- Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Kulturwissenschaft, Graduate Studentadd
- Felix Gerloff (*1986) is junior researcher at the Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures (HGK FHNW) within the research project »Machine Love? Creativity Cultures in Underground Electronic Music and Software Engineering« and PhD candidate at the Humboldt-University Berlin. He graduated in 2013 as Magister Artium (M.A.) at the Humboldt-Unive... moreFelix Gerloff (*1986) is junior researcher at the Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures (HGK FHNW) within the research project »Machine Love? Creativity Cultures in Underground Electronic Music and Software Engineering« and PhD candidate at the Humboldt-University Berlin. He graduated in 2013 as Magister Artium (M.A.) at the Humboldt-University’s Institut für Kulturwissenschaft (Institute for Cultural History & Theory) with a thesis on netlabelism & free music on the web. His PhD project focuses on the re-development of programming as a cultural technique, computational thinking and coding epistemologies in human-machine-collaborations. He strives to understand the ways in which media, epistemic practices, and the formation of culture constitute each other. His interests include sound studies with special regard to sonic modes of thinking and reasoning, games and ludic practices, and the history of notational iconicity and cultural techniques. Since 2011 he is organizing a sound studies colloquium and public lecture series »KlangDenken« (sonic thinking) in Berlin in collaboration with Sebastian Schwesinger. His work includes further project management and curating in the contexts of CLB Berlin among others.
KlangDenken project & colloquium – feel free to contact if you are interested in joining the research colloquium!
felixgerloff@email.de
Publications
Journals:
Gerloff, Felix/Schwesinger Sebastian: Sonic Thinking. Epistemological Modelings of the Sonic in Audio Papers and Beyond, in: O’Keefe, L. (Hg.): Writing About/Through Sound, Interference Journal 5 (2016), S. 89-102, http://www.interferencejournal.org/sonic-thinking-epistemological-modellings-of-the-sonic-in-audio-papers-and-beyond.
Allen, Jamie/Bruder, Johannes/Gerloff, Felix: Letter from the Editors: Lost & Found, continent., Vol. 5(1) (2016), http://continentcontinent.cc/index.php/continent/article/view/224.
Gerloff, Felix/Schwesinger, Sebastian: Die Erfindung des Dezibels und Lärmmessung in der Stadt. Auditive Medien als Reservoir epistemischer Werkzeuge, in: Volmar, Axel/Schlüter, Bettina (Hg.): Von akustischen Medien zur auditiven Kultur? Zum Verhältnis von Medienwissenschaft und Sound Studies, Navigationen, 15/2 (2015), S. 51-77.
Edited Volumes:
Volmar, Axel/Gerloff, Felix/Schwesinger, Sebastian: Medienwissenschaft, in: Morat, Daniel/Ziemer, Hansjakob (Hg.): Handbuch Sound, Geschichte – Begriffe – Ansätze, Stuttgart 2018, S. 126-133.
Gerloff, Felix: ‹loop do: play & sleep›: Präfigurationen des Musikmachens in Sonic Pi, in: Fabian, Alan/Ismaiel-Wendt, Johannes (Hg.): Musikformulare und Presets. Musikkulturalisierung und Technik/Technologie, Hildesheim 2018, S. 61-84.
Gerloff, Felix/Schwesinger, Sebastian: What does it mean to think sonically? Contours of Noise as a Sonic Figure of Thought, in: Dijk, Nathanja van/Ergenzinger, Kerstin/Kassung, Christian/Schwesinger, Sebastian (Hg.): Navigating Noise, Köln 2017, S. 168–190.
Gerloff, Felix: ‹Tracing Data›: Konturen eines kulturellen Paradigmas, in: Langkilde, Kirsten: Impact. Aufzeichnungen der Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst FHNW 2015, Basel 2016, S. 129-140.
Editions:
Allen, Jamie/Bruder, Johannes/Gerloff, Felix: Lost & Found, continent., Vol. 5(1) (2016), http://continentcontinent.cc/index.php/continent/issue/view/23.edit
In: Handbuch Sound. Geschichte, Begriffe, Ansätze. Hg. v. Daniel Morat und Hansjakob Ziemer. Stuttgart: Metzler 2018: 126–133.
Research Interests:
How is culture constituted sonically? In what ways are perception, thinking and epistemic practices as such predisposed by the sonic? These questions are being tackled in Sound Studies research but can also be experimentally elaborated in... more
How is culture constituted sonically? In what ways are perception, thinking and epistemic practices as such predisposed by the sonic? These questions are being tackled in Sound Studies research but can also be experimentally elaborated in the form of organised sound itself. To (re)present and negotiate concepts and argumentations sonically is a yet rather marginal and unconventionalised form that bears a high potential for future research in Sound Studies and beyond – thereby following the recent impetus of a design turn within the humanities. We developed this approach further at the Fluid Sounds conference in Copenhagen (2015) where we produced the audio paper Transducing the Bosavi Rainforest. Sonic Modes of Processing Culture on constitutive sonic structures in Berlin and Amager (Copenhagen) inspired by Steven Feld's work on the Kaluli people. This article discusses sonic epistemology and thinking as theoretical background of this approach of writing through sound and describes a concept of the audio paper format alongside the example produced in Copenhagen.
Research Interests:
As part of the proceedings of the 2016 transmediale (TM) festival, the Research Institute for Arts and Technology together with Critical Media Lab Basel was invited to stage one of the festival’s many “conversation pieces”. The thematic... more
As part of the proceedings of the 2016 transmediale (TM) festival, the Research Institute for Arts and Technology together with Critical Media Lab Basel was invited to stage one of the festival’s many “conversation pieces”. The thematic of TM this year revolved around conversation and dialogue, and so Critical Media Lab researchers Moritz Greiner-Petter, Johannes Bruder, Shintaro Miyazaki, Felix Gerloff and Jamie Allen, along with collaborative partners Matthias Tarasiewicz and Sophie Wagner from the Vienna-based Research Institute for Arts and Technology, and researcher Tom Jenkins from the Public Design Workshop at Georgia Tech’s Digital Media program teamed up to frame a discussion session on maker and hacker culture.
For the session, entitled Unmaking: 5 Anxieties, we discussed the disappearance of the physical traction and perfidious engagement with materials in creative practice, the ignoring of material resource chains, the homogenisation and functionalization of once-radical grassroots sub-cultures and communities, and the ignoring of difference in the “maker movement.” The discussion was prompted by a set of ‘concept cards’, designed by Moritz Greiner-Petter. The form of this project apes other formats for ‘creative’ divination and process, like Oblique Strategies, IDEO’s method cards or Critical Making Cards.
For the session, entitled Unmaking: 5 Anxieties, we discussed the disappearance of the physical traction and perfidious engagement with materials in creative practice, the ignoring of material resource chains, the homogenisation and functionalization of once-radical grassroots sub-cultures and communities, and the ignoring of difference in the “maker movement.” The discussion was prompted by a set of ‘concept cards’, designed by Moritz Greiner-Petter. The form of this project apes other formats for ‘creative’ divination and process, like Oblique Strategies, IDEO’s method cards or Critical Making Cards.