Masterclass Artistic Research 2020

GLOBE PLAYHOUSE – EXPANDED ANIMATION WORLDS

The Masterclass is divided into a Welcome Day, a three-day symposium at the beginning, and a six-day subsequent experimental or rather design workshop with final presentations.

On Welcome Day the framing theme GLOBE PLAYHOUSE – EXPANDED ANIMATION WORLDS will be introduced, which feeds back the hybrid artistic production perspective in terms of content and integrates it into the context of local and global key issues.

During the three-day symposium, speakers from various disciplines will provide stimulating thought-provoking impulses for joint exploration. The lectures will open up a broad spectrum and touch upon the following aspects, among others:

• animation aesthetics in a contemporary context
• hybrid art: analog and digital image concepts in their transformation processes
• audiovisual image design: projection, reflection and philosophical fiction
• perspective of neuroscience
• gender as poetic construction
• paradox of fiction in relation to fact & fake
• fake news and deepfake
• image as body experience: VR, MR, and AR as performative image practices
• participatory processes in pictorial art as a link back to the real
• documentary film and experimental science fiction in immersive media
• practices of audiovisual image design as elementary key competences and prerequisite for future media (low & high tech production)
• production of 360° Sound and Music
• 360° Cinematography and Production Design
• workshop: concept development for VR, MR, and AR

Against this background, the subsequent experimental workshop will focus on various concepts and traditions of the image, taking into account different cultural influences. In the context of audio-visual media, artistic image practices will be examined to determine the extent to which the image can be linked back to reality.

The main focus is on concrete designs for animation concepts in a dialogue between art, science and technology using methods such as Animating Knowledge, Experimental Documentary or Expanded Animation Cinema. The image as a medium of socio-cultural identity will be discussed in the context of "local" and "global" as concepts. Its design potential in the context of a "work net" or "action net" will be questioned. According to thematic foci that are defined beforehand in the workshop phases (e.g. private space, public space, social space, reflection, projection, knowledge and experience etc.) corresponding concepts and prototypes for VR, MR, and AR will be designed. The topics of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals of the UN are to be a thematic point of orientation.

Followed by the masterclass all outcomes and prototypes will be presented in a specially designed e-book and constructed VR room, which can be seen as a virtual "SPACELAB". The VR room will function as a form of online exhibition, that will be accessible for the public.

Fee Altmann, Managing Director IKF / Institute for Artistic Research Filmuni, Arts Management & Creative Producing

Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Filmmaker, Cameroon and Lecturer Duke University, USA

Prof. Angelica Böhm, Professor Fundamentals of Scenography, Transmedia Storytelling, Filmuni, Germany

Tatiana Brandrup, Movie director, Berlin, Germany

Ulu Braun, Free Artist and Filmmaker, Berlin, Germany

Prof. Dr. Angela Brennecke, Professor of Audio and Interactive Media Technologies / Directing Audio Processing, Filmuni, Germany

Dr. Franziska Bruckner, Head of Media Creation Research Group, Department of Media and Digital Technologies, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Vienna

Prof. Dr. Suzanne Buchan, Professor of Animation Aesthetics, Royal College of Art, London, UK

Leo Calice, Landscape Designer and Filmmaker, Vienna, Austria

Dr. Julia Dittmann, Media scientist and lecturer (Braunschweig University of Art), Berlin, Germany

Ruah Edelstein, Director, Animation Artist, Visual Artist and Lecturer, CalArts, Los Angeles, USA

Anja Ellenberger, Art and film historian / Curator, Hamburg, Germany

Uwe Flade, Music Video Director / 360° Experiences and Entrepreneur, Berlin

Carita Forsgren, Artist, Project Manager, Interactive Media Department, Tampere University of Applied Sciences, Finland

Prof. Dr. Ursula Frohne, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, University of Münster, Deutschland.

Prof. Dr. Vittorio Gallese, Professor of Psychobiology and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Parma, Italy

Prof. Frank Geßner, Artist and Professor of Theory and Practice of Visual Art, Head of Globe Playhouse, Arts Management & Creative Producing, Filmuni, Germany

Gusztáv Hámos, Independent Media Artist, Filmmaker, Author, Berlin, Germany

Evgeny Kalachikhin, Director, Editor, Colorist, VR Artist, and Lecturer, Filmuni, Germany

Christian Katti, Philosopher, Münster, Germany

Jeanne Koepp, Freelance ceramicist and artist, Berlin, Germany

Bärbel Mauch, Producer, Berlin, Germany

Lauren Moffatt, Artist, New Media, VR, Video, and Performance, Berlin, and Lecturer Filmuni, Germany

