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    Name Type Description
    Eliott Sound Products Website Australian Engineer focused on Audio electronics, a lot of good and well written articles
    The Art of Electronics Book The Book on anything electronics. A very good read, but expensive! Ask me in person if you want to read it.
    Small Signal Audio Design Book A very good book with a ton of circuits for audio applications. Even more expensive. Ask me in person if you want to read it.
    HFBK SDIY Wiki Website Wiki of the HFBK SDIY-Project, collected knowledge on modular synthesizers
    HFBK SDIY Repo Website Gitlab Repository of the HFBK SDIY Project, multiple Synth- and Audio Related Projects
    Institut für Telenautik Website Homepage of the Ulf Freyhoff’s Mixed Media Lab (R210 Le)
    Computerei Website Homepage of Tilo Kremer’s Computerei Lab (R243)
    Unity Website Website and Resources related to the course Interactive 3D with Unity
    Louis Rossmann Youtube Channel A grumpy NYC electronics repair guy focused on Apple products shows how it is done
    EEVBlog Youtube Channel A famous Austrialian Youtube Channel with some good content and interesting recommendations for cheap tools

    Circuit and PCB-Design

    There are many software packages that help with the creation and planing of schematics, as well as the translation of this schematic into a PCB that can be sent of to manufacturing. While this fabrication process might seem cumbersome and a bit luxurious, soldering a PCB is usually much less error prone and time efficient than wiring something by hand.

    Name Description
    Horizon-EDA A modern Open-Source Software that can be used to draw schematics, layout PCBs and export them in a format suitable for fabrication. In Comparison with KiCAD this offers a more streamlined UI and more modern features, while the parts library is still smaller. Prefered choice of the workshop.
    KiCAD The traditional Open-Source EDA (Electronic Design Automation) Software. Has a huge parts library, sadly parts managment and UI are anything but modern
    LibrePCB Another Open-Source EDA software worth looking into
    Fritzing A good software for beginners and people who don’t want to manufacture PCBs

    Electronics Simulation

    Often it makes sense to simulate a circuit before going of an buying the parts. This can help safe time, money and nerves.

    Name Description
    CircuitJS A simple realtime browser-based circuit simulator. While it might not be 100% accurate in all cases, it helps to get a quick feeling for most circuits
    LTSpice A free (but not open source) circuit simulator with a very old school interface. But it allows for very accurate simulations if the right models are used

    Media Theory

    Format Name Description
    Video/Youtube Walter Benjamins Media Theory A video introduction to Walter Benjamin’s ideas on media and reproduction.
    Text/PDF Walter Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Benjamin’s seminal essay exploring how mechanical reproduction affects the aura of art.
    Video/Youtube Marshal McLuhan Overview of McLuhan’s media theory, including concepts like “the medium is the message.”
    Video/Youtube The Medium is the Message – BBC Interview with Marshall McLuhan (1977) A historical BBC interview where McLuhan explains his famous media aphorism.
    Video/Youtube Jean Baudrillard: Hyper Reality – An Introduction to Baudrillard Introductory video on Baudrillard’s theory of hyperreality and simulation.
    Text/PDF Jean Baudrillard – Simulacra and Simulations Key text outlining Baudrillard’s theory of simulacra and simulation.
    Text/PDF Stuart Hall – Encoding/Decoding Hall’s influential model explaining how media messages are produced and interpreted.
    Text/PDF Hans Magnus Enzensberger – Constituents of a Theory of the Media (1970) A Marxist media theory classic examining the emancipatory potential of media technologies.
    Text/PDF John Berger – Ways of Seeing (Book) A classic text introducing critical approaches to visual culture and representation.
    Video/Youtube John Berger – Ways of Seeing (BBC Series, Episode 1) The first episode of the BBC adaptation of Berger’s book, engaging with how we interpret images.
    Text/PDF Raymond Williams – Television: Technology and Cultural Form (excerpt) A foundational critique on how television as a medium shapes culture and society.
    Text/PDF Donna Haraway – A Cyborg Manifesto (1985) A foundational feminist and posthumanist text exploring the merging of humans and technology.
    Text/PDF Lev Manovich – The Language of New Media (excerpt) A modern analysis of digital media and its aesthetics, blending media theory with software studies.
    Text/PDF Vilém Flusser – Towards a Philosophy of Photography (excerpt) Explores how photography reshapes perception, communication, and culture.
    Text/PDF Jussi Parikka – What is Media Archaeology? (excerpt) Introduces a method for studying obsolete or forgotten media forms and their cultural significance.
    Text/PDF Nick Couldry – Media, Society, World (excerpt) Examines how media practices shape the social world in the digital age.
    Video/Youtube CrashCourse – Media Literacy An accessible introduction to media literacy and the critical consumption of media.
    Video/Youtube Nerdwriter – How the News Uses Graphic Design to Brainwash You A critique of visual techniques in news broadcasting that influence perception.
    Youtube Channel Every Frame a Painting Video essays analyzing film form and visual storytelling in cinema.
    Interactive Web MIT OpenCourseWare – Media Theory and Practice Free university-level course including readings, assignments, and frameworks.
    Podcast The Media Theory Podcast Conversations with scholars on foundational and contemporary issues in media theory.
    Podcast Thinking Allowed – Media Sociology Episodes (BBC) Academic discussions on media and society from a sociological perspective.

