WS19 Course Catalogue by Architekturtheorie und Technikphilosophie TU Wien

WS 19/20 COURSE CATALOGUE KURSVERZEICHNIS FACHBEREICH ARCHITEKTURTHEORIE UND TECHNIKPHILOSOPHIE

INSTITUT FÜR ARCHITEKTURWISSENSCHAFTEN TU WIEN

WIEDNER HAUPTSTR. 7 A–1040 WIEN AUSTRIA

T + 43 158 80125103 F + 43 158 80125197 ATTP.TUWIEN.AC.AT

BACHELOR LECTURES VORLESUNGEN

259.287 Gegenwartsarchitektur 1 Gegenwartsarchitektur 1 259.498 Architecture Theory 2 Architekturtheorie 2 251.017 Wahlseminar

SEMINARS SEMINARE

Current Issues in Architectural Theory 251.071 Wahlseminar Topos in Architectural Theory

MASTER DESIGN STUDIOS ENTWERFEN

259.535 2H Impromptu Design 2H Stegreifent. Planetary Gardening - Planting Generics 259.534 8H Design Studio 8H Entwerfen Studio SOL

259.278

MODULE META-ARCH. MODUL META-ARCHITEKTUR

Show

259.509 Talk

259.501 Substitute

259.502 Act

259.513 Supplementary crs. Ergänzungsfach Tame

259.500 Supplementary crs. Ergänzungsfach Report

259.510 Supplementary crs. Ergänzungsfach Cut

DIPLOMA DIPLOM DOCTORATE DOKTORAT

251.093 Privatissimum for Diploma Students Privatissimum für Diplomanten 251.092 Privatissimum for Docorate Students Privatissimum für Dissertanten 259.520 PHD Seminar ATTP Doktorandenseminar PLEASE NOTE: The catalogue might be still subject of change! Further information at the department! Weitere Informationen an der Abteilung!

259.287 VO Gegenwartsarchitektur 1 Lecturer Vortragende Vera Bühlmann, Prof. Dr. Riccardo Matteo Villa, Univ.Ass. Dott.mag.

Time & Place Zeit & Ort Mondays 11:00-13:00, Audi Max, GM 5 Praktikum HS

Subject of course: Introduction to the relation between architecture and time/history – Introduction to the stance of architecture theory with regard to architecture.

Inhalt der Lehrveranstaltung: Einführung zum Verhältnis von Architektur und Zeit/Geschichte – Einführung in das architekturtheoretische Denken über Architektur.

Introduction to how to draw a diagram of the contemporary: overview of the development of architecture exhibitions and biennales since the Crystal Palace, and identification/ contextualization of the respective “topicalities” (themes).

Einführung in aktuelle Zeitgeschichte: ein Querschnitt durch die Ausstellungs-/ Biennalen Entwicklung seit dem Crystal Palace, sowie nachvollziehen der jeweiligen Themensetzungen. Eine Reihe von Begegnungen/Referaten/ Gesprächen mit gegenwärtigen Architekten, zu Gegenwartsthemen der Architektur sowie zu ihrem Selbstverständnis in Bezug zur Hochschullehre. Neben einem Portrait der jeweiligen Büros / Personen soll die folgende Fragestellung die Begegnungen und Gespräche leiten:

A series of encounters/presentations/ conversations with contemporary architects, on important themes for architectural practices as well as on their respective interests/views on the importance of teaching architecture at universities. The following question will frame these conversations: It is not perhaps entirely evident why emphasising a relation between architecture and a ‘specifically contemporary condition’ should be important (or not) – since architecture is usually built with regard to time scales that overarch at least several generations. Does it at all make sense to emphasize a ‘contemporaneity’ for architecture, and why (not)? Any approach can become topical thereby, for example ideas on form, style, order, proportion, adequacy, beauty, the genealogy of types, viewing architecture as art, or as profession, or also more indirect themes like the demographical developments, sustainability and “LifeCycle Management”, digitalization, ‘smart’ design and planning (algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, data driven methods in relation to BIM, Smart City Planning, Parametricism) etc..

Inwiefern macht es überhaupt Sinn, respektive inwiefern ist es wichtig (oder nicht), Architektur zu Gegenwart in Bezug zu setzen – da Architektur ja in der Regel für Zeithorizonte gedacht und geplant wird, die mindestens mehrere Generationen überspannen. Dabei könnten jegliche Zugänge Thema sein, etwa Gedanken zu Form, Stil, Ordnung, Verhältnismässigkeit, Genealogie von Typen, zu Architektur als Kunst und als Profession, auch indirektere Themen wie die demographischen Veränderungen, Nachhaltigkeit und “Life-Cycle Management”, Digitalisierung, Planung und KI (BIM und smart City Planning), etc etc.

7. Oktober Vera Bühlmann/ Univ.Prof. TU WIEN 14. Oktober Prof. Dr. Ludger Hovestadt/ Univ.Prof. ETH Z 21. Oktober Andras Pálffy/ Univ.Prof. TU WIEN www.jabornegg-palffy.at 28. Oktober tba 4. November Christoph Luchsinger/ Univ.Prof. TU WIEN www.bosshard-luchsinger.ch 11. November or 18. November (tbd) Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou PhD candidate at ATTP 25. November double session: Tina Gregoric/ Univ.Prof. TU WIEN www.dekleva-gregoric.com Thomas Hasler/ Univ.Prof. TU WIEN www.staufer-hasler.ch 2. Dezember Michael Obrist /Univ.Prof. TU WIEN www.feld72.at 9. Dezember Wilfried Kuehn/ Univ.Prof. TU WIEN www.kuehnmalvezzi.com 16. Dezember Gerhard Steixner/ Univ.Prof. TU WIEN www.steixner.com

259.498 VO Architecture Theory 2 Architekturtheorie 2 Lecturer Vortragende Vera Bühlmann, Univ.Prof. Dr.phil. Georg Fassl, Univ.Ass. M.Sc.

Time & Place Zeit & Ort Fridays 12:00-14:00, HS7 Schütte-Lihotzsky

Koolhaas, Vriesendrop The City of the Captive Globe Project New York, Axnomometric 1972

Please note: The VO Architekturtheorie 2 replaces as mandatory course in the Architecture Bachelor Curriculum the VO Gender (251.058 as well as 259.481) starting in WS 2018.

Achtung: Die VO Architekturtheorie 2 ersetzt als Pflichtvorlesung im Architektur Bachelor Studiengang ab WS 2018 die VO Gender(251.058 wie auch 259.481).

