Hochschule Düsseldorf
University of Applied Sciences
Fachbereiche Architektur & Design
Peter Behrens School of Arts

 Lectures, presentations and curatorial work (selection)
Vorträge, Präsentationen und kuratorische Arbeit (Auswahl)
 
2022

20th Kalpanirjhar International Short Fiction Film Festival/Film Festival Kolkata 2022
"Conversation with the World – German Animation and Shorts"
Curation of two short film programmes
December 7-10, 2022
 
BDA Bund deutscher Architektinnen und Architekten Baden-Württemberg
Panel and presentation: "Lichtspiel(h)aus"
Architekturnovember, Stuttgart
October 27, 2022

Der Kommunikationskongress 2022, Berlin & Digital
Presentation "Präsenz und Virtualität in der Festivalarbeit"
September 23, 2022
 
 
2021
Embassy of the Republic of Ireland in Berlin
Online lecture: „Samuel Beckett: TV Pieces – Crazy Inventions for Television“
July 15, 2021
 
Filmfestival Münster
Lecture: „Haus für Film + Medien Stuttgart“ in the context of the symposium „Quo Vadis Kino?“
September 25, 2021
 
KASK, Gent
Film lecture "Expanded Animation"
November 4, 2021
 
Nanjing University of Technology / Beijing German Cultural Centre, Goethe Institut
Online lecture: "Disruptions – A Short History of German Animation"
December 12, 2021
 
 
2020
Virtual Short Film Conference
Online lecture: „Going Viral“
April 22, 2020
 
 
2019
BrandEx, Westfalenhalle Dortmund
Lecture: „Expanded Spaces – Wie Medien und Raum verschmelzen“
January 15, 2019
 
Marketingclub Ulm
Marketing- und Kommunikationsstrategien des Internationalen Trickfilm-Festival Stuttgart
February 26, 2019
 
Creative School of Media, Hongkong City University
Lecture „Animated Spaces“
March 14, 2019
 
Wagenhallen, Stuttgart
Presentation "Creative industries in the digital age" on behalf of Wirtschaftsförderung Region Stuttgart GmbH
Digital X
May 7, 2019
 
Nanjing University of the Arts
Lecture „Expanded Animation – Animation, Architecture, and Games“ and three curated film programmes.
October 18-21, 2019
 
Kolkata Film Festival
Curation of the film programme „New Contemporary German Animation“
November 8-15, 2019
 

2018
Hochschule der bildenden Künste Braunschweig
Lecture „History Repeated – Found Footage Film als Form der Geschichtsreflexion“
January 15, 2018
 
Venice Filmfestival, Hotel Excelsior
Panel "Creating the buzz around movies: Promotion, Festivals and MEDIA after 2020"
European Commission/Creative Europe
September 1, 2018
 

2017
Stadthaus Ulm
Introductory speach „Bruce Bickford – unbekannte Terrains und animierte Tableaux“
in the context oft he exhibition „Herr Bickford entdeckt ein neues Land“
March 10, 2017
 
Gasteig Munich
Expert talk on the Oscar nominated animated film „La vie de courgette“
Lux Film Prize in cooperation with Media Desk Munich
May 27, 2017
 
 
2016
Atelier am Bollwerk Stuttgart
Artist talk with animator Eli Chapuis
„Life as a Zucchini“ (Winner, European Film Prize in the category of animation 2016)
In cooperation with Media Desk Munich
November 27, 2016
 
DHBW Mediendesign, Ravensburg
Lunchtime Talk: Animated Spaces – Vom Expanded Cinema zur Virtual Reality
October 19, 2016
 
World Communication Forum Davos in Łódź, Hotel Andel’s
Lecture “Enterpreneurship Through Creative Industries”
October 10, 2016
 
Nanyang University of Technology, Singapore
Keynote „Expanded Animation – towards a spatial theory and practice between architecture, game art, performance and animation“
June 28, 2016
 
CONTENTAWARD.AT (Vienna)
Lecture „Animate & Play“ – Indie Games and artistic animation"
March 16, 2016
 
Orbit Live! Festival, Mumbai
Workshop „Animation between Games, Art, and Architecture“
January 22, 2016
 
 
2015
Tallin Black Nights Film Festival / Animated Dreams (NO99)
The IndieDev Conference organised by Estonian Chapter of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA)
Lecture „Games & Animation“
November 19, 2015
 
Copenhagen Short Film Festival
Curation and presentation of three animated film programmes
February 18-22, 2015
 
