The Chair of Comparative Arts and Media focuses on the history and theory of media in a broad interdisciplinary context.
Our group encompasses two major clusters of research:
- The research on film, television and digital media focuses on a cultural environment characterized by convergences between media practices and platforms (film, television, video, Internet, games) and other fields of cultural production (visual arts, museum exhibitions, storytelling, visualizations in science and technology). The emphasis lies on the historical, theoretical and political aspects of the crossovers between these fields.
- Other research concentrates on the role of digital (mobile) media in the emergence of a post-industrial participatory culture in which the changing positions of amateurs and professionals, consumers and producers, artists, activists and cultural industries are radically changing the fields of archiving, design, and visual and spatial production. Collaborations with our colleagues from Design Cultures have been longstanding.