Art Education & Artistic Research
Art Education
I have been teaching photography and time-based media at different art colleges, academies and universities since 2005. From 2014-2018 I worked as an academic assistant to Prof. Andreas Kleinert and Prof. Barbara Albert at the Filmuniversity Potsdam-Babelsberg. I have taught photography at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design London, the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Berlin University of the Arts, Sciences Po Paris and Mannheim University of Applied Sciences among others. Research-based learning and student-centered didactics are at the heart of my teaching at the universities. At the same time my creative-research practice can be found in the artistic direction as well as teaching within cultural education and community art.
Important to me are topics on future image production processes in the digital transformation and design possibilities of transformation processes, such as the generation of electricity through photovoltaics in projections in public space, and to develop projects on this with the students. Changing perspectives in context, attitude and position are important to me in my teaching. My teaching is constructivist, intersubjective, involving and activating. Open and equal exchange are the basis of my teaching. Teaching students to accept and weigh different opinions without losing their own attitude and position is what makes up my understanding of teaching photography in art and design. It is important to me that students develop an individual visual language with their own stance, become socially and politically involved as artists' personalities and are also able to contextualise themselves in an expanded concept of photography. In particular, as a lecturer at an university, I hope to be able to help shape a diversity and gender sensitive space.
Teaching portfolio on demand
COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
to mention some
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design,
Universities of the Arts London
Tokyo School of Photography, Tokyo
Temple University Tokyo
American University, Paris
Grande Ecole Sciences Po, Paris
Filmuniversität Potsdam-Babelsberg
Universität der Künste, Berlin
Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart
FH Potsdam in cooperation with NTUT Taiwan
Hochschule Mannheim - Hochschule Offenburg
Cultural Education
topics:
Aesthetic education
Community Art
Participation and Inclusion
Intercultural Communication
Outreach & Discourses
Artistic Research
interests and interfaces:
Participative Reseaerch
Research on democratic culture in immersive digital environments
Digital and Photographic Literacy
Virtual Reality and Metaverse
Expanded Photography
Time-Space-Identity through photography
Urban development
Third Place
Social Design and Design Thinking
Sustainable methods in the photographic process
Arts and Design Based Research
Interfaces of art, design and sciences interest me from my studies of artistic research at the Art University Linz, which I completed 2019 with a Ph.D. in artistic and design based research. I work artistically on the topic of identity trough relations from space to time to the self. Thematic areas that appeal to me in artistic and design based research are urban research and urban development, Social Design and Design Thinking. In addition, my work is based on interdisciplinary work with other disciplines. In particular, I am interested in research collaboration with institutes on comparative studies related to machine learning versus human learning. In this respect, it is a particular concern for me to think about the impact of digitalization on society and reflect upon Digital Literacy as well as I am currently focus on themes like climate policy, sustainability, digitalization, and equality.
Starting in February, I will be doing postdoctoral research on democratic culture in immersive digital environments at the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences. I am very much looking forward to the new task and research within this amazing EU Horizon project.
Artistic research conferences and publication list on demand.