After successful completion of the course, students are able to approach design projects ad hoc yet with a certain literacy – in a situational, involved, inventive and also a critical manner; they will have been introduced to key terms and a set of New Materialist methods as they currently emerging in the field of the so-called Creative Humanities.  

Kurspräsentation (10 min Clip)

The ad-hoc design studio NEW MATERIALIST ARTICULATIONS is about Miniatures of the Macrocosms and Maxiatures of the Microcosms: it is a practice-based studio led by ATTP’s two guest professors this semester, Iris van der Tuin and Nanna Verhoeff, together with Vera Bühlmann, in how to conceive of architectonic objects in the methodic terms of scale and scaling, trans and transing (as in transgressing, transitioning, translating, transcribing), diffractive compilations (auto-bibliographies) and kaleidoscopic focusing (optics-relative glossing). We will create miniatures of concepts (artifacts) and conceptions of miniatures (crystal texts), and we will learn about artisanry and its imaginative universes from further guest lectures by international artists and theoreticians on miniaturization, metalsmithing, kaleidoscoping, and lenticular printing. 

The studio will be structured around weekly meetings plus individual work. A reader will be provided at the beginning of the semester, in parallel to weekly lectures which will be provided online for the students to watch individually. The weekly meetings on Wednesdays, 4-6 pm will be for collaboratively discussing and working on and with the ideas, texts, and lectures. In parallel, the students will pursue their individual exercises, for which there will be desk-crits as well as pin-ups – the first marks the opportunity for exercise work discussions on the go, whereas the second consists of presentations and joint discussions.

Our Zoom Link während dem ganzen Semester (recurrent): 

Topic: New Materialist Articulations / Ad Hoc Design Studio
Time: This is a recurring meeting 

Join Zoom Meeting
https://tuwien.zoom.us/j/92667289302?pwd=Y1dtbncvUlJoQk5xVytvZU1YY21XQT09

This course is planned to be conducted in hybrid mode. The collective work will largely be taught online, but the desk-crits in the second half of the semester will be live (if possible with the developments in the coronavirus pandemic). We will update students about any changes if necessary.

Lecturers

            Iris van der Tuin (SS 2021 Visiting Guest Professor at ATTP)

            Nanna Verhoeff (SS 2021 Visiting Guest Professor at ATTP)

            Vera Bühlmann

Framing Lectures  (in three versions each theme, to get a spectrum of articulations)

           ON PHILOSOPHY IN A NEW KEY

           ON NEW MATERIALISM

           ON CONCEPTS AS/AND MATERIALS

           ON AUTO-BIBLIOGRAPHY 

Practice based Lectures by international guests on:

           MINIATURIZATION

           METALSMITHING

           KALEIDOSCOPE

           LENTICULAR PRINTING

Student Exercises (Ad Hoc Studio Work) on

SCALE, SCALING 

DIFFRACTION

TRANS, TRANS-ING

MOBILIZATION

Reader

1. 2 chapters from Susanne K. Langer, Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite and Art, 3rd ed. (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, [1942] 1957)

2. “New Materialisms, Novel Mentalities, Quantum Literacy” in The Minnesota Review: a journal of creative and critical writing (2017). https://read.dukeupress.edu/the-minnesota-review/article-abstract/2017/88/47/28565/Introduction-to-New-Materialist-GenealogiesNew?redirectedFrom=fulltext

3. Introduction and preview[2]  of some “crystal texts” from Critical Concepts for the Creative Humanities (forthcoming with Rowman & Littlefield International, 2021)

4. “Cartography, Performative Cartography” from Critical Concepts for the Creative Humanities (forthcoming with Rowman & Littlefield International, 2021).

5. “Somatechnics” from Critical Concepts for the Creative Humanities (forthcoming with Rowman & Littlefield International, 2021)

6. Pietrobruno’s “Medianatures” from Gender: Nature, vol. 2 (Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2016).

7. “Scale, scaling” from Critical Concepts for the Creative Humanities (forthcoming with Rowman & Littlefield International, 2021).

8. “Trans-, transing” from Critical Concepts for the Creative Humanities (forthcoming with Rowman & Littlefield International, 2021).

9. Golanska’s “Geoart as a New Materialist Practice: Intra-active Becomings and Artistic Knowledge Production” in RUUKKU: Studies in Artistic Research (2018). https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/427704/427706

10. Florence E. McCartey (1929) “A Biblio-Biography”, The Elementary English Review, Vol. 6, No. 8, pp. 210-213 

11. “Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscopic” and “Diffraction” from Critical Concepts for the Creative Humanities (forthcoming with Rowman & Littlefield International, 2021).

(provisional, subjecct to change)

Attendence to the lectures and discussions, active preparation and participation, successful completion of all tasks.

1. Two chapters from Susanne K. Langer, Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite and Art, 3rd ed. (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, [1942] 1957)
2. “New Materialisms, Novel Mentalities, Quantum Literacy” in The Minnesota Review: a journal of creative and critical writing (2017). https://read.dukeupress.edu/the-minnesota-review/article-abstract/2017/88/47/28565/Introduction-to-New-Materialist-GenealogiesNew?redirectedFrom=fulltext
3. Introduction and preview  of some “crystal texts” from Critical Concepts for the Creative Humanities (forthcoming with Rowman & Littlefield International, 2021)
4. “Cartography, Performative Cartography” from Critical Concepts for the Creative Humanities (forthcoming with Rowman & Littlefield International, 2021).
5. “Somatechnics” from Critical Concepts for the Creative Humanities (forthcoming with Rowman & Littlefield International, 2021)
6. Pietrobruno’s “Medianatures” from Gender: Nature, vol. 2 (Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2016).
7. “Scale, scaling” from Critical Concepts for the Creative Humanities (forthcoming with Rowman & Littlefield International, 2021).
8. “Trans-, transing” from Critical Concepts for the Creative Humanities (forthcoming with Rowman & Littlefield International, 2021).
9. Golanska’s “Geoart as a New Materialist Practice: Intra-active Becomings and Artistic Knowledge Production” in RUUKKU: Studies in Artistic Research (2018). https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/427704/427706
10. Florence E. McCartey (1929) “A Biblio-Biography”, The Elementary English Review, Vol. 6, No. 8, pp. 210-213 
11. “Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscopic” and “Diffraction” from Critical Concepts for the Creative Humanities (forthcoming with Rowman & Littlefield International, 2021).

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