Subject of course The lecture courses Architecture Theory 1 + 2 are concerned with architecture with respect to anthropological, social, cultural, political, economical, technical, mathematical, theories of science, technology, and communications, as well as aesthetic, religious (both history and practice), and gender related discourses and disciplines.

Inhalt der Lehrveranstaltung Die Vorlesungen Architekturtheorie 1 + 2 befassen sich mit Architektur unter anthropologischen, sozialen, kulturellen, politischen, ökonomischen, technischen, mathematischen, kommunikations- und wissenschaftstheoretischen, sowie ästhetischen, religionspraktischen und -geschichtlichen, sowie genderbezogenen Gesichtspunkten.

VO Architecture Theory 1 guides the students through a broad historical spectrum (with respect to developments in science, culture, and architecture). It introduces conceptual and mathematical instruments at work in architecture theory, and it learns to distinguish a variety of ‘theoretical gestures’ in how these abstract instruments have been and are being ‘played’ by architects.

Die Vorlesung Architekturtheorie 1 führt durch ein breites Spektrum von Architektur-, Wissenschafts-, und Kulturgeschichte, und vermittelt begriffliche und mathematische architekturtheoretische Instrumente, kontextualisiert in vergleichender Weise deren Entstehung und Veränderungen, und unterscheidet variierende „theoretische Gesten“ im Umgang mit diesen abstrakten Instrumenten.

VO Architecture Theory 2 builds upon the first lecture course, and attends mainly to more recent and contemporary architecture and architecture theory.

Die Vorlesung Architekturtheorie 2 baut auf der ersten Vorlesung auf und widmet

Program: 11 October 2019: Einführung. Was sind arch. Modelle, abstrakte Instrumente und theoretische Gesten?

sich hauptsächlich der jüngeren und gegenwärtigen Architekturtheorie.

18 October 2019: Michael Warner, Publics and Counterpublics (Zone Books, New York 2002), Introduction and Chapter 1, Auszüge. 25 October 2019: Varelio Olgiatti, Markus Breitschmid NichtReferentielle Architektur (Simonett & Baer, 2018), Auszüge. 1. November 2019. **KEINE VORLESUNG: FEIERTAG 8. November 2019: Bernard Tschumi “The Architectural Paradox,” 1975 (revised 1994) 15. November 2019 **KEINE VORLESUNG – SOPHISTICATION CONFERENCE 22. November 2019: Massimo Cacciari, “Project”, in The Unpolitical: On the Radical Critique of Political Reason (NY: Fordham Un. Press, 2009), 122-145. 29. November 2019: Pier Vittorio Aureli, “Toward the Archipelago”, in The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture (2011) 6. December 2019: Mark Wigley “The Translation of Architecture, the Production of Babel” (1988) 13. December 2019: Rem Koolhaas, “Bigness,” in S, M, L, XL (1995) 20. December 2019: **KEINE VORLESUNG – CHRISTMAS BREAK 10 January 2020 10:00-14:00: EXAM

251.017 SE Current issues in architectural theory Lecturer Vortragende Oliver Schürer, Senior Scientist Dipl.-Ing. Dr.Techn.

Time & Place Zeit & Ort Tuesdays 10:30-12:30, Library ATTP

Ettore Sottsass, Il planeta come festival, 1973.

Writing spaces of imagination Subject of course A radical understanding of Architecture’s capabilities is that it enables “… experience that could never be had.” (Libeskind 2000: 194).

Inhalt der Lehrveranstaltung Wir könnten daher folgende Fragen stellen: – Was ist neu und was ist das Neue? – Sind Pläne intelligent und Gebäude Maschinen? – Beißen Objekte zurück? – Was ist die Zukunft (und Vergangenheit) der Profession?

How could we enter the realm of the yet unseen, unheard, or the yet unexperienced that “could never be had” - how would we invent it? Writing text offers a strong premise to invent spaces of imagination. That is a mental entity that not only triggers imagination but moreover allows to construct a continuum of imagination. We will work with the spatiality of text to derive concepts for architectural space. Architecture has a long and traditional relation with literature. Like for example Gilles Deleuze and Rem Koolhaas on “the fold”. Daniel Libeskind, another example, discusses the work of French writer Raymond Roussel. As

Wir werden die folgenden Themen diskutieren, auch wie sie präsentiert werden: – über die Karte und das Neue – über die Maschine und den Plan – über das Objekt und die Ethik – über die Arbeit und den Tausch Die Lehrveranstaltung ist aufgrund der Literatur zweisprachig (Englisch optional). Ein Programm wird zu Semesterbeginn bekanntgegeben. Während in der einen Hälfte

a writer of the “could never be had”, Roussel invented a ‘writing machine.’ It inspired not only other writers like Georges Perec but also artists like Marcel Duchamp or Salvador Dali. Libeskind understands ‘writing machines’ as kinds of analysis and design methods for text. They are sets of rules of repetition, combination and transformation of notions, to mention but a few.

des Seminars relevante Literatur diskutiert wird, gliedert sich die andere in drei Teile: a) Begleitete Recherche und Finden einer Forschungsfrage b) Eigenständige Recherche und Schreiben einer wissenschaftlichen Kurzdarstellung (Abstract) c) Zwischenpräsentation (in Form eines Referats) zum Stand der Dinge, Konstruktion des Argumentes und Erarbeiten der schriftlichen Arbeit.

A guest lecture by linguist Friedrich Neubarth from the Austrian Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research (OFAI) will give a short introduction on the algorithm that serves as our ‘writing machine’ as well as presenting basic insights on the linguistic perspectives of ‘text’ and how languages express spatial relations. A guest lecture by computer scientist Christian Fiedler will introduce the use of a Markov-Chain Algorithm to produce text in a stochastic way that also allows hands-on for students. A guest lecture by philosopher Christoph Hubatschke from the University of Vienna will introduce literature and methods by the Oulipo group, especially byGeorg Perec as well as some philosophical background. Text and space alike, lead to experiences and imagination. Is it true that, as one would suggest at first, that text seems to pertain to speaking while space pertains to seeing? What happens if we turn those relations upside down? In this seminar we will even go beyond and research for and construct experiences of imagination that pertain to text as well as to architecture space. Some of the literature we’ll use: Bizarre Magazine Roussel: Chiquenaude Roussel: How I wrote certain of my books Grössel: RR eine Dokumentation Ford: RR and the republic of dreams Perec: The machine Perec: Things. A Story of the Sixties Perec: Species of Spaces

Foucault: Raymond Roussel Deleuze: Difference and Repetition Deleuze: The fold The course is bilingual (German/English) and subdivided into three main parts. The units will be detailed further at the beginning of the semester. a) Supervised research and formulation of a research question b) Independent research and writing of an academic abstract c) Oral presentation of the state of the art, construction of the argument and writing of the final paper

