Recorded Lectures and Videos

Art History at KIT
Welcome video in which students and lecturers of art history at KIT pronounce key terms that they associate with the subject.
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Origins and Cultural Transformations of "Popular Science
Lecture
(June 15, 2018) Dr. Dr. Jesús Muñoz Morcillo
In this lecture, Muñoz Morcillo proposes a new approach to science communication, focusing on rhetoric and visual and cultural techniques that have contributed to the popularization of knowledge since Greco-Roman antiquity.

How did optical drawing aids become popular 1800-1850?
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(June 15, 2018) Apl. Prof. Dr. Dr. Erna Fiorentini
In this lecture, Fiorentini looks at 19th-century manuals that addressed optical drawing aids. On the basis of a glaring discrepancy between the opinion on drawing instruments disseminated by the manuals and that of the market, Fiorentini examines different paths of knowledge dissemination and their respective effectiveness.

Exhibition-Virtual: Sequence and Variance
Virtual exhibition project
Dr. Alice Anna Klaassen, Dr. Dr. Jesús Muñoz Morcillo
This project was created as part of a course offered by the Institute of Art History at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), as well as the ZAK | Center for Applied Cultural Studies and Studium Generale in the summer to winter semester 2017/18. The students made film contributions as well as essays on ten selected exhibits from the collections of the Karlsruhe museums. Using the various examples from different eras, the theme of sequence & variance in the visual arts is to be addressed. Visitors can begin a virtual tour of our exhibition via this online platform, which has been specially designed for the project.

Contentful Surrogates? - Virtual Reality for the Conservation of Art Installations
Explanatory video: e-Installation: Virtualization of Media Art (Film)
Dr. Dr. Jesús Muñoz Morcillo
On the virtualization of media art: Although technology-based art has only existed since the early 1960s, the lifespan of many of these works of art is very short compared to more traditional genres such as painting or sculpture. A remedy for this is a new kind of documentation of media art using VR and telepresence technologies: the e-installation.

Johann Christian Reinhart - Landscape with a Bite
Reading
Prof. Dr. Oliver Jehle
From: Kirsten Voigt and Pia Müller-Tamm (eds.), Unter freiem Himmel. Landschaft sehen, lesen, hören, Bielefeld, Berlin 2017, pp. 166-172.

Department Teaching Award 2020: Architecture / Professor Dr. Inge Hinterwaldner
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Prof. Dr. Inge Hinterwaldner received the Department Teaching Award of the KIT Department of Architecture in April 2020.

"Venice Under the Sky."
Reading
Apl. Prof. Dr. Dr. Erna Fiorentini
From: Under the open sky : seeing, reading, hearing landscape, edited by Kirsten Voigt and Pia Müller-Tamm (Bielefeld: Kerber Art, 2017), 140-147.

Outlines of political art in the 20th century
Lecture
Apl. Prof. Dr. Martin Papenbrock
This lecture cursorily traces the lines of development of political art from the 1920s to the end of the 20th century. The focus is not on the state arts, but on the various forms of artistic resistance against political and social hegemonies of their time. It addresses the questions of the specificity of a political art, its forms of articulation and strategies, its themes and iconography, its relationship to the artistic avant-gardes and to the social movements of its time.

Resurrected Art in the Institute
Video project by students
Roberta Cebataviciute and Özge Kaya
In this video, prospective students are introduced to the place of teaching and learning. Empty rooms of the institute are filmed and enlivened with various works of art.