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Course Title

Latent Spaces & Permissionless Dreams

Course Description

What’s that Reality in the Future?

The philosophical and artistic part of the course is a blend of visually rich lecture-seminars that delve into the intersection of intermedia art, philosophy of technology and speculative design research. The explored narratives are based on recent discourse within the field of philosophy of technology and acknowledgement of fundamental challenges that life on earth faces in the era of the so-called, fourth industrial revolution. We’re going to explore AI as a technology of automation and algorithmic cognition, peer-to-peer computation systems, new networked infrastructures and mixed realities. We will address some topics in purely technical terms, while others through the lens of socio-humanitarian studies, derivative aesthetics, epistemic challenges posed by synthetic forms of knowledge production and, of course, design questions that these technological projections pose in both near and far futures. It is important to recognise the scale of impact of the current state of computational advancements not only on every aspect of how the world is built, but also on how it is studied. We will be exercising recognition and prediction of the trends and challenges to come, that will be central to artistic & design research. Students will be invited to look at AI, Web3 & MR both through the lenses of speculative design and practical knowledge in order to learn work with these technologies within their individual, group, commissioned or self-initiated practices.

Finally, your speculative design will be showcased as an academic pictorial with artwork. While there are no strict rules for the artwork form, it's better to focus more on speculative practice rather than investing too much effort into exhibition production. Consider using mediums like novels, AIGC, or mixed reality devices (like Vision Pro) to depict future mixed realities.

Keywords

Speculative Design, Philosophy of Technology (AI, XR, Web3), Technological Pluralisms, Mixed Realities

Course Objectives

Teaching Team

Course Dates

Calendar

Check our Google Calendar

Invite us for Consultation:

Here is our calendar ID: 1ef8a9a58f7e7eaf83950ec69e584c6d75405c26a5bb95a2539459aafb734564@group.calendar.google.com

Syllabus

Kraft:

Amber:

Reading List

Designer & Artist Reference

Amber's Lecture 1. Towards Speculative Realities

Amber's Lecture 2. Towards Speculative Realities

Amber's Tutorial 1: Workshop on How to write a Pictorial / Paper for your artwork?

Workshop

Final Project

Your speculative design will be showcased as an academic pictorial with artwork. We strongly advise you to use the InDesign template to compose your Pictorial.

Propose your idea on the Github discussion. Please comment each other's topic. It's fun. https://github.com/realitydeslab/playshop-summer-2024/discussions/categories/proposal

Template for Pictorials: Template for ACM DIS Pictorial Template for ACM TEI Pictorial

Video

  1. Tagline: 25 words
  2. Video clip scenario/prompt for a 15 seconds video clip.
  3. A keyframe image (could be made in stable diffusion, runway, dalle)
  1. 15s LumaAI Generated Trailer with AI-Generated Voice Over Beginning with your keyframe and ending with next presenter's keyframe
  2. Short Paper (IN ACM TEI Pictorial Format) At least 1300 words / at least 2 papers (excl. reference). Abstract: 100 words.
  3. Digital Artefact: Video (1min max) / Image / 3D Model (USD format)

Potential Future Venue

TEI 2025: ACM Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction

Call for Pictorials. Due: July 25, 2024.

Examples:

AHs 2025: Augmented Humans

Call for Pictorials. Due: Jan, 2025.

Archive.

DIS 2025: ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

Call for Pictorials. Due: Jan 2025.

C&C 2025: ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition

Call for Pictorials. Due: Jan, 2025.