Centre for Advanced Study
“Access to cultural goods in the digital transformation”

The digital transformation has fundamentally changed the possibilities and conditions of access to cultural goods — i.e. to works of art, but also to the holdings of archives, collections and museums and to such “subjects” as the results of scientific research — and will continue to require new forms and practices of production, reproduction and reception of such goods in the future.

The Centre for Advanced Study Access to Cultural Goods in Digital Change (KFG 33), funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) explores — especially with art as an example — both the new forms of access to cultural goods and the new forms of access restriction and access control made possible by digitalisation. In doing so, it also takes into account the fact that the digital transformation ties the production and reception of many cultural goods to technological preconditions that can be characterised as second-order access conditions.

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Fellow-Lecture: “‘Cultural Appropriation’. Questions about a concept”

The Centre for Advanced Study invites everyone who is interested to the

Fellow Lecture “‘Cultural Appropriation’. Questions about a concept”
by Prof. Dr. Thomas Gutmann (University of Münster)
on Monday, 8 July 2024,
from 4:15 to 6:30 pm
in Room 201, Philosophikum, Domplatz 23, 48143 Münster (wheelchair accessible).
Attendance is free of charge.
If you would like to attend, please send an email to kfg.zugang@uni-muenster.de.

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Fellow Lecture „Embodied Aesthetics“

The Centre for Advanced Study invites everyone who is interested to the

Fellow Lecture “Embodied Aesthetics – Exploring the Creation and Perception of Artistic Works in the Realms of Human Cognition and Artificial Intelligence”
by Dr. Fatemeh Masdari (Teheran)
on Monday, 17 June 2024,
from 4:15 to 6:30 pm
in Room 201, Philosophikum, Domplatz 23, 48143 Münster (wheelchair accessible).
Attendance is free of charge.
If you would like to attend, please send an email to kfg.zugang@uni-muenster.de.

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Lecture: “The Sculptural in the (Post-)Digital Age”

In her lecture “The Sculptural in the (Post-)Digital Age” on 13 May 2024, Prof. Dr. Ursula Ströbele discussed if it is still possible to give a definition of the sculptural in times of digital art (and art permeated by the logic of the digital). To this end, she examined traditional dictums from art theory with regard to their validity in relation to artworks based on augmented, virtual or mixed reality technologies. Ströbele also pointed out the institution-critical potential of digital technologies in art – especially with regard to questions of access to artworks.

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Lecture: „Physical Loss and Digital Reclamation – The Curatorial Concept of the China Pavilion at the Venice Biennale“

On 6 May 2024, Dr. Jiang Jun presented the curatorial concept of the China Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale in his lecture “Physical Loss and Digital Reclamation – The Curatorial Concept of the China Pavilion at the Venice Biennale”. At the China Pavilion, digital access is provided to ancient Chinese paintings which would otherwise be lost for the public. Dr. Jiang Jun is curator, art critic and postdoctoral fellow at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai, and co-curator of the China Pavilion of the 60th Biennale di Venezia.