IDiA presents: Ydin, a bionic cell shelter system, 2042 The Institute for Diachronic Artifacts IDiA presents Ydin, a self-replicating system based on bionic cells.
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critical imagery in contemporary science fiction
An article posing the question, if Science Fiction can still be viable for proposing utopian visions… or was this ever the case? Published and presented on several occasions in the course of the research project Utopian Cities, Programmed Societies, organized by Dana Diminescu and Tincuta Heinzel, 2019 – continuing.
meshwork, a workshop
Meshwork, a workshop related to the research project Material archive – Materiathek. On January 17th, 2020 we invited guests and colleagues for a workshop titled Meshwork: Materials as processes, material processes, materials in process within artistic practices to discuss and investigate material processes and their artistic applications as part of and the end of phase […]
Off Topic #6
New issue »Off Topic« – Magazine for Media Arts off topic #6: schweigen / schreien Edited by Olivier Arcioli, Konstantin Butz, Wiebke Elzel, Thomas Hawranke & Karin Lingnau Designed by Olivier Arcioli & Karin Lingnau Academy of Media Arts Cologne
Avatar Magazin
As start of our publication label Avatar Magazin, two booklets were launched in 2007 and 2008, named “In Space” and “The Metaverse”, one reflecting on heroines of Science Fiction, the other as a complement dealing with the reality and perception of space and being via quotes out of Science Fiction literature, philosophical and scientific treatises. […]