News Filtering | Call

8.4.2022–15.7.2022

Automation, Control, and Incompetence – Socio-Technical Ecologies of Responsible
Filtering in the 20th and 21st Century

Call for Papers Now Open

8.4.2022–15.7.2022

»Automation, Control, and Incompetence – Socio-Technical Ecologies of Responsible Filtering in the 20th and 21st Century« is a workshop conceptualized by the research project »Filtering«. The event takes place on December 1st and 2nd. We understand filtering as a fundamental technique that enables human and non-human actors to shape and create environments through differentiation. The environments emerging from processes of filtering are interconnected and encompass several dimensions. The call for papers for the workshop is now open until July 15th. more

News Dis/Entangling Material Futures

25.4.2022–18.7.2022 4:15 PM to
5:45 PM

Dis/Entangling Material Futures

Lecture Series by Cluster Co-Director Claudia Mareis Continues

25.4.2022–18.7.2022, 4:15 PM to 5:45 PM

The lecture series takes up the ambiguous role of materials in future-making practices along with the possible geo and bio-political precarity they may generate. Different materials from sand, water, or air to living cells and whole ecosystems are the objects and interface of a range of technologies that generate images of the future. Their probabilistic methods prepare the ideational and physical ground for large and small-scale design interventions (e.g., climate-resilient infrastructures). Register now and take part in the lecture series that continues until July 18th, every Monday 4.15 pm. more

Event On Gestaltung

26.4.2022–21.6.2022 4:00 PM

On Gestaltung

Lecture Series at Weißensee School of Art and Design Continues

26.4.2022–21.6.2022, 4:00 PM

Our modes of giving form evolve and hybridize more and more, but they are also inhabited by common and timeless questionings that have to do with our demiurgic tendencies. This lecture series, initiated in 2021 by Patricia Ribault and Jörg Petruschat, will question the processes of formation and transformation of the material world we live in through various concepts: constraint, function and dysfunction, formativity and performativity, visualization and representation, activity, bricology..., all of which constitute the inseparably mental and material set of operations that lead to the genesis of a thing. more

Event Exhibition

28.4.2022–3.6.2022

Viral Theatres: Pandemic Past/Hybrid Futures

Exhibition Organized Together with ExC Temporal Communities

28.4.2022–3.6.2022

How hybrid is the future of theatre? In what ways has the pandemic changed how we work in theatre and gather in it as a public space? The opening symposium »Viral Theatres: Pandemic Past/Hybrid Futures« explored these questions. In three days of events, it took stock of how pandemic time has moved from a state of exception to new normality between viral outbreak and containment and what that means for theatrical production. You can visit the accompanying exhibition in the Tieranatomisches Theater (Veterinary Anatomy Theater) in Berlin until June 3rd. more

News Awards

28.4.2022–26.5.2022

Nelli Singer Awarded Two Reputable Prices for her Master Thesis »Living Beings«

28.4.2022–26.5.2022

Our warmest congratulations to Cluster Guest Researcher Nelli Singer who has been awarded two prestigious prices at once for her Master Thesis »Living Beings«. The Materialica Award 2021 of Munich Expo and the ein&zwanzig Design Newcomer Award of the German Design Council. »Living Beings« explores the performative properties of wood through textile techniques and enviromental humidity and was supervised by Cluster Member Christiane Sauer. more

Event Publication | Humboldt Lab

4.5.2022–5.5.2022 9:00 AM to
3:00 PM

Materials Matter

Conversation and Workshop about Central Cluster Anthology »Active Materials«

4.5.2022–5.5.2022, 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM

On the occasion of the publication of the central Cluster anthology »Active Materials« (De Gruyter 2021), a public panel discussion and workshop was held at the Humboldt Laboratory on May 4th and 5th. The organizers of the event, co-editors Karin Krauthausen and Michael Friedman, were particularly pleased that, in addition to many of the contributing researchers to the volume, they were also able to win historian of science Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent for the event to present central theses of the volume and to engage in a cross-disciplinary conversation about them with the interested participants. more

Event Science Communication

6.5.2022 3:00 PM to
6:00 PM

Mastering Digital Cutting in Robot-Assisted Surgery

Dominic Eger Domingos Presents His Research at the Berlin Cluster of Excellence Event at Mall Anders

