Creating Madness
“Madness is the false punishment of a false solution, but by its own virtue it brings to light the real problem, which can then be truly resolved.”
Systematic breaks in thought and action are points of inflection and reflection. I have explored these points through the notion of madness, of how these breakdowns in the mind, or machines give insights into our culture and how we organize ourselves socially. For instance, into our cultural norms of how we measure failure and how we can draw from failure as inspiration for creative idea generation. On the latter point, explicitly examining how madness has been historically a creative force for artists. In the context of the relationship between humans and machines, I am interested in how technological tools can offer insights into how the human mind works.
Related Work
Interdisciplinary seminars at the Berlin University of the Arts within the Experimental FIlm/Media Art specialization
Creating Madness: mind, machine and culture
The aim of this course is to investigate how the construct of madness has been conceived from both within and outside the psyche. Together we will explore how mental illness is articulated at the mechanistic level in the cognitive sciences and cybernetics, as well as through cultural discourses in the arts and humanities.
Creating (More) Madness
A follow-up seminar to the initial “Creating Madness” seminar which focused on examining the production of subjectivity and its role in creating madness. Accordingly, there was a focus on two main themes: altered states of mind and embodied practices.