Dominik Schlienger

Finland (residence), Switzerland (citizenship)
research interests: spatial interaction in music, art and technology, philosophy of technology, Spatial Audio
affiliation: Uniarts Helsinki, UWE Bristol (Alumni)
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I'm a musician and composer-researcher, originally from Switzerland. I experimented with new forms of performances in pop, dance and jazz projects sice the early 90s. I lived and worked in Bristol, UK from 1999-2011 graduating 2012 with an MSc in Audio Production from UWE Bristol. Currently, I'm a postdoc researcher at the Uniarts Research Institute Helsinki, in the ExoSound project. Besides playing viola in the Free Improvisation String Quartet FISQ,  I occasionally perform with viola looper-project Gfuchtel, and am currently developing material for a new project.

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  • Prototyping Situations: Interdisciplinary Free Improvisation in Technology Development and Latour’s Mode of the Technical (2022) author(s): Dominik Schlienger published in: Research Catalogue
    Interdisciplinary improvisation provides an innovative tool for technology development, based on the principle of prototyping the situation of a problem and letting the solution develop from within that situation. This stands in a contrast to the conventional paradigm by which technological prototypes are presented as solutions which then are tested as to their suitability, in hindsight. A participatory design practice which resulted in the development of spatial interactive technology for sonic arts provides a case study for this method. In focusing on the situation, rather than a (proposed) solution, technology is contingent on practice. This resounds with the description of the technical mode of existence the French philosopher Bruno Latour gives in An Enquiry into the Modes of Existence: According to Latour, the technical does not show itself directly as an object and is not directly experienceable. On that premise, the implications for technology development are intriguing: The fact that the technical is mostly only noticed when it is not working, needs to be considered in development methodology – evaluation has to become the main phase of development.
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