6.5.2022, 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM

What does the work of scientists actually consist of? At the casual »Meet the Scientist« event in the »Mall Anders« in the WILMA Shopping Center, a broad public will have the opportunity to meet researchers from the Berlin Clusters of Excellence. For »Matters of Activity«, Dominic Eger Domingos will give insights into his research work on digital cutting in robot-assisted surgery. more

Event CollActive Materials

20.5.2022–21.5.2022

CollActive Materials at Mall Anders

Join the Pop-up Materials Lab in Wilma Shopping Mall on May 20th and 21st and Bring your Kids!

20.5.2022–21.5.2022

With the experimental laboratory »CollActive Materials« just starting, its first ever event is already around the corner: On Friday and Saturday, May 20th and 21st, the science communication lab hosts two days for science and public to get together and (re-)negotiate the futures of materials. You are invited! Under the headline »What is your future made of?«, »CollActive Materials« will start its conversation about material presents and futures: Which personal routines and values play a role when we interact with materials in our everyday lives today? Which materials are yet to be created, discovered, or rethought? What role could active and intelligent materials play in possible futures, and how could these look like? Register now and join the pop-up materials lab on May 20th, 2:00-8:00 pm and May 21st, 10:00 am–6:00 pm or drop by for any of the scheduled activities. more

Event Publication | Object Space Agency

29.5.2022 11:30 AM to
1:30 PM

Hello Artwork, What is Your Nationality?

Discussion and Book Launch with Sebastián Eduardo, Susanne Leeb, Nina Samuel, and Other Guests, Introduced by Anna-Catharina Gebbers

29.5.2022, 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM

On May 29, 11:30 am–01:30 pm, Cluster member Nina Samuel and co-editor of »Museums, Transculturality, and the Nation-State. Case Studies from a Global Context« will present the recently published anthology in the Hamburger Bahnhof. The multiauthor book examines the contradictions and tensions that arise when contemporary demands for transculturality and decoloniality meet the institutions of the nation-state. more

News Gamelab | Tieranatomisches Theater

9.6.2022

Save the Date for »Paar«

Premiere of the VR Dance Film on June 9th

9.6.2022

»Paar« is a VR dance film split between a physical world and a virtual world, using 360° video together with motion capture technology, to dance the theater to life in VR. The virtual environment of the Veterinary Anatomy Theater (Tieranatomisches Theater, TA T) is created from the 3D photorealistic rendering of the theater, making for 180° of the virtual world and 180° of the physical world. In Paar, the dancers’ movements are tracked via motion capture technology. This recorded movement data will be mapped into the virtual environment of the TA T through avatars. Save the date for its premiere on June 9th! more

News Object Space Agency | Stretching Materialities

23.6.2022–25.6.2022

Press Tour Stretching Senses School Festival

23.6.2022–25.6.2022

On May 30, interested members of the press will be given a guided tour of selected parts of the exhibition of the »Stretching Senses School Festival« in the presence of the curators. Feeling limestone grow from the inside and seeing its dispersion as urban landscape; experiencing an amphitheater through vibrations of willow branches; reaching out to the hidden electrical energies of things around us; touch the surface of cellular tissues. The »Stretching Senses School Festival« exhibits site-specific virtual reality artworks from ongoing research at the Cluster at TA T, in the continuation of the »Stretching Materialities« exhibition. more

Event Conference

12.9.2022–16.9.2022

The Interdisciplinary World of Tangling

Conference Organized by Cluster Members Myfanwy Evans and Rhoslyn Coles

12.9.2022–16.9.2022

This week–long conference from 12-16 September 2022 will bring together scientists from various backgrounds who spend a reasonable amount of time thinking about tangles, tubes, knots, filaments, fibers and other entangled structures, from the perspective of physics, material science, mathematics, chemistry or biology. Tangling is a key structural motif of a multitude of natural systems, from molecules to polymers, and has a distinctive relationship to functionality. Understanding tangling itself and the role that it plays in material properties is a complicated web of different disciplines and perspectives, and we hope to create a deep scientific exchange on this topic. more