With its seventh annual theme "Human after Man", the cx centre for interdisciplinary studies explores how the notion of the human is currently being reconfigured in the arts and sciences. It attempts to bring a decolonial perspective into a dialogue with approaches that see the most pressing impetus for a redefinition of humanity above all in the phenomena of climate change, the current mass extinction, or in the ever-tighter fusion of the living and the technical.

Please find the annual theme "Human after Man" documented below:

Introduction annual theme (concept text)

Interdisciplinary lecture series "Human after Man" (video recordings)

Project classes of the guest professor keyon gaskin

Seminars WS 2018/19 and SoSe 2019

For further study please refer to the publication (will be released 2020)

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With its sixth annual theme "Politics of Emotion/Power of Affect", the cx centre for inter-disciplinary studies addresses the theme of affect and emotions as a meaningful category for analyzing the social. It investigates the influence of mediated emotions and affective attunements, potential new balances of power through the mechanization of affect, as well as current artistic and design-based reflections and deconstructions of emotional regimes.

Please find the annual theme "Politics of Emotion/Power of Affect" documented below:

Introduction annual theme (concept text)

Interdisciplinary lecture series (video recordings)

Project class of the guest professor Cécile B. Evans and workshop with Peng! Kollektiv

Seminars Winter Term 2017/18 and Summer Term 2018

For further study please refer to the publication (will be released 2020)

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The fifth annual theme of the cx centre for interdisciplinary studies "Hybrid Ecologies" explores which consequences the contemporary notion of ecology might entail for the rethinking of community and for artistic and design practices.

Please find the annual theme "Hybrid Ecologies" documented below:

Introduction annual theme  (concept text)

Interdisciplinary lecture series "Hybrid Ecologies" (video recordings)

Project classes of the guest professors John Jordan & Isabelle Fremeaux (Labofii) and Simon Starling

Seminars WS 2016/17 and SoSe 2017

For further study please refer to the publication (will be released 2019)

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The cx centre for interdisciplinary studies examines in its fourth annual theme "Real Magic" the contemporary reality of the magic and its emergence in the arts, sciences and everyday culture.

Please find the annual theme "Real Magic" documented below:

Introduction annual theme (concept text)

Interdisciplinary lecture series "Real Magic" ( video recordings)

Project classes of the guest professors Melanie Bonajo and Mariechen Danz

Seminars Winter Term 2015/16 and Summer Term 2016

For further study please refer to the publication (diaphanes 2018)

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The third annual theme of the cx centre for interdisciplinary studies asks, which means and strategies artists and scholars pursue today, to gain a radius of operation which rises from the conditions we are faced with – without falling into nostalgic utopianisms or apocalyptic sensationalisms.

Please find the annual theme "The present of the Future" documented below:

Introduction annual theme (concept text)

Interdisciplinary lecture series "The Present of the Future" (video recordings)

Project classes with the guest professors Nora Schultz and Tyler Coburn

Seminars Winter Term 2014/15 and Summer Term 2015

For further study please refer to the publication (diaphanes 2016)

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