251.071 SE Topos in architectural theory Lecturer Vortragende Isben Önen, Dr.phil., M.Arch, B.Arch, Guest-Lecturer

Time & Place Zeit & Ort Tuesday 16:00-18:00, Seminar room ATTP

Parasite Attunement to the Ambiguity of the Invisible and Imperfect What? A polycentric seminar scrutinizing the concept of parasite, rethinking the boundaries of aurality and spatiality. Dwelling on the metaphor of orbital movement, it allows participants to follow interdisciplinary paths through philosophy, literature, architecture, and music. The path never remains the same and the continuous questioning becomes a perpetuum mobile. In Lucian’s The Parasite, Simon explains a dazzled Tychiades that not only the survival of the parasite but also the “art” of being parasitic depends on the continuous exercise of knowledge. It is through this dependence on a daily diligence that differentiates it from other arts. As the dialogue continues pleasure, happiness, and virtue are amongst others that Lucian brings forth. Whether social or biological, parasitism generates multiple dualities: structure and agent; existing and utopia; host and guest -Combes asks if it is

the host or the parasite that in reality becomes the subject of exploitation-; self and other; visible and invisible; perfect and imperfect. In the realm of the aural, some languages refer to the parasite as an interruption: a noise that temporarily blocks flawless communication. Within this polycentric setting one of the questions to be raised would be how to locate the concept of parasite in realm of the spatial? How? The seminar dwells on the tripartite structure of thinking, reading, and expressing. Accompanied by reading and presenting text clusters in groups, participants are expected to raise individual questions laying the foundations of a structured research process. An intellectual and physical displacement through two fieldtrips is also amongst the aims: a visit to the Arnold Schönberg Center and a wandering with biologist Ken Luzynski. A brain-and-earstorming session with

architect/composer Tamara Friebel as guest to discuss “noise” and how the aural relates to the spatial will be part of the seminar. Scheduled is also a “meet the philosopher” day in which the group gets the opportunity to exchange ideas with Gregg Lambert. Two writing tasks are foreseen: a fable and seminar paper.

Continuum, 2007. Lambert, Gregg. Philosophy after Friendship. University of Minnesota Press, 2017. Serres, Michel. The Parasite. Translated by Lawrence R. Schehr. The John Hopkins University Press, 1982. Wilson, Catherine. The Invisible World: Early Modern Philosophy and the Invention of the Microscope. Princeton University Press, 1997.

Why? Outcomes of this seminar could be set forth as a set of “awareness,” starting by perceiving the overarching importance of theory. As active contributors to the seminar participants get accustomed to theory in a-temporally and contextually-polycentric layout. On the one hand, confronting clusters of ideas and learning how to mobilize them throughout the process of research, on the other hand, being able to transform this process of critical thinking to a novel synthesis without compromising creativity. Scheduled fieldtrips and meeting guest scholars aim participants to become aware of the importance of intellectual and spatial surroundings as inputs. Through a selected reader list and its group presentations participants get the opportunity to practice individual and group-working skills.

Extended Readings Combes, Claude. The Art of Being a Parasite. Translated by Daniel Dimberloff. University of Chicago Press, 2005. Enzensberger, Ulrich. Parasiten: Ein Sachbuch. Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn, 2001. Foucault, Michel. “Utopian Body.” In Sensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art, edited by Caroline A. Jones, MIT Press. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press, 2006. Kurokawa, Kisho. The Philosophy of Symbiosis. 2nd edition. London: New York: Academy Editions, 1994. Lucian of Samasota. “The Parasit, Parasitic an Art.” In Lucian, Vol. 3. The Loeb Classical Library, 1960. Sensoy, Gamze, and Berna Ustun. “Traces of the Past Utopias in Contemporary Architecture: Parasitic Architecture.” Iconarp International J. of Architecture and Planning no.6 (2018). Serres, Michel. Musik. Translated by Elisa Barth and Alexandre Plank. Merve Verlag, 2015. Timofeeva, Oxana. “Living in a Parasite: Marx, Serres, Platonov, and the Animal Kingdom.” Rethinking Marxism 28, no. 1 (2016): 91–107.

Primary Readings Attali, Jacques. Noise: The Political Economy of Music. Translated by Brian Massumi. University of Minnesota Press, 1985. Coleman, Nathaniel. Utopias and Architecture. Routledge, 2007. Derrida, Jacques. Psyche: Invention of the Other. Edited by Peggy Kamuf and Elizabeth Rottenburg. Vol. I. Stanford University Press, 2007. Foucault, Michel. “Of Other Spaces: Heterotopias.” Translated by Jay Miskowiec. Architecture /Mouvement/ Continuité no.5 (1984): 46–49. Gallope, Michael. Deep Refrains: Music, Philosophy, and the Ineffable. University of Chicago Press, 2017. Hegarty, Paul. Noise Music: A History.

259.535 UE 2H Impromptu Design 2H Stehgreifentwerfen Lecturer Vortragende Martin Burr, Guest-Lecturer

Time & Place Zeit & Ort block seminar 17.02.2020 - 29.02.2020 09:00-18:00, Seminar room ATTP

Planetary Gardening Planting Generics Subject of course A world moved by invisible networks, transnational private interests, algorithmic intelligence and ever-increasing inequalities through the unique lens of Palermo – a crossroads of three continents in the heart of the Mediterranean. Throughout history, the City of Palermo has been a laboratory for diversity and cross-pollination, shaped by continuous migration. In the 1875 painting by Francesco Lojacono, «View of Palermo», nothing was indigenous. Olive trees came from Asia, aspen from the Middle East and eucalyptus from Australia. Citrus trees – the symbol of Sicily – were introduced under Arab sovereignty. The botanical garden of Palermo was founded in 1789 as a laboratory to nurture, test, mix and gather diverse species. The idea of the «garden», exploring its capacity to aggregate difference and to compose life out of movement and migration. Gardens allow for cross-pollination based on encounter. In 1997, French Botanist Gilles Clément

described the world as a «planetary garden» with humanity in charge of being its gardener. Twenty years later, the metaphor of the «garden» is not as a space for humans to take control, but rather a site where «gardeners» recognize their dependency on other species, and respond to climate, time, or an array of social factors, in a shared responsibility. This film features Leoluca Orlando as gardener of Palermo. Being native to the universe, he connects mobility in thought and physics to digital competences. The film cites an index of Orlando beings, partly becoming alive in the publication «A QUANTUM CITY» by Vera Bühlmann and Ludger Hovestadt, which Martin Burr handed to the mayor of Palermo for this occasion. So the film features how to become a city and gardener in this and that universe. See the film feature The Cities in the Planetary Garden. A Film Feature with the Mayor of Palermo (by Martin Burr), for the

Sophistication Conference 2018, here.

the concept is rated upon its connectivity to our days challenges the curated program is rated on articulation of the chosen concept the audiovisual trailer is rated considering aspects of montage the documentation is rated through taking positions within given contexts.

