Freeters: Help! Artistic Intelligence - Hardcover

by Melusine Reimers (Author), Cornelia Funke (Author), Ulrich Zünkeler (Author)

FREETERS stands for an artist collective that designs, creates, transforms and plays with spaces, for and with the people who experience their time there. The artistic intelligence used in the process transforms into spaces for thinking, working, living, playing and learning, creating identity, emotion and inspiration. This book is about the mediation of artistic thinking and artistic action in processes. The artistic practice of Freeters is characterized by strategies of thought and action that are needed in a society with constantly changing conditions, in a working world that overturns itself in its dynamics. The necessity of shaping the present through artistic thought and action can no longer be limited to the art context. FREETERS' AI approach should be understood less as a scientific methodology and more as a call not to reduce our intelligence to only rational thought processes with a utility maxim. Of course, AI has already made impressive progress in many areas of our public services via the hard components of machine learning. However, it is doubtful whether this approach alone can really give rise to a superintelligence that will one day create a resource-saving paradi

Author Biography

Melusine Reimers ist die neue Haus und Hof Philosophin und Chief Content Witch bei Digital Misfits. Neben ihrer Promotion in Philosophie arbeitet sie an der Ruhr-Universitä t Bochum als Startup Consultant und kann dort ihre eigenen Erfahrungen aus der Startup-Welt mit einbringen Cornelia Funke is a German children's and young adult author whose fantastic novels are internationally successful and have been translated into 37 languages with a total circulation of 20 million books. Ulrich Zü nkeler is Creative Director at Kolle Rebbe Werbeagentur GmbH in Hamburg, Deutschland. Thomas Lassner hat in Bonn Philosophie und Musikwissenschaften studiert. FREETERS stands for an artist collective that designs, creates, transforms and plays with spaces, for and with the people who experience their time there. The artistic intelligence used in the process transforms into spaces for thinking, working, living, playing and learning, creating identity, emotion and inspiration. Bernhard Zü nkeler is a German artist and curator and former business lawyer. Seit mehr als fü nfzehn Jahren ist Sandra Freygarten Lehrcoach (DGFC) und Lehrende fü r Kunsttransfer und Kunst in Verä nderungsprozessen.