The research symposium of the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG) and the ZKM | Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe examines how the relationships between art, theory and design can be redefined. The HfG and the ZKM, founded in the 1990s by Heinrich Klotz as research centres for new media, unite university and cultural institution and therefore offer ideal conditions for networking artistic and scientific approaches. However, this requires new framework conditions.
A planned postgraduate programme will bring together interdisciplinary expertise in order to continue the founding idea of the HfG and the ZKM. The programme will respond to current paradigm shifts, which are reflected both in crises of legitimisation and in new, creative forms of knowledge production. The HfG Karlsruhe is taking this as an opportunity to develop hybrid research formats and to question the function of academic doctorates in the field of art.
Registration open until Friday, November 15, 2024, by email to shiftingparadigms@hfg-karlsruhe.de.
The entire programme of the symposium will be held in English:
Day 1 / Thursday, 5 Dec. – Venue: HfG and ZKM
- 2.00 pm: Registration and Welcome
Location: Conference Space, HfG Lichthof 4 - 2.30 pm: “Fellow Travellers“ Exhibition Tour with Alistair Hudson
Location: ZKM “Fellow Travellers” Exhibition Space - 3.30 pm: Opening of the Symposium with Constanze Fischbeck (HfG Karlsruhe), Alistair Hudson (ZKM Karlsruhe) and guests
Location: “Useum” in ZKM Fellow Travellers Exhibition Space - 4.00 – 6.00 pm: Panel 1: Polycrisis
Lecture Performance by Monica Narula (Raqs Media Collective / ETH Zurich);
Panel Discussion with Simon Sheikh (HfG Karlsruhe), Monica Narula (ETH Zurich), Alistair Hudson (ZKM Karlsruhe), Nina Zschocke (HfG Karlsruhe)
Location: “Useum” in ZKM “Fellow Travellers” Exhibition Space - 6.00 – 8.00 pm: Dinner Intervention by Mona Mayer and Marie Faass (Karlsruhe)
Location: HfG Lichthöfe
Day 2 / Friday, 6 Dec. – Venue: HfG, Lichthof 4
- 9.30 am: Arrival, Registration, Coffee
- 10.00 am – 12.00 pm: Panel 2: Research Matters
Lecture by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (Prof. em. University of Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne);
Research Reports and Panel Discussion with Susanne Kriemann (HfG Karlsruhe), Armin Linke (AdBK Munich), Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Tina Lorenz (Hertzlab, ZKM Karlsruhe). Moderation: Nina Zschocke - 12.00 – 1.00 pm Lunch break
- 1.00 – 3.00 pm: Panel 3: Kill the Dr. phil? Text-based practice and (artistic) research.
Talk with Matthias Bruhn (HfG Karlsruhe), Füsun Türetken (HfG Karlsruhe) and guests - 3.00 – 3.30 pm: Coffee break
- 3.30 – 5.30 pm Panel 4: The Art of Research
Performance by Joy Mariama Smith (Amsterdam);
Talk with Filipa César (HfG Karlsruhe), Joy Mariama Smith (Amsterdam), Rike Frank (Berlin), Diana McCarthy (HfG Karlsruhe) - 5.30 – 6.00 pm: Closing Remarks by Constanze Fischbeck and Alistair Hudson
- 6.00 – 7.30 pm: Get together, Drinks and Snacks
Further information can be found at www.hfg-karlsruhe.de