«We are all nomads native to the universe. This is a stage play, a narrative about us on the planet. About how we relate to each other and to the Great Masters among us. Welcome to The City.»

There will be obligatory presence during lectures and discussions of this blocked course. Only candidates visiting all lectures and discussions are eligible getting a score. At the end of the studio, all elements must be fulfilled. So each student gets four rates for the studio resulting in one final score. Each step of the follow-up is rated differently:

(from «A Quantum City» by Ludger Hovestadt et al., Birkhäuser 2015) Methods Within the studio «planetary gardening - planting generics» we will build sets of discourse spaces circulating through comedies and poetries. Each set consists of

a concept for an exhibition, a curated program with protagonists related to the stated concept, an audiovisual trailer positioning the exhibition in its contexts, a documentation about the process and its outcomes. Somewhere between nature and culture, these sets respond to needs of our days - such as carbon sequestration, grid-scale energy storage, universal flu vaccine, dementia treatment, ocean clean-up, energy-efficient desalination, safe driverless cars, embodied AI, earthquake prediction, brain decoding and system-wide metamorphosis. The studio takes two weeks and focuses on realizing all practical aspects of the set. Each student develops a collection of comedies and poetries responding to one or more challenges. There will be a real space to translate those aspects into, which will be the same for all sets. Within a following-up summer course, the findings of the studio will be realized on the spot. Along the studio, students will be able to follow lectures by Martin Burr about:

References «Cities in the planetary gardens» by Leoluca Orlando «A Quantum City» by Ludger Hovestadt and Vera Bühlmann «Ways of curating» by Hans Ulrich Obrist «Le livre d’image» by Jean-Luc Godard «Palaver» by Florian Dombois

histories of comedies and poetries curating and more ways of navigating planetary gardening - plant and harvest architectures of discourse Each step of the follow-up is rated differently:

259.534 UE Design Studio Großes Entwerfen Lecturer Vortragende Georg Fassl, Univ.Ass. M.Sc.

Time & Place Zeit & Ort Thursdays 10:00-18:00, Seminar room ATTP

Werner Herzog, Fata Morgana (1974) / Rework: Studio SOL, Highdesert (2019)

Studio SOL Subject of course SOL is a design studio working and thinking in the field of spatial and object design— remembering and exposing thereby the classical profession of interior architecture to the sun. Not accommodating but being open for abstraction, the hot topics and the contingency of our daily life, the studio proposes ‘solar-vernaculars’ as a means to build a home in today’s world; poetic, rich, and yet casual and lightweight—original spaces, objects and life, human and non-human, not native to the ground but native to the sky.

SEASONS The sun is the reservoir, the database, and the seasons, our motor; spring and summer, fall and winter, characteristics of weather, qualities of light, daily rituals; fashions, temperaments, visions and memories—times of action full of right moments. FW19-20 Highdesert is the wellspring of Sophrosyne and the outlook of Kairos—it is the fruitful farm yet unproductive; not really new but really quite something, laying in and outside you, just under the sun..

The studio acts within the change of the seasons in cycles of one extended solar day to address the now in a sophisticated manner. From night, to sun-rise, to high-sun and sunset we are working on objects that move about the day and spaces that fashion the sun; sun-rooms, solaria, that know from the world, the past and future, opening unforeseen possibilities while entering the night anew: architectures close to life—living-spaces just under the sun.

Methods The studio will be organised in groups of 2-3 people, working collaboratively on diverse texts, images, drawings, models (mixing analogue and digital techniques), brought together in a final publication.

In the course of the semester we will switch between two modes of meetings: desk-crits and pin-ups—the first marks days of individual work and discussions on the go, whereas the second consists of presentations and joint discussions together with our studio-friend. STUDIO-FRIEND FW19-20 Indrė Umbrasaitė (Architect) Examination modalities Design and presentation of an original work. Find the studio’s website here: www.s-o-l.studio

259.332 VU Modul Meta-Architecture Modul Meta-Architektur Lecturer Vortragende Vera Bühlmann, Univ.Prof. Dr.phil. Georg Fassl, Univ.Ass. M.Sc. Oliver Schürer, Senior Scientist Dipl.-Ing. Dr.Techn. Riccardo Villa, Univ.Ass. Dott.mag. Sebastian Michael, Writer Elias Zafiris, Prof. Dr., Athens University Jorge Orozco, Dr, ETH-Zürich, Guest-lecturer Cris Argüelles, Univ.Ass. Dott.mag.

Locations Ort Seminar Space ATTP Wiedner Hauptstrasse 7, Hof, Stiege II, 1. OG Sophistication Conference (Vo Report): Böcklsaal, Karlsplatz 13, Stiege I, 1. OG Kuppelsaal, Karlsplatz 13, Stiege I, 4. OG

Meta-Architecture Aim of course In this module we think of architecture as personification of spaces and times. We will think and do and do and think to get a rich understanding of what role the public can play in architecture and what position architecture can take in public life. The students will exercise in a special kind of literacy – learning to sign as an architect.

code. As an architect you will want to be able to sign – intellectually – your work with your own name. For this, we need not only be well familiar with forms and formats, with skills and techniques of communication, we also need to “master” them with a certain sophistication. The courses of this module will provide exercises for this. ** The module is offered in the Winter Semester of each year. Please note that not all the elective courses can be offered every time. **

The module sees architecture as an inventive and critical practice. In order to realize a project, architects need not only convince with their proposals and designs a great number of decision makers. But they must also be able to grasp for themselves, with clarity and articulacy, the ideas and ambitions they pursue. In other words, they must be able to index and code what they are after, in order to communicate it well. The ability to comprehend of oneself as a participant of discourses with a public audience does not come easily, and wants to be exercised. This module presents and trains several skills and strategies for achieving such literacy. It addresses ambitious architects and everyone who wants to learn how to write, talk, research, curate, and critically asses their architectural practice in public: be it in concept work, theory discourse, architecture research, journalism, film, communication and public relation, curation. Subject of course This module centers around the relation between architecture and communication via

Core Courses: 259.278 VO Show The lecture course VO SHOW (2h/2ECTS) circulates around forms and formas of public communication in architecture (magazines, manifestoes, blogs, websites, radio, tv, film). We will get familiar with theories in semiotics, with forms of discourse analysis and interaction analysis, and we will gain insights into the local media scene via guest lectures. 259.509 VO Talk The lecture course VO TALK (2h/2ECTS) deals with philosophical approaches to relevant topics in cultural discourse and architecture theory, and thereby considers also extradisciplinary fields like mathematics, economy, ecology, politics, ethics, art, padagogy, the engineering sciences or the juridical sciences.