    Media Theory – Internet

    Format Name and Link Description
    Text/PDF Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari – Introduction to A Thousand Plateaus (Rhizome) Foundational concept describing non-hierarchical, decentralized structures like the internet.
    Text/PDF Alexander Galloway – Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization (Excerpt) Examines how internet protocols embody power and control in networked environments.
    Text/PDF Tiziana Terranova – Network Culture: Politics for the Information Age (Excerpt) A critical look at the cultural and political implications of networked digital life.
    Text/PDF Wendy Chun – Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (Excerpt) Explores how internet freedom is entangled with systems of control, surveillance, and identity.
    Video/Youtube An Introduction to Platform Capitalism Overview of how digital platforms commodify data and shape media ecosystems.
    Podcast Theory & Philosophy – Deleuze and Guattari on Rhizomes A clear explanation of rhizome theory and its relevance to media and the internet.

    Media Technology – General

    Format Name and Link Description
    Text/PDF Lev Manovich – What is Digital Cinema? Explores the shift from traditional film to digital media, blending theory with technology.
    Interactive Web Khan Academy – Pixar in a Box Behind-the-scenes look at animation and media production from Pixar, covering tech and theory.
    Text/PDF Lisa Gitelman – Always Already New (Excerpt) A historical look at “new” media technologies and how they’re socially constructed.
    Podcast The Vergecast – Media and Tech Episodes Weekly podcast discussing developments in media, tech platforms, and hardware.

    Light & Optics

    Format Name and Link Description
    Text/PDF Sean Cubitt – The Practice of Light (Excerpt) A historical and aesthetic study of light as medium in visual culture, from fire to fiber optics.
    Text/PDF Vilém Flusser – Gestures (Photography & Lighting) Reflections on the act of photographing and the cultural gesture of manipulating light.
    Text/PDF Jacques Rancière – The Future of the Image (Excerpt) Explores how images function, questioning visibility, light, and representation in contemporary media.
    Text/PDF Laura Mulvey – Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema A key feminist theory text analyzing how cinematic lighting and gaze construct meaning and power.
    Video/Youtube Lighting Basics – Aputure Beginner-friendly guide to three-point lighting and cinematic techniques using LEDs.
    Video/Youtube Basics of Light for Photography – The Slanted Lens Practical tutorial on the properties of light and how they affect photographic exposure.
    Interactive Web ETC Lighting Control Tutorials Interactive console training focused on stage and architectural lighting systems.
    Text/PDF John Berger – Ways of Seeing (Excerpt) Foundational text on how vision, light, and context shape interpretation of visual media.
    Interactive Web Filmmaker’s Guide to Lighting – No Film School Resource hub for filmmakers with guides on natural and artificial lighting for cinematic effects.

    Sound & Audio Technology

    Format Name and Link Description
    Text/PDF R. Murray Schafer – The Soundscape (Excerpt) Foundational text in acoustic ecology and the cultural shaping of sonic environments.
    Text/PDF Luigi Russolo – The Art of Noises (Futurist Manifesto) 1913 futurist manifesto advocating for noise as a new musical language in the age of machines.
    Text/PDF Pierre Schaeffer – In Search of a Concrete Music (Excerpt) Originator of musique concrète; explores sound manipulation and acousmatic listening.
    Text/PDF Maryanne Amacher – Selected Writings Explorations into psychoacoustics, spatial sound, and the perception of media through the body.
    Video/Youtube How Microphones Work – Shure Explains different microphone types and applications in media production.
    Text/PDF Curtis Roads – Microsound (Excerpt) Theory and practice of granular synthesis and microsound composition.
    Text/PDF Pauline Oliveros – Deep Listening (Excerpt) A practice-based approach to sound awareness, perception, and improvisational performance.
    Interactive Web Dolby Institute – Sound Design for Storytelling Educational hub with case studies and insights into immersive and narrative sound design.
    Podcast Twenty Thousand Hertz Podcast exploring the hidden impact of sound, sound design, and audio technology in everyday life.

    Interactive Arts

    Format Name and Link Description
    Text/PDF Chris Salter – Entangled (Excerpt) Investigates how media artists work with sensors, bodies, and environments in complex, performative systems.
    Text/PDF Branden Hookway – Interface (Excerpt) Philosophical and architectural exploration of the interface as a site of control, relation, and transformation.
    Text/PDF Roy Ascott – Behaviourist Art and the Cybernetic Vision (1966) Early cybernetic theory applied to interactive art, shifting focus from object to behavior and feedback.
    Text/PDF Myriam Lefkowitz – Scores for Somatic Attention (PDF download) Site-specific, participatory, and sensory-driven approaches to performance and embodied interfaces.
    Video/Youtube What is Haptics? – Future Interfaces Group Accessible primer on how touch-based interfaces work and where they’re headed.
    Text/PDF Olia Lialina – Turing Complete User (Excerpt) A critical take on interactivity and agency in the digital user interface.
    Interactive Web Unity Learn – VR Development Pathway Hands-on curriculum for building immersive, interactive media environments using Unity.
    Interactive Web MIT Media Lab – Tangible Media Group Research archive showcasing experimental, body-centric, and haptic interface design in art and science.