New professors

Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG Karlsruhe) is a unique public institution for education and research, founded 1992 in response to the challenges of new media. In order to deal with complex and diverse realities, studies at HfG Karlsruhe are persistently organized across disciplines and between the domains of art, theory, and design. The combination of programs in Media Art, Communication Design, Product Design, Exhibition Design, Scenography, Art Research and Media Philosophy offers students a great degree of academic freedom and the opportunity to develop their profile according to personal interests and strengths. Studying, teaching and research at HfG are in close cooperation with one of the best and most innovative museums in the world—the ZKM | Center for Art and Media.

With the coming summer semester, the HfG Karlsruhe can now announce the pleasant news that seven new professors have been appointed.

The appointments for the summer semester 2023 are:
Anne Duk Hee Jordan (Prof. Digital Art)
Anne Duk Hee Jordan’s work explores the interwoven relationships between humans and non-humans. Driven by a fascination with marine life, technology, sexuality, food and ecological systems, she creates installations that fuse organic materials and robotic beings. This allows for reflection on socio-political issues between the living and the non-living.

Diana McCarty & Filipa César (Prof. Time Based Media and Performance​)
Diana McCarty is an artist, cine-kin and feminist media activist. Her interdisciplinary projects focus on art, gender and the politics of media. She is a founding editor of the free artists’ radio, Reboot FM Berlin. She is part of the Red Forest constellation. The resulting bodies of collective work comprise experimental performances, audio and radio, films, videos, seminars, screenings, publications and long-term partnerships.

Filipa César is an artist and filmmaker. She is interested in the fluid borders between cinema and its reception, the politics and poetics of the moving image, environmental justice, and archival practices. Since 2011, César has been collectively researching the militant cinema practice of the African Liberation Movement in Guinea Bissau by producing workshops, archives, films, performances, publications and community gatherings.

Isabel Seiffert (Prof. Communication Design and Visual Literacy) 
Isabel Seiffert is one half of the Zurich and Eindhoven-based design studio Offshore, which she founded in 2016 together with Christoph Miler. The focus of their collaboration is on editorial design, typography, image design and research-oriented visual narratives. In addition to commissioned work, collaborations and self-initiated research projects, the duo has also dedicated many years to design education at various art and design colleges in the Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany.

Line-Gry Hørup (Prof. Communication Design)
Line-Gry Hørup is a designer, writer and researcher working independently and collaboratively with people such as poets, writers, artists, designers and curators. She works primarily with the production of books and visual identities. She holds a BFA from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and a MFA from Werkplaats Typografie in Arnhem, The Netherlands.

Tereza Ruller (Prof. Communication Design and Digital Practices)
Tereza Ruller identifies as a mother, communication designer, researcher, and educator. In her studio, The Rodina, Ruller investigates performative and critical approaches toward graphic design. Her transdisciplinary practice emphasizes the power of situation, playfulness, active spectatorship, and relations between human and nonhuman actors. Ruller’s work is deeply collaborative and consists of participatory events, spatial installations, virtual environments, and visual identities. Addressing critical issues of our time—such as ecological and social crises—she seeks to develop collective shifts in perspective.

Wieki Somers (Prof. Product Design)
Studio Wieki Somers is a multidisciplinary design studio. The core of their practice is about enhancing daily life, mixing functionality with emotional experience, technology