Intermediality

Insight required representation. In the intermediality focus we try out and investigate the processes of transfer between different media, particularly between scientific and artistic forms of representation. Our emphasis is on how different media also generate different forms of knowledge. 

Areas of research

Art as Research

Intermedial Arts

Sonification

Art Education

Interpretation

All works of art require interpretation.  A picture must be interpreted just as much as a piece of music or a play. The trans-disciplinary  focus on Interpretation  concentrates, on the one hand, on projects methodologically orientated towards the research aims of ‘historically informed performance’ (HIP), particularly music; on the other, it investigates two other important areas of application, namely ‘notation’ and ‘authorship’, i.e. the shifts in the relationship between authorship and interpretation. ^

Areas of research

Historically  informed performance

Notation

Authorship

Communication design

Communication Design research focuses on those forms of communication that are accessible through design and creation – from typography to complex visualisations and to the development of services in the healthcare sector. The research effort is practice-led and trans-disciplinary.

Areas of research

Knowledge Visualisation

Social Communication

Research through Design 

Design and Rhetoric

Materiality in Art and Culture

We research materials and their relationship to art technology as well as their artistic and cultural dimensions. The materials researched are either materials that are to be preserved or are ones that are used in preserving other materials. In all cases, it is important to register be aware of and understand the frequently complex interplay of materials in respect of their composition, the technology employed, and the artistic or cultural statements that they make.

Areas of research

Materials research in Conservation and Restoration

Preventive Conservation

Medial Semantics of the Material in the History of Art and Culture