Latent Bodies: Impressions from Berlin

Our upcoming online **Latent Bodies** course was inspired by an in-person course we ran last year with Jess Tucker which took place in part at School of Machines and at Jess's studio in Berlin. Here are some impressions of things you will learn in the course as per our experience last year! :)

Taught by Jess Tucker (they/she), an American and Dutch artist currently based in Berlin. Their performances and installations combine video, electronic music, prints, sculptures, and digital interactivity to playfully examine how machinic mediation shapes our experiences of embodiment, selfhood, and desire. Their work has been featured in international exhibitions and performance programs, including Rewire Festival, FOAM Museum of Photography, Goethe Institut, Sónar+D, the Van Gogh Museum, Mana Contemporary, and the International Museum of Surgical Science. Jess is a 2025 Re:Humanism Prize winner and Lumen Prize Finalist. Jess is currently a Lecturer of Digital Media at NYU Berlin, and they have also taught courses in video and new media art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, University of Iowa, and the China Academy of Art.

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Images by Madhumita Nandi, videos by Rachel Uwa, and art videos by Jess Tucker.

Latent Bodies: a generative ai course runs Mondays, 19h-21h CET, from 30. March - 4. May

For more info and to join: https://www.schoolofma.org/programs/p/early2026-latent-bodies