Aesthetic Transformation Processes: Inspiration Across Disciplinary Boundaries

Elvira Hufschmid is a multi-media artist with a focus on Aesthetic Transformation processes as a methodology for inter- and transdisciplinary collaboration and learning. In her PhD research in the Queen’s University Cultural Studies program, she applies an Aesthetic Transformation strategy to investigate narratives of land enclosure as they relate to colonial property regimes of the settler society. As a collaborator in the SSHRC-funded art and science project ‘Leaning Out of Windows – Art and Physics Collaborations through Aesthetic Transformations’ (2016-21) and as an affiliated researcher at the Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts & Sciences (BAS), Berlin University of the Arts, Germany (2017-19), she co-investigates the ways in which metaphor acts as a common code between art and science. In a recent project at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, titled 'Understanding the World through Aesthetics' (2021), she hosted workshop conversations between artists and physicists about the possibilities of how inspiration may cross disciplinary boundaries. Elvira holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, US, and she taught as a Visiting Artist at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC, as well as a Guest Professor for ‘Artistic Transformation Processes’ at the Berlin University of the Arts, Germany.

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Margit Schild is an engineer, curator, artist, and author. She received her PhD at the University of Hanover, studied landscape and open space planning, and worked as a lecturer and guest professor at various universities, including the Berlin University of the Arts and Emily Carr University in Vancouver, Canada. From 2016 – 2022, she has been a collaborator in a SSHRCC-funded interdisciplinary art and science research project at Emily Carr University, “Leaning Out of Windows. Art and Physics Collaborations through Aesthetic Transformations.” In 2015, she directed her first documentary film “Drifting,” on flight and migration. A next documentary“Orten” is her first full-length film. In addition to her work as a director, she is the co-founder of the Berlin “School of the Provisional,” an inter- and transdisciplinary think tank in which art and science, practice and theory, are brought together. In 2017, Margit curated a symposium on improvisation, titled “Out of the Blue,” at the Berlin House of World Cultures (HKW.) She currently holds a guest professorship at Europa University Flensburg, Institute for Aesthetic-Cultural Education, Art and Visual Media Department. She lives and works in Berlin and in Vancouver, Canada.

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