Time-Based Art Class at the HfK Bremen

Time is a fragile medium that forms an echo chamber by being delimited and not through existing organs of speech. Using cuts, displacements, experiments, and a critical examination of the overstimulation caused by new media, the class creates an incision in time that that shoots a loud echo directly through the interconnected stratosphere of our reality.    Have you ever felt like taking your screen and simply letting it crash to the floor? There are good reasons for this, and we elaborate them by taking a critical look at new media and platforms that penetrate our senses.

The Time-Based Arts class examines a visually and acoustically overstrained world, and what arise first of all are topics like fake news and whether video art is still relevant (short answer: very relevant). Dealing with the media landscape is processed in a critical way and requires taking a constant look at social networks. Audio/visual research informs the students’ works so as to reveal more clarity about content factories or to counter the mass automation of art. The class addresses these topics in spatial installations and more or less experimental narrative structures.