Staatliche Akademie der bildenden Künste Stuttgart
Lecture "Interludes: Animated Drawings/Drawn Animation II"
In the context of the symposium „Der Illustrations-Impuls“
February 17, 2015
 
 
2014
Staatliche Akademie der bildenden Künste Stuttgart
Lecture, "Interludes: Animated Drawings/Drawn Animation II"
In the context of the symposium „Der Illustrations-Impuls“
November 25, 2014
 
Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg, Mediendesign, Ravensburg
Lecture "Widerstand & Widerspruch" – Dinner Time Talk mit Russ Bestley (England)
November 11, 2014
 
Hansgrohe Aquademie, Schiltach
Lecture "Wasser und Animation"
November 2014
 
Anim’Est, Chisinau (Moldawien)
Lecture „Animated Propaganda“ and film presentation
October 30 - November 2, 2014
 
ARS Electronica / Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz
Lecture „Animated Spaces – Animation, Architecture, and Game Art“
September 5, 2014
 
Festival d’animation Annecy
Lecture and panel discussion "La place du Web dans la diffusion du court métrage d’animation"
Juni 13, 2014
 
Berlinale Talents, Berlin
Lecture „Short Thoughts About Short Films“
February 7, 2014
 
 
2013
Toronto University, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
Lecture „Flaming Gestures: Artistic Research and Practice on Gestures, Rituals, and Acting“
September 26, 2013
 
Lazi Akademie, Esslingen
Lecture „Animated Spaces“
July 10, 2013
 
aed – Verein zur Förderung von Architektur, Engineering und Design in Stuttgart, Filmgalerie 451, Stuttgart
Lecture „Hinter den Kulissen: das Stuttgarter Trickfilm-Festival“
July 3, 2013
 
Anca Festival Zilina (Slovakia)
Curation of the film programme „Zeitgenossen – German Animated Film from 1990 until now“
June 27 –June 30, 2013
 
National Animation Festival Susdal (Russia)
Film programme „History of German Animation“
February 28 – March, 2013
 
 
2012
ZIMFAIA, Alliance Française de Harare (Simbabwe)
Film programme, lecture, and workshop „Animation Producing in Europe“
December 7-9, 2012
 
Cyprus University of Technology, Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts, Limassol
Animation: Art, Craft, Poetics (conference)
Lecture „Animated Spaces: Animation, Architecture, and Game Art“
November 26, 2012
 
Internationale Hofer Filmtage
All-day lecture and workshop "Geschichte des deutschen Animationsfilm" in cooperation with Goethe Institut
October 23-28, 2012
 
7th Anim’Est – International Animation Festival, Bukarest
Curation and presentation „Best of ITFS 2012“, „The Wonderful World of Trick – the German Animation Scene“ (Focus Germany: 6 film programme)
October 5-14, 2012
 
Animatou – Festival International du Film d’Animation, Genf
Lecture and film presentation, "Arts, Politics & Propaganda in German Animation Films“, „Zeitgenossen – German Contemporary Animated Film“ und „Tricks for Kids Special – Animated Childrens Film from Germany“
October 6 -14, 2012
 
Goethe Institut Los Angeles / CalArts
Filmlecture „German Animated Film between Arts, Politics and Propaganda“ & „Best of Animation“
May 23-24, 2012
 
FMX – Festival de Mexico/Animasivo
"Historia de la animación alemana. Entre el arte y el entrenimiento. Subversión y propaganda"
Six-part film lecture
Mexico City
May 18-20, 2012
 
Czech-German Animation Festival
Film lecture "Contemporaries – German Animated Film from 1989 until now"
Goethe Institut Rotterdam
March 17-18, 2012
 
Tampere Film Festival
Two-part film programme and lecture, "AniProp – Animation, Art, Propaganda in German Animated Films"
March 7-11, 2012
 

​​2011
Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin
Panel talk "Budapest 1960-1980. György Kovásznai. Filme/Zeichnungen/Malerei"
Round table in the context of the exhibition by György Kovásznai with Aline Helmcke, Brigitta Iványi-Bitter, and János Can Togay
September 30, 2011
 
Emerson College, The Department of Visual and Media Arts, Boston
The Kevin Bright Family Screening Room,
Film lecture „Animation Expanded – Art, Animation, and Installation“
September 20, 2011
 
Goethe Institut Boston
Lecture "Deutscher Animationsfilm: Zwischen Kunst, Politik und Propaganda"
September 19, 2011
 
Harvard University, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Cambridge
Lecture „Zeitgenossen – German Animated Film from 1990 until now"
September 16, 2011
 
