A World of Changemakers – how can a hybrid arts lecture series concept in e-learning create attitudes and shape skills as a playful and critical thinking navigator in an uncertain world? To re-create meaning is an interdisciplinary cross-sectional task of our Zeitgeist in a civil society. Our international guests represent key roles in relevant philosophical debates, non-university community art & design projects or companies as well as from the gallery or museum context.
The artist as entrepreneur has become a common topic of discussion. Here, however, we put forward the notions of “self” and “system.” First, every artistic practice is self-reflexive and self-contextualizing. Second, each system an artist builds allows for innovation. Let’s construct a space where we inevitably find ourselves together with others, even if we feel lonely, like a witch lost in a library of artists’ books. Let’s invent our right to do so. Let’s enter the world of smell and write about a megalomaniac art school while documenting a generation of art students and their studios with analogue photography. How does anyone even manage—from making objects to performing one’s own existence? Device, organon, animal.
328 pages, Sternberg Press, 2019
ISBN 978-3-956794-88-9
Glossar der Planlosigkeit | MA Kulturpublizistik ZHdK Jahrgang 2020
«Glossar der Planlosigkeit» heisst die Publikation der Kulturpublizistikstudierenden vom Jahrgang 2020. Darin gehts um verpasste Flüge, Nächte im Moonliner & Reisen ohne bekanntes Ziel. Elf Studierende haben geschrieben, konzipiert und redigiert. Nach eineinhalb Jahren findet das Projekt im Mai 2022 sein Ende – jedes Exemplar ist ein Einzelstück, das von einem Algorithmus kuratiert wurde.
Actor & Avatar | Dieter Mersch, Anton Rey, Thomas Grunwald et al. (eds.)
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A Scientific and Artistic Catalog
What kind of relationship do we have with artificial beings (avatars, puppets, robots, etc.)? What does it mean to mirror ourselves in them, to perform them or to play trial identity games with them? Actor & Avatar addresses these questions from artistic and scholarly angles.