Teaching and Research

by Joerg Blumtritt ,

Overview of my Academic Teaching and my Practice of Analysis and Consultancy

The detailed descriptions and syllabi are on linked to the pages on my Github:

Wheaton Institute for the Interdisciplinary Humanities (WIIH)

AI Humanities

As director of the WIIH I develop an AI Humanities program. The aim is to revisit and reclaim artificial intelligence as an endeavour of the humanities, deeply philosophical, artistic and creative, a project for the liberal arts.


Courses:

Introduction to Creative Industries and Business Basics for Creative Industries

Arts and design as a business: Two courses to work through the concept of creative industries, learn product development and product management, marketing, financial planning, how to get funded, etc.

AI Introduction

This block seminar gives a short introduction to machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI): The theory, philosophy, and first code examples for the most common neural network models.

Media Entrepreneurship

This course introduces how to draft and plan a startup in interactive media: The goal is to contribute to forming a critical understanding of current media culture, by thinking and acting like a startup entrepreneur.

Information and Communication Technologies

From the earliest alphabets to our current interactive media: History and critical theory of technologically mediated communication.

Media Audiences

Looking at the recipients of media, audience theory, the cultural industry, taste, fandom, propaganda, and conducting empirical audience research.

Media Law and Ethics

Introduction to ethics and law for digital media professionals.

Understanding Interactive Media

Digital media as art, activism, and part of culture.

Future Punk

Speculative fiction, strategy planning, future studies: We work our way through the field of futurism and use its methods as our creative tool.

Politics of Code

Deconstructing the design and implementation of software as a political medium and re-building functional alternatives.

Nature of Code aka Decoding Nature

Capturing and modelling complexity in code: Laws of motion, complex systems, generative art.

Mashups

Remixing the internet.

Blockchain Fiction

“Blockchain is the new Internet” (or not).


Analysis and Consultancy

Future of Democratic Governance and Participation with Digital Technology

Trustless communication

Peer-to-peer communication based on privacy preserving computation and federated learning.

Slow Media and the future of journalism, media, and social networks