Christian Heck
Lecturer for aesthetics & new technologies/experimental informatics and doctoral researcher at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, since 2017. His research and work focuses on social movement research, AI ethics, adversarial hacking strategies, code literature and natural language processing (NLP). He practices algorithm critique with a focus on Artificial Neural Networks/deep learning and aesthetic research in cultural- and peace work (focus: generative systems, ADM, IT security technologies, weaponized drones and autonomous weapon systems). He is member of the Computer Scientists Forum for Peace and Social Responsibility (FifF), the Working Group Against Armed Drones (AK Drohnen) and the German Informatics Society (GI). For more information about the PhD project, talks, publications, teaching, artistic as well as peace work, please visit the following URL: Adversarial PoetryTHE FOLLOWING CONTENT IS NOT UP TO DATE! Please visit the following URL: Adversarial Poetry
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_______________________________________________________________________________ code poet & grassroots activist researcher @ ground zero doctoral candidate @ KHM Doctoral programme title: »Adversarial Poetry – Subversive embeddings in artificial neural word space« assistant professor for aesthetics & new technologies in Experimental Informatics @ Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) _______________________________________________________________________________
Education 2018 – ... Academic PhD (Dr. phil.) in Art and Media Studies Academy of Media Arts Cologne 2013 – 2015 Postgraduate M.A. Course “Art in Context” University of the Arts, Berlin 2009 – 2012 Diploma in „Sculpture / Media Art“ Academy of Fine Arts, Munich 2006 – 2009 BA in „Mixed Media“, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten AKI, Enschede, NL 2002 – 2005 state certified technician in "renewable energy technologies", Berufskolleg Reckenberg, Rheda- Wiedenbrueck, Germany 1993 – 1997 Plant Mechanic for HVAC and Sanitary Engineering Staatliche Berufsschule Kitzingen, Germany _______________________________________________________________________________
Talks / Workshops / Seminars ... selection: Se 2021/22, »Human Machine Readable - Introduction into programming« - together with Georg Trogemann & Mattis Kuhn, Academy of Media Arts Cologne Ta 2021, »Adversarial Poetry Talk« @ Interdisciplinary online conference, Schaufler Kolleg, TU Dresden: Artificial intelligence as a humanities & social science concept Ta 2021, »_ell_ Worl_!«, 10º Encontro Internacional de Grupos de Pesquisa: convergências entre arte, ciência, tecnologias & realidades mistas, São Paulo Wo 2021, »National Novel Generation Month - Working Group«, Academy of Media Arts Cologne Se 2021/22, »The Policeman’s Beard is Half Constructed - Computer-generated literature« - together with Georg Trogemann, Academy of Media Arts Cologne Wo 2021, »this machine kills asciis - coding textruments in pd«, Academy of Media Arts Cologne Se 2021, »Biotext«, together with Georg Trogemann & Mattis Kuhn, Academy of Media Arts Cologne Se 2020/21, »Introduction to programming text generators« - together with Georg Trogemann & Mattis Kuhn, Academy of Media Arts Cologne Se 2020/21, »codichte_experiments-with-cognitive-systems« - together with Georg Trogemann & Mattis Kuhn, Academy of Media Arts Cologne Se 2019/20, »Future Minds – Kritik Künstlicher Intelligenzen« - together with Georg Trogemann, Academy of Media Arts Cologne Wo 2019, »DNA phenotyping« - together with Verena Friedrich and Klaus Fritze, Academy of Media Arts Cologne Se 2019-21, »Open Lab« @ exMediaLab - together with Verena Friedrich, Jacqueline Hen & Karin Lingnau, Academy of Media Arts Cologne Wo 2019, »macht kaputt was euch kaputt macht«, Academy of Media Arts Cologne Se 2018/19, »Einführung in die Programmierung künstlicher Intelligenzen« - together with Georg Trogemann, Academy of Media Arts Cologne Se 2018, »Material und Algorithmus« - together with