Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design
The Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe (Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design) is a Germany university founded in 1992 by Professor Heinrich Klotz, who also founded its sister institution, the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie). The university teaching and research focuses on new media and media art. Departments include communication design, product design, set and stage design, exhibition design, media art, sound, film, video, digital art, 3D animation, media theory, art history, and philosophy.
The German Council of Science and Humanities certified the HfG's educational approach as "excellent" in 2008.
The HfG Research Institute, based on the model of anglo-saxon Institutes for Advanced Studies, gathers outstanding scientists and graduate researchers together under one roof where they can concentrate on independent research project and enter into exchange between the disciplinary boundaries. The 3D lab "Expanded 3 Digital Cinema Laboratory" focuses on the future of 3D television and cinema, for example.
The current chancellor is Professor Dr. Peter Sloterdijk.
[edit] Former Professors
[edit] Professors
Product design
- Volker Albus
- Bless Berlin / Paris
Media art
- Michael Bielicky
- Michael Clegg
- Thomas Heise
- Anna Jermolaewa
- Isaac Julien
- Armin Linke
- Andrei Ujica
Curatorial design
- Wilfried Kühn
Communication design
- Florian Pfeffer
- Tania Prill
Art and media theory, philosophy
- Peter Sloterdijk
- Wolfgang Ullrich
- Beat Wyss
Set and stage design
- Beatrix von Pilgrim
