Smart phones, computers, tablets - digital devices infiltrate all the living areas of human being. E-mails, blogs and social networks - all of them demand constant attention. How do we achieve digital and physical coexistence? What is the key to attention and awareness in dealing with digital technologies? How can we design translation between realities? As we learn, how are we experiencing ourselves, and the world of an increasingly media-technological practice. What is our relation towards technology at all? Is human emancipation possible with technology? These are just a few of many questions that we ask in the project room TMA laboratory and whose answers we want to discover and explore in a practical, physical and reflective way.

Tue. 15.11, 15 hrs
the point of the matter

Awareness and media competency through code and sensuality
The workshop situations change between physical and virtual space.
The Elementals BODY and SPACE are transferred into programming, geometric shaping, movement and interaction. Complex compositions decompose into small parts and simple rules allow the process to evolve. The combination of media competence, awareness and sensual experience leads to new connections and a creative whole. Perhaps we will call it an artistic result. This workshop is a test case as a 2-day seminar. We look forward to proactive exchange.

Tue. 15.11, 20 hrs
bodyINcode 

In this discreetly moderated conversation room we reflect on a selection of the exhibited works of the CYNETART with the use of the keywords body, intelligence, real-time, sensuality, eroticism, pornography, art, artificiality, humanuidum Robotic, process, perception, awareness, emotion, lust, erosion...

Tue. 15.11, 21 hrs
DISCŌ

The word discō (<discere, didicī>) is Latin and means to know, understand, which is not known by many people. But most people know what is meant by it today: celebrating and dancing!

VALENTINA CABRO (DE), dancer and choreographer (M.A.), studied stage dance at the Rotterdamse Dansacademie and worked among others in Rotterdam, Ljubljana and Dresden. Cabro choreographs new ways of dealing with force, time and space in the context of the human being and the environment.

www.valentinacabro.com

neue raeume; is a collaboration between media artist Katharina Groß (DE) and software developer Steffen Hönig (DE). It experimentally tests and explores the artistic and technical possibilities in software for virtual environments and sensor technology.

www.neueraeume.xyz

Wed. 16.11, 15 hrs
TMA_Body
BMC (Body-Mind-Centering)

"Body-Mind Centering is a perpetual experience based on experience and experienced journey and changing area of the body. The research traveller is our "mind" - our thoughts, feelings, energy, soul and our mind. Through this journey we understand how the mind expresses itself through the body in motion." (Bonnie Bainbrigde Cohen). Body-Mind Centering® is dedicated to the learning and discovery of specific anatomical and physiological structures. At the same time, the feelings emerging with the discovery of the respective body systems are explored and experienced: The blood in its various rhythms (arterial and venous), for example, reflects our tendencies to go more outward or to pull us inwardly. Usually, a particular feeling is at the forefront. We can determine what kind of attitude to this feeling we have as well as to the particular organ itself, and this alone is often enough to expand our choices, both to our body and to our emotional life. Come on your trip!

Wed. 16.11, 16 hrs
Cosmotic - How to build a sentient machine?

The conversational lecture explains how essential emotions are in the process of knowledge. In this context, the phenomenon of consciousness is discussed and which analogies to VR and sensor technology can be drawn on the basis of the multisensory VR game COSMOTIC. COSMOTIC is a multi-sensory, collective game in a virtual environment, which extends the sense of self and body awareness. With the prototypical development, we are experimentally investigating the technological conditions of VR and sensor technology as well as their effect on humans. Equipped with VR glasses and vital value data sensors, the players create and control the virtual environment. Through the voices and vitality of the players, the narrative world of COSMOTIC will emerge.
In the practical part, we are building a neural network - a K.I., which, after long-term testing and training, is supposed to react empathically to the players of COSMOTIC.

VALENTINA CABRO (DE), dancer and choreographer (M.A.), studied stage dance at the Rotterdamse Dansacademie and worked among others in Rotterdam, Ljubljana and Dresden. Cabro choreographs new ways of dealing with force, time and space in the context of the human being and the environment.

www.valentinacabro.com

neue raeume; is a collaboration between media artist Katharina Groß (DE) and software developer Steffen Hönig (DE). It experimentally tests and explores the artistic and technical possibilities in software for virtual environments and sensor technology.

www.neueraeume.xyz