The Hungarian artist/photographer/researcher/writer Laszlo Moholy-Nagy ranks as one of the key visionaries of the 20th century. A central figure with the Bauhaus in Germany and then founder of the New Bauhaus in Chicago during the Second World War, Moholy-Nagy was a strong supporter of art and technology as factors of social progress. He deeply explored and experimented with the fundamental elements […]
Please join us for an open house throughout our two floors of cluster spaces, labs and workshops. Members and technicians will be on hand to answer your questions and demonstrate some of the incredible work that our Institute supports. WHERE: Milieux Institute, EV Building 10th and 11th floors. Come to EV 11.705 to […]
Every maker needs a sticker. Every pinball needs a decal. Come to #MilieuxMake to learn to make your own sticker or decal. You can even try an iron-on patch. Learn to simply print, or make your own design. Come with your laptop and install the Cameo Silhouette software, or simply wait in line […]
The ZKM, one of the largest centres in the world for the exhibition of media art and technology, has long been called the "digital Bauhaus." Curator Livia Rozsas will discuss her curatorial work and approach on the large scale exhibition ZKM exhibition Open Codes, which ran from October 20,2017-June 2, 2019 in which the Hexagram network was also featured […]
This public session is a discussion between four scholars of the consequences of the Anthropocene for how we understand the role of theory and method in the social sciences. Kregg Hetherington will present some thoughts related to a recent edited volume, Infrastructure, Environment and Life in the Anthropocene, about how the experience of working […]
Inverse power of wavelengths - performative lecture is a cross-sectional survey on Alessandro Carboni’s performance practice methodology based on the relationship between body and the city. The performance illustrates a practice that has been developed over a long period of research in several European and Asian cities and mega-cities, such as Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala […]
Panelists: Julie Richard, Alison Peacock, and Hilary Bergen Alison Peacock presents: Space Dance: A lecture demonstration in 100 years of ‘space’ The masks of Oskar Schlemmer’s Space Dance are emblematic of the Bauhaus’s theatre workshop’s proposal to emphasize mathematical approaches to human movement by obscuring the emotional content of performing bodies, foregrounding dance’s formal and spatial qualities. Dance […]
Dietmar Lupfer is co-founder and artistic director of the International Art and Culture Center Muffatwerk in Munich. He is responsible for an urban, future-oriented interdisciplinary program that brings together dance, performance, hybrid art and media art as well as work at the interface of art, technology and science. He conceives and curates art actions in public space, designs media art spaces […]
A talk by Kirsty Robertson This talk considers the moment where a once-loved item of clothing is discarded. Part meditation on the shedding of identity that goes along with turning clothing into waste, and part research into what actually happens to clothing once it is discarded, this presentation investigates the afterlife of clothing as it […]
Project wrap-up, discussion and screening Seven intrepid Milieux faculty and students set out to modernize aMinecraft village in just 30 days. Along the way they discover theprinciples of Bauhaus architecture and the international style,discuss the relationship between logistics, rationalism and modernism, build a new conception of functionalist aesthetics, and develop a deep fear of the “creepers” […]
Led by Darian Stahl, Participatory Media Cluster In this artist’s book workshop, participants will learn about the intersecting histories of medicine and bookmaking, contemporary artists working in thisSelect an area to comment on medium, and then receive hands-on guidance in the creation of their very own artist’s book. This combination of fine art and book […]
The Power of the Spill is an audio-visual performance that works at the intersection of digital and imaginary technologies. Using live video feedback, creative coding and movement-choreography, it agitates the visible borders of objects and bodies and questions habitual divisions between life and matter. The piece starts with a video recording and movement-choreography done on site. This footage (and its constantly changing perspectives) is live-processed using pixelation-effects similar to white […]