Christian Faubel, Academy of Media Arts Cologne Ta/Wo 2017, »Artistic Freedom & Privacy on the Web«, Institut für Kunst im Kontext Berlin Ta 2016, »t͕i̞m̾e͡ hͯa̹c̚k̖s̡ «, interfiction XXIII/2016 ZEITMASCHINEN Kassel Ta 2016, »War on Error«, Informationsstelle Militarisierung e.V. Tübingen Ta 2016, »o͈̮p̢ęr̕a͠t̶̨i͟oǹ͓̜a̵l̷ glit̶̨ć̶̛he͝s« @ 15. Netzwerk-Terrorismusforschung- Workshop „Vom Cyberterrorismus zum digitalen Bilderkrieg“, ZKM Karlsruhe Ta 2015, »o͈̮p̢ęr̕a͠t̶̨i͟oǹ͓̜a̵l̷ glit̶̨ć̶̛he͝s« @ CCCamp 2015, Chaos Communication Camp Zehdenick Ta/Wo 2014, »Free Libre Open Source Software _ Glitch Art & code poetry«, arttransponder Berlin Ta/Wo 2012, Different Workshops in Cmd- Line / Programming with & for students, Akademie der bildenden Künste, München Wo 2011, "Puredyne", GNU/Linux-Live-Distro (operating system) for media-artists @ Salong, a selforganized projectspace in Munich _______________________________________________________________________________
organising / directing / curating ... selection: d / c 2022, Online Hearing War with Artificial Intelligence, together with Hans-Jörg Kreowski Organized by the Working Group Against Armed Drones (AK Drohnen) see Recordings here: vimeo o / d / c 2016, Exhibition AUGE | MENSCH | MASCHINE @ Stadbücherei Aub press article: Mainpost o / d / c 2016, Exhibition Š̷᷂̼̜̍̾͗᷾̾̌͆͘͞ͅY̝͓̥̺̰͍̼ͦ͐͒̍̏̄͜͝N̞̻̘͔̔ͨ̄͗͋̉̆͑́̚͜T̹͖͎͈̬̖̂᷀̐͌ͪ͘̚͢͢A̵̭͍͇ͮ᷀ͥ̈́̂̔͗́̓ͥͅX̭̫̰̌́͒̉̅̿̾͂͏̪͊̑ E̵̸᷿̬̝̼᷉̇᷁͐᷈͌̑ͭ́R̷̵͍̻̹̓̀̒ͯ̌ͫ̌͘͜͜R̵̢̟̦̣͙͍̻͙ͫ͒ͮ̅̓͢O̸͉̙̩̺͍̙̬̪᷀̏̏̓͜͡R̴͇̥̼̭̟ͩ̾̎̈̊̐͠͠͠ @ Greenhouse Berlin (transmediale Vorspiel) press article: BERLINARTLINK o / d 2014 – 2016, Project- and Artistspace »Greenhouse Berlin« o / d 2011, Conference @ Salong in Munich, http://opensourceday.wordpress.com press article: Linux Magazin o / d / c 2006 – 2007, Projectspace / Squat »FO«, Enschede, NL _______________________________________________________________________________
shows / publications / projects / articles ... selection:
______________ 2021, FIff-Kommunikation 4/2021 »Künstliche Intelligenz zieht in den Krieg« -War on error-
______________ 2021, Berliner Gazette -After the West’s Afghanistan Intervention: Preventing Technopolitical Misjudgments-
______________ 2021, ground zero -The rule becomes the author!- together with Julia Nakotte, Tiago Ive Rubini, Ting Chun Liu and Mattis Kuhn
______________ 2021, ground zero -Disruptive News 21/2 | War on Error-
______________ 2021, Berliner Gazette -Natural Language Processing? Translations, Artificial Intelligence and the Question of Identity-
______________ 2021, ground zero -Disruptive News 21/1-
______________ 2020, ground zero -Comment: (Un)creative Artificial Intelligence. Zur Kritik ‘künstlicher Kunst’ von Dieter Mersch- together with Georg Trogemann and Mattis Kuhn
______________ 2020, Berliner Gazette -Wo beginnt der Krieg? Widerstände gegen militärisch-industrielle Forschungs-Black-Boxes-
______________ 2020, Journal der Academy of Media Arts Cologne N°12 | Mut und Melancholie -Widerstand | Ästhetik & neue Technologien-
______________ 2019, Berliner Gazette -Anarchistic Decision Making: Eine Exkursion zum Protest-Camp in Deutschlands Cyber Valley-
______________ 2016, Stadtbücherei Aub, de
AUGE | MENSCH | MASCHINE
see: https://noparts.org/auge-mensch-maschine/
______________ 2016, Greenhouse, Berlin, de (transmediale Vorspiel)
-How To Make Human Machine Readable-
[Installation]
Before a machine is able to pre-interpret the technical image of man - for me -
the respective man has to be made readable for it.
Technical images are always produced through the operations of an apparatus: the respective machine.
Therefore, I create a distance to the machine through glitches to create a higher awareness.
I let the machine itself 'come back into view' through manipulations of it's respective pre-interpretation of man
through the technical image itself.
"Nobody cares how it works as long as it works." (Matrix Reloaded, 2003)
see: https://noparts.org/syntax_error
______________ 2015, DIENTE @ Greenhouse, Berlin, de
Metropolis, 1927 | 2015, (cuts from the screening ...)
