Art & Science
The minor is aimed at Master’s students from ZHdK who wish to combine their artistic or design practices with or relate them to academic/scientific practices. They investigate different forms of insight and knowledge in theory and practice and examine the potential benefits of combining them.
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Study level
MA
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Coursework basic / advanced
15 / 30 credits
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Teaching language
German / English
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Start of studies
Every autumn and spring semester
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Number of study places
Limited
Course
Course content
The subject of the Minor “Art & Science” is relationships between the arts and sciences as different ways of discovering the world. Aesthetic approaches are given considerable consideration in scientific processes; conversely, nearly all areas of society, including the arts, are permeated by scientific insights. The Minor “Art & Science” focuses on these interrelations and mutual references between artistic and scientific processes, experimental arrangements and forms of knowledge.
The Minor centres around interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary project work that the students design and realize individually or in teams. With reference to scientific paradigms and methods, in cooperation with scientists or in residencies and internships at scientific institutions and laboratories, students investigate possible interrelations between scientific and artistic processes. In dialogue with the sciences, they examine relevant issues, discourses and controversies and develop independent positions as authors at the interface between those fields.
Skills
Graduates of the Minor “Art & Science” are capable of:
– Asking critical questions about the penetration of science into social fields, identifying controversies and areas of tension between different forms of knowledge and reflecting on them with artistic and aesthetic resources;
– Appraising and developing relationships between arts and sciences and rendering them productive for their own work projects;
– Articulating their own position and negotiating and asserting it in dialogue with representatives of scientific disciplines.
Admissions requirements
The Minor “Art & Science” is aimed both at students on the Major “Transdisciplinary Studies in the Arts” who would like to specialize in relationships between arts and sciences and at all Master’s students of ZHdK who wish to combine their Major with modes of knowledge from the sciences and/or humanities.
Language skills required.
You need the following languages to take this minor:
– German or English: to be able to follow a discussion
– German or English: to actively participate in a verbal exchange
– English: to understand a text
– German or English: to write a text
Special features of the course
The Minor can be taken in various forms – on a cursory basis via participation in teaching formats (practical projects and seminars on the theory and history of the relationship between the arts and sciences), with a focus on an individual project or as an internship/residence in scientific institutions and laboratories (in cooperation in the ZHdK’s artists-in-labs programme).
The Minor may be undertaken consecutively. Combining the two Minors “Art & Science – Basic” (15 credits) and “Art & Science – Advanced” (15 credits) therefore leads to an in-depth understanding of different modes of knowledge at the interface between art and science.
Time structure
The compulsory modules of the Minor “Art & Science” take place during the Minor Weeks. The elective modules can be attended on Friday afternoon.
This minor was previously called “Transformations Arts Sciences”
→ More about the Minor Art & Science – basic (PDF-Download)
→ More about the Minor Art & Science – advanced (PDF-Download)
Major-Minor Programme Model
At ZHdK, students choose a Major. In addition to this core subject, they can choose one or two Minors to deepen or expand their major skills and knowledge across various disciplines. This wide choice of courses is unique in Europe and enables students to develop and sharpen their individual profile.