259.501 VU Substitute In the VU SUBSTITUTE (3h/3ECTS), students acquire basic familiarity and practice with rhetorics and poetics. They learn how to articulate ideas in language and image. 259.502 VU Act In the VU ACT (3h/3ECTS), all the different angles treated in the courses of the module are to play together: here it is all about translating what has been learnt into a personal articulation that feeds into one thematic frame that is provided by the lecturer. Elective Courses: 259.337 VO Tame The VO TAME (2h/2ECTS) focuses on Robotics and Architecture from a cultural studies point of view. 259.500 VO Report The VO REPORT (2h/2ECTS) offers students to actively participate with a written report on the lectures at the international Sophistication conferences at TU Vienna, organized by ATTP. 259.510 VU Cut The VU CUT (3h/3ECTS) deals with montage as theory and practice. 259.338 VO Screen (not offered in WS19) The VO SCREEN (2h/2ECTS) attends to film theory. 259.503 VU Code (not offered in WS19) The VU CODE (3h/3ECTS) provides a rich spectrum of the imaginary worlds around coding, it concerns itself with programming and mathematical thinking for architects. Additional Information 7.10.2019, from 12:00 to 1:30 pm Presentation â&#x20AC;&#x153;Modul Meta-Architekturâ&#x20AC;? Seminar space ATTP

META-ARCHITECTURE SCHEDULE Core Courses: 10 ECTS 259.502 VU Act 3 ECTS

Tuesdays 10:00-13:00 Seminar Space ATTP Start: 15.10. End: 14.01.2020

259.501 VU Substitute 3 ECTS

Wednesdays 09:30-12:30 Seminar Space ATTP Start: 09.10. End: 18.12.2019

259.509 VO Talk 2 ECTS

Wednesdays 14:00-16:00 Seminar Space ATTP Start: 09.10. End: 18.12.2019

259.278 VO Show 2 ECTS

Wednesdays 16:00-17:30 Seminar Space ATTP Start: 16.10. End: 29.01.2020

Elect. Courses: 5 ECTS 259.513 VO Tame 2 ECTS

Tuesdays 14:00-15:30 Seminar Space ATTP Start: 22.10. End: 21.01.2020

259.513 VU Cut 3 ECTS

Block Course 18.10-20.10/24.10/Dec. tbd/23.01/30.01 Seminar Space ATTP Start: 18.10. 09:30 End: 30.01.2020

259.500 VO Report 2 ECTS

Sophistication Conference 14.11-16.11.2019 14.11 18:00-22:00 Bรถcklsaal 15.11/16.11 09:00-17:30 Kuppelsaal

259.503 VU Code 3 ECTS

not offered WS19/20

259.338 VO Screen 2 ECTS

not offered WS19/20

Dates may vary, for detailed information please visit individual courses in TISS.

259.278 VO Show Lecturer Vortragende Oliver Schürer, Senior Scientist Dipl.-Ing. Dr.Techn.

Time & Place Zeit & Ort Wednesdays 16:00-17:30, Seminar room ATTP

Aim of the Course Show is focusing on all kinds of media introduced in architecture that communicates primarily by means of text. Discussed are various methods and formats of communication in architecture discourse as well as the mutual influence of scientific, popular and architecture discourses.

Inhalt der Lehrveranstaltung Erfolgreiche Architekten machen sich in der Regel nicht nur einen Namen indem sie gute Gebäude bauen, sondern auch, indem sie ihre Ideen verbreiten und sich ein Image schaffen das ihre Baupraxis repräsentiert. Damit wird ein öffentliches Bild für die spezifische Architektur geschaffen, das seinerseits eine massive Unterstützung für diese spezielle Architektur darstellt. Dieses Erscheinungsbild einer bestimmten Architektur dient wiederum der Unterstützung von Entscheidungsprozessen, der Legitimation politischer Entscheidungen, sowie allgemein der Vermarktung von Projekten. Zwar wird solch ein öffentliche Bild wird in allen Arten von Medien verbreitet, aber dabei spielen Text und Sprache eine herausragende Rolle.

Additional guest lecturers, experts from editing and journalism, from prominent Austrian media will present Architecture communication by media. Examples for media and formats discussed are magazines, newspaper, journals, reports, press text, web representations of all kinds like blogs, wikis, social media, podcasts, videocasts.

Die Welt der Architektur und der öffentlichen Debatten in Österreich ist voll von populären Bilder oder Mythologien, um das Wort von Roland Barthes Bildern. Das ‚Heim’, die ‚Penthouse-Wohnung’, ‚BIG’, ‚Turm’, ‚Gate ‘oder‚ smart city’. Diese Bilder werden durch zahlreiche Praktiken hergestellt und reproduziert: Sozialisation zu Hause und in der Schule, durch Werbung, Fernsehen und Film,

Subject of Course Successful architects typically build their fame not only in doing good buildings, but also by propagating their ideas, creating an image veneering their building practice. With that a public image for the specific architecture is created that in turn serves as a powerful force for this particular architecture. This

appearance of a certain architecture is in turn used to promote decision processes, to legitimise political decisions, as well as the marketing of projects in general. This public image is spread by all kinds of media, whereas text and language have their prominent position within those communications.

Mode- und Musikindustrie, Tagesjournalismus von und Fachjournalismus in der Architektur.

The world of architecture and popular debates in Austria are full of such popular images or mythologies, to use the word of Roland Barthes. images of ‚home‘, ‚penthouse apartment‘, ‚BIG‘, ‚tower‘, ‚gateway‘ or ‚smart city‘. These images are manufactured and reproduced through numerous practices: socialisation at home and at school, advertising, TV and film, fashion and music industries, journalism of general interest and of the architecture domain. Guests inquired for lectures: PRINT-MAGAZINE & EDITORIAL Matthias Boeckl, Senior Editor architektur. aktuell www.architektur-aktuell.at PRINT, TV JOURNALISM Isabella Marboe www.isabellamarboe.at RADIO David Pasek und Bernhard Frodl, „a palaver“ at Radio Orange www.apalaver.com STUDENT MAGAZINE Arian Lehner, Bernhard Mayer, Paula Brücke miesmagazin.wordpress.com ARCHITECTURE THEORY MAGAZINE Riccardo Villa http://www.gizmoweb.org

259.509 VO Talk Lecturer Vortragende Elias Zafiris, Prof. Dr., Athens University Vera Bühlmann, Univ.Prof. Dr.phil.

Time & Place Zeit & Ort Wednesdays 14:00-16:00, Seminar room ATTP

The Detection of Silence, Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, Japan.

