Overview

At the Department of Art and Media at Zürich University, which comprises the undergraduate specializations of fine arts, photography, media arts, and theory along with a masters program anchored by two research institutes, experimentation lies at the heart of creative research and teaching. The 2012 yearbook of the department explores how practices of experimentation are implemented in one of the most renowned arts departments worldwide and investigates how the various fields—of teaching, research, theory, and practice—interlace with, inspire, and inform one another.   Through fifteen works in text, image, video, and sound by theorists and artists inside and outside the department, this work considers how practices of experimentation unfold and how they affect artistic creation, the relationship between art schools and society, the production of knowledge, and the particularities of inter- and trans-disciplinary teaching and research in the arts.

Full Product Details

9783858812599

Table of Contents

Reviews

Author Information

Giaco Schiesser read philosophy and German literature at the Freie Universitat Berlin. He conceived and established as its head the new department New Media at the School of Art and Design Zurich in 1997-2002. He is professor for the theory and history of media and culture and director of the Department of Art & Media at the Zurich University of the Arts. Christoph Brunner is artistic and research assistant to the head of the Department in Art & Media at Zurich University of the Arts and doing his PhD on research-creation at Concordia University in Montreal. He is also a member of SenseLab (www.senselab.ca), co-editor of Inflexions (www.inflexions.org) and researcher at the Institute for Critical Theory (www.ith-z.ch).

Tab Content 6

Countries Available