Toronto University, Department of Art, Visual Studies Programme
Lecture "Selected Media Works from Free Art Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg (former Free Art Academy Nuertingen)"
September 14, 2011
 
vTape, Toronto
 Lecture „Animation Expanded – Art, Animation, and Installation“
September 13, 2011
 
HFF „Konrad Wolf“ Potsdam-Babelsberg
Workshop und Präsentation „Grenzbereiche der Animation“ and mentoring of student works studentischer
June, 29-30, 2011
 
The Norwegian Short Film Festival, Grimstad, Norway
Lecture "Art, Politics, and Propaganda in German Animated Film2
June 17-18, 2011
 
Goethe Institut Tiflis, Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen
Lectures and workshops "Woche des Deutschen Animationsfilms"
May 3 – June 4, 2011
 
Fete de l’Anim, Lille
Two-part lecture, „Entre le controle de l’état et la clandestinité: l’animation sous la Republique démocratique allemande“ und „L’animation contemporaine allemande 1989-2006)
March 19-20, 2011


2010
EXHIBIT! – 3rd International Scenographers’ Festival IN3, Kaserne, Basel
Moderation: „MEDIA SPECIAL – talking spaces“
December 3, 2010
 
5th Athens ANIMFEST
Lecture "Drei Stationen in der Geschichte des deutschen Animationsfilm
Von der großen Dame des Avantgarde-Films Lotte Reiniger und der Filmproduktion der DDR zu den Zeitgenossen"
March 11-14, 2010
 
Bangkok Art and Culture Center
German Short Film and Animation Showcase
Presentation of the programmes "Best of ITFS09 - International Selection“ „BW-Reel“, and "Zeitgenossen - Geschichte des deutschen Animationsfilms" and „Zwischen Staatskunst und Underground – Animationsfilm in der DDR“
Workshop „German Animation – History, Education, Production, and Distribution“
January 20-27, 2010
 
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, School of Art, Design and Media
Lecture and film presentation „German Animation History“ and "Best of ITFS09 -International Selection“
January 20-22, 2010
 
National Yun-lin University of Science and Technology, Digital Media Design Centre, Taiwan
Lecture „German Animation History“ and Workshop „German Animation – Education and Production“
January 13-14, 2010

2009
Animateka, Ljubljana, Slowenien
Curation of two film progammes "Best of ITFS09 - International Selection“ and „BW-Reel“
December 7-9, 2009
 
Anilogue, Budapest
Lecture "Geschichte des deutschen Animationsfilms – 'Zeitgenossen' und 'Zwischen Staatskunst und Underground – Animationsfilm in der DDR'"
November 27-29, 2009
 
Banjalukanima 2009 International Animated Film Festival, Banja Luka
Lecture "Hitlerov san o Miki Mausu – Animirani Film Treceg Rajha (Hitlers Dream of Mickey Mouse – Animated Film of the Third Reich)"
October 22-27, 2009
 
ReAnimania, Eriwan
Lectures and various film programmes "Geschichte des deutschen Animationsfilms -'Zeitgenossen' und 'Zwischen Staatskunst und Underground'" und "Best of ITFS09 - International Selection“ und „BW-Reel“
Oktober 3-6, 2009
 
AnimaSyros, Syros
Curation of film programmes "Best of ITFS09 - International Selection“ und „BW-Reel“)
September 24-27, 2009
 
Odense International Film Festival
Lecture "Geschichte des deutschen Animationsfilms – 'Hitlers Traum von Mickey Mouse', 'Zwischen Staatskunst und Underground – Animationsfilm in der DDR' und 'Zeitgenossen'
August 2009
 
GoEast – 9. Festival des mittel- und osteuropäischen Films, Wiesbaden
"Winter Adé – Filmische Vorboten der Wende" – talk with curator Claus Löser
April 27, 2009
 
Cortoons, Roma
Film presentation "Best of ITFS08 - International Selection“
March 25-29, 2009
 

2008
22. Internationales Filmfest Braunschweig
Lecture "Machinimas – von 1996 bis heute"
November 7, 2008
 
Goethe Institut Shanghai
Film lecture "German Contemporary Animated Film"
September 26, 2008
 
3rd Sapporo Short Fest
Film lecture "German Contemporary Shorts"
September 10-15, 2008,
 
Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
Moderation of the film talk „Hölle Hamburg“ with Ted Gaier and Peter Ott
März 13, 2008,
 
Stadtmuseum Tübingen
Lecture "Einführung in das filmische Werk von Lotte Reiniger"
March 7, 2008
 
