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

New media

New media is a broad term in media studies that emerged in the latter part of the 20th century. For example, new media holds out a possibility of on-demand access to content any time, anywhere, on any digital device, as well as interactive user feedback, creative participation and community...

 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

Peter Sloterdijk

Peter Sloterdijk is a German philosopher, television host, cultural scientist and essayist. He is a professor of philosophy and media theory at the University of Art and Design Karlsruhe. He currently co-hosts the German show Im Glashaus: Das Philosophische Quartett.-Biography:Sloterdijk's father...

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Former Professors

• Ulay
  Ulay
  Ulay , real name Frank Uwe Laysiepen is an important performance artist of the late 60s and the 70s.In all his works the central content is the relationship of body, space and society...
  
  
• Daniel Libeskind
  Daniel Libeskind
  Daniel Libeskind, is an American architect, artist, and set designer of Polish-Jewish descent. Libeskind founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 with his wife, Nina, and is its principal design architect...
  
  
• Marcel Odenbach
  Marcel Odenbach
  Marcel Odenbach, with Ulrike Rosenbach and Klaus vom Bruch, is one of the most well-established and internationally known German video artists. In the 1970s, they formed the producer group ATV...
  
  
• Thomas Struth
  Thomas Struth
  Thomas Struth is a German photographer whose wide-ranging work includes depictions of detailed cityscapes, Asian jungles and family portraits. He is one of Germany's most widely exhibited and collected fine art photographers...
  
  
• Boris Groys
  Boris Groys
  Boris Efimovich Groys is an art critic, media theorist, and philosopher. He is currently a Global Distinguished Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University and Senior Research Fellow at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in Karlsruhe, Germany...
  
  

Professors

Product design

• Volker Albus
• Bless Berlin / Paris

Media art

• Michael Bielicky
• Michael Clegg
• Thomas Heise
  Thomas Heise
  Thomas Heise is a German documentary filmmaker.-Life and work:Heise is the son of philosophy professor Wolfgang Heise. He was a printer's apprentice between 1971 and 1973...
  
  
• Anna Jermolaewa
• Isaac Julien
  Isaac Julien
  Isaac Julien is an installation artist and filmmaker.-Biography:Julien graduated from St Martin's School of Art in 1985, where he studied painting and fine art film...
  
  
• Armin Linke
• Andrei Ujica
  Andrei Ujica
  Andrei Ujica is a Romanian screenwriter and director.- Life and works :Ujica studied literature in Timişoara, Bucharest and Heidelberg. He moved to Germany in 1981. In 1990 he began making films...
  
  

Curatorial design

• Wilfried Kühn

Communication design

• Florian Pfeffer
• Tania Prill

Art and media theory, philosophy

• Peter Sloterdijk
  Peter Sloterdijk
  Peter Sloterdijk is a German philosopher, television host, cultural scientist and essayist. He is a professor of philosophy and media theory at the University of Art and Design Karlsruhe. He currently co-hosts the German show Im Glashaus: Das Philosophische Quartett.-Biography:Sloterdijk's father...
  
  
• Wolfgang Ullrich
• Beat Wyss

Set and stage design

• Beatrix von Pilgrim

External links

• http://www.hfg-karlsruhe.de