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Dresden University of Fine Arts

This group is for post graduate students of the Dresden University of Fine Arts.

status	active
portal	EU4ART_differences
admins	Anna Lorenzana, Till Ansgar Baumhauer, Claudia Reichert
members	Ana Pireva, Viktoria Ovsepian, Mona Freudenreich, Robert Czolkoß, Taemen Jung, Nele Hartmann, Claus Schöning, Veronika Pfaffinger, Lotte Dohmen

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• 1. ABAROMA WORKSHOP Outputs of the workshop on the use of °'°Kobi and the Research Catalogue, Academy of Fine Arts of Rome, March/April 2024

• Kobi research testing project (2024) author(s): Manuela Violi published in: EU4ART_differences
  This is a test for the AI ​​KOBI project, carried out at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. The process begins with a brainstorming session led by Kobi, starting from the text of William Shakespeare's "Hamlet". This initial phase proves to be immediately fruitful, as the responses provided by Kobi not only shed light on new interpretations of the classic themes of the work - such as revenge, existential doubt, and madness - but also stimulate further creative ideas. This dynamic interaction between Kobi and the Shakespearean text transforms into a virtuous cycle: each insight generated opens the way to new questions and research, expanding the scope of the investigation well beyond the originally anticipated boundaries. The depth of the analysis and the variety of creative ideas that emerged during the brainstorming are then used as a basis to interact with other generative artificial intelligence models. Kobi acts as the primary interface, transforming the insights gathered into complex inputs for these other AI systems, which in turn produce original and sometimes unexpected outputs. As the process evolves, a rich and multilayered fabric of ideas and creative productions emerges. The goal becomes to explore new creative territories, pushing beyond the limits of traditional interpretations of the Shakespearean work to probe possibilities that have so far been unexplored. In this context, Kobi's role expands, becoming a true creative collaborator, capable of stimulating human insights through unexpected results.
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  DIGITAL RITES and EMBODIED MEMORIES (2022) author(s): Elena Giulia Rossi connected to: EU4ART_differences published in: Research Catalogue
  Creativity at the crossroads of Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming, Alternative Economies, and Humanism, will be discussed by leading voices from the international scene at DIGITAL RITES and EMBODIED MEMORIES, EU4ART_differences Doctoral Summer School. A group of researchers from different European capitals will meet in the Monastery of Casa San Silvestro in Monte Compatri (Rome Province) for an intensive program that will take them, and their research, to the limit between physical and digital space. Since the talks and workshops organized by The Fine Arts Academy of Rome mean to contribute on the currently relevant debate on art practice and new technologies, the series of webinars will be free and open to the public through a registration link.
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• Metamaterial (last edited: 2025) author(s): Claus Schöning connected to: EU4ART_differences This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
  This paper is based on my Master Thesis and explores how art and science practices can enable sustainable productions through reworking relations between representations and their material instantiations. Central to this study are objects centred around pigments, chromatic substances transducing and translating between materiality and meaning. These objects are serigraphic prints depicting the molecular formulas of synthetic pigments as well as micro- graphs rendered precisely by those same pigments. Here, the materialities used to present pigment mole- cules are the self-same materials being represented. By examining these artworks, the thesis explores how materials can simultaneously embody and articulate scientific and artistic principles, challenging separa- tions between materiality and representation. Theoretical insights are drawn from Karen Barad’s concept of agential realism, which asserts a performative approach to representations. To account for this performative concept, the material composi- tions of the serigraphic prints were engineered to be compostable. To achieve a high degree of reproducibility and accessibility, an emphasis was placed on describing the production process.
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  EU4ART_differences - Documentation (last edited: 2024) author(s): Anna Lorenzana, Manuel Macía, Elena Giulia Rossi, Veronica Di Geronimo, FRANCO RIPA DI MEANA, Claudia Reichert connected to: EU4ART_differences This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
  The EU4ART Alliance was created by four art academies in Dresden, Rome, Budapest and Riga. The Alliance is convinced that there is a great need for further strengthening the perspectives of fine arts as a culturally, socially and scientifically engaged approach towards a transdisciplinary discourse on society, sciences and humanities, and knowledge and thinking in general. The EU-funded EU4ART_differences project will work to raise each partner’s research profile and promote a high-level culture of artistic research in developing new programmes for postgraduate students and artistic researchers. It is guided by two pillars: knowledge transfer, and building artistic research units and graduate schools that will become part of the shared doctoral and postgraduate research community. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101016460.
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• HOW TO (NOT) PRODUCE - Fragmente zu sorgender Kunst als Gegenkultur (last edited: 2023) author(s): Lotte Dohmen connected to: EU4ART_differences This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
  „after the revolution who is going to pick up the garbage on Monday morning? ... what is the relationship between maintenance and freedom? what is the relationship between maintenance and life‘s dreams?“ - fragt Mierle Ladermann Ukeles in ihrem „Manifesto for Maintenance Art“ (1969). Als alleinerziehende Mutter und Künstlerin im New York der 70er Jahre, bleibt ihr aufgrund ausufernder Sorgeverpflichtungen der Zutritt zu Kunsträumen verwehrt. Die Beziehung zwischen instandhaltenden und schöpferischen Prozessen ist eine konkurrierende, nach wie vor. Sorgearbeit muss aus der künstlerischen Sphäre ausgelagert, verschleiert oder wegorganisiert werden, darf in Förderanträgen nicht auftauchen und steht in zeitlicher Konkurrenz zur kreativen Arbeit. Neoliberale Dispositive führen dazu, dass Produktion grundsätzlich höhere Wertschätzung erfährt als Erhaltung, doch wo nähern sich die beiden Bereiche einander an? Ukulese Ladermann konterte die Zurückweisung mit einem feministischen Manifest, in dem sie Windeln wechseln, Wäsche waschen, Wohnung putzen und Essen kochen, all diese sorgenden Tätigkeiten zur Kunst erklärte. Die künstlerische Recherchearbeit folgt diesen Spuren der Maintenance Art in die Gegenwart, versammelt weitere zeitgenössische best practice Beispiele, reflektiert anekdotisch über aus-Fehlern-lernt-man-Produktionen und versucht sich an einer nicht-hierarchischen Versammlung dieser Fragmente. Fragmente, die die Dichotomie zwischen Lebensträumen, kreativer Selbstverwirklichung und Freiheit auf der einen Seite und reproduktiver Arbeit, die die Dinge am Laufen hält auf der anderen in Frage stellen. Fragmente, die nach der Kunst im Müßigen, im Notwendigen und Unproduktiven suchen, die Strategien entwickeln entwerfend und gleichzeitig regenerativ zu Arbeiten. Fragmente, die sich um den Prozess sorgen und nicht um das Produkt.
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  Hands of perception (last edited: 2023) author(s): Ana Pireva connected to: EU4ART_differences This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
  The field of my artistic practice stretches between three poles or materials and techniques. This is about the technique of drawing, the litho stone and the paper as a carrier material and at the same time a design element. These three poles are linked to one another on a wide variety of levels. Ever since I've explored the notion of research in my artistic practice, I've been documenting my thoughts on the medium of drawing in relation to craft. In early 2023 I started my project "Hands of perception" by working in papermaking and printmaking workshops in new locations and documenting this experience.
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