ET2 – Analog Utopia, a radical critique of the digital

Lecturer: Christian Faubel
Fields: Arts, Sonic Arts, Dynamical Systems, Robotics,

Content

In my lecture I critically examine differences between the digital and the analog, which become especially visible in the phenomenon of synchronization. In the lecture I experiment with different analog systems and demonstrate their utopian potential, which I locate especially in the hierarchy-free communication between these systems and I show how polyrhythms emerge from hierarchy-free interaction.

Lecturer

Christian Faubel is an interdisciplinary scholar working in the differing fields of neuroscience, autonomous systems research and media art & design. He holds a PhD in electrical engineering and has completed research on autonomous systems at the Institute for Neural Computation from 2002–2012. From 2012-2018 he was working as artist, researcher and teacher at the academy of media arts cologne. Since 2020 he holds a position as professor for smart connected products at the university of applied sciences cologne, where he teaches in the new bachelor program code & context.

Affiliation: TH-Köln
Homepage: https://christian.faubel.derstrudel.org/