Mathematical thinking and its sociocultural scope of deliberation Subject of course The lecture course “TALK” investigates philosophical theories on relevant discourses in architecture and culture, including among others topics from economy, ecology, politics, ethics, art, pedagogy, the natural, the engineering and the juridical sciences.

same time mathematical concepts have a history and are part of sociocultural contexts. We will put special attention also to this philosophical and inventive part that belongs to mathematics too.Having an awareness of this sociocultural scope of deliberation that mathematical thinking provides is a basic literacy highly relevant with regard to the capacities of thinking abstractly; perhaps it is as relevant for the kind of abstract thinking in which every architect needs to be proficient as being able to master basic grammar or basic arithmetics is with regard to dialectical thinking in general.

This semesters VO “TALK” will focus on mathematical thinking. It is the invariant and explicit part with regard to mathematical concepts that an architect self-evidently meets daily in her work – such as ‘form,’ ‘rule,’ ‘structure,’ ‘number,’ ‘field,’ ‘group,’ ‘set,’ ‘system’, ‘type,’ ‘proportion’, ‘volume’, ‘area,’ or ‘power’. Many people believe that in mathematics, one follows only rules, mechanically and with no deliberation. In many ways this is true, of course. But at the

This course will be co-taught by Elias Zafiris, a theoretical physicist and professor in mathematics and logics, and Vera Bühlmann, professor for architecture theory and

philosophy of technics. 3. Module - Mechanae, Art and Techné (Algebra) 13. November & 20. November

*** Kein spezielles Vorwissen oder Affinität mit Mathematik wird vorausgesetzt. Der Kurs knüpft an allgemeine Mathematik an (Matura Level) ***

On the Notion of Algebraic Structure – Operations and Closure Groups – Symmetries and Actions Homomorphisms – Partition Kernels and Images – Isomorphisms Conjugation and Division – Ideals and Irreducibility – Varieties Abstraction of Scalarity – Rings and Fields (Körper) Dilation and Contraction of Scalarity – Adjunctions

Organization plan and exam The semester will be structured in eleven meetings ending before Christmas break: An introductory meeting and five thematic modules, each two sessions. Attending the sessions is mandatory, the lectures will be the subject of the exam after Christmas. 0. Introduction 9. October 2019

4. Module – Agriculture, Knots and Fields (Topology) 27. November & 4. December

1. Module - Cosmos, Earth and Firmament (Arithmetic) 16. October & 23. October

On the Notion of Local-to-Global Relations – Form and Shape Order and Continuity – Lattices and Inverse Images Homeomorphisms – Coverings and Filters Simple and Multiple Connectivity – Obstacles and Obstructions Localized Identity, Amalgamation, and Sheaves of Germs Twisting – Winding – Encycling: Homology and Homotopy

On the Notion of Number – Arithmos and The Method of Abstraction Numbers as Multitudes, Magnitudes, and Powers in Space and Time Arithmetic Systems: Integer – Rational – Irrational – Real – Imaginary Congruence – Polynomials and Roots – Law of Solvability Transcedental Numbers – Exponentiation and Logarithmization Atoms – Prime Numbers – Law of Unique Factorization

5. Module – Meteora, Cycles and Aion (Analysis and Synthesis) 11. December & 18. December

2. Module - Observatory, Measure and Treasure (Geometry) 30. October & 6. November

On the Notion of Infinitesimals – Differential Forms Invariants and Differential Equations Law of Epiphaneia – Cocycles and Coboundaries Spectrum – Spectral Resolutions – Exact Sequences Replication – Connections and Holonomy Integration of Forms and Cohomology

On the Notion of Geometric Space – Measurement and Homothesis Vectors and Linear Spaces – Linear Transformations Metric Distance and Angle – Euclidean Spaces Perspective, Parallelism, and Geodesic Curves Atlases and Manifolds Intrinsic Curvature – The 3 types of Geometric Spaces

Methods Theory lectures with demonstrations in exercises; discussions. A text reader will backup the content from the lectures.

259.501 VU Substitute Lecturer Vortragende Sebastian Michael, Writer Vera Bühlmann, Univ.Prof. Dr.phil.

Time & Place Zeit & Ort Wednesdays 09:30-12:30, Seminar room ATTP

Lucian, Greek Library 100 AD - 200 AD, Prose Architecture Essay

Basics of Rhetorics and Poetics for Architects Subject of the Course Basics in Rhetorics and Poetics for Architects

project; time with regard to identifying a style, or a building’s classicality or modernity; and action with regard to the great importance of ‘agency’ at work in the planning and building of our environments).

The principles of both rhetoric and poetics revolve – albeit in different ways – around how to express yourself skilfully, precisely, even masterfully. In poetics for example by establishing a unity of place, time and action; in rhetoric for example by demonstrating a case by means of ‘common topics’ or ‘commonplaces’, by recognising and utilising kairos (seizing and fitting the moment), and by a process of stasis, meaning the critical assessment and questioning of an argument and thus bringing an unsettled state into one of balanced stability.

This course will be co-taught by Sebastian Michael, a professional writer of plays, novels, poetry, as well as popular science prose, and Vera Bühlmann, professor for architecture theory and philosophy of technics. There will be weekly lectures combined with practical exercises. Additional information First meeting: Wednesday October 9, 09:30 12:30 am.

Our interest will be in how these terms are treated in the traditions of rhetoric and poetics as separate entities that play together in ‘a plot’ of which we can think architectonically. The principled treatment of these entities (place, time, and action) are not only central to every text, but also to architecture across all scales (for example place making through identification of site, task, and context of a

Location: Seminar space at ATTP, Wiedner Hauptstrasse 7, Stiege 2, 1. Stock. Examination modalities The semester will be structured in eleven meetings, ending before the Christmas break. Attending the sessions and participating in the exercises is mandatory. The students are expected to submit weekly exercises via TUWEL, and to complete the course with

a longer piece of writing (due in January before the Semester ending): students will be expected to draw together all the skills from the weekly exercises, and compose a rhetorical â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;orationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Primary Literature Sharon Crawlee & Debra Hawhee, Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students, 3rd edition (Pearson: New York 2004). Aristotle, The Art of Rhetorics Aristotle, Poetics Longinus, On the Sublime Lucian, The Hall Erasmus von Rotterdam, Copia: on Abundant Style Anne Carson, Decreation Anne Carson, Economy of the Unlost

