Arts-based/Practice-based Research

Arts-based/practice-based research emphasizes the intertwining of knowledge, aesthetic experience, and artistic practice. It understands the process of artistic creation as a process of exploration and cognition and film as a medium of thought and reflection. Due to the continuing difficulty of accessing third-party funding, this research approach is currently being implemented primarily in smaller projects funded by the university, including the IKF's Prize for Arts-based Research.

2017 - 2018 Algorithmic composition and machine learning in film editing
Film editing and storytelling are tasks that are difficult to automate because of their complexity and their demand on creativity. They require a deep…
2017 - 2018 Painting or Film? Audiovisual methods for reconstructing the biography of the Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon
Southern France 1940. A young woman sits by the sea, she paints. She sings softly to herself. She paints, writes and sings obsessively, and within two…
2017 - 2018 Eigenzeit – Experimental arrangements of analog animation and their intrinsic artistic value examined in the context of historical photographic processes
Digitization has profoundly changed all artistic fields but especially the processes of animation. Judith Andó's research project is a deliberate…
2017 - 2018 Ring. An experimental short film about the aesthetics of time in film
"Ring" is a 10-minute experimental film with 20 fixed shots, each 30 seconds long. They are shot along the 37.5 km Ringbahn route of the S41 and S42,…
2017 - 2021 Head through the Wall
A documentary-experimental film workshop in a Romanian prison
2016 - 2017 Searching for traces in the liminal realm
In the liminal area of theater, film and media: Searching for traces of essential impulses of an aesthetic as well as structural reorientation through…
2016 - 2017 Waltraut Pathenheimer
Susanne Foidl and Anna Luise Kiss named their artistic research project, an excellent example of research in teaching, after Waltraut Pathenheimer.…
2016 - 2017 Mise-en-Peau. How is This Still A Thing? – A Multimedia Installation on Othering in the German Film and Television Landscape
Therese Koppe, Reinaldo Almeida and Hao Dieu Do constitute formats for more political engagement in film and its industry. The "Political Film Forum",…
2016 - 2017 Surrealistic narrative image worlds
In the context of her artistic-scenographic research project "Surrealistic Narrative Worlds of Images", Svantje Woltersdorf investigates the…
2015 - 2016 Digital Orchestral Alienations
Digitization and internet platforms like Youtube, Facebook, Reddit or other forums, lead to an exponentially growing democratization of knowledge…