Artistic Research and Experimental Practices. Situated Knowledge in Art, Technology and Science
This seminar approaches audiovisual culture as a field of artistic research, extending across moving image, sound, performance, installation, technology, and contemporary visual culture.
Inspired by the experimental pedagogical methodologies developed through Interspecifics, the seminar moves deliberately between the classroom and other contexts of knowledge production. Sessions may take the form of screenings, listening sessions, conversations with artists and curators, studio encounters, exhibition visits, collective readings, and activities across Berlin.
Rather than constructing a fixed history of audiovisual art, we will follow different trajectories through contemporary practices and the cultural, technological, and political conditions from which they emerge. Particular attention will be given to expanded cinema, experimental film, sound and image relationships, live audiovisual practices, archives, computational images, and generative systems.
The seminar understands artistic research as a situated practice. We will ask how images and sounds acquire meaning through specific contexts, and how artists construct methodologies by moving between disciplines, technologies, and forms of knowledge.
The aim is to open the seminar beyond the classroom, using Berlin itself as part of the research environment and creating encounters through which students can develop their own critical and experimental methodologies.