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Course Catalogue WS 2023/24

Shaping Realities

The Theory and Practice of Networks

Category: Netze

Type:
Basic seminar
Semester:
WS 21/22
Target group
Basic Studies
Lecturers
Luzius Bernhard
Professor of networks
Liz Haas
Professor of networks

Dates - place & time

TypStartEndDayTurnusfrom-toLocation
03.11.2126.01.22Mittwoch2-wöchentlich14:00 - 16:00Filzengraben 2, Atelier Netze, H. 4.02
Typ
Start03.11.21
End26.01.22
DayMittwoch
Turnus2-wöchentlich
from-to14:00 - 16:00
LocationFilzengraben 2, Atelier Netze, H. 4.02

Seminar description

The Internet is a hyperobject (Morton, 2013), an entity so all- encompassing and all-consuming that it is almost impossible for us, as individuals, to perceive. Nonetheless, it shapes our lives; defining the information we can access, the images we see, the things we buy, the places we go, our personal and professional communication, etc, etc. How can we become cognisant of the way in which we are produced by this omnipresent network? How can we develop a sensibility that is aware of a system that we are totally enmeshed in? In this seminar, we approach the overwhelming whole by breaking it down into a number of its constitutive elements and taking various perspective.


- Technically; what are the protocols that underpin data flows and exchange?

- Physically; what is the offline infrastructure that enables online communication?

- Politically; which powers control, direct and govern what happens in the digital realm?

- Socially; how is our way of being together, and our processes of cognition, shifting and evolving through our networked existence?

- Artistically; which aesthetics, metaphors, and analogies are formed, and how do these, in turn, manifest themselves in network technologies, infrastructures, and applications?

Student office

Karin Cordes

Juliane Schwibbert

Katrin Seiniger

Claudia Warnecke

Peter-Welter-Platz 2

50676 Köln


Tel.: +49 221 20189 - 119 / 187 / 249
Fax: +49 221 20189 - 49119
E-Mail: studoffice@khm.de


Opening hours: Mondays + Tuesdays from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. and Thursdays from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. and from 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.

For enquiries or appointments, please call us, Mon - Thu 9.30 to 1 p.m., or send us an e-mail.

Summer semester 2024

Lecture period:
​​​​​​​Apr. 8, 2024 until Jul. 19, 2024


Winter semester 2024/25

Lecture period:
​​​​​​​Oct. 21, 2024 until Feb. 14, 2025


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