Michaela Vieser

Michaela Vieser https://www.michaelavieser.de Die Seite der Autorin Michaela Vieser, die jeder sehen darf. Fri, 17 Jan 2025 16:23:48 +0000 de-DE hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 https://www.michaelavieser.de/2024/10/25/1355/ https://www.michaelavieser.de/2024/10/25/1355/#comments Fri, 25 Oct 2024 07:19:09 +0000 michaelavieser http://www.michaelavieser.de/?p=1355 www.michaelavieser.com from now on. Thank you for stopping by.]]> https://www.michaelavieser.de/2024/10/25/1355/feed/ 0 The Sturgeon’s Dream/ Center for Humans and Nature https://www.michaelavieser.de/2024/05/17/the-sturgeons-dream-center-for-humans-and-nature/ https://www.michaelavieser.de/2024/05/17/the-sturgeons-dream-center-for-humans-and-nature/#comments Fri, 17 May 2024 11:20:52 +0000 michaelavieser http://www.michaelavieser.de/?p=1344

Libretto by Isaac Yuen and I has been chosen by the wonderful people at The Center of Humans and Nature. It is running it in two parts. Sink into deep time. Sink into the sea. Sink to 210 million years ago, when the first sturgeons appeared. Sounds and noises from weather, rocks, beasts. The continent shifts. The Baltic Sea did not yet exist; Pangea the supercontinent remains whole. A rich and dense forest grows where now the Baltic Sea is, its trees turning eventually into amber, light, luminous. FIRST SONG: DEEP TIME UNFOLDS Under the first sturgeon moon the one sea shudders a cosmic sigh, this night alone to welcome jewel-studded fish who came to exist not on this day, night, or month that year, decade, or millennia, not out of the blue but in the presence of that zeal for life— has become and now is and will be until one future day, in one singular moment will not. Cease to exist. Vanish. Forever Foam on the sea. A wave of moonlight penetrates the surface refracts slows changes course, rebounds, sparks from jittering photons from sun reflected via moon to earth to land on silver sturgeon skin. If us, we, had been around then and addressed a letter to Purkyně, Europe, Purkyně would write back and explain that even then if our eyes had been there and then to witness— the light would have indeed turned silver, the moonlight shed on an ancient sea. Who is to say what we would have seen then would move us now, us seeing so much that we forget to look and thus see nothing? A sturgeon’s vision relies on four barbels dangling near the mouth to sense other lives, electric pulses, signals, present, vital. From sea to barbel to sturgeon body, like moonlight hushed into the depth, currents translating other presences into a world, an Umwelt of its own. Electrified by entities the ocean pulses too, with every molecule: Organic matter, fluid matter, drifting matter, sinking matter rising matter, floating matter. Creatures and critters, multicellular organisms, singular cells roiling with life. And on shore, the one shore, the only shore the same sturgeon moon Rises also above that mass of land, above the continent that is where the first gingko tree just then unfurls its branches, casts its shadow on who is to say? created as part of the Aland Universe project by Frauvonda]]> https://www.michaelavieser.de/2024/05/17/the-sturgeons-dream-center-for-humans-and-nature/feed/ 0 What if?/ Lecture on Speculative Fiction https://www.michaelavieser.de/2024/05/17/what-if-lecture-on-speculative-fiction/ https://www.michaelavieser.de/2024/05/17/what-if-lecture-on-speculative-fiction/#comments Fri, 17 May 2024 11:06:18 +0000 michaelavieser http://www.michaelavieser.de/?p=1341

What if? Is such a powerful question and one that drives speculative fiction. How can this literary genre serve as a methodology to help us understand the complex questions we are entangled in? How can it change our approach to the more than human world? Lecture at Connected Classe by invitation of Public Art Lab, Bauhaus University Weimar and Nanyang University, Singapore. Illustration by Auntlantis.]]> https://www.michaelavieser.de/2024/05/17/what-if-lecture-on-speculative-fiction/feed/ 0 Towards an interconnectedness of science and senses/ Intensive writing course at UdK https://www.michaelavieser.de/2024/04/17/towards-an-interconnectedness-of-science-and-senses-intensive-writing-course-at-udk/ https://www.michaelavieser.de/2024/04/17/towards-an-interconnectedness-of-science-and-senses-intensive-writing-course-at-udk/#comments Wed, 17 Apr 2024 07:00:13 +0000 michaelavieser http://www.michaelavieser.de/?p=1336

To become another. Been teaching all week an intensive course on Nature Writing - towards transformation and interconnectedness at UdK. We looked at the survival strategies of viruses, bacteria, mushrooms, genetic modification and poisons. We visited the Robert Koch Institute, spend some time at the National Gallery listening to paintings and discussed silk punk, science writing, sci-fi, speculative fiction, creative non-fiction with texts by Karen Russell, Octavia Butler, Benjamin Labatout, Merlin Sheldrake and Natassja Martin. Our lives are so entangled. Loved working things out with the students, loved to listen to their ideas, loved to spend 5 days or 35 hours together exploring.]]> https://www.michaelavieser.de/2024/04/17/towards-an-interconnectedness-of-science-and-senses-intensive-writing-course-at-udk/feed/ 0 Fishing in Japan/ Deutschlandfunk Kultur Weltzeit https://www.michaelavieser.de/2024/04/17/fishing-in-japan-deutschlandfunk-kultur-weltzeit/ https://www.michaelavieser.de/2024/04/17/fishing-in-japan-deutschlandfunk-kultur-weltzeit/#comments Wed, 17 Apr 2024 06:43:25 +0000 michaelavieser http://www.michaelavieser.de/?p=1328

