Einführung in die technischen Grundlagen von Licht, Ton- und Bühnentechnik des großen Studios der HfG im Erdgeschoss.
Pflichtkurs für alle, die im großen Studio Projekte, Ausstellungen oder Veranstaltungen realisieren möchten.
Teilnahme nur mit Voranmeldung unter: sschaefer(at)hfg-karlsruhe.de
Pflichtkurs für alle, die im großen Studio Projekte, Ausstellungen oder Veranstaltungen realisieren möchten.
Teilnahme nur mit Voranmeldung unter: sschaefer(at)hfg-karlsruhe.de
- Dozent/in: Sebastian Schäfer
This foundational seminar introduces students to the broad field of media art through rotating sessions led by professors and associates. From analog film to AI, from sound to performance, the course explores diverse artistic approaches and critical perspectives. Students gain an overview of media as material, concept, and cultural tool while beginning to articulate their own artistic position. Each session examines how media practices are not just tools or formats, but also cultural, political, and aesthetic forces.
Attendance is obligatory for first-semester students. To obtain course credit, students must attend at least 80% of the sessions and participate in the final presentation at the end of the semester.
Attendance is obligatory for first-semester students. To obtain course credit, students must attend at least 80% of the sessions and participate in the final presentation at the end of the semester.
- Dozent/in: Karolina Maria Sobel
Hi there, we hope this description finds you well. Hoping your summer break eased your anxieties and kept you away from all the rotting brains. Or maybe you enjoyed the warm melt of a familiar endless scroll. In any case, we hope you are in good health to go back in time, and into deep corners of modern broadcast histories and of its artistic endeavours.
In the first half of the seminar, we will start by tracing visual broadcasting from the 1980s onwards and explore the World Wide Web to follow our journey into the present. We will examine how we progressed from CBS to Pimp My Ride, and from "tralalero tralala", to alt-right pipelines, using media history and theory to make sense of what is happening in broadcast visual media today.
From the waves of radio to the flows of social media, one-to-many communication has become a key part in how we inform and entertain ourselves. Looking at it throughout the past century, we will focus on specific key broadcast media (radio, television, streaming) and investigate how they can be used and repurposed for political, artistic and commercial intents. Drawing on theories from Vilem Flusser, Noam Chomsky, Stuart Hall and others, we will try to make sense of the kind of environment that these technologies create. We welcome newcomer students as well as first and second years.
It will be accompanied by a two-day workshop focusing on the latest of all media: short-form videos. Taking a hands-on approach, this workshop will introduce the students to Personal Scroller, a research software developed at the HfG to automatically scroll and archive YouTube Shorts video. What can we learn from gathering hours of viewing? How does a shift in representation (from linear scrolling to parallel viewing) involve a shift in perception (from context-collapse to context-emergence)? How well does the broadcast algorithm know us, or how well does it try to push a globalized media consumption on any default user?
In the first half of the seminar, we will start by tracing visual broadcasting from the 1980s onwards and explore the World Wide Web to follow our journey into the present. We will examine how we progressed from CBS to Pimp My Ride, and from "tralalero tralala", to alt-right pipelines, using media history and theory to make sense of what is happening in broadcast visual media today.
From the waves of radio to the flows of social media, one-to-many communication has become a key part in how we inform and entertain ourselves. Looking at it throughout the past century, we will focus on specific key broadcast media (radio, television, streaming) and investigate how they can be used and repurposed for political, artistic and commercial intents. Drawing on theories from Vilem Flusser, Noam Chomsky, Stuart Hall and others, we will try to make sense of the kind of environment that these technologies create. We welcome newcomer students as well as first and second years.
It will be accompanied by a two-day workshop focusing on the latest of all media: short-form videos. Taking a hands-on approach, this workshop will introduce the students to Personal Scroller, a research software developed at the HfG to automatically scroll and archive YouTube Shorts video. What can we learn from gathering hours of viewing? How does a shift in representation (from linear scrolling to parallel viewing) involve a shift in perception (from context-collapse to context-emergence)? How well does the broadcast algorithm know us, or how well does it try to push a globalized media consumption on any default user?
- Dozent/in: Helin Ulas
Erste Versuche, die Geschichte der Kunst und Kultur auf eine wissenschaftliche Basis zu stellen, beruhten schon im 18. Jahrhundert auf dem „materialistischen“ Gedanken, dass die Wahl eines Werkstoffes oder Werkzeugs über die Möglichkeiten der Gestaltung mitentscheide. Auch die Bezeichnung „Kunstwissenschaft“ stammt aus jener Zeit. Die Veranstaltung wird jede Woche ein ausgewähltes Material unter unterschiedlichen Aspekten (wie Kunst- und Technikgeschichte, Design- und Medientheorie) vorstellen und bei dieser Gelegenheit auch Methodenfragen diskutieren. Die Veranstaltung ist als Vorlesung für alle Fachgruppen angelegt; bei regelmäßiger Teilnahme und Abfassung eines Essays kann ein Basis-Leistungsschein Kunstwissenschaft und Medienphilosophie erworben werden.
- Dozent/in: Matthias Bruhn