Models Are Real
Experience Experiments: Models Are Real
With Eric Ellingsen
What is a model, the Latin modulus, as vs. is, the dangers and possibilities of, from Orreries to generative non-linear models; Observer Effect; the instruments role (technological, skill, experimenter as engineer with tacit knowledge); inert material, vs. world full of agency and emergence
Readings:
Olafur Eliasson: Models are Real
Jean Baudrillard: Simulacra and Simulation
Wallace Steven: Landscape with boat
Experiment by Heinz Isler (group meets that evening outside IfREX to make model)
Excursion to the cavitation tunnel of the Versuchsanstalt für Wasserbau und Schiffbau
