News Winter 2017/2018

International Workshop
Aesthetic Research: Project-Based Doctorial Thesis in Media Studies    

In the course of the Bologna Process programs for doctoral studies have been internationally fostered as general and artistic academic qualification. Aim of the workshop is to gather different perspectives on the possibilities and challenges of aesthetic research in media studies. This includes the discussion of formal needs and constraints, like the institutionalized process of examination as well as methodical and organizational questions of research and supervision. It also includes taking into consideration specific media research practices, the reflection of particular processes as well as the question of documentation for research purposes.

Part of the guiding questions of the discussion will be: How can doctoral research projects reflect upon the relationship between aesthetics, mediality, and theory? In which ways can research objects and processes in media studies be documented, published, and, archived? Researchers and artists from Belgium, England, Finland, Germany, and Suisse working in and coordinating doctoral programs have been invited to give insight in their working processes and institutional structures.

The workshop will be held in English. Guests are welcome.
Please register with ehrmanntraut@fh-potsdam.de until January 15.

Program

10:00 am
Welcome & Introduction 

10:45 am
Mika Elo, Helsinki 
Shintaro Miyazaki, Basel 
Fee Altman, Potsdam 
Stefan Winter, Potsdam 

11:45 am
Discussion 

12:45 pm
Lunch break 

2:30 pm
Nicolas Malévé, Brussels/London 
Sandra Schäfer, Hamburg/London 
Saskia Oidtmann, Berlin 
Hendrik Quast, Berlin 
Florian Goldman, Potsdam 

3:45 pm
Discussion 

5:00 pm
End 

The workshop is a project of European Media Studies at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam and University of Potsdam planned and organized by: Jan Distelmeyer, Professor for History & Theory of Technical Media, Sophie Ehrmanntraut, research assistant , Winfried Gerling, Professor for Concepts and Aesthetics of New Media, Anne Quirynen, Professor for Moving Image, in cooperation with Brandenburg Center for Media Studies (ZeM) in Potsdam.

ZeM – Brandenburgisches Zentrum für Medienwissenschaften
Hermann-Elflein-Straße 18
14467 Potsdam