Epistemologies of Aesthetic Practices
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PhD School(s)
Scientific, Artistic-scientific
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Cooperation partner(s)
ETH Zurich, University of Zurich
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Main working language
German
Programme description
The laboratory at the Collegium Helveticum aims to pool and support outstanding dissertations on fundamental artistic, artistic-scientific and scientific questions in the field of aesthetics at ETH, the University of Zurich and Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), and to develop joint research projects.
This includes questions concerning theory and practice in the arts and design, the relationships between art and knowledge, as well as the artistic and artistic-scientific research in various media. It encompasses works on architecture, film and film theory, literature and literary studies, artistic practices relating to images, installation and performance art, sound and composition and their connection to technology and design practice, with a particular focus on digital media. Moreover, it includes dissertations on philosophical aesthetics and the politics of the arts, as well as aesthetic elements of scientific practice and its methodology, and questions of writing about artistic-aesthetic processes.