259.502 VU Act Lecturer Vortragende Cris Argüelles, Univ.Ass. Dott.mag. Riccardo Matteo Villa, Univ.Ass. Dott.mag.

Time & Place Zeit & Ort Tuesdays 10:00 - 13:00, Seminar room ATTP

On the keeping of distance Subject of course This semester we will ascertain distance (— just not geometrically), and pixels (— just not colouring), and act(— take action)upon its architectonics to question what is inherent in the representation of things — those which are on the raster screen and on the picture plane and on the imagination.

physical distancebetween the measured would present identical pictures in time after displacing our observatory; the effect of parallax is then the observed apparent change in the position of an object resulting from a change in the position of the viewer. Therefore, through distance we will address stillness and motion. Perhaps the least familiar of the half dozen or so terms used by William Gilpin (1792, Three Essays: On Picturesque Beauty; On Picturesque Travel; and On Sketching Landscape: To Which Is Added A Poem, On Landscape Painting) to define the picturesque is keeping. Occasionally compared to aerial perspective, keepingrefers to the representation of distance and depth inimages. For a picture to be considered picturesque, in Gilpin’s terms, it has to produce the effect of keeping distancebetween objects in a painting, as the composition moves from front to back and from one object to the next. Keepingcan be achieved not by the absence of detail but by displacement and obfuscation of detail through processes of addition and erasure.

If to look at everything from above is an act of sabotage of terrestrial laws— the unique relationships between the house, the mountain, the basement, the cornice are all lines joined at altitude — perhaps to look up on the skies could be the precisely the contrary : only ever addressed projectively upon the spheric celestial, the sky can be seen as space in between and cosmic distances only measurable in scales of time; all lines joined at constellations. Distances between such bodies, together with planets and moons, can be registered through their relative position amongst calculations that ultimately allow us to make a distinction between a foreground and a background —following the method called parallax measuring—. The absence of any depth or

Teaching methods This course is an active part in composing a report on the architectonic image. It is aimed to students which interests also deal with images and text in the form of edition and editorial. Each student will produce one image. Such an image should be considered an image of nothing but the effective keeping of distance. And one text. Such a text should be considered a written form of the image which is not euphoric and not descriptive. The minimum text submitted should be a title.

259.513 VO Tame Lecturer Vortragende Oliver Schürer, Senior Scientist Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Techn.

Time & Place Zeit & Ort Tuesdays 14:00-15:30, Seminar room ATTP

Aim of course In architecture discourse the classic modernist questions on the relations of form and function got enriched by postmodern questions on media and technology. The lecture Tame introduces aspects of the development of this discourse(s) focusing on techniques. It aims to allow students to gain insight and develop their own questions for both, projects in design as well as in theory.

The resulting architectural diversity is stretched out in the course of the lecture. By polarizing and at the same time fusing architecture topics such as, ‘Encapsulating & Adaption’, ‘Organism & Network’ or ‘Psyche & Apparatus’, to name a few. Projects from 20th to the beginning of 21th century will be discussed. They get analyzed towards both, how, at different times those ideas got turned into concepts of architecture, and, how these processes generated the sources of their own poetics and how they reshaped established meanings.

Subject of course Nowadays new developments in longer existing technologies have an astonishing influence on the everyday. Hence, we will look into and at robotics and artificial intelligence. We will familiarize with both, where they came from and why they got influential. The aim is to explore what consequences those may have in Architecture in the widest scope, what techniques they might foster. In general technologies and techniques are inseparable from Architecture. Moreover, at any time some Architects dared to evolve their ideas according or in resistance to the latest, at the time most complicated technologies, the most advanced media, or tried to develop so fare unknown techniques. One may say those people culturalised or tamed technology in making them constitutively for their architectural idea.

259.500 VO Report Lecturer Vortragende Vera Bühlmann, Univ.Prof. Dr.phil.

Time & Place Zeit & Ort 14.-16. November 2019 Wien

Sophistication Conference #3 Aim of course Students who sign up for this course are to hand in a written report on the different lectures they have heard at the Conference: What is the overall topic of the conference and how do you understand it? Which lectures have you attended and what were they about? What will you remember especially from the conference program?

young scholars from different fields to think about how such architectonic intellectuality« affects our relations to the world at large - our institutions, as well as our ordinary daily lives.

Subject of course How can we find a novel understanding of human intellectuality in co-existence with artificial intelligence? The Sophistication Conferences are dedicated to a basic kind of literacy in how to think about coding as an “alloy-praxis” that glues letters with numbers, physics with information, mathematics with language. If the digital has placed us in an era of New Sophistics, we need an up-to-date corresponding discourse on Sophistication. At the core of such a new materialist literacy is a different relationality among time, nature, subject, and object: Hence our interest is in a »digital gnomonics« that could provide a theoretical framework for addressing computational modelling, machine learning and algorithmic reasoning in a manner that will eventually propel and facilitate ethics, not moralism. The Sophistication Conferences are organised once a year at the Technical University Vienna, as a cooperation between the Department for Architecture Theory and Philosophy of Technics ATTP and the laboratory for applied virtuality at the chair for CAAD ETH Zurich,

2018 Sophistication Conference #2 INSTEAD OF STATEMENTS, ARTICULATIONS

2017 Sophistication Conference #1 SOPHISTICATION: RHETORICAL, GEOMETRICAL, AND COMPUTATIONAL ‘ARTICULATION’

Video lectures on the ATTP YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWfc _2VBcW9RGwev6wo_3-tg5EbfYxcf1 Program: All lectures are scheduled 1 hour per speaker, of approx 40 min lecture & 20 min discussion. Thursday, 14. November 2019 (evening) 18.00-18.30 PANEL 1 - Copia and Copiousness: Circuitious Articulations that Matter Introduction, Vera Bühlmann & Ludger Hovestadt 18.30-19.30 Deforming the Malformed: Physical and Mental Space in René Descartes James Griffith 19.30-20.30 The Metaphysics of Modular Thinking. Architecture Geometry, the Felting of Wool and the origins of Greek philosophy

where we invite distinguished as well as

Robert Hahn

15.15-16.15 Thinking Code Dramatically Admir Selimovic

20.30-21.00 Break

16.15-16.30 Coffee

21.00-22.00 Ode to Folly, Reading from Erasmus of Rotterdam Sebastian Michael

16.30-17.30 Watch more TV! Olaf Grawert, Christopher Roth

A buffet with snacks and drinks will be provided throughout the evening.

