Research
Research at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne is distinguished through its integration and connection of not only the different artistic media, but also through practical work and theory. Scientific and artistic methods of research are pursued as different but equally important ways of knowledge production, with activities focusing on the development of an interrogative approach.
In recent years, productive interdisciplinary laboratories and platforms have emerged that combine artistic research and epistemological issues. Research projects are being initiated and carried out, workshops and conferences are hosted and the results are published regularly. Moreover, the academy is cooperating with various research networks.
At the Academy of Media Arts, research is done by members of the teaching staff or carried out by teams in externally funded projects, in cooperation projects with other universities or research institutions and in individual PhD projects that have been pooled in the “Artefakte” PhD programme since the beginning of 2009.
Laboratories and Platforms
Lab3
Laboratory for interface and robotic art and research.
Lab3
Klanglabor
Practice, Theory, Research, the 3-fold activities of Klanglabor located within the Arts and Media Sciences group at the KHM.
Klanglabor
Current Projects of Research
Embodied Information
BMBF Collaborative Research Project: FU Freie Universität Berlin, khm Academy of Media Arts Cologne and guest researchers.
The goal of the research group is to analyse the concepts and visions currently applied to produce units of embodied information in the fields of information and bio sciences. Our investigations are based on interviews with leading scientists and analyses of concepts, practises, images and metaphors for conceiving and envisioning 'converging technologies'. Further information: http://www.fu-berlin.de/embodiedinformation
Cooperations in Research
Materie/Materialize and Heavy Matter
Within the Materie/Materialize! seminar and the following "Heavy Matter" seminar, students developed projects and conceptualized a workshop for ISEA 2010. In August of 2010 students, teaching staff and alumnis of the KHM presented their projects and a publication in conjunction with the KHM magazine off topic.
Materie/Materialize!http://www.isea2010ruhr.org/Heavy Matter
The Concept of Artistic/Scientific Doctorates
The KHM Science Department and the Institute for Theory at Zurich University of the Arts cooperate on issues of artistic/scientific PhD programmes.http://www.ith-z.ch/
Cooperation Project "Die Zukunft der technischen Welt"
„Die Zukunft der technischen Welt“ is a cooperation in progress between KHM and Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Prof. Dr. Erich Hörl and Prof. Dr. Stefan Rieger), in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou (Prof. Dr. Bernard Stiegler) and the University of Arab Emirates (Prof. Dr. Nicole Karafyllis).
Recently finished projects
Artistic Interactivity in Hybrid Networks
This project is part of the SFB / FK Media and Cultural Communication (SFB/FK 427), which is a transdisciplinary cooperation of different Universities. It is based at the Institute of Musicology, Department of Systematic Musicology (Univ. Cologne) and the Academy of Media Arts.
Artistic Interactivity in Hybrid Networks
Citizen Media
European research project to enable non-professional users to co-create networked applications and experiences with user-generated content.
Citizen Mediaist-citizenmedia.orgProject "Unortkataster"Project "Kabadada"
LIVE
The LIVE project radically improves on linear approaches to TV broadcasting of live events by providing digital technologies and content formats that enable viewers to shape their own personal and highly interactive viewing experience.Live interface.khm.deist-live.org