As director of the WIIH I develop an AI Humanities program. The aim is to revisit and reclaim artificial intelligence as an endeavor of the humanities, deeply philosophical, artistic and creative, a project for the liberal arts.
Arts and design as a business: Two courses to work through the concept of creative industries, learn product development and product management, marketing, financial planning, how to get funded, etc.
This block seminar gives a short introduction to machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI): The theory, philosophy, and first code examples for the most common neural network models.
This course introduces how to draft and plan a startup in interactive media: The goal is to contribute to forming a critical understanding of current media culture, by thinking and acting like a startup entrepreneur.
From the earliest alphabets to our current interactive media: History and critical theory of technologically mediated communication.
Looking at the recipients of media, audience theory, the cultural industry, taste, fandom, propaganda, and conducting empirical audience research.
Introduction to ethics and law for digital media professionals.
Digital media as art, activism, and part of culture.
Speculative fiction, strategy planning, future studies: We work our way through the field of futurism and use its methods as our creative tool.
Deconstructing the design and implementation of software as a political medium and re-building functional alternatives.
Capturing and modelling complexity in code: Laws of motion, complex systems, generative art.
Remixing the internet.
"Blockchain is the new Internet" (or not).