19.00 SPEAKER’S DINNER (on invitation)

Friday 15. November 2019 (morning)

Saturday, 16. November 2019 (morning+afternoon)

09.00-09.15 PANEL 2 - All, and then Some Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou

09.00-09.15 PANEL 4 - Furnishings and Finishings: With Imagination Georg FassI

09.15-10.15 The Invention of the Globe Matteo Vegetti

09.15-10.15 Partial Objects Amanda Holmes

10.15-11.15 At the Confluence of the Two Seas Riccardo M. Villa

10.15-11.15 Cultural Inquiry in Pursuit of Resourcefulness Iris van der Tuin

11.15-11.30 Coffee

11.30-12.30 Mathematics, Architecture, Philosophy. Stability of the Tripod Elias Zafiris

11.30-12.30 Copia, Meteora, Dioptrics. On Erasmus’ and Descartes Fictitiousness-without-fiction Vera Bühlmann 12.30-14.00 Lunch

12.30-14.00 Lunch

14.00-14.15 PANEL 5 - IT like ‘it’, the impersonal subject singular Cris Argüelles

Friday 15. November 2019 (afternoon) 14.00-14.15 PANEL 3 - Soft and Hard, Physics of Communication Carlos Favero Marchi

14.15-15.15 Dom Gross, PalacePalace 15.15-16.15 Architecture and Rhetorics: Inventing and Computing, Roberto Bottazzi

14.15-15.15 Spelling Alice. Xenotheka, Architecture, Information, Atom-Letters Miro Roman

16.15-16.30 Coffee 16.30-17.30 The Cogito of Artificial Intelligence in Architecture Ludger Hovestadt CONFERENCE DINNER all welcome, please register by email until November 8th: office@attp.tuwien.ac.at

259.510 VU Cut Lecturer Vortragende Vera Bühlmann, Univ.Prof. Dr.phil. Jorge Orozco, Dr, ETH-Zürich guest-lecturer

Time & Place Zeit & Ort 18.10 9.30-12.30 19.10/20.10 all day sessions 24.10 9.30-12.30 /23.1, Seminar room ATTP 28.11 or 5.12 all day session tbd 23.01 9.30-12.30

Aim of course CUT deals with the construction of panoramas of cinema and the invention of chambers of mythical personas. CUT is about domesticating computer code and exercising a personal code to talk about architecture. This course thinks of panoramas as a new kind of richness with which to qualify spaces and times. The availability of online videos in large quantities, coupled with the techniques to deal with them all at once, present a promising scenario for architecture, as videos are alive and talking to us.This course celebrates this scenario by operating millions of clips and frames extracted from a private vidéothèque and constructing panoramas with them. Talking goes beyond a panorama, though, it comes from a position, has a direction and follows a code. This course exercises talking about architecture by qualifying chambers from a panoramic view.

Lastly, each student will present his/her chamber in the form of a booklet. The only requirement is to have a laptop with an internet connection and some GB of free space. Dates: 18.10.2019 First session / Introduction to the course 19./20. 10.2019 All-day weekend session / technical setup and starting to feel comfortable with it, first short exercise task 24.10.2019 Third session / presentation and discussion of task 1, trouble shooting session. Introduction to a second larger task Break individual work on Task 2. Skype meetings are possible.

CUT is roughly divided in two. First, students will be introduced to ready-made notebooks of computer code to construct panoramas, many of them. These notebooks implement Machine Learning techniques that characterize and make operable the vidéothèque. Later on, a constellation of mythical personas will be introduced, and students will exercise their code by inventing the profile of a chamber in a deity’s image via the panoramas.

December (tba) Fourth session / presentation and discussion of task 2, presentation of the final task 23.1.2020 Presentation of the student works, pre-final crits. 30.1.2020 Final presentation

259.520 SE PHD Seminar ATTP Dissertantenseminar, ATTP Time & Place Zeit & Ort Tuesdays 16:00-18:30, ATTP Main Space

Lecturer Vortragende Vera Bühlmann, Univ.Prof. Dr.phil.

What happens when images cast off and acquire an autonomy of their own? The main reading will be Peter Handke’s book “Bildverlust” (literally “the loss of images”, although the publisher for the English translation chose a different title). It introduces us a a world beyond “hyperobjects” (where simulacrae count as copies without original) and asks once more about notions like world, selfhood, power, authorship, intimacy, influence, authenticity, familiarity, debt, love, in a poetic and abstract, but also entirely theory-jargon-free language.

Aim of Course What happens when images cast off and acquire an autonomy of their own? While we usually think of images as having always propelled imagination, it seems that today they do the opposite: the positivity of technical image-handling threatens to dry out vivid and quick imaginative capacities and capabilities. Images are no longer generous. Lets not complain and instead invert the vector of consideration: If, indeed, there is an objective and material efficacy to the positivity of images, there ought to be one proper to their negativity as well. How to think about a manifest kind of absence of images?

The weekly meetings entail: readings of approx. 30 pages lectures by Vera Bühlmann that contextualize the readings to a larger interest in thinking about the digital presentation of secondary texts by students and group discussions The seminar is conducted as a joint course with PHD candidates from ETH Zurich. It can be joined either actively (with the rewards of 3 ECTS) or passively (as a listener, without credit points).

This seminar is an exercise in imagination. It will be looking at the question of images from a new materialist point of view: with the concepts of positive and negative entropy, information theory has introduced ways of treating negation and affirmation in a manner that qualifies what it affirms or negates. From a classical epistemological point of view, this is quite scandalous. Yet with regard to an interest in a “material” (photometric) nature of images, this opens up interesting new questions in which images come to be related to code, currency, and money.

Primary Reading: Peter Handke, Bildverlust (Suhrkamp 2003) / engl. version: Crossing the Sierra de Gredos: A Novel (2007)

Secondary readings include: F. Laruelle, The Concept of Non-Photography (Urbanomic, 2011) Sean Cubitt, Daniel Palmer and Nathaniel Tkacz (eds.), Digital Light (Open Humanities Press, 2015) Erasmus von Rotterdam, On Copia of Words and Ideas (trans. D.B.King 1999, Marquette University Press) V.Buehlmann, “Negentropy” in R.Braidotti et al., The Posthuman Glossary (London: Bloomsbury, 2018) V. Buehlmann, “The reciprocal doublearticulation of »sustainability« and »environmentality« or The mode of »insisting existence« proper to the circular.” (Metalithikum Conference V, Bibliothek Werner Oechslin, Einsiedeln Schweiz 2015) B.Rottmann, Signifying Nothing: the Semiotics of Zero (Stanford UP, 1993) u.a. Mondays 4 - 6.30 pm, ATTP Main Space Starting Monday September 30, 2019 Picking up from where we left last semester: chapter 20 in Handke, Bildverlust.