be manageable and reasonable for my working process?

How could we find out overlappings and contradictions in our different topics? Would it be possible to create a sort of cartography in the next weeks?

Starting from a point of reference of materiality inbetween and beyond the digital and the physical. Trying to find out where our respective issues are situated and where they could be discussed properly. Looking at texts and examples of artists over the course of the semester, from which angles materiality (of a material or thinking about material) is approached and treated.

May 2020
"the language trap"

"creating blobs"

"examining the void in the package. what kind of materials are created just for filling this void?"

June 2020
"the other, non-human cameras"

"light as a defining force"

"leakages of things, feminist thinking"
"how is text perceived, presented, transferred"

July 2020
"sound of hostile architectures"

"who does public space belong to?"

other references

Basic seminar, summer term Material und Prozess
Research group Material & Materiality, summer 2020

Research project: Materiathek – Material archive. Material perception in artistic processes

under construction. subpages
Material Introduction, approach to material and materiality

Material families / taxonomies
first taxonomies

Terms, relations, references

Technologies

Aspect of experimenting and making

Maschines/Technologies in exlabIII (CNC: lasercutter, milling machine, 3d printer; lathe; electronics, arduino etc)

Resources/repositories/links

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