Microcinema/Milano Film Festival
Film presentation „BW-Rolle – Animationsfilme aus der Region Stuttgart"
February 14, 2008
 
 
2007
Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart
Introductory speech "Jana Eske und Robert Vater - Einführungsrede neue Stipendiaten"
November 8, 2007
 

FH Offenburg
All-day lecture "Found Footage Film – Strategien der Aneignung und Umnutzung"
November 7, 2007
 
 
2006
 
Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart
Introductory speech "Das Böller Prinzip Einführungsrede zur Künstlergruppe 'Böller und Brot'
December 6, 2006
 
Film lecture „Film auf der documenta“
June 7, 2006, Kunsthalle zu Kiel; June 8, 2006, Museumsberg Flensburg;
June 10, 2006, Overbeck Gesellschaft, Lübeck
 
10/10 Rencontres internationales de cinéma d’animation, Pléneuf Val André, France
Lecture and film presentation, "Pour rire! Palmarès de Stuttgart“
Vortrag und Filmvorführung
February 16-19, 2006,
 

2005
Filmladen Kassel
Lecture and film presentation, „Animationsfilm auf der documenta 1, 1955“
October 9, 2005
 
Kunsthochschule der Medien, Cologne
Seminar „Fundraising für Film und Medienkunst“,
July 15, 2005
 
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
Lecture „Neue Vertriebswege für Kurzfilme“,
May 10, 2005
 
Galerie Fluctuating Images, Stuttgart
Lecture „Der kameralose Film – Von der abstrakten Animation zu Echtzeit-Demos“
May 6, 2005
 

2004
National Museum, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
Four-part lecture „Funding, Market Development, Co-Production and Training in German Animation“, in the context of the seminar "Animation Industry in Malaysia – Current situation and new challenges"
December 11, 2004
 
7. Matita Film Festival, Guardiagrele, Italy
Lecture and film presentation „Il cinema d’animazione Tedesco dalle sue origini fino ad oggi“,
September 24-25, 2004
 
NRW Bank und Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Düsseldorf
Lecture „Alternative Vertriebswege des unabhängigen Films“
July 2, 2004
 
Literaturhaus Stuttgart
„Märchen und Animation“ moderation of an animation talk with Andreas Friedrich, Ruth Lingford, Hansjörg Weitbrecht and Prof. Dr. Beat Wyss in the context of the 12. Internationalen Trickfilm-Festivals Stuttgart
April 5, 2004
 
Fournos – Centre for Digital Culture and Goethe Institut Athen
Introduction and presentation „10. Marler Video-Kunst-Preis 2002“
February 2, 2004
 
Gedok Galerie, Stuttgart
Introductory speach „Ximena Cuevas – Methoden des Überlebens“
In the context of the exhibition „Day 0623“ by Ximena Cuevas in the context of 17th Stuttgart Filmwinter, ,
January 14, 2004
 

2003
Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
Introductory speach „Überlegungen zu Eschatologie und Freiheit“
In the context of the opening of the exhibition „Finale Totale“
December 10, 2003
 
The Chicago Cultural Center
Lecture and film programme „Strategies of the Short – German Film and Video Art“, in the context of the festival „Video Mundi“
March 7, 2003
 
Gedok Galerie, Stuttgart
Introductory speech for the exhibition „annette hollywood starring Regina Zirkowski“, in the context of the 16th Stuttgart Filmwinter, ,
January 15, 2003

2002
Freiburger Frauenforschung/Universität Freiburg
Lecture "All You Can Eat – Gay Artistic Cinema – im Spannungsfeld zwischen Erotik und Pornografie“
December 20, 2002
 
ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe
„3D Multiuser Virtual Reality als kinematographisches Dispositif? Empyrean von Melinda Rackham"
Lecture and presentation in the context of the event „Streaming Media“
October 31, 2002
 
7th Festival of New Film Split
Lecture „Guardians of the Discourse – A Critique of Net Critique“
September 2002
 
Beijing Normal University/Goethe Institut Peking
Lecture and curation of a three-part film programme „Superwoman – Deutschlandbilder – Urbane Räume: Aktuelle Kurzfilme aus Deutschland“
4.-6. June 4-6, 2002
 

2000
Atelier Wilhelmstr. 16 e.V., Stuttgart-Bad Canstatt
Introductory speech, „Jütt-Kuriosa – Das Texel Projekt“
An exhibition in the context of a film research by Kurt Grunow, Mark-Steffen Bremer, Ulrich Wegenast,
December 8-18, 2000
 
