My Teaching as Interim Professor

Oct 12

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As a substitute professor, I am teaching several seminars this winter semester at the Institute of Art Education at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU). The courses draw on my areas of focus in artistic practice and academic research, and I am looking forward to working with the students!

Magic Medium: Artistic Research with Multimedia

Which forms of ritual practice are part of our everyday digital lives? What symbols, aesthetics, and spiritual or magical practices shape different media? Where do technology and magic intertwine? And how can artistic and spiritual strategies reveal critical ways of engaging with the present?

The seminar explores examples and strategies from media art, introduces artistic research methods, and provides a space for developing, presenting, and reflecting on individual artistic projects. The focus is on spatial media art – particularly the interplay of installation and video projection – as well as other forms of media art, such as sound.

Arts Education in the Chthulucene – Artistic Educational Projects Exploring Ecological Connectedness

What if humans no longer saw themselves as being at the pinnacle of creation? What if they broke away from the patterns of behaviour that contribute to the destruction of nature, climate, and the environment?

The term Chthulucene was introduced by philosopher of science Donna Haraway. It describes a different geological epoch, shaped by multispecies practices of becoming-with one another.

Drawing on philosophical theories of the relationship between humans and nature, this seminar explores artistic educational projects that engage with ecological connectedness. Concepts such as Education for Sustainable Development and climate justice, alongside art education approaches and teaching impulses (based on the publication KUNSTPAUSE 3 – Zeit für die Kunst), provide a foundation for developing and implementing independent educational projects.

The seminar will include guest contributions by Dr Katrin Petroschkat and Professor Uwe Lübken, as well as a visit to oekom Verlag. The educational concepts developed will be implemented in collaboration with the Ecological Education Centre (Ökologisches Bildungszentrum).

Projects with Digital Media in Three-Dimensional Image Worlds – Working on Myth II

In this seminar, participants research and present mythological themes, develop conceptual approaches informed by critical perspectives, and create their own digital 3D environments exploring the theme of myth. These environments are then critically reflected upon, creatively designed, and presented, potentially incorporating additional software such as DaVinci Resolve.

Digital Gardening – Artistic and Research-Based Media Art Projects

A digital garden is a personal space on the internet where ideas can grow, connect with one another, and evolve over time. This interplay between the digital and the organic serves as the starting point for this seminar.

We will explore how gardens are changing in the context of digitality: What kinds of sensory experiences of nature emerge? How do virtual and analogue sensory perceptions overlap? How are plants and other living beings technologically monitored and controlled? What kinds of relationships with nature exist in hybrid worlds, and how might alternative ecofeminist relationships be imagined?

Alongside examining artistic positions in media art, the seminar introduces methods of artistic research, with a particular focus on experimental approaches to video. Field research, walks, and visits to gardens are integral parts of the seminar, as is an introduction to audio and video editing software.

Building on these explorations, participants will develop their own research questions, which will inform individual artistic projects to be presented and discussed at the end of the seminar.