exMedia Lab
Materialities & processes / digital and physical / material processing / DIY technologies / electronics / prototyping / model making / publishing as artistic practice / print technologies e.g. risography / open technology / experimental research / artistic research / BioArt & -Design / BioHacking / FoodHacking / art & ecology / sustainability / design / experimental spatial concepts / science fiction / fictions and speculations in artistic practice
The exMedia Lab is a workspace and experimental environment for transdisciplinary and transmedia projects, focused on exploring materials at the intersection of analog and digital realities. These realities, along with their technologies and possibilities, are examined through reflective thinking and action.
The students' projects and experiments are supported by supervision and the availability of various technologies, and the development of as yet unclear/open questions is accompanied in the process.
In the exMedia Lab, critical thinking, collective work and the development of personal responsibility are encouraged and practised in a social environment and in the independent use of technologies.
The lab offers the following technologies and possibilities:
- experimental material processing / DIY technologies (e.g. laser cutter, small milling machine)
- Working with biological media (plants and organic elements)
- Practice of (artistic) publishing and printing (risography, linocut, screen printing, bookbinding, zines)
- Protoyping (electronics/ mechanics/ kinetics)
- Dealing with further materialities and technologies (e.g. ceramics, tufting)
- Three digital workstations (e.g. with graphics programmes, 1 x Unreal Engine)
Other topics include speculation/ worldbuilding/ science fiction, critical thinking, artistic research, dealing with resources/ sustainability/ re-use in artistic practice, transfer and transformation between digital and physical systems, aspects of archiving and collecting, questions relating to installation and exhibition conception and construction.
The exMedia lab is headed by Karin Lingnau and Verena Friedrich (assistant profs), Dr Klaus Herbst supports us in our work with biomedia.
If you have any questions on working in the exMedia Lab, individual introductions to the various technologies/machines and consultation hours, please contact us via:
