Models Are Real

26. Januar 2011 / Making-of

Experience Experiments: Modeling (Feeling your way)

Mit 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)