Program Overview

University Programs

The university offers two distinct programs that cater to different interests and academic pursuits.

Creating with Machines: Artificial Intelligence, Imagination, and the Question of Authorship

• Course description: This course examines the artistic use of artificial intelligence (AI) and its ability to create new opportunities for art, addressing questions concerning the legal and conceptual challenges of this development.
• Language requirements: English B2
• Place: Humboldt-Universit‰t zu Berlin, Room t.b.a.
• Time: t.b.a.
• Course details: Students will reflect on how AI may reshape the way we understand imagination, the concept of beauty, and storytelling. The course will also engage unresolved questions around legal topics such as authorship, copyright, and ownership, highlighting how current legal frameworks react or fail to react to machine-generated contents.

Exhibition-Making and Curating: Artistic Responses on World Epidemics

• Course description: The seminar explores perspectives on curating and creating exhibitions in Berlin, examining the past, present, and future of exhibitions centered on global pandemics and world epidemics.
• Language requirements: English B2
• Place: Humboldt-Universit‰t zu Berlin, Room t.b.a.
• Time: t.b.a.
• Course details:
  • The seminar contextualizes, focuses, and specializes in the history of exhibitions in Berlin related to the HIV/AIDS pandemic from 1981 to the present day.
  • The course involves visiting Berlin's institutions and archives, and provides conversations with Berlin-based curators and artists.
  • It enables students to explore and understand contemporary curatorial practices in Berlin by visiting and analyzing various exhibitions.
  • The student's workflow involves reading, group discussions, and curatorial writing strategies, culminating in the conceptualization of an exhibition proposal as a final project on global pandemics.