events
events
Short film evening: Between borders and resistance (2025)
03.07.2025, 6 pm, as part of Showtime
Under the title Between Borders and Resistance, experimental and fictional short films will be shown that tell of private and political borderline moments in the context of self-determination and resistance. From extraterrestrial family planning to farewell moments between fishermen and the sea, the films invite us to accompany different people as they make very different life decisions.
Created by students of the MA seminar Curating Short Films, we are looking forward to a joint short film evening at the Unikino Gegenlicht. - at the end of the semester and as part of the annual "Showtime" organised by the Institute of Art and Visual Culture.
Workshop: Music and politics in the sustainability discourse
16.01.2025 from 16-18 h
In January 2025, two experts from the field of music and sustainability will visit the University of Oldenburg to report on their experiences in implementing sustainability goals in art and culture.
Anyone interested in this topic is invited to attend and discuss this area of music. The workshop will be led by Prof Dr Susanne Binas-Preisendörfer and Shanti Suki Osman from the Institute of Music.
Two guests will come to the workshop to report from their fields of work:
- Dr Ralf Weiß (cultural consultant, Chair of the Network for Sustainability in Art and Culture 2N2K Deutschland e.V.).
- Richard Hötter (composer, musical director at the Oldenburg State Theatre)
When? 16 January 2025 4-6 p.m.
Where? A08 1-110 at the University of Oldenburg
Studio workshop on 08 January 2025
Modular sound synthesis with lil.lili
A colourful tangle of cables and countless knobs and sliders - paradise for Lili, aka lil.lili. She loves nothing more than tinkering with her modular synthesiser and trying out new patches. Ever since she accidentally came into contact with this fascinating world, she has been totally in love. For the mother of three, making music and experimenting with her modular system is a liberating balance to everyday life and like a loud meditation. From downtempo to psybient to melodic techno - playful melodies, soft sounds and creaky bass - from 95 to 145 BPM: every live set by lil.lili is a unique journey! In addition to her own music, her aim is to introduce other FLINTAs to the world of synthesisers and take away their fear of the supposedly "rutted" technology.
Winter party 04.12.2024
The student representatives of the Institute of Material Culture invite you to the winter party!
The M.A. Integrated Media is part of the student body network of the Institute of Material Culture and works together with the other student bodies.
This year the winter party will take place again on 04.12.2024 from 5 pm in the Freiraum in A08. Come along for punch, speculoos houses, a tombola, clothes swap and games.
We look forward to seeing you!
Continuation NorthEast meets NorthWest
The cooperation between the two universities of Oldenburg and Groningen was further intensified as part of the "NorthEast meets NorthWest" project. As already announced in a previous article, students and lecturers from Groningen arrived in Oldenburg on 20 May 2022 to first get to know the Integrated Media degree programme. After several subsequent rounds of talks, the workshop concluded with a panel discussion in the Edith-Russ-Haus, in which creative professionals from Oldenburg shared experiences from their working world with those present.
On 1 June 2022, a group of participants in the seminar "cre8 - Approaches to the professional field of creative entrepreneurs" went on an excursion to Groningen together with Prof. Dr Susanne Binas-Preisendörfer and Arne Wachtmann. The aim of this second meeting was to encourage further dialogue between students and lecturers from both universities. In the course of this, the presentation of the degree programme was supplemented by a round of talks in which future opportunities for cooperation were discussed. After a tour of the city and lunch together, there was also a plenary discussion in which people from the creative scene in Groningen were able to talk to those present about their work, but also about the adversities in times of the corona pandemic.
NorthEast meets NorthWest
Local cultural and creative industries in the Groningen region and the North-West region
There is an extremely lively scene of creative, young media and cultural enterprises and organisers in Oldenburg and the surrounding area. Students from the university and in particular from the School III degree programmes are often involved in such activities. This provides them with insights and concrete experience in future professional fields or important encounters in the all-important local networks.
The University of Groningen also has extensive and interesting networks in the regional cultural and creative industries (Eurosonic Noorderslaag music festival etc.)
It is obvious that an exchange between the relevant degree programmes at UOL and RUG should be organised and possibly institutionalised, and that the networks of cultural and media initiatives should be used to establish cross-border projects as part of the degree programme, to expand the scope of action of those involved and to exchange ideas and know-how.
The first step will be a workshop on 20 May where teachers and students from both universities will come together in Oldenburg to discuss possible forms of cooperation.
The day will conclude with a panel discussion in the Edith-Russ-Haus with representatives of Oldenburg's cultural and creative scene. Among the panellists are:
Beatrice Bader (Theater Laboratorium, Freizeitlärm e.V.)
Ute Bommersheim (Blauschimmel Atelier)
Silvia Rutkowski (artist coach)
Marcel Schwierin (Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art)
Paula von Sydow (Cultural Office of the City of Oldenburg)
Workshop: "Records of Disaster". Infrastructures and material witnesses of climate change
Under the title "Records of Disaster", a workshop will take place on 29 and 30 April 2022 at the Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art, which will examine the role of infrastructures in and for man-made climate change from an artistic and scientific perspective and focus on its material witnesses.
Please register for the workshop at: medienwissenschaft@uol.de
Graffiti and urban art in the field of tension between art, urban politics and commercialisation Thursday, 13 January 2022, 12:00 c.t. - 16:00 (online BBB)
As part of the course Youth Cultures and Popular Music, an online workshop on the topic of graffiti and urban art in the field of tension between art, urban politics and commercialisation will take place on 13 January from 12 c.t. - 2 pm. The workshop will be led by Tobias Morawski. He is a communication designer and employee of the Graffiti Archive at the Archiv der Jugendkulturen e. V. in Berlin.
All students of our Institute are cordially invited to attend. The workshop can be accessed via the following link:
When pop music culture writes (its) history (summer semester 2021)
The starting point for the teaching project was observations that show that popular forms of music and their protagonists have been playing a remarkable role as a cultural practice and media dispositive in society's spaces of remembrance for some years now. This applies to radio formats such as "the greatest hits of the 70s", "the 100 best songs from the GDR", biographies of stars, countless documentaries and fictional films (biopics of deceased and living "legends" or scenes of popular music) or musicals that bring the lives of individual musicians and their songs to the stage. Semi-fictional novels or autobiographical memoirs are published and museums show permanent or travelling exhibitions on the history of pop music. The events and formats listed can be understood as visualisations of (contemporary) history and as historiographies of pop cultural knowledge.
Further information on the teaching project and the results achieved can be found at the following link: wp.uni-oldenburg.de/lehrkonzepte/wenn-popkultur-ihre-geschichte-schreibt/