Prof. Charlotte Eifler und Prof. Paul Bailey bereichern zum Start des Wintersemesters 24/25 das Lehrangebot der HfG.

Professor for Mixed Realities (Media Art)

Charlotte Eifler is an artist and filmmaker who explores the politics of representation in relation to technology. Her works in the fields of moving image, extended reality, installation and performance address the intersections of queerness, digitality and speculative futures. Eifler's projects utilise experimental storytelling techniques to question existing power structures and imagine alternative forms of history production and social coexistence.

Her work has been shown internationally, including at Sapporo International Art Japan, ACM Siggraph Digital Art, Los Angeles; Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden Baden, Art Basel, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, IMPAKT Utrecht, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen and RENCONTRES INTERNATIONAL Paris. She is a member of the networks unlearning canon _ intersectional teaching in Art & Design, Digital Critique, feat.fem, FACES - gender,art,technology and G-Edit. Residencies and scholarships have enabled her to carry out international research in Moscow, New York, Ghent, Mexico City and Paris, among other places. She is currently working as a mentor for the Kunstbüro Baden Württemberg.

"I see the professorship for Mixed Realities as an invitation to collaboratively unfold the emancipatory potential of digital technologies. How can we break previous continuities through software and hardware and rethink the triad of culture, power and community?

I understand art production as a sensual, humorous and political practice. An elementary component of teaching is familiarising students with techniques and strategies for producing their own works. The formats are diverse and range from experimental XR settings, film installations, LARPs and digital games to hybrid performances. Always accompanied by the question of what dispositives, peculiarities and narratives the different media bring with them."

Professor for Design in Visual Communication and Research (Communication Design)

Paul Bailey is an Irish graphic designer, researcher and educator based in London (UK), exploring a practice that is made public through exhibitions, publications, performances, workshops, writing, teaching and curation.

He co-authored and directed the MA Graphic Media Design course at London College of Communication, UAL (2014-22); was a founding member of the Graphic Design Educators’ Network (2015-2021); and an advisor at the Jan van Eyck Academie (2015-18).

He has been an invited presenter, critic, jury member and examiner at a range of international institutions such as Architectural Association, Central Saint Martins, Goldsmiths University, Royal College of Art (UK); Icelandic Academy of the Arts (IS); National College of Art & Design (IE). He is a fellow of fellow Higher Education Academy (UK) and is a member of various editorial boards. His teaching, research and studio practice has been awarded, exhibited and published internationally.

He is presently pursuing a PhD in the Arts at KASK & Conservatorium (BE) and leads an independent design-research studio (UK). He recently published ‘I Shivered Violently / Don’t be Startled in the Night’ with Bryony Quinn (Set Margins’).

"I am very pleased to join my new colleagues and students at HfG Karlsruhe, where I am excited to learn from, and contribute towards, the rich and dynamic work already underway across the departments.

I will commence the Professorship with a series of seminars that will draw from my on-going research concerning the visual essay as a critical instrument within and through contemporary practices of graphic design. Throughout, we will hold consideration for the inconclusive, wayward, slippery and the resistant as active and valid modes of making-thinking-doing; approaches that have been active and nurtured within queer, feminist and decolonial knowledges for some time. Along with my peers at HfG, I would also like to initiate a long-form, multi-view, cross-institutional conversation around the un/in/discipling of research-oriented practices of visual communication."