STATES OF MOTION:
THE MOTION EXPERIENCE LAB 2019–2022

A visual journey through developments, projects
and time–in–space–complexities.
CONTENT OF THIS PUBLICATION:

 


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STATES
of
MOTION
2019–
2022
    
IN–OUT
The publication serves as a general guidance for the Motion Experience Lab, which is the latest physical workshop-like tech-environment in room 404 @ KISD for image and motion studies in the field of hybrid integrated design. It shows how the former foto studio and multi-purpose space developed in the last 3 years. On 60 pages it gives insights in form of a newspaper and holds all relevant informations, topics and projects. Displayed as a contextualized visual journey in
certain categories from the educational happenings, academic project endeavors, audio-visual culture and glimpses of practice based research it showcases student works, teaching formats, artist/design guest interviews, best cases and recent production outlets spinned out of this innovative production lab. It gives insights into the perspectives of employees and teachers.




PAGE 2
Preface – Prof. Katrin Müller-Russo/Prof. Michael Gais
      


PAGE 58/59
States of Motion: Out — Immersive Arts Space/Prof. Nina Juric
PROJECTS
The project category in the publication gives an extensive overlook to a selection of diverse short term, mid term and long term projects offered to students in the context of the MXL since 2019-2022. Most follow a practice based research approach, other were applied collaboration cases and other international collaborations. Generally, the MXL is a place where external artists and designers are very welcome and needed. From Living Sculptures Performance with designed robot costumes, which had to deal with all sort of movements in patterns translated into a live action play, brought in scene together with Zeitguised for the MXL#04,  to Silly Walks & Cyborgs, which was a dedication to walk cycles and gaits of creatures in the world of animation, to VR projects in the MXL#05: The Experience of the Pictureless, where teams research on new ways of representations of proteins and storytelling to make the invisible visible in cooperation with EMBL, Heidelberg instructed together with Tobias Wüstefeld. 




Screen Gym with Anna-Louise Lorenz dealt with vertical and horizontal modes of media displays,  placements and screen plays corelating with the movement of body, while in the design research project series of “VRenice Beach” the realm of a Museum of Moving Surreality set the scene for all sort of virtual worldbuilding and exploratory encounters. Dr. Thomas Hawranke came as a visiting teacher to engage through his expertise for animal perspectives in Animal & Animatronics which led to video essays of different animals’ . Stefanie Grawe and Benjamin Stephan were invited to develop with Prof. Juric the audio-visual CI for the MXL with a sounddesign project and a motion design package project where all cases by the students should be produced in a way to be sustainably used till now. Also you find a double page with an international design collaboration project dedicated to different topics like (Non)Imaginary Spaces, Future of VR Magazines or 360°: Motion Experiences, which Prof. Juric is executing with Parsons New School of Technology Art and Media since 2018.
        
 


PAGE 7
MXL#13: Meta Me


PAGE 19
MXL#12: Screen Gym w/ Anna Luise Lorenz
    


PAGE 33        REPORT
VRenice Beach II: Leave your body at the door w/ NEOANALOG
         
SEMINARS
In the seminar category you find exerpts of the Image & Motion seminars of Prof. Juric and co-teachers, which are is called States of Motion, and dedicates each semester to a new topic like CGI or DIE, or Liquid Affairs or Into the Livestream. These seminars always deal with digital culture in combination with motion studies and the use of creative technology and their effects on society and eco systems. 


Other technical seminars rather serve as technical courses, which set the students in touch and practice with the wired infrastructure in the MXL, so they learn how to use DMX, Optitracks MoCap System, Controllers, VR Systems, Touchdesigner, AI tech or Blender in interconnection with use cases like installations, video production, visual music or performative motion design. 


PAGE 6        NEWNESS
States of Motion X: CGI or DIE
       
FEATURES
Features is the section, where some text to read is involved and some depper ground of the MXL is touched. So grab a tea and bring some time to enjoy for example an interview with our technical employee Marko Bodenstein. Or insights and an extensive work description of DEBUG or a master thesis excerpt on transhumanis from Lisa Marleen Mantel and Laura Wagner or other write ups from students like Matthias Grund or Tim Schnettker. 

You find guest scientific contributions i.e. by Prof. Dr. Lasse Scherffig about design, computation and motion or Dr. Thomas Hawranke and a conversation about and in AI between Prof. Nina Juric and Anna Louise Lorenz. We are very honored to present you aswell an exclusive feature of and interview with Berlin based reknown media artist friend of the MXL Robert Seidel.


PAGE 16
About performance and choreography — Tim Schnettker
 


PAGE 17
Shut Up and Listen — Maayan Reiter
 


PAGE 18
Track My Ass Away w/Anna Luise Lorenz & Nina Juric
 


PAGE 48/49
How do we stay grounded when the ground is moving? — Type & Tech Reloaded — Prof. Nina Juric


PAGE 51
Reflections on Non-Human Motion Design — Dr. Thomas Hawranke
COOP
The category Coop is highlighting the collaborative character of the MXL projects. From academic teaching exchanges or travel trips with partners like Parsons New School of Technology, Art and Media, NY to participations in museums like the NRW forum or media art and design festivals like the metamarathon or NEW NOW @Zeche Zollverein, Essen. For the Hurra Hurry Ring Ring: Zoom out of order project, Nina Juric and Michael Titze created a realitime ZOOM media play performace with their 

students in several acts as part of the design educative lecture series in the context of a collaboration with Burg Halle Giebichenstein. Along this, you will find applied design projects like the Shelter of Love project, which was a huge installations of a modern take of a nativity scene real christmas design campaign in three cities together with the design malls from Stilwerk in Berlin, Hamburg and Düsseldorf, happening simultaniously, in triplicate. 
    


PAGE 22/23        SPACE
Shelter Of Love x Stilwerk


PAGE 44
Animation in X-Reality: Vilnius Summer School


PAGE 46
Hurra Hurra Ring Ring: Zoom Out Of Order w/Michael Titze