[Installation]
glitched Version of »Metropolis«, 1927 (Reconstruction from Found Material in Argentina in 2008)
______________ 2015, UdK, Berlin, de o͈̮p̢ęr̕a͠t̶̨i͟oǹ͓̜a̵l̷ glit̶̨ć̶̛he͝s [Installation] see Projectpage (German): http://noparts.org/operational_glitches/
______________ 2015, DIENTE MORRKIS, Experimental poetry publication | Lesung: Autorenkreis Würzburg (2016))
PGPoem #1
[poem, encrypted]
see also: http://noparts.org/pgpoem/
______________ 2015, liebig12, Berlin, de article_5 [Performance] Muscle Accelerator on forearm, Arduino Board, Pure Data ...trying to write in Realtime, while every character gives an electrical feedback to finger muscles Thanx to Pedro Lopes! Grundgesetz für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland (GG) vom 23. Mai 1949 (BGBl. I S. 1)
"(1) Jeder hat das Recht, seine Meinung in Wort, Schrift und Bild frei zu äußern und zu verbreiten und sich aus allgemein zugänglichen Quellen ungehindert zu unterrichten. Die Pressefreiheit und die Freiheit der Berichterstattung durch Rundfunk und Film werden gewährleistet. Eine Zensur findet nicht statt."
______________ 2014, okk/raum29, Berlin, de
-ESC- Press [SPACE] to travel in Time
[Installation/Game by Christian Heck & Agnė Matulevičiūtė]
README
...We created this game questioning the role of identity in the digital world.
if you can change your IP address using an anonymity-software and appear
in a different country without moving your physical body, does that mean
you are disappearing? You are leaving digital traces, but it is impossible
to track you down in the “real“ world. This game repulses theory of relativity
and absorbs time. It suggests you to create your own story.
______________ 2012, Online http://www.kunstvereingoettingen.de/ausstellungen/stephan-dillemuth-christian-heck/ -This institution is not available in your country- [Online-Exhibition] ...with this message, artists Stephan Dillemuth and Christian Heck announce that they are taking control of the website of Kunstverein Göttingen... the website kunstvereingoettingen.de was hijacked to societyoutofcontrol.com for one month ...The intervention of Heck and Dillemuth is a breakdown in the virtual image of the Kunstverein, which will take place gradually over time—a productive disruption in a familiar structure, which is also conceived as an invitation to dialogue. A central feature of this ongoing virtual construction site is a so-called "etherpad-lite", which allows multiple visitors to the site to communicate simultaneously, correct one another, or delete each other’s statements. Participants are invited to engage with each other about the transformation of the public domain and the internet, the nature of the project itself, or the role of the public art institution...
______________ 2012, AdbK, Munich, de
-KUNST-WERK-ZEUG-
[presentation of
the software tmka
&
the newspaper kwz]
/the/ creation of images regardless of which form
changes/;/
/it/ changes our view of a world
of
our world />>SPACE>>/ whose image everyone is carrying
himself/./ ...
...to see some Works, made with the software tmka: tmka-examples
______________ 2011, Akademiegalerie, Munich, de
-no_p-
[Temporary Media Lab and Exhibition together with Lale Wilan
...And if the house could be the combination of an artificial language,
so I extend a language. Not standing in the pages, still lost, not useless,
easily broken by slapping tongues in the colors of the possibility of noise.
And the moment the food of an artificial language.
The life, the moment on the sides is the life, the tragedy. I need to listen,
to communicate a language, and ugly is the medium, the perception of viewing...
______________ 2010, AdbK, Munich, de
-part_2-
[Installation together with Wona Cho]
...is the second Part of a Research, started in ~june 2009.
Part_1: the Poem, -Ich weiß ja Lale, Fragmente gibt's eigentlich gar nicht-
is written in german-language
part_2 is written in Pure Data
______________ 2010, Online http://siebenzwosechsnull.wordpress.com
-ich weiß ja Lale, Fragmente gibt's eigentlich gar nicht-
Poem by Sam Puat
Download the Poem (91 pages): http://siebenzwosechsnull.wordpress.com/download
... in the field of concrete poetry - the spelling is as
a rabble in the face of my counterpart - everything else is
aesthetic explanation - the substance of your work is a dialogue -
I do not see any connection - it is too short and too abstract
- Can we ever talk about experience? - like a grain of sand
on the beach with millions of others - And what is a memory?
- Read and pray - I like this cow - or a poem, or many poems
- it does not follow any real idea ...
...about it
______________ 2009, Online http://samstories.wordpress.com
-samstories- by Sam Puat
...is not a sequential presentation.
By sequential presentation, I mean Monday with all dreams
and occurrences noted, then on to Tuesday and so forth.
Here Thursday and Friday may be cut in with Monday,
or the elaboration of a dream cut in with the dream itself
in a grid of past present and future...
W.S.Burroughs
visual documentation, under:
http://samstories.wordpress.com
______________ 2008, ITS, Enschede, nl ...und nur das schießen des Fotos, das ist leben und das Foto, das ist tot [447 S8-Shots, filmed by the Childrens self, digitalized, HD]
______________ 2008, Atelier '93, Hengelo, nl -12.03.08_am-pm- [1 minute from 16min-2screen-Installation]
______________ 2007, Open-Space, Hengelo & Enschede, nl
Transforming the solar radiation into sound [Object placed in different Town Spaces]______________ 2006 - 2007, FO, Enschede, nl
Squat as Projectroom & Offspace "FO", in Enschede,NL different exhibitions... Pictures: works by Lale Wilan & Chika Takabayashi
