Shared Habitats – A Cultural Inquiry into Living Spaces and Their Inhabitants

Ursula Damm, born in 1960, studied at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf, followed by postgraduate studies at the Academy of Media arts in Cologne. Since 2008, she has held the chair for media environments at Bauhaus University, Weimar, where she established a DIY biolab and the performance platform at the Digital Bauhaus Lab. Ursula Damm has exhibited worldwide, including numerous installations on the relationship between nature, science, and civilization. Mindaugas Gapsevicius, born in 1974, obtained his MA from Vilnius Academy of Arts in 1999, and his MPhil from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2016. Since 2016, he has been conducting PhD research at Bauhaus University, Weimar, where he teaches media art. He has also initiated self-organized community labs in Berlin and Vilnius. His artworks question the creativity of machines, and do not presume humans are the only creative force.

• Introduction; Environments, Orientation, and Liquid Foundations; Shared Habitats and Uexküll's Bubble; Technical Milieus; Minds and Milieus; Experiencing Arts and Sciences; Thoughts on Day and Night; Interfacing for a Sixth Sense; The Pig Simulator; Microplastic_hyperobject; The 18th Camel and The Habitats of Thought. On the Paradox of Teaching Technology in the Arts; Shared Habitats; Caring for Life From the Laboratory to Labbing; Drosophila Karaoke Bar; Six Sidekicks for Free; Algorithm Zoo4 "Mike"; Growing Geometries Tattooing Mushrooms; Introduction to Posthuman Aesthetics; Self-Repair Lab; Other Encounters; Close Encounter; The Poetic Design: From Mimesis to Catharsis; Probing the Planthroposcene; Other Minds: Ruyer, Damasio, and Malabou; A Shift in the Role of an Artist.