Applications for the class for Generative Media (Prof. Hito Steyerl) at the AdBK Munich now open
The class for #Emergent#Digital#Media, a new initiative at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München experiments with recent forms of image and sound generation using #MachineLearning -based processes or #3D simulations. We work with game engines, video mixers and generative image processes and lots of other stuff.
One focus is the critical questioning of one’s own ressources and tools.
Based in media theory, we investigate the political economy of digital media, their function as instruments of surveillance, propaganda and war, possible sustainable uses with regards to their energy and raw material consumption, e.g. through the consistent avoidance of proprietary stacks and infrastructures; or just simply avoidance full stop.
The class for Emergent Digital Media is part of the 9-semester diploma course in Fine Arts at the AdBK Munich. For the summer semester 2024 (starting in April), applications are open for guest students. For the winter semester 2024/25, the application process of the diploma program begins now.
Faculty
Prof. Hito Steyerl, filmmaker and writer
Dr. Francis Hunger, artist and media scholar