Kick-off for Center for Arts and Cultural Theory

The new, transdisciplinary and transinstitutional ZKK, co-directed by Sylvia Sasse (UZH) and Judith Siegmund (ZHdK), is dedicated to the role of the arts and culture in contemporary social debates. By joining forces with the ZHdK, joint projects in research and teaching are to be encouraged and promoted. With the ZHdK, the arts and their theories are now entering into a new kind of dialog with university science. Artistic practice and the theories of the arts will provide new perspectives and unforeseeable collaborations.

This also includes the establishment of a bridge professorship for Digital Cultures and Arts, which will be filled by image and media scholar Roland Meyer from 1 July 2024 as part of the digitization initiative of the Zurich universities (DIZH). Meyer will research and teach at both the UZH and the ZHdK. His areas of focus include algorithmically networked image cultures, operative images of facial and pattern recognition, forensic image practices, generative AI and synthetic media as well as new body and perception relationships in medially expanded spaces. During the kick-off, he will co-moderate the panel "Art With/Against AI".

The kick-off event on May 24, 2024 at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich will be dedicated to this cross-university collaboration: lectures and discussions will present artistic and cultural-theoretical approaches to pressing contemporary issues.

More info: https://www.zkk.uzh.ch/de.html