Christian Möller, Academic Employee, Cinematography, Filmuni, Germany

Bruno Nagel, Text, Performance, and Installation Artist, Hohenstaufen and Berlin, Germany

Gülsel Özkan, Movie director and screenwriter, Berlin, Germany

Dr. Vesna Petresin, FRSA, Transdisciplinary Artist, Visiting Fellow, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK and Lecturer, Amsterdam University of Arts, Netherlands

Prof. Ludger Pfanz, Professor for Art and Cultural Management, Karlshochschule International University and Head of Expanded 3 Digital Expanded Cinema Laboratory, Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, Karlsruhe, Germany

Katja Pratschke, Independent Media Artist and Curator, Author, Berlin, Germany

Prof. Wolf D. Prix, Architect, Cofounder of Coop Himmelb(l)au, Vienna, Austria

Prof. Hubertus Rath, Professor Sound for Picture, Filmuni, Germany

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Christine Reeh-Peters, Junior Professor of Theory and Practice of Artistic Research in Digital Media, Filmuni, Germany

Anne-Sophie Philippi, Academic Employee, Media Science, Filmuni, Germany

Dr. Maike Sarah Reinerth, Academic Employee, Dramaturgy and Aesthetics of Audiovisual Media, Filmuni, Germany

Prof. Uli Reuter, Professor of Film Music Composition, Filmuni, Germany

Manuel Roßner, VR Artist, Virtual Sculpture, Immersive Technologies, Berlin, Germany

Jan Schneider, Production Designer, Berlin, Germany

David Schornsheim, Sound Supervisor, Audio Programmer and Lecturer Filmuni, Germany

Kathleen Schröter, Alchemist & Technologist, Journey 2 Creation, Berlin, Germany

Prof. Susanne Schüle, Professor of Cinematography for Non-fiction Genres, Filmuni, Germany

Robert Seidel, Transdisciplinary Artist and Curator, Berlin, Germany

Prof. Elizabeth Sikiaridi, Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Duisburg-Essen und OWL University of Applied Sciences and Arts and founder of Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, Germany 

Johanna Smiatek, Visual Artist, Interactive kinetic Art, Berlin, Germany

Prof. Dr. Yvonne Spielmann, Institute of Professional Development, Berlin, Germany

Prof. Björn Stockleben,  Professor of New Media Production, Filmuni, Germany

Prof. Dr. Atau Tanaka,  Professor of Media Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

Gerhard Treml, Visual Artist, Art-Based Researcher and Filmmaker, Vienna, Austria

Masha Vasilkovsky, Experimental Animation Artist and Lecturer, CalArts, Los Angeles, USA

Prof. Frans Vogelaar, Professor of Hybrid Space / Media Space at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and founder of Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, Germany 

Prof. Dr. Paul Ward, Professor of Animation Studies, Art University Bournemouth, UK

Prof. Dr. Stefan Winter, Professor of Artistic Research, Aesthetics of the Arts and History of Science, Filmuni, Germany

Christian Zipfel, Filmmaker, Fiction, Documentary, VR, and Lecturer Filmuni, Germany

For the Masterclass, we are looking for artistically-researching master students and doctoral candidates from all disciplines who wish to test and expand their research approaches and artistic working methods in an exchange of ideas.

As this offer will take place ONLINE due to the Corona Pandemic, please note that the Masterclass is located in the time zone Central European Time (CET) / Middle European Time (MET, German: MEZ). Due to the special challenges of an online workshop, mainly low technology should be used. However participants need a high-speed internet connection for video conferences and a computer with a good performance. Drawing, painting, architecture, animation, 2D or 3D image programs, a smartphone or iPad as well as analogue drawing, painting, and simple model making material for one's own 360° prototyping should be available.

All applicants should submit until 7 August 2020 a 360° project outline (1 page with graphical material if existing), a short letter of motivation with academic CV and samples of artistic work. You can send the documents as one PdF file via our online registration form or as single documents to Isabel Rosalind Rojas via e-mail (isabel.rojas(at)filmuniversitaet.de).

A selection committee will assess the applications and select the participants.

Prof. Frank Geßner, Theory and Practice of Visual Art, Head of Filmuni Masterclass, Arts Management & Creative Producing

Fee Altmann, Managing Director IKF / Institute for Artistic Research Filmuni, Arts Management & Creative Producing

Julie Halten, Head of Filmuni Summer School

Monika Richter, Project Staff Filmuni Summer School

Isabel Rosalind Rojas, Student Project Staff Filmuni Masterclass

Felix Römer, Student Project Staff Filmuni Masterclass