Zurich University of the Arts
PROJECTS | 2021
On Souls and Soil
Duy Bui
On Souls and Soil is a bioart project that investigates colonialism, capitalism and displacement in Southeast Asia to reveal soil’s entanglements with history, culture, politics, and science.
Instructors - 2021
Joëlle Bitton
Joëlle Bitton is an artist and a human-computer interaction researcher. She is currently the head of the BA interaction design at the Zurich University of the Arts. With her works, Joëlle explores a sense of intimacy and personal geography with machines and systems that are usually considered cold or unfriendly. In her doctoral thesis at Harvard Graduate School of Design, she created interactive fabrication processes with personal data as a way for individuals to have an intuitive control of machines. At MIT Media Lab Europe in Dublin, she explored the mediation of technologies in human relationships and their potential social impact, notably with the projects "RAW" and "Passages". She also conducted similar research studies on the creative uses of technologies at Culture Lab, Newcastle University. She advocates in her practice for open and inclusive conversations about technologies that could appear intimidating to some.
Support: Martin Dusek
Dr. Roman Kirschner