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Prof. Dr. Orit Halpern

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Orit Halpern is Full Professor and Chair of Digital Cultures at Technische Universität Dresden. Her work bridges the histories of science, computing, and cybernetics with design. She completed her Ph.D. at Harvard. She has held numerous visiting scholar positions including at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, IKKM Weimar, and at Duke University. She is currently working on two projects. The first is a history of automation, intelligence, and freedom; the second project examines extreme infrastructures and the history of experimentation at planetary scales in design, science, and engineering.

She has also published widely in many venues including Critical Inquiry, Grey Room, and Journal of Visual Culture, and E-Flux. Her first book Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason (Duke UP 2015) investigates histories of big data, design, and governmentality. Her current book with Robert Mitchell (2023) is titled the Smartness Mandate. The book is a genealogy of our current obsession with smart technologies and artificial intelligence.

About Against Catastrophe

A Project mobilizing energies Against Catastrophe

Against Catastrophe

The aim of this project is to interrogate the concept of catastrophe – how it is defined, analyzed, and deployed – and anti-catastrophic practices in an attempt to envision alternatives to our present.

It does so through an edited volume, art and design commissions, and offline and online exhibitions that explore catastrophe and anti-catastrophe in practice around the globe. The focus throughout is on how novel thinking and practice in design, architecture, and technology can open possibilities for more equitably, democratically, and sustainably surviving a catastrophic world, but also expanding epistemic horizons beyond such apocalyptic thinking.

About Governing Through Design

Governing through Design is a collaborative research project that investigates how design impacts society. It uses history and ethnography to develop new narratives of how the practices and epistemologies of design reconceive global politics and everyday lifeworlds, and invest in pedagogies that seek to intervene in contemporary practices of design.

It is an interdisciplinary collective of researchers based at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design, the University of Basel, and Concordia University Montréal, with backgrounds in design history, urban studies, media studies, anthropology, sociology, political science, and science & technology studies.

About The Speculative Life Research Cluster

The Speculative Life

The research group is unique in the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology at Concordia University in our emphasis on fostering science and technology studies, a focus on ecology and environment, an interest in scale and networks, and finally, a commitment to futurity and imagination as critical to design, art, and scholarship.

This cluster of artists, designers and scholars presents a rare opportunity to develop the systemic study and creation of emerging technologies with a focus on social justice, difference, and imagination. It engages with multiple technical ecologies, from bio-media to urban planning, in order to foster creative ways to think about the future of the planetary scale transformations currently occurring as a result of human action and technical developments.

Prof. Orit Halpern holds the Key Chair of Digital Cultures at the Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies and is the Speaker of the Disruption and Societal Change (TUDiSC) Concept Group. © TUD

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Publikationen (mit Bezug zu TUDiSC)

44 Einträge

2016

Smartness as InstrumentHalpern, O., 2016, in: ARPA Journal. 2016, 4Elektronische (Volltext-)VersionPublikation: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift > Forschungsartikel

2015

Forensic MethodologyHalpern, O., 4 Juli 2015, ARPA Journal. Band 3Elektronische (Volltext-)VersionPublikation: Beitrag in Buch/Konferenzbericht/Sammelband/Gutachten > Beitrag in Buch/Sammelband/Gutachten
Chris Salter’s Alien AgencyHalpern, O., 11 April 2015, Media-nElektronische (Volltext-)VersionPublikation: Beitrag in Buch/Konferenzbericht/Sammelband/Gutachten > Beitrag in Buch/Sammelband/Gutachten
Cloudy ArchitecturesHalpern, O., 2015, in: Continent. 2015, 4.3, S. 34-45, 12 S.Elektronische (Volltext-)VersionPublikation: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift > Forschungsartikel
Nervous Networks and Serious Games: The Emergence of Neuro-Politics and Population in Cybernetics and DesignHalpern, O., 2015, Image, Ethics, Technology. Pearl, S. (Hrsg.). New York: RoutledgePublikation: Beitrag in Buch/Konferenzbericht/Sammelband/Gutachten > Beitrag in Buch/Sammelband/Gutachten
Obfuscation (Chapter in exhibition catalogue)Halpern, O., Krishnamurthy, P. & Kuoni, C., 2015, Speculation, Now. Rao, V. (Hrsg.). Durham: Duke University PressPublikation: Beitrag in Buch/Konferenzbericht/Sammelband/Gutachten > Beitrag in Buch/Sammelband/Gutachten
The Trauma Machine: Demos, Immersive Technologies and the Politics of Simulation.Halpern, O., 2015, Alleys of Your Mind: Augmented Intelligence and Its Traumas. Lüneburg: Meson Press, S. 53-67Publikation: Beitrag in Buch/Konferenzbericht/Sammelband/Gutachten > Beitrag in Buch/Sammelband/Gutachten

2014

Beautiful data: a history of vision and reason since 1945: Experimental futuresHalpern, O., 2014, Durham: Duke University PressPublikation: Buch/Gutachten/Sammelbände > Monographie
Cybernetic RationalityHalpern, O., 2014, in: Distinktion : scandinavian journal of social theory. 15, 2, S. 1-16Elektronische (Volltext-)VersionPublikation: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift > Forschungsartikel
Inhuman VisionHalpern, O., 2014, in: Journal of the New Media CaucusPublikation: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift > Forschungsartikel

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