4 papers
The Oracle of Chemnitz: An interactive art installation to reanimate old things in a garage featuring a rotary phone
Karola Köpferl, Albrecht Kurze
Garages have a long tradition of tinkering, creativity and innovative change. School of Garage, a participatory artistic summer school project in Chemnitz, the European Capital of…
Machines, AI and the past//future of things
Karola Köpferl, Albrecht Kurze
This essay explores a techno-artistic experiment that reanimates a 1980s East German typewriter using a contemporary AI language model. Situated at the intersection of media archae…
From Simple Sensors to Complex Context: Insights for HabiTech
Albrecht Kurze, Karola Köpferl
We relate our previous as well as ongoing research in the domain of smart homes to the concept of HabiTech. HabiTech can benefit from existing approaches and findings in a broader…
Simplications: Why and how we should rethink data of/by/for the people in smart homes and its privacy implications
Albrecht Kurze, Alexa Becker
More and more smart devices enter our homes. Often these devices come with a variety of sensors, mostly simple sensors, e.g., for light, temperature, humidity or motion. And they a…