Kathrin Tillmanns

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Kathrin Tillmanns (* 1968 in Rudolstadt ) is a German media and cultural scientist, photographer and designer.

Career

After completing a classical apprenticeship as a photographer, Tillmanns studied visual communication at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences with a focus on photography and interdisciplinary image concepts. From 2008 to 2014 she worked as a research assistant in the teaching and research field of photography and interdisciplinary image concepts at Gerhard Vormwald .

Since 2015 she has been a research assistant at the institute bild.medien in the design department of the University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf. Kathrin Tillmanns completed her doctorate in 2016 following her doctoral studies at the Institute for Media and Cultural Studies at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf with a thesis on the media aesthetics of the shadow as a redefinition of the human-technology relationship in the digital age.

Imaging processes are the focus of her artistic and scientific work. Her research interest is determined by technically generated images, such as the context of their creation, effectiveness and reception. Her artistic work focuses initially on photographic images, as well as dealing with the question of their conditions, of viewing and perception, of closeness and distance, of their own special relationality and materiality. Kathrin Tillmanns has been exhibiting regularly as an artist since 2003 and teaches as a lecturer in the design department in the field of interdisciplinary image concepts and digital illustration.

research

Media aesthetics of the shadow

The research project examines the shadow in certain forms of its aesthetic appearance, such as the peculiarities of its relational conditions and those of its relational structure. The research is based on the artificial presence of the shadow in selected artefacts from the visual and performative arts of the 20th and 21st centuries. The focus is on artistic forms of expression within the fields of photography, video, dance and relational architecture. Here, the shadow is not exclusively in a reference relationship to artistic forms of expression, to and in a certain time, but also in a reference relationship to current media forms of image capture and imaging, as in a special relationship to people themselves. The shadow, in form a drop shadow, in particular the shadow that emanates from a person, is a relational object and the subject of this investigation.

The interaction of photography and text

In 2015/16, students at the Design Faculty of the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences conducted extensive research and redesigned ideas under the direction of Irmgard Sonnen and Kathrin Tillmanns . The book Le Grand by Heinrich Heine . The phenomena of standstill and movement, the rapid change in style and language levels, the crossing of genre boundaries, the principle of collage and pairs of opposites were examined using appropriate design elements for typography, layout and imagery. The teaching and research project was exhibited at the Heinrich Heine Institute in 2016/17 . Two further exhibition stations followed in the University of Düsseldorf and in the Doshisha University in Kyoto .

Publications (selection)

  • Video online archive - develop / present / communicate. Development and indexing of moving image data from the imai foundation Ed. Stefan Asmus, Reiner Nachtwey, Kathrin Tillmanns, Düsseldorf 2020 ISBN 978-3-941334-29-8
  • Develop / present / communicate: video art by the imai foundation on the Kathrin Tillmanns network | Lara Perski in EVA BERLIN 2019 Electronic Media & Art, Culture and History 26th Berlin event of the international EVA series Electronic Media and Visual Arts A cooperation between the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage and the German Aerospace Center eV, ISBN 978-3-88609-835-4 .
  • Text and photography in kotonoah - Ed. Mariko Tagaki, Doshisha Womens University Kyoto , Japan 2019
  • Media aesthetics of the shadow - for redefining the human-technology relationship in the digital age. Transcript, Bielefeld 2017, ISBN 978-3-8376-3926-1 .
  • The interaction of text and photography in language as an event. An allegorical love letter. in language as an event: an allegorical love letter. on "Ideas. The Book Le Grand" by Heinrich Heine . Edited by Irmgard Sonnen , Düsseldorf 2016, ISBN 3-00-053558-6
  • Vormwald und Schüler 1999-2013 , Gerhard Vormwald , Verlag Kettler 2014, ISBN 978-3-86206-322-2
  • Blind seer in Dieter Fuder : The spark of semantics. Design theory as a method of knowledge . Ed. Irmgard Sonnen / Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences, Department of Design, Bramsche 2013. ISBN 3-89946-199-1
  • SHADOW Images and film stills Teaching and research project Prof. Gerhard Vormwald + Dipl.-Des. Kathrin Tillmanns, 2010–2011 article in ALUF 1, From teaching and research University of Düsseldorf 2010
  • In plural, published by Prof. Gerhard Vormwald / Rector of the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences, Department of Design Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 3-923669-85-2 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Kulturserver-nordrhein-westfalen.de .@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kulturserver-nordrhein-westfalen.de  
  2. ↑ Simone Fischer: The spark of semantics. In: idw-online.de. May 15, 2017. Retrieved May 27, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Tillmanns, Kathrin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer and scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Rudolstadt