Art Academy for Media Cologne

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Art Academy for Media Cologne
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founding 1989, opening in 1990
Sponsorship state
place Cologne
state North Rhine-WestphaliaNorth Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia
country GermanyGermany Germany
Rector Kerstin Stutterheim
Students 390 WS 2017/18
Employee approx. 120 (including 60 scientific)
Website www.khm.de

The Cologne Academy of Media Arts ( KHM for short ) is a state-run art college in Cologne that was opened in 1990 and specializes in media arts .

history

The KHM goes back to an initiative of the social democratic state government of North Rhine-Westphalia. At the beginning of the 1980s, the then Minister of Science Anke Brunn advocated the creation of an art college in Cologne. But instead of naming the Cologne Werkschulen as the third art academy in North Rhine-Westphalia, the decision was made to close the Werkschulen and to re-establish an art college for media.

Studies began on October 15, 1990, initially with additional and further education courses. The 8-semester diploma course in Audiovisual Media has been offered since 1994, which was renamed Media Arts in the summer semester 2011 and expanded to 9 semesters. Since 2011 the diploma course "Media Arts" has been available as an undergraduate, 9-semester (Diploma 1) and as a postgraduate, 4-semester (Diploma 2) offer. The aim of both offers is a demanding project study that allows each student the free choice and individual combination of artistic focuses.

The start of teaching began in the provisional accommodation in Overstolzenhaus and at Peter-Welter-Platz 2. In the following 15 years there were repeated discussions about the location. A settlement in the periphery of Cologne was ruled out, because the KHM had to be permanently anchored in a central, urban environment. For this reason, up to seven other buildings around Peter-Welter-Platz and Filzengraben have now been rented. At the end of 2005, the question of location came to an end with the move into the new building complex on Filzengraben.

Education

Art Academy for Media Cologne, Peter-Welter-Platz 2

The areas of exMedia, film, art and science are the organizational structure of a networked teaching. It specifically promotes the interdisciplinary engagement with different artistic fields, in which the students in the main course or additional and further education course can specialize: From photography, to feature, documentary and experimental film, animation, video and light art, camera and Image composition, design, sound, sound, art in public space, literary writing, architecture, experimental computer science, as well as theory, aesthetics and history of machines, the arts and the media. The student work is project-oriented and takes place in studios, studios and laboratories; accompanied by lectures and seminars that convey the historical and theoretical foundations of the media arts. The cafeteria care for students and employees is provided by the Cologne Student Union .

The KHM has an annual average of around 380 students who are intensively supervised by an international team of professors and employees as well as a network of fellows and guest lecturers. The continuous cooperation with domestic and foreign universities, cultural institutions, festivals, exhibition organizers and the media and film industry promotes this training.

Major fields of study

The course is organized in three areas: exMedia, film, art, and art and media studies, which include the following specializations:

  • Animation / 3D animation / games
  • Image composition / camera / montage
  • Screenplay / dramaturgy / literary writing
  • Experimental film / video art
  • Artistic photography
  • Sound art
  • Creative production / TV formats / live direction
  • Art and media studies
  • Art in public space / performance / installation
  • Policy of Networks and Apparatus / Interface / Code
  • Direction for feature and documentary film

PhD program

The Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, with its doctoral regulations adopted in 2004, offers the possibility of writing a philosophical dissertation. Since 2018 the new subject "Queer Studies" has been added. It concludes with a university-equivalent, i.e. scientifically centered Dr. phil. This academic degree means that reference to artistic practice is a prerequisite for admission and proximity to artistic experiments is sought.

The following doctoral subjects are offered:

  • Design science
  • Experimental computer science
  • Film studies
  • Communication science
  • Art history
  • Media studies
  • Queer Studies

Fixed series / events (selection)

GLASMOOG - space for art & discourse / exhibition space at the KHM (all year round) + KHM at Art Cologne (annually) + open days / tour at the KHM (every summer semester) + sound art series (Nocturne until 2016/17 , from 2017 soundings) + film series (every semester with graduation and debut films of the graduates) + showcase (once a year the Art Academy for Media Cologne invites the film, television and media industry to view the current production in Cologne. It shows invited producers , Editors, festival directors, sponsors and journalists a selection of feature films and documentaries. In addition, material for long films is presented in a pitch)

Cooperation partner

  • The Center for International Art Management CIAM (Center of International Arts Management) was founded in May 2005 as a joint institution of the Cologne University of Music, the Robert-Schumann-University of Düsseldorf, the Düsseldorf Art Academy and the Cologne Academy of Media Arts. a. the MA course "Art Management".
  • The KHM has a cooperation agreement with the Konrad Wolf University of Film and Television in Potsdam- Babelsberg for collaboration in teaching and research as well as student exchange.
  • With the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems in St. Augstin, the art college maintains close cooperation in the field of computer science and experimental computer art.
  • 1996–2018 there was an agreement with the Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV (EICTV) in San Antonio de los Baños in Cuba for the mutual successful exchange of students.
  • Since 2008 cooperation with the ISAP program of the DAAD (International Study and Training Partnerships), which supports a partial course at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL) in Bogotá (Colombia)

Other collaborations: Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (Jerusalem), Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Bogotà); Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris), Mecad (Barcelona), Korea National University of Arts (Seoul, Korea). Numerous selective exchange relationships with universities in France, Italy, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Switzerland, UK, Japan, China, USA and others.

