Machines like us
sculpture and video works, Aalto university.10.05.2021 - 16.05.2021.
The exhibition gathers works from two different courses:
“Machines like use” in UWAS unit, and “Digital Sculpture3” in ARTS.
The first course happened on-line during November and December 2020.
From the discovery of electricity till the rise, development and deployment of Artificial Intelligence, the use of the machine has only increased within society. Looking for an understanding of the function, the role and the intelligence of machines the course will pursue a cross-disciplinary investigation on the creative processes involved in any new knowledge production and specifically in technological development. We will cover a variety of issues, including the complex dynamic between abstract thinking and materialistic approaches to produce new scientific steps forward. We will review the effects of the machine on the dissemination of information, along with questions related to ethics, discrimination, and architectures of control. We will aim to understand the space, the use and the problematics produced by contemporary algorithmic decisions. Moreover, the course will provide a strong insight in current technological developments and a better understanding of its implementation process, its implication in society and of the possibility to think its future.
Lecture by invited guest: Michael J. Lyons, media art professor at Ritsumeikan University/Kyoto Japan
More info on course:
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Machines_like_us
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Machines_like_us
Open with VLC, Network file:
https://streamer.nettitila.fi:8443/video1
Video file here / wetransfer for a week.
Digital Sculpture 3
The emphasis of this course is to introduce students to programming techniques that can be used to control or interact with objects in the real, physical world. Arduino will be the main programming environments used.
We used the following electronic components; Arduino UNO, ping distance sensor, Audio module, 10W amplifier, addressable LEDs strip, analogue light sensor control, relays, D.C motor.
We used the following electronic components; Arduino UNO, ping distance sensor, Audio module, 10W amplifier, addressable LEDs strip, analogue light sensor control, relays, D.C motor.
In the workshop, we designed both the electronics hardware and the mechanical parts.