Many sciences, especially the exact sciences, use fictions. Concepts, models and abstractions are translations, shadow and parallel worlds that have no equivalent in perception and yet can orient and shape us, give the floor to some, silence others, create caesuras and spaces, invent societies, economies and political decision-making pressure.
The question of the countability of everyday experiences and group affiliations, for example, is based on numerous generalizations. Grids, scaling, algorithms and the modeling of classes decide who or what counts. They invent their own objects, make individuals addressable in the first place, so that once they have been standardized and formed into a group, they can be preferred or isolated, protected or criminalized. The world we live in is often decided by tech companies. The office argues that fictions can be discussed, changed and overwritten together if they can be brought to the fore.
The focus is not on celebrating authorship, honing early works or discovering talent - it is not related to creative writing courses. Instead, the focus is on your own writing, reading aloud, talking about your own texts. Instead of rules, labyrinths, speculations and connections to questions that circle the three focal points in the intrinsic logic of literature, radio and essays on different orbits, to recalcitrant ecology, to gesture and forms of inclusion, to karaoke, to speaking and writing with and after AI, to the colonial ends of media theory. And again and again to writing, translating, describing, to the narrative parts of scientific prose, the scientific fictions in literature and the interactions of science and fiction, to the sound of a moment... The office searches for daydreams, fluff and iron filings and hopes that at some point a spark will create surprising connections. The language arts create a third place at the University of Art. Precisely because they are not an independent study program, they can spark a conversation between the arts and cultural studies at eye level as living artistic research.