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Online: Low Tech Animation Workshop
In this workshop, we will experiment with several different types of low-tech animation such as stop-motion and successive-drawing animation, as well as early forms of pre-camera animation like flipbooks and zoetropes.
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Online: Writing = Design
Learn about writing as a design tool. Make words work for you! Creative writing provides you with manifold possibilities in private and professional communication.
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Performing Questions: Relationships in Times of Crisis
The interview is an offer of conversation, a game of questions and answers, a dialogue that can transform into a polyphonic choir of singularly plural voices. As a form of personal, localised articulation, interviews...
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Seeking for New Noise
This workshop invites students to explore noise as an artistic disruptor of the musical ordinary and use its usually perceived negative traits in aesthetic and imaginative ways. It will give you an insight into...
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Iron Printing in Blue – A Cyanotype Workshop
This workshop will mainly focus on acquiring practical skills in the cyanotype printing technique. Participants will learn how to produce the cyanotype solution necessary for this method and have the opportunity...
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Your Berlin Story – An Alternative 'Creative Non-Fiction' Writing Workshop
Under the guidance of the author, blogger, and writer Joseph Pearson, this alternative writing workshop explores the German capital through the genre of ‘creative non-fiction’ and essays based on real experiences.
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100 Years of Visual Music. Explore Color, Shape, Motion, Rhythm and Sound.
In 1921, Walter Ruttmann, a trained musician and painter, created his Lichtspiel Opus 1, one of the first non-narrative abstract short-films. It can now be considered one of the first pieces of visual music. This...
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The We That is Not I: Communities as Operative Fictions
Communities and collectives are deeply ambivalent structures. They can come to signify either the restriction and oppression of individuals or a site for emancipatory politics and new forms of existence. If communities...
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Bad Design
The idea of ‘good design’ is out of fashion. In 1949, Max Bill toured post-war Europe with his exhibition Die gute Form which showcased examples of modernist design to educate the taste of regular people. Today,...
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Situationist City Game
During the workshop, the students will play in and with the city, inspired by the playful strategies of the dadaists and situationists. The aim is to develop a sense for urban situations and to (re)discover the...
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From Lute Songs to Pop Songs: Unboxing a Repertoire
The art of songwriting is an age-old tradition, spanning genres, cultures, and epochs. We tend to classify songs and put them into boxes: certain types of songs should be sung by certain types of voices, accompanied...
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Brutalism. A Photographic Approach
In this course, the participants are going to set out in search of brutalist buildings in Berlin and reflect on brutalism by taking pictures of them: their concrete surface and formal expression will be released...
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Body is My Instrument or Exploration of Lifelong Learning
In this workshop, we will examine and explore anew the basic concepts of the performing arts such as posture, breathing, standing, walking, sitting, and the quality of movement in combination with the Talmi-Method®-bodywork...
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Editing for Film and Video Art
This workshop examines how filmmakers and video artists can use editing to create and clarify the meaning of the content. The participants will consider the basic continuity editing concepts and have time to address...
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Design and Deployment of a Solar-Powered Outdoor Teaching Device
This workshop is an experiment in an unexplored realm of outdoor online teaching (OOT). During the workshop, the teacher will physically interact with each student group for only one hour a day. At other times,...
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Shifting Perceptions: Discussing the Fashion System
This 5-day course addresses the current state of the fashion system and its various players. The participants will discuss how politics, culture, and society influence fashion photography, fashion journalism, fashion...
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Dialogues as Artistic Experimental Systems in the Cultural Sciences
The communication culture of the early 21st century is significantly shaped by the explosive rise of conversational cultures. Traditional formats of soliloquies, dialogues, or polylogues are changing under the influence...
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The Drama Works – Writing for Stage
This comprehensive four-day workshop guides the participants through a series of precisely patterned exercises, which demonstrate the essential elements of the dramatist craft such as structure, conflict development,...
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A Photographic Exploration of the Berlin Wall Trail
In this course, participants will use photography as a research tool to explore the remains of the Berlin Wall. We will walk along different sections of the Berlin Wall Trail that follows the course of the former...
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Drawing in the Nature Lab
The graphic preoccupation with nature teaches seeing in the sense of conscious perception. Through eye and hand, drawing helps to gain an embodied understanding of the form. In the play with translation and abstraction,...
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Berlin Appeals 2021 – Poster Design Workshop
Posters are a public matter. As life-sized images, they dominate in the public space and affect us with their unavoidable messages. This relationship between the poster and space will be the focus of the workshop....
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On Caring Coexistences
As members of the feminist art collective Maternal Fantasies the lecturers propose the ‘aesthetics of care’ as the basis for inter-species coexistence.
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The Kant – Location Based Work
Kantstraße, which runs between Breitscheidplatz and Suarezstrasse, is one of the most important axes of the City West. This course is going to research its past and present through its numerous Chinese restaurants,...
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Transitions – Drawing and Space
This drawing workshop explores transition spaces of urban Berlin and experiments with the process of drawing in an open and interpretive manner. The emphasis will be put on practical artistic work in combination...
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Textile Surfaces – Threads of Camille 5
Textile surfaces surround us in the most diverse contexts and environments and play a decisive role in many artistic disciplines. In architecture, fashion, art, and design, the creation of experimental materials...
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Berlin Techno: Software/Hardware Explorations
How do aesthetics and technology relate to and influence each other in contemporary music production? We will analyze those aspects based on hardware and software produced in Berlin, the capital of techno. During...
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Online: Aesthetic Transformations: Inspiration Across Disciplinary Borders
How does inspiration come about? How do we find ideas? How can we create work together having various disciplinary backgrounds and working with different media and techniques?
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Online: Exp. – Questions of Perception in Art and Science
Experiment, Experience, Exploration
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This course is designed for undergraduate and graduate students of different fields to gain knowledge on perception through experiences in experiments on perception and demonstrations... -
Online: Berlin Appeals 2021 – Poster Design Workshop
Posters are a public matter. As life-sized images, they dominate in the public space and affect us with their unavoidable messages. This relationship between the poster and space will be the focus of the workshop....
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