For over 15 years I have been researching and teaching in academia. In 2018/19 I was Guest Professor for Media Environments (in substitution of Prof. Ursula Damm) at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. By teaching concepts and tools such as algorithmic agency, bio/body hacking, philosophical analysis, material experimentation, and (non-)human-machine interactions, I encourage students to investigate and comment on current developments or invent scenarios for a sustainable future. My teaching philosophy revolves around cultivating a profound understanding and appreciation for the intersection of art, technology, sustainability and the environment via visual media. The core of my pedagogical approach is centered on critical thinking, experimentation and aesthetic innovation
Additionally, I run public workshops out of my studio on media art + bioart methods and techniques and have been hosting ‘Walk & Talks‘ in forests in collaboration with Art Laboratory Berlin.
workshop with Dr. Spela Petric
electronics workshop, (Bauhaus Universität Weimar, 2018)
outdoor teaching, (Bauhaus Universität Weimar, 2018)
outdoor teaching, (Bauhaus Universität Weimar, 2018)
Burg Giebichenstein Halle
Burg Giebichenstein Halle
Burg Giebichenstein Halle
Burg Giebichenstein Halle
student presentation 2019 (Bauhaus Universität Weimar)
student presentation 2019 (Bauhaus Universität Weimar)
student presentation 2019 (Bauhaus Universität Weimar)
Research and teaching focuses
- Media Art, Digital Art and Design: practical methods, tools, technologies, software. Theory and history of the genre. Curatorial concepts
- BioArt, BioDesign, BioPolitics: biohacking, synthetic biology, body images, trans-species awareness, ethics
- Research-based Art, Art+Science: artistic research methods, laboratory techniques for artists, reflection and critique
- Experiential Media, Immersive Environments, Phenomenology: spatial art, projection, media art, UHD environments, interaction, somatic experiences, embodied experiences and perception
- Artistic Autonomy and Creativity: aesthetic decision making processes, matter and meaning, agency
- Discourse on artificial intelligence and its ethical implications
- Philosophy and Aesthetics: nature-culture, media culture studies/history, posthumanism, STS, ANT, new materialism, cybernetics, artificial intelligence implications
Teaching
- Talk “Beyond Awareness, Art for a Planet in Crisis” at HFG Offenbach am Main
- Mentor for students of Kunsthochschule Weißensee Berlin in the framework of the EXIST-Women Programm
- Guest lecture at the Master of Media Art, Bauhaus-University Weimar, WS 2021/22
- Online lecture on Interdisciplinary Artistic Processes: Tactics and Strategies at the Alma Mater Europaea – Dance academy in Ljubljana (SI), WS 2020/21
- Online lecture Morphing Ecologies at the chair ‘Bio-inspired Architecture and Sensoric’ of Technical University Berlin, WS 2020/21
- Online lecture on Transdisciplinarity, Filmakademie Baden-Würtemberg, SS/2020
- Substitute Professor at the chair ‘Media Environments’, Faculty of Art and Design at the Bauhaus-University Weimar, WS 2018/19. Classes for MA students
- Interspecies Collaboration, workshop at the Burg Giebichenstein Halle (DE), 04/2018
- Strategies of Artistic Research, class with PhD students from the Art University Linz (AT), 03/2017
- Media Art and Artistic Research, guest lecture at the Departamento de Arte y Empresa, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexiko, 11/2015
- Arte e Enfermedades, class with media art students (BA) from the Bauhaus University Weimar in cooperation with Abbvie
- Using living organisms in Art, guest lecture at the Art + Science departement of the University of Applied Arts Vienna
- Interactive and Generative Art, guest lecturer at the FH Hagenberg (AT), MA Digital Arts, November 2011
- Text in Interactive and Generative Installations, guest lecture for students from the University of Applied Arts, Vienna
- Interactive and Generative Art within the Ars Electronica Archive, guest lecture for MA students in digital arts at FH Hagenberg (AT)
- Digital Arts, guest lecture for MA students in digital arts at FH Hagenberg (AT)
'Slime Mold Architecture
'Slime Mold Design and Computation' workshop, Spektrum 2017
'Walk and Talks', Mind the Fungi project, TU Berlin 2019
'Slime Mold Design and Computation' workshop, Spektrum 2017
'Walk and Talks', Mind the Fungi project, TU Berlin 2019
Slime Mold Cellular Automata
'Slime Mold Design' workshop, 2014
Workshops
- Intelligence of Everything – co-director of a two day hacklab with Helena Nikonole at the Museum of Modern Art in Moscow
- Walks and Talks – performative workshops in the forest as part of the TU project ‘mind the fungi’
- Slime Mold: Art + Bio-computation – workshop, Specktrum Gallery Berlin
- The forestal Psyche – a commissioned workshop for the Nonhuman Agents Programm of ArtLaboratory Berlin
- Networking with Slime Mould – a commissioned workshop for ResearchGate in Berlin
- Bio-Art Hacking – a workshop introducing the acellular organism physarum polycephalum as a creative medium and how to replace biolab equipment through kitchen ware | ARGE Kultur Salzburg, invited by subnet.at, March 10 2012
- Sound Production with Audacity – audio workshop at the Museumsquartier, Wien (AT) | Mz Baltasar’s Laboratory, Dec 2010
- Seeking Sound – radio site-specific workshop and recording techniques | Electrofringe/This is Not Art – Festival Newcastle (AU)
- Getaway Home – series of workshops about travelling, via the medium of drawing and animation with 12 school classes (about 300 kids, 8-12 years old) | Maitland Regional Art Gallery
- Queer Youth Audio Project – audio postproduction workshop for a radio documentary about queer issues by young poeple | The Loft Youth Venue Newcastle (AU), Aug – Oct 07
- Building micro radio transmitters & eGraffiti | Electrofringe/This is Not Art – Festival Newcastle (AU), Oct 06
- Radiophonic Workshop – workshop about history of sound art, hands-on field recordings | Octapod