The Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) Karlsruhe and the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe (ZKM) were conceived in the 1990s by founding director Heinrich Klotz as places for contemporary research focused on new media. With their combination of university and cultural institution, they offer excellent preconditions for the networking of artistic and scientific approaches, for which, however, a different framework is still needed in Germany.

An overarching postgraduate program is intended to bring together and utilize interdisciplinary expertise in order to explore the relationships between art, theory and design in a new way, thus building on the pioneering founding idea of the HfG and ZKM. At the same time, it is intended to respond to a larger paradigm shift that seems to be taking place in art and culture as well as in the scientific field and which is expressed on the one hand in crises of legitimization and on the other in new and creative forms of research and production of knowledge. The HfG Karlsruhe is taking this diagnosis as an opportunity to redesign hybrid formats of research and also to question the function of academic doctorates.

To present and discuss these programmatic considerations, the HfG is organizing a first symposium with international guests in cooperation with the ZKM Karlsruhe on 5 and 6 December 2024, which aims to design spaces and ideas for a transforming research practice.

With Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Matthias Bruhn, Filipa César, Constanze Fischbeck, Alistair Hudson, Susanne Kriemann, Armin Linke, Tina Lorenz, Monica Narula, Simon Sheikh, Joy Mariama Smith, Nina Zschocke and others.

Information on participation and registration

Start on 5.12. from 2.30 pm, on 06.12. from 10 am to 6 pm

The symposium will be in english language.

Participation in the symposium is only possible with prior registration. Places are limited

Therefore, please register for the symposium by Friday, November 15, 2024 via the following email address: shiftingparadigms(at)hfg-karlsruhe.de

Please add the subject Registration Symposium Shifting Paradigms 2024 to your email and registration and write us your

• full first and last name
• If applicable, your function/institution
• E-mail address where we can reach you

Thank you, we look forward to seeing you!

Your HfG Karlsruhe contact persons for the symposium are: Désirée Düdder-Lechner, Simone Heinrich, Ana Volkland

PROGRAMM

Day 1 / Thursday, 5 Dec. Venue: HfG and ZKM

2.00 pm: Registration and Welcome Conference Space, HfG Lichthof 4

2.30 pm: “Fellow Travellers“ Exhibition Tour with Alistair Hudson ZKM “Fellow Travellers” Exhibition Space

3.30 pm: Opening of the Symposium with Constanze Fischbeck (HfG Karlsruhe), Alistair Hudson (ZKM Karlsruhe) and guests “Useum” in ZKM Fellow Travellers Exhibition Space

4.00 – 6.00 pm: Panel 1: Polycrisis Lecture Performance by Monica Narula (Raqs Media Collective / ETH Zurich); Panel Discussion with Simon Sheikh (HfG Karlsruhe), Monica Narula (ETH Zurich), Alistair Hudson (ZKM Karlsruhe), Nina Zschocke (HfG Karlsruhe) “Useum” in ZKM “Fellow Travellers” Exhibition Space

6.00 – 8.00 pm: Dinner Intervention by Mona Mayer and Marie Faass (Karlsruhe) HfG Lichthöfe

Day 2 / Friday, 6 Dec. Venue: HfG, Lichthof 4

9.30 am: Arrival, Registration, Coffee

10.00 am – 12.00 pm: Panel 2: Research Matters Lecture by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (Prof. em. University of Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne); Research Reports and Panel Discussion with Susanne Kriemann (HfG Karlsruhe), Armin Linke (AdBK Munich), Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Tina Lorenz (Hertzlab, ZKM Karlsruhe). Moderation: Nina Zschocke

12.00 – 1.00 pm Lunch break

1.00 – 3.00 pm: Panel 3: Kill the Dr. phil? Text-based practice and (artistic) research. Talk with Matthias Bruhn (HfG Karlsruhe), Füsun Türetken (HfG Karlsruhe) and guests

3.00 – 3.30 pm: Coffee break

3.30 – 5.30 pm: Panel 4: The Art of Research Performance by Joy Mariama Smith (Amsterdam); Talk with Filipa César (HfG Karlsruhe), Joy Mariama Smith (Amsterdam), Rike Frank (Berlin), Diana McCarthy (HfG Karlsruhe)

5.30 – 6.00 pm: Closing Remarks by Constanze Fischbeck and Alistair Hudson

6.00 – 7.30 pm: Get together, Drinks and Snacks

Please note: Participation in the exhibition tour and dinner is free of charge; for both, an additional and binding pre-booking by e-mail (ed.ehurslrak-gfh(ta)smgidarapgnitfihs) is required.