The Oxford/Berlin Creative Collaborations

The Oxford/Berlin Creative Collaborations showcase ideas and research across the arts and humanities. We are drawing on expertise from the University of Oxford and Berlin University of the Arts, to combine established methodologies from the Humanities with new and exciting forms of artistic expression.
Our encounters between researchers and artists from the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin) and the University of Oxford open up new fields of engagement between the arts, humanities and sciences. We anticipate that this new exchange of methodologies, modes of representation, language and other qualities will lead to innovative contributions in the arts and sciences alike. We embrace a worldview that purposely goes beyond preconceived disciplinary borders and integrates speculative, subjective and positivistic approaches to problem-solving and creation. Launching these encounters alongside the current shift to digital communication requires also a critical assessment of the impact that any given media has on the execution of its dependent activities. It is our desire to develop a balanced interaction between content and media, which can support, inform and structure each part positively and grant new experimental spaces of shared exploration between the members of both universities. The encounters are intended to provide a novel emphatic perspective on how we can work, think and communicate.

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Oxford in Berlin The Oxford–Berlin Research Partnership TORCH University of the Arts Digital Encounters.Climate Crisis Thinking (Animal Eyes on the Planet)Futures Thinking (Sound of Contagion)Silence Hub WillPlay Life Itself in Theory and Practice The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)

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Episode	Description	People	Date
Cre-AI-tivity: Blood in a Whatsapp message?	This last in our trilogy explores data as the foundation of AI systems. We learn how this enables mapping individual learners' progress and benchmarking in a teaching context, but also how that data exchange raises ethical issues.	Abigail Williams, Jussi Ängeslevä, Carl Schoenfeld	28 May, 2021
Cre-AI-tivity: Hogwarts 4ever?	The second in our trilogy of podcasts explores the role AI can play in story creation and development. We learn how machines can extend a fictional story world, as well as our interaction with it.	Abigail Williams, Jussi Ängeslevä, Carl Schoenfeld	17 May, 2021
Cre-AI-tivity: Make the machine work 4u	First in a trilogy explores the impact of AI on story creation and reception. We learn how machines enable audiences to experience the humanity of fictional characters. Yet a ‘rhetoric of innovation’ gets in the way of understanding what is happening.	Abigail Williams, Jussi Ängeslevä, Carl Schoenfeld	6 May, 2021
Animal Eyes on the Planet (3/3): The Aesthetics of an Intangible World	In this third and last podcast Berlin and the Oxford creative collaboration on Climate Crisis Thinking we work with the Japan’s indigenous Ainu culture and history to explore how artists can respond to intangible aspects of the world and express them.	Amanda Power, Nina Fischer, Hana Yoo, Eiko Soga, Stella Krämer Horta, Dalis Pachenco, Lisa Maria Steppacher, Lilli Kuschel	12 April, 2021
The Sound of Contagion 2/3	The “Sound of Contagion” explores what a society of contagion can sound like and how technology can illuminate 2020 pandemic and others throughout history.	Chelsea Haith, Robert Laidlow, Wenzel Mehnert	26 March, 2021
Animal Eyes on the Planet (2/3): The Felt Knowledge of a More-Than-Human-World	In this second podcast from the Berlin and the Oxford creative collaboration on Climate Crisis Thinking we acquaint ourselves with the Japan’s indigenous Ainu culture and history.	Amanda Power, Nina Fischer, Eiko Soga, Lisa Maria Steppacher, Lilli Kuschel	18 March, 2021
WillPlay: Chat, Play, Learn Shakespeare	This podcast explores WillPlay, an AI-powered reimagining of Shakespeare's plays for school students.	Abigail Williams, Felicity Brown, Rachael Hodge, Giles Lewin	17 February, 2021
Silences	Silences explores what we mean by silence and what silence means to us. Interweaving silences, sounds and voices, it reveals the rich pleasures and mysteries of experiences without noises or words.	Kate McLoughlin, Ariane Jeßulat, Sylee Gore, Thorsten Weigelt, Kirsten Reese, Fritz Schlueter, Alberto de Campo	11 February, 2021
Animal Eyes on the Planet (1/3)	First in a trilogy, this podcast introduces the creative collaboration on Climate Crisis Thinking.	Amanda Power, Nina Fischer, Eiko Soga, Lisa Maria Steppacher, Lilli Kuschel	11 January, 2021
Behind The Scenes of The Sound of Contagion	The “Sound of Contagion” explores what a society of contagion can sound like and how technology can illuminate 2020 pandemic and others throughout history.	Rob Laidlow, Wenzel Mehnert, Chelsea Haith	18 December, 2020

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