#about Hi! Welcome to Media Art—Photography at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG). This website displays the online conversation of the area's chat group in realtime. You might want to use the search bar to navigate.
#about Hi! Welcome to Media Art—Photography at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG). This website displays the online conversation of the area's chat group in realtime. You might want to use the search bar to navigate.
Today and tomorrow: INVASIVE PLANTS Workshop and excursion Living Library / Assembly of Resources 2 2-3.06.2025 with Prof. Filipa César & Erik van Schaften Forster Guide: Stephanie Bauer Invasive, weedy, non-native, alien, exotic are all charged names for plants that have somehow been firstly introduced to a land in recent history. In this two-day workshop we will look at artistic positions that have been exploring the complexity of plants with a migratory background, tracing their paths that often challenging concepts and politics of territory, origin, belonging and history, and how they can also become tools of disobedience to notions of land ownership and private property. We will look at Cortaderia selloana, Fallopia japonica, Ricinus communis, Ailanthus altissima (Tree of Heaven) and the seeds in the balast of colonial trade cargo ships and their germinations. After an introductory journey, we will engage in a field trip through Karlsruhe, looking for these naugthy species, t…
Today and tomorrow: INVASIVE PLANTS Workshop and excursion Living Library / Assembly of Resources 2 2-3.06.2025 with Prof. Filipa César & Erik van Schaften Forster Guide: Stephanie Bauer Invasive, weedy, non-native, alien, exotic are all charged names for plants that have somehow been firstly introduced to a land in recent history. In this two-day workshop we will look at artistic positions that have been exploring the complexity of plants with a migratory background, tracing their paths that often challenging concepts and politics of territory, origin, belonging and history, and how they can also become tools of disobedience to notions of land ownership and private property. We will look at Cortaderia selloana, Fallopia japonica, Ricinus communis, Ailanthus altissima (Tree of Heaven) and the seeds in the balast of colonial trade cargo ships and their germinations. After an introductory journey, we will engage in a field trip through Karlsruhe, looking for these naugthy species, their talent to spread and how they are framed and fought in our surrounding forests. In the second part of the workshop we will use these species as raw materials and tools for artistic and object production. At the heart of the bio-material workshops is the process of crafting your own personalized materials. Like a cook in the kitchen, you‘ll be mixing, grinding, stirring, pressing, and drying raw ingredients to create your own solid material samples. These attempts don’t need to be perfect or directly suitable for industrial use, but they offer a hands-on, playful way to understand how composite materials are made.