Crystals, Copper and Coal: Matter hosts and feeds the Digital. Buildings, Bodies and Brains: Material Realities are transformed by Data. Digital Materiality - Digital Matters: Thinking beyond dichotomies, this interdisciplinary symposium addresses problems shared by theory and practice. Researchers from the fields of Architecture and Art, History and Philosophy will discuss past, present and future relations between bits and atoms.
What is the materiality of the digital? In which ways do digital technologies change the design, production, experience and use of physical environments? Can atoms be translated into bits? Is computation grounded by matter? How does the digital extend or limit material practices? Under which circumstances do digital technologies appear as ambiances, environments or tools? How does intuition relate to automation? Will the future be determined by programmed matter or by decaying data?
A joint event of the Institute of Technology in Architecture (ita) and the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) at ETH Zurich. The performance by Madeline Gannon has been supported by the NCCR Digital Fabrication.
PROGRAMME
08.30 Fabio Gramazio, Nina Zschocke: Introduction
09.00 Mireille Hildebrandt (University of Brussels): Shock architecture and the optics of choice
10.00 Benjamin Dillenburger (ETH Zurich): Instruments of Imagination. The computer as partner in design
11.00 Coffee Break
11.10 Inge Hinterwaldner (KIT Karlsruhe): Between Collateral Retirements and Digital Affordances. Dealing with Browser Art
12.10 Karin Sander (ETH Zurich): Sculptural Data
13.10 Lunch Break
14.10 Ralf Baecker (University of the Arts Bremen): Computing Spaces and Material Narrations
15.10 Georg Vrachliotis (TU Delft): Design, Society, and Digital Unrest
16.10 Coffee Break
16.20 Fabio Gramazio (ETH Zurich): Digital Materiality in Architecture
17.20 Madeline Gannon (ATONATON Pittsburgh): New Frontiers in Human-Robot Relations
18.20 Panel Discussion (Moderation: Nina Zschocke)
19.00 Performance by Madeline Gannon (! Location: Robotic Fabrication Laboratory, HIB C)
The event will take place on site: ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, building HIB
Video documentation will be made available after the event at https://video.ethz.ch.
Quellennachweis:
CONF: Digital Matters - Digital Materiality (Zurich, 9 May 22). In: ArtHist.net, 07.05.2022. Letzter Zugriff 29.03.2024. <https://arthist.net/archive/36633>.