While researching bodies of water in Japan, I got side-tracked by all the stories I would gather from talking to fishermen and women. A strange pattern appeared. A new, old way of living off the sea in different ports between Hokkaido and Kyushu. Sometimes so humble, it made my heart ache. My radio piece about the new fishing culture in the land of sushi is now out on German national radio. Weltzeit. Deutschlandfunk Kultur. and is available in the archives for a year. There are some truly silly ideas, like the giant squid statue, there is denial, loss, blaming others, but mostly I saw appreciation and respect for the marine species that become food. There is also a sense of urgency that runs as an undercurrent through every encounter. Listen to the piece here. ]]> https://www.michaelavieser.de/2024/04/17/fishing-in-japan-deutschlandfunk-kultur-weltzeit/feed/ 0 Learning from the Sea/ Lecture and Workshop at Okeanos Foundation for the Sea https://www.michaelavieser.de/2024/03/03/learning-from-the-sea-lecture-and-workshop-at-okeanos-foundation-for-the-sea/ https://www.michaelavieser.de/2024/03/03/learning-from-the-sea-lecture-and-workshop-at-okeanos-foundation-for-the-sea/#comments Sun, 03 Mar 2024 07:29:21 +0000 michaelavieser http://www.michaelavieser.de/?p=1322

Sharing my two years experience as a wave writer. I looked closely at the connection between forest and sea. The topography of the sea floor. Bodies of water in Japan. The transformation of a whale fall. I read Gilles Deleuze and Robin Wall-Kimmerer, Ursula K. Le Guin and Octavia Butler. I talked with Ama divers and people from the Haida Nation. I took students to the mediterranean to teach them Nature Writing and we met so many whales, that we stopped counting. For two years I kept a Wave Diary through all and everything, jotting down thought, encounters, collecting flotsam and jetsam of an interconnected earth.]]> https://www.michaelavieser.de/2024/03/03/learning-from-the-sea-lecture-and-workshop-at-okeanos-foundation-for-the-sea/feed/ 0 Research & Aesthetic/ Teaching at SRH University Berlin https://www.michaelavieser.de/2024/03/03/research-aesthetic-teaching-at-srh-university-berlin/ https://www.michaelavieser.de/2024/03/03/research-aesthetic-teaching-at-srh-university-berlin/#comments Sun, 03 Mar 2024 07:18:34 +0000 michaelavieser http://www.michaelavieser.de/?p=1319

When does research turn into an aesthetic experience? And, is it possible to feel one's way through data? Sharing my own tools and experiences with students from SRH University, with the wonderful Prof. Anna Rosa Krau.]]> https://www.michaelavieser.de/2024/03/03/research-aesthetic-teaching-at-srh-university-berlin/feed/ 0 Wisdom of the Sea/ Japan Travelogue https://www.michaelavieser.de/2024/01/09/wisdom-of-the-sea-japan-travelogue/ https://www.michaelavieser.de/2024/01/09/wisdom-of-the-sea-japan-travelogue/#comments Tue, 09 Jan 2024 08:10:51 +0000 michaelavieser http://www.michaelavieser.de/?p=1310

Seven weeks in Japan, researching bodies of water and loneliness, thanks to a grant by the Okeanos Foundation for the Sea. The 14 travelogues are now online and can be read in German or English. "My own pilgrimage was to feel into the connections we have with water: the sea, rivers, canals, estuaries, waterfalls, sacred lakes, mundane ponds, aquascapes and street aquariums. The lives they hold; our estrangement from their flows and the loneliness this stirs within us. I am hoping to be taken to places and thoughts I had not foreseen."

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Mein Beitrag über die Einsamkeit in Japan auf Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Weltzeit. Hier zum Nachhören in der Mediathek. Danke an den Redakteur Andre Zantow. „Das Wort Kodoku bedeutet nicht einfach nur Einsamkeit oder Zurückgezogenheit (loneliness and solitude). Es hat nicht diesen negativen Beigeschmack. In Japan hat Einsamkeit eine mehrdeutige Interpretation. Sie kann sowohl negativ, als auch positiv gedeutet werden.“ ]]> https://www.michaelavieser.de/2024/01/09/einsamkeit-in-japan/feed/ 0 Mit Robotern gegen die Einsamkeit https://www.michaelavieser.de/2024/01/09/michaela-vieser-in-deutschlandfunk-kultur-on-010824/ https://www.michaelavieser.de/2024/01/09/michaela-vieser-in-deutschlandfunk-kultur-on-010824/#comments Tue, 09 Jan 2024 07:52:50 +0000 michaelavieser http://www.michaelavieser.de/2024/01/09/michaela-vieser-in-deutschlandfunk-kultur-on-010824/

Kurzreportage fürs Studio 9/ Deutschlandfunk Kultur. Beitrag bitte hier anhören. Seit Japan 2021 einen Minister gegen kodoku no mondai ernannt hat, gegen die “Probleme der Einsamkeit”, werden im Land verschiedene Konzepte mit sozialen Robotern erprobt. Dank ihnen sollen die unterschiedlichen Facetten der Einsamkeit angegangen werden. Dazu gehören AI basierte Roboter wie die süssen Lovot, über die gerade ein Buch erschien, oder die Alter-Ego remotely operated robots, ferngesteuerte Roboter, die von sogenannten Piloten bedient werden, entwickelt von der Firma Orylabs. Hier sind die Piloten Menschen, die irgendwo in Japan in einem Bett liegen und ihren Körper nicht mehr bewegen können. Sie hatten einen Unfall und sind querschnittsgelähmt, oder sind an ALS erkrankt. Mit den Augen oder den Fingern können sie über die Ferne die Roboter steuern und durch die Roboter sprechen. Roboter, die von Tisch zu Tisch gehen, Bestellungen aufnehmen, Getränke servieren. Sie ermöglichen ihren Piloten soziale Kontakte und lassen sie wieder Teil der Gesellschaft werden.

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