Of currently several thousand centrally recorded productions, more than a third was created in cooperation with partners worldwide.

Prices at the KHM

The couple Alfred and Hedwig Neven DuMont donated the Spiridon Neven DuMont Prize from 1998 to 2015 for an outstanding young artistic personality among the students of the Art Academy for Media. Since 2012, the Association of Friends of the KHM has been donating the Friends of the KHM Art Prize (7,500 euros) and enables scholarships of 2,000 euros. In addition, the KHM's Equal Opportunities Foundation donates 3,000 euros each year to the KHM sponsorship award for women artists .

Rectors

Manfred Eisenbeis (founding representative until 1990), Klaus Katz (founding rector 1990–1994), Siegfried Zielinski (1994–2000), Anthony Moore (2000–2004), Andreas Henrich (2004–2007), Marie-Luise Angerer (2007–2009) , Klaus Jung (2009–2014), Hans Ulrich Reck (2014–2020), Kerstin Stutterheim (since April 1, 2020)

Currently active professors (as of 5/2018)

Well-known former professors

Well-known graduates and former employees

Artist:

Filmmakers:

Authors:

University professor:

Ranking

In the university ranking of the creative courses of the news magazine Focus (issue 22/2006), the KHM achieved 2nd place (76 points) together with the international film school Cologne and the German Film and Television Academy Berlin after the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg (78 points ). In addition to the reputation of the university, the supervision situation of the students, the technical equipment and the number of prizes won were an evaluation criterion.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Statistical Office: Number of students by type of university, state and university, WS 2013/14, pp. 66–113 (accessed on November 3, 2013)
  2. ^ Peter C. Slansky: Film schools in Germany. History - typology - architecture . edition text + kritik, Munich, 2011. ISBN 978-3-86916-116-7
  3. ↑ a b On the start of Lars Büchel and Didi Danquart - KHM. Retrieved August 28, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Focus Ranking of the Creative Study Programs Edition 22/2006
Universities and colleges in North Rhine-Westphalia
Universities

RWTH Aachen  • University of Bielefeld  • Ruhr University of Bochum  • Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn  • Technical University of Dortmund  • Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf  • University of Duisburg-Essen  • Distance University in Hagen  • University of Cologne  • German Sport University Cologne  • Westfälische Wilhelms- University of Münster  • Philosophical-Theological University of Münster  • German Police University  • University of Paderborn  • Theological Faculty of Paderborn  • University of Siegen  • University of Witten / Herdecke  • University of Wuppertal  • Church University of Wuppertal / Bethel

State universities

University of Applied Sciences Aachen  • University of Applied Sciences North Rhine-Westphalia  • University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld  • University of Bochum  • University of Health  • University of the Federal Government for Public Administration  • University of Applied Sciences Dortmund  • University of Düsseldorf  • University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration North Rhine-Westphalia  • Westphalian University of Gelsenkirchen Bocholt Recklinghausen  • University of Hamm- Lippstadt  • University of Applied Sciences South  • Rhine-Waal University  • Technical University of Cologne  • Niederrhein University  • Technical University of East Westphalia-Lippe  • Ruhr West University  • Technical University of Münster  • University of Finance North Rhine-Westphalia  • Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences

Art and music colleges

Alanus University for Art and Society  • University of Music Detmold  • Art Academy Düsseldorf  • Robert Schumann University Düsseldorf  • Folkwang University of the Arts  • University of Fine Arts Essen  • University of Church Music of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia  • University of Music and Dance Cologne  • Art School for Media Cologne  • Münster Art Academy  • Münster University of Music

Church and private universities

Fachhochschule der Diakonie  • Fachhochschule des Mittelstands  • EBZ Business School  • Evangelical University of Rhineland-Westphalia-Lippe  • Technical University Georg Agricola  • University of the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe  • European University of Applied Sciences  • International School of Management  • Fliedner University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf  • IST University for Management  • FOM - University of Economics and Management  • SRH University Hamm  • Business and Information Technology School  • Cologne Business School  • HSD University Döpfer  • Catholic University of North Rhine-Westphalia  • Practice University  • Rhenish University of Applied Sciences Cologne  • Cologne University of Catholic Theology (KHKT)  • Rhenish University of Applied Sciences Neuss for International Business  • University of Applied Sciences for Business

Coordinates: 50 ° 56 '2.5 "  N , 6 ° 57' 44.3"  E