The Time-based Media program positions itself within an interdisciplinary exploration of various approaches to working with time-based media—including video (both practice and theory), film (theory), sound, media installations and productions, interactive systems, digital media design, and innovative programming.
Students develop their own artistic, scholarly, and transdisciplinary projects. Experimental, performative, spatial, cultural studies, and art-historical perspectives are integrated into both project development and the theoretical training in time-based media, media practice, and media production.
Nomadic / Yinglin Zhou - Photo: Yinglin Zhou
Collection
Time-based Media
Anthropocene
Mehmet Gürü Avcu (TR)
Anthropocene is a short documentary film about the water crisis, narrated through artworks by the painter Hasan. Endangered creatures are the main subject of this documentary film.
Antinomy｜二律背反
Shuting Wang (CN), Hanna Kortus (DE), Yixue Bo (CN), Ellinor Brandenburg (DE), Sasha Sokolov (RU), Paria Dayyani (IR), Sashe Urdovski (MK)
Antinomy is a 15-minute performance combining contemporary dance with generated visual art and video. It explores the paradox of bodily autonomy in a future where virtuality and control reshape human perception and identity.
Being, Between
Gustiele Fistaról (BR), Patrick Cuellar Ortiz (BO)
Being, Between is an interactive installation that attempts to bridge distances and materialize the ephemeral traces that flow between bodies in an encounter. Participants are connected from different locations, and their biodata weave a shared experience.
Coded World, Mystic Human
WMD Collective – Yinglin Zhou (CN), Jieyuan Huang (CN)
This work entwines the human body and coded world via mechanical interfaces and data cables, portraying human existence in physical and virtual spaces that are blurred and interwoven.
Digital Sediments
Vildan Dülgeroğlu (TR), Guney Tombak (TR)
Digital Sediments is an experimental video installation that explores the intersection of dream imagery and media archaeology.
Intertwined
Dilara Gül (TR), Lena Pöschko (AT), Anton Hößl (AT)
Life is one and alive in a myriad of forms. The boundaries of one body blend with another, emphasizing our shared connection to the universal flow of life energy. In this video installation, a CRT-TV is obscured by jungle-like foliage, the body of nature.
Melancholy of Love
Hooshyar Zaheryani (IR)
A cup of tea, a beam of light, and the hush of waiting—Melancholy of Love unfolds in a space where longing precedes time. Rooted in the Persian concept of 'Mehr’—love as radiant stillness—it lingers between presence and absence, desire and silence.
Neurographia
Olesia Kvitka (UA), Will Lopes (BR)
Neurographia explores the translation of inner states into visual form. Using EEG data recorded during a Butoh dance performance, the project transforms neural activity into a dynamic video composition.
Nomadic
Yinglin Zhou (CN)
Nomadic is an immersive work combining moving image and virtual space. Drawing on personal experience, the artist explores the fluidity of identity in urban settings.
Panopticon
Onur Sekmen (CY)
A factory gate opens, workers exit. Panopticon deconstructs this historical moment through Super 8, revealing labor as a structured, inherited cycle.
Simulation
Katia Koohestani (IR)
Created solely with TouchDesigner, this work models the shifting boundaries between reality and illusion.
Simurgh
Ebrahim Eskandari (IR), Yazdan Zand (IR)
The story of the Simurgh and the birds’ journey in search of a righteous king is a timeless allegory for the quest for freedom and self-discovery—themes that resonate deeply in the context of immigration.
Spektrum
Isabel Wöckl (AT), Ellinor Brandenburg (DE), Lena Stollwitzer (AT), Oliver Portius (AT)
Spektrum is an experimental film that explores the tension between binarity and fluid complexity.
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