Machine Love? Kreativitätskulturen in elektronischer Musik und Softwareentwicklung

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DOI of the original publication
URI
https://irf.fhnw.ch/handle/11654/31148
Project type
angewandte Forschung
Project start
02.01.2015
Project end
31.03.2019
Project status
abgeschlossen
Project contact
Project manager
Mareis, Claudia
Contributors
Moser, Michelle
Description
Abstract
Machine Love? represents an attempt to get a grip on cultural transformations in underground electronic music production and software engineering via the investigation of changes in infrastructural, material and technological conditions of labour induced by visions of creative economies. While we do agree with and depart from Marion von Osten’s diagnosis that the creative economies as outlined in strategy papers of European governments drafted in the late 1990s have to date only partly materialized (von Osten 2007), we think that the creative imperative has had considerable impact on cultures of production in the selected fields. We comprehend contemporary understandings of ‘creative’ practice to be entangled especially with, e.g. media of collaboration (infrastructural), based on affective relations with materials, and framed by the technological generation and exploitation of intellectual property. The two subprojects of Machine Love? have been conceptualized in order to find new ways of researching contemporary cultures of production. We seek to be empirical by combining historical (forensic) investigation, ethnographic techniques and practice-based experience to gather evidence and make research public. It is our goal to contribute to the ongoing anthropology of late-modern societies in cultural studies and social science and to be fatihful to experience by modifying our tools in deliberations with our objects.
Link
https://machinelove.ixdm.ch/
Created during FHNW affiliation
Strategic action fields FHNW
School
Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst
Institute
Institut Experimentelle Design- und Medienkulturen
Financed by
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)
Project partner
Contracting authority
H3K Basel
Darsha Hewitt (Uni Weimar)
Barry Brown (Stockholms Universitet & Mobile Life Centre)
Stephanie Taylor (Open University)
Ulrich Bröckling (Uni Freiburg)
Cluster Image, Knowledge, Gestaltung, HU Berlin
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Keywords
cultural studies
social science
electronic music
software engineering
cultural transformation
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