Foundations and Elective Seminars in the Winter Semester 2021/2022

Foundations of Artistic Design 1

Using artistic techniques like drawing, modeling, and collage, students will be introduced to the foundations of artistic design.
Exercises focus on sensitizing perception and on the interplay of observation, materials used, intention, and composition.

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Foundations of Artistic Design for Technical Education

Using artistic techniques like drawing, molding, and modeling, students will learn the foundations of artistic design.
Exercises focus on sensitizing perception and the interplay of observation, materials used, intention, and composition.

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let´s print

The course introduces the basics of the manual printing techniques of linocut, etching, and silkscreen.

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DATAART

In this seminar we will deal intensively with data as an artistic material. According to norm DIN 44300 Nr. 19, data is “structures of signs […], predominantly for the purpose and as the result of processing.” The columns of numbers and symbols that constitute data often contain a poetic quality or hidden insights.

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Xylographic Processes

The term xylography comes from the Greek words xylon (wood) and graphein (to write), and until the 19^th century it was a common term for printing with wooden panels, now called “woodcuts.”

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Construction Sites

The words “construction site” mark a place in transformation: something is changing, is not yet finished. Something is being constructed, deconstructed, or reconstructed.

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Nude Drawing: Space-Body-Transformation

In fine art, a “nude” is the gestures, position, and movement of an observed naked body made into an “image.”
In nude drawing we study—through drawing—the interplay between body and space through the example of the human body, its proportions and weight when standing, sitting, lying, and in motion.

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Patterns in Space — Unit and System

Using self-designed and -created three-dimensional ceramic elements, we will engage practically and theoretically with the theme “patterns in space.” The goal is to create a sculpture that forms a complex structure through the repetition, rotation, and combination of individual elements.

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Color Experiences

“In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is — as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art,” Josef Albers writes in the forward to his book Interaction of Color (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963). What do we know about color, about how we see color? Are color fans or colors on a screen enough to help us select color schemes for buildings and rooms?

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