In der Lehrveranstaltung "Englisch für Präsentation und Publikation" bei Lisa Rosenblatt wurde von den Studierenden ein Booklet realisiert.
A project produced in the seminar Presentation and Publication in English. Exploring the object from a variety of views.
Auszug aus dem Booklet
Beitrag von Julia Brunner
It was a sunny day - a Thursday - when we all met to attend a course on learning how to talk and write properly in English. As we are all students at the University of Arts Linz, Austria, there is a special focus on the use of English in the context of arts and culture. To make that a bit more cheerful, our teacher - Lisa Rosenblatt - gave us the task of developing our own project. Due to new technologies, and the use of Chat GPT, the course aimed to give us some insights into artificial intelligence (AI), and implementing AI in our project, which was a new experience for all of us. While discussing what our project would be, one student came up with the idea of using the artwork One and Three Chairs by the conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth from 1965 as inspiration. In that artwork the artist shows the spectator a picture of a chair, a description of a chair, and an actual physical chair. Through that artwork, Kosuth highlights the relationship between language, picture, and referent, and makes us think about the visual and verbal representations of objects. How can this artwork help us to invent our own project, and how can AI be a tool to make our project even more multilateral? First, we discussed which object to use. Initially, my thermos, which was on the table, was referred to as an example without any intention of actually using it. It was a “place filler” until someone said: “Why don’t we use the thermos?” It might seem kind of dull to use a thermos as the main character of a project, but after the project developed further, we explored the many ways a thermos can be looked at. Why do we use a thermos? What does a thermos signify? How can we use a thermos? What is inside a thermos? What sounds does a thermos make? How can we use ChatGPT to describe a thermos? All these questions came up, and we went back and forth discussing how to continue. Although we are a small group of only eight students, it is not always easy to coordinate, as everyone has different ideas on how to move forward. So, we decided to use the different perspectives of each person for our project. How does our job, our interests, who we are, affect how we see a thermos? And how can we use these different views on a thermos to underline that there is not one single way to represent a thermos properly? How can we challenge reality in our own way, using our skills and interests? What is a thermos in the mind of … a dietician? …a psychologist? …a philosopher? …an AI user? …a graphic designer?It was a sunny day—a Thursday—when we all met to attend a course on learning how to talk and write properly in English. As we are all students at the University of Arts Linz, Austria, there is a special focus on the use of English in the context of arts and culture. To make that a bit more cheerful, our teacher—Lisa Rosenblatt—gave us the task of developing our own project. Due to new technologies, and the use of Chat GPT, the course aimed to give us some insights into artificial intelligence (AI), and implementing AI in our project, which was a new experience for all of us. While discussing what our project would be, one student came up with the idea of using the artwork One and Three Chairs by the conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth from 1965 as inspiration. In that artwork the artist shows the spectator a picture of a chair, a description of a chair, and an actual physical chair. Through that artwork, Kosuth highlights the relationship between language, picture, and referent, and makes us think about the visual and verbal representations of objects. How can this artwork help us to invent our own project, and how can AI be a tool to make our project even more multilateral?
First, we discussed which object to use. Initially, my thermos, which was on the table, was referred to as an example without any intention of actually using it. It was a “place filler” until someone said: “Why don’t we use the thermos?” It might seem kind of dull to use a thermos as the main character of a project, but after the project developed further, we explored the many ways a thermos can be looked at.
Why do we use a thermos? What does a thermos signify? How can we use a thermos? What is inside a thermos? What sounds does a thermos make? How can we use ChatGPT to describe a thermos?
All these questions came up, and we went back and forth discussing how to continue. Although we are a small group of only eight students, it is not always easy to coordinate, as everyone has different ideas on how to move forward. So, we decided to use the different perspectives of each person for our project. How does our job, our interests, who we are, affect how we see a thermos? And how can we use these different views on a thermos to underline that there is not one single way to represent a thermos properly? How can we challenge reality in our own way, using our skills and interests?
What is a thermos in the mind of … a dietician? …a psychologist? …a philosopher? …an AI user? …a graphic designer?