Akademie der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Stuttgart-Hohenheim
Lecture and video screening "Drifting Pictures – Zeitgenössische Film- und Videoästhetik“, in the context of the conference „Schöne neue Bilderwelt – Die neuen Medien der Verständigungskultur im 21. Jahrhundert“
October 6, 2000
 

1999
Bilbao
Video lecture „Überlegungen zu Hegemonie und Tourismus: Globalisierung, Regionalisierung und Re-Nationalisierung“ in the context of the performance „Testimony of Time“ by SAC modellers' club 

May 1999
 
Lecture „Ping Pong – Sexuelle Parallelwelten im Experimentalfilm der 80er und 90er Jahre“, in the context of the symposium „Erotischer Blick und dokumentarischer Film“, Haus des Dokumentarfilms
April 14, 1999
 
Tisch School of the Arts & German House of the New York University
Lecture and film presentation „The Third Window – German and Austrian Experimental Films“
March 29, 1999
 

1998
Oberwelt e.V., Stuttgart
Introductory speech „Schubumkehr - Eingaben beim S.A.C. modellers‘ club"
May 8, 1998
 
Mal seh’n, Frankfurt
Film talk „Filmgespräch mit dem Animationsfilmer Ali Dieler“
April 30, 1998
 
Kommunales Kino Freiburg
Lecture and film presentation „The Art of Home Movies“
March 24, 1998
 

1997
Treffpunkt Rotebühlplatz, Stuttgart
Lecture „Found Footage als Medienkunst. Künstlerische Strategien der zweiten Wirklichkeit“, in the context of the symposium „Bild-Störung. Grenzphänomene des dokumentarischen Films“, Haus des Dokumentarfilms/,
March 19, 1997
 

1996
2. Werkleitz Biennale, Calbe, Törnitz, Werkleitz
Lecture and presentation „Internetarchive und Onlinedatenbanken“
in the context of the event „Cluster Image“
September 6, 1996
 
Kleines Haus, Staatstheater, Stuttgart
Panel discussion „Schlechter Geschmack – Angriff auf die Hochkultur“,
with Christoph Schlingensief, Carl Hegemann and Andreas Marber
January 15, 1996
 

1995
Bourbaki Panorama, Lucerne
„Szenario aus Verteilungskriegen“, Performance by S.A.C. modellers‘ Club, Int. Film- und Videofestival VIPER 1995, ,
October 25-29, 1995
 
Treffpunkt Rotebühlplatz, Stuttgart
Presentation and curation of the video programme „Das Zauberglas – Ins Universum der technischen Bilder“ with works by Dogfilm, Mindy Faber, Hartmut Jahn, Bjorn Melhus, Luis Valdovino
August 31-September 1, 1995
 
Sudhaus Tübingen
Video lecture „Expanded Music Versus Exploited Music“
In the context of Medienkunstfestival Tübingen
1995
 
ART Frankfurt
Lecture and moderation „The Imperial Crest of the Chrysanthemum“
In the context of a performance by S.A.C. modellers‘ club, ,
April 29, 1995
 
Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart
Lecture and curation of the film programme „Sein, Sex und Zeit“
Works by Martin Arnold, Michael Brynntrup, Matthias Müller, Hans Scheugl, Claudia Schillinger, ,
February 8, 1995
 

1​994
Oberwelt e.V., Stuttgart
Lecture and performance „Monte Verità – Wahrheit ohne Dichtung“
in the context of the programme series „Kolportage“
June 10, 1994
 
Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart
Introductory speach „Ausstellung von Mark-Steffen Bremer und Friederike van Lawick/Hans Müller“
June 8, 2004
 
mitte galerie, Stuttgart
Lecture, „ABM Fotografie. Kunst- und Sozialprojekte der USA zur Zeit des New Deal. Dokumentarfotografie der Farm Security Administration“
June 3, 1994
 
Galerie alpha – JETZT, Stuttgart
Video lecture „Nukleus Pop“
In the context of the exhibition „Swastika Girls“ by S.A.C. modellers‘ Club
March 2, 1994
 

1993
Fiarp III (Performancefestival), Madrid
Performacne lecture „Charger of Meaning“
by S.A.C. modellers‘ Club, ,
October 17, 1993
 
Lecture and curation of the film programme „Der deutsche Experimentalfilm der späten 80er Jahre“
Kunstraum Basel, February 1, 1993; Kunstakademie Karlsruhe, February 4, 1993; Damsterdamned, Bologna, April 29, 1993; Medienkunstfestival Tübingen, July 17, 1993