Digital Didactics in Art Education

A collaborative collage

This project is about critically discussing the collecting activities of museums in groups. What is collected, by whom, how and why? What happens to an object as soon as it comes into the possession of…

Advertising | Sound | Code, a project suitable for both in class and distance learning, explores the scoring of advertising clips. With the app Sonic-Pi, new soundtracks are added to old advertising clips. It offers…

In this assignment, students are asked to create stories (creative writing) about an artwork “from the future”. They should build a story that describes the artist and the era and the society in which the…

In the project Avatar your Friends! students describe themselves to each other: What defines me? What are my interests/hobbies/favorite things/...? The other person is then asked to create an avatar based on this description using…

How do I advertise?

In this session, students discuss the influence and the impact of advertisements and influencers. Following the discussion and analysis, they will use their newly gained knowledge to create their own ad. They may create ads…

This assignment uses the notion of counter-cartography to explore alternative ways of reconceptualizing our bodies and their entanglements with the world. Starting from and with our own bodies, we engage with counter-mapping to learn how…

Digital interventions in the European art canon

Participants use Google Arts & Culture and/or prometheus to choose a painting from the European art canon whose narrative they want to change. They transform the image into a GIF using image editing and animation…

the politics and aesthetics of gestures

Contagious Choreographies investigates the political, social, and cultural histories of everyday gestures by delving into the contexts in which they originate, mapping their evolution, and deconstructing the mechanisms through which they circulate. The exercise urges…

Create Your Font! aims to teach students that every typeface they know was at some point designed by someone based on practical, aesthetic, religious, or cultural considerations. Fonts are therefore always influenced by the era…

Every object has a story. Even a belt buckle says a lot about its owner: How well-off are they? Which social group do they belong to? What message do they want to send to the…

Artificial Art and Digital Exhibition

This teaching concept deals with the topics of authorship and exhibiting. In addition to discussing the notion of “artist” and questions about AI-generated art (thisartworkdoesnotexist.com), it also provides insights into the various steps involved in…

Waste patterns and “Wiener Werkstätte”

Don’t let waste go to waste introduces students to patterns and design and the “Wiener Werkstätte”. With the web app Repper, patterns can be generated based on an existing photo or specific details of uploaded…

Students respond to presented texts (the beginnings of selected novels) with drawings, intuitively and without judgment.

Students deal with their writing skills and work out articles for a journal.

Students use the FlipAnim web app to create their own animated film on the topic of dreams. It is up to the students whether they understand “dream” in the sense of an experience during sleep…

abstract painting with 3 “coolors”

This assignment can be seen both as a warm-up for the study of colors and color mixing. It focuses on playfully experimenting with colors, mixing exact shades of color, and on an introduction to the…

via Mind, Body and Voice

Through an embodied approach, this workshop explores how public transport design shapes our freedom of movement and reproduces specific norms and ideologies. Through a series of deep listening exercises, performative actions, and reflections, Gesture in…

Answering without a pen

This lesson’s topic is typography, or, more precisely, writing without writing material. The students are asked to express their current emotional state using objects, searching for suitable material in their environment. In the process, they…

everything is moving

In Motion – everything is moving series of sessions aims at depicting movement through drawing and then creating a digital animation, a GIF, of a person dancing. Thereby, fine motor skills, artistic imagination, drawing from…

In groups, the students are asked to define what makes museums likable and to design an exciting interactive exhibition and virtual tour for their peers. The students create a museum building (e.g., in the game…

This is an interface design exercise based on creativity, during which we limit the available interaction patterns to empathize with users living with disabilities who cannot use various applications developed for the wider public. The…

To mend is the gesture of gluing, stitching, connecting, and bonding damaged threads. These threads may have been broken due to violence, be it psychological, viral, emotional, physical, political, racial, institutional, or environmental. Starting from…

Humanity has the chance to send a message to unknown civilizations. It is your task to design it, a noble cause, but also a hard one. What will the message be? What is the message…

will let you know what I’m thinking

My photo will let you know what I'm thinking is about activism against prejudice. It aims at making students aware of intersectionality and prejudices (of others, but also their own). They should recognize the functions and…

One’s own four walls aims to reflect on experiences gained in the first phases of the pandemic, when students spent most of their instructional time at home. The question “How do I live?” was charged…

Can a machine be creative? Can it create images autonomously? If we understand artificial intelligence (AI) as a multi-faceted mirror of ourselves, this opens up new perspectives on the concepts of consciousness, intelligence and, creativity.

Advanced course in printmaking

Print it! is an open teaching format based on an artistic approach guided by hands-on work involving materials. Different materials, techniques, and experimental arrangements are tested by experimenting with printmaking processes to expand one's creative…

This assignment is based on thematic considerations of ‘violence’ within a broader understanding of power relations that condition and contextualize it. Following the argument made by Meg McLagan and Yates McKee that engaging with politics…

Who is connected to whom and with what, and in what way? What influences our everyday actions? Who has what capacities to act under what circumstances? And who, or what, is it that actually acts?…

creating GIFs

This project deals with animated GIFs and typography. Based on examples of semantic typography, some activities are completed, followed by the development of animated GIFs. The aim is to develop a self-responsible and critical attitude…

by means of artistic co-creation

This task nurtures creativity and supports soft skill development through virtual co-creation, referred to as “wikinomics” cooperation. It aims for the group to realize the potential of digital teamwork. Participants use a question, assignment, or…

Sounds of the Museum focuses in particular on what a museum sounds like. “How do we feel when we visit a museum?”; “Which associations do we have?”; “What does this say about the space or…

(silent)

This micro-assignment aims to make as many voices, thoughts and ideas as possible visible during a seminar. Considering the difficulty of holding lively and heated discussions in remote teaching situations, the debate in this exercise…

3D design and the development of digital creativity can be new directions in art and visual culture classes, which contribute to elevating visual education to the 21st century. These include 3D design applications, the art…

reconstruction of a place

This workshop addresses the hypothesis that a large part of our knowledge of the world is based on media artifacts. Personal assessment, ideas and perceptions, most of what we supposedly know, is based on what…

We are designing an alternative, collaborative map to make visible how our bodies are in discussion with the world and its norms. In this assignment, students experiment with mapping as a counter-cartography tool, a practice…

re-imagining monuments, re-imagining monumentality

The term ‘decolonizing’ (present tense) specified in the Oxford English Dictionary: “to release from a status of a colony, or to allow (a colony) to become self-governing or independent,” will be contextually aligned with a…

in the city of opportunities

Based on a joint city walk, students should create their own maps/scores with and for the walking map game app Dérive, focusing on the city, climate, and environment. Perception of the environment with all senses…

Mail correspondence and walking as research are both themes and approaches in the Walks to the Postbox assignment. It starts with the question of how to translate a conversation into a ’mail artwork.’ This assignment…

as a journey through the histories of art and climate

The students curate their own exhibition within the given subject of the climate crisis using the ART.SPACES web app by Kunstmatrix. Work takes place in small groups to be able to cover several perspectives on…