Our answer to panic? Bring on the Chaos! Guided by this motto, the exhibition showcases five works that embrace multi-layered answers across various media and disciplines. What are common patterns shared by humans, algorithms, and ants? How can video analysis build a taxonomy of globally shared police tactics? What are the myths of the future? And what does it feel like to be a human-in-the-loop? Bring on the Chaos! is a group exhibition by the joint Master’s program Design & Computation offered by the Technical University of Berlin and Berlin University of the Arts. The exhibition shows results of the students’ interdisciplinary collaborations in the fields of art, science, society, and technology. We believe in the potential of our diverse backgrounds to understand and intervene in today’s rapid technological and societal changes. Our projects therefore offer explorations of epistemic and poetic approaches, hidden patterns, and medial strategies, providing scripts for a future that is worth living in for all of us.
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Bring on the Chaos!
MA Design & Computation, Technical University Berlin (DE)
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Seed. Potato. Pixel.
Alessandro Mac-Nelly (DE), Lilli-Chiara Kurth (DE), Max Baraitser Smith (GB), Mika Zoé Rosenberg (US)
Seed. Potato. Pixel. is an installation by the Interspecies Research Cluster Berlin that compares three foraging behaviors in identical labyrinths: Harvester ants seeking seeds in a sandbox, blindfolded humans searching for potato piles by touch and sound, and digital ants using the ACO algorithm.
Soft Interface
Lilu Herlambang (ID), Franz Hagen (DE), Hong Anh Pham (DE), Chia-Chi Chen (TW)
Soft Interface imagines technology becoming soft, warm, and alive. Screens melt into fabrics, keyboards transform into tactile textiles, devices respond to human touch.
Bosonic Echoes
Emma Sokoll (GB)
Bosonic Echoes is an interactive light and sound installation that explores the creative potential of boson sampling in generative music. Boson sampling is a type of quantum computation using photons that addresses a specific problem believed to be infeasible for classical computers.
Operational Choreography
Natalya Bashnyak (UA), Harun Ćurak (BA), Otto Ostermann (DE)
Police forces from diverse socio-geographical contexts convene in overlapping networks to exchange on enforcement strategies. These collaborations frequently pass under the radar, and the content circulated is difficult to trace.
Cultural Computations: Myths & Swag
Eman Safavi Bayat (IR), Suzan Ela Hanow (GE/TR), Lilli-Chiara Kurth (DE), Célestin Meunier (FR), Pierre-Louis Suckrow (DE/FR)
Cultural Computations: Myths & Swag investigates through two case studies and interactive exhibition pieces how evolving cultural patterns can be studied through algorithmic simulation (Mythologizer) and are latently embedded into current AI models (SWAG).
MEET THE ARTIST: Bring on the Chaos!
MA Design and Computation, University of Arts Linz (AT)
Join our guided tour of Bring on the Chaos! for a close-up look at seven interdisciplinary works that rethink patterns, power, and possibility.
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MA Design & Computation, Technical University Berlin
With the new joint master's program Design & Computation, the University of Arts Berlin and Technical University Berlin are responding to rapid social and technological change and an increasingly dynamic academic culture. Through this program, the two universities are working collaboratively across disciplines to develop new teaching and research formats. Students, teachers, and researchers have access to an extensive range of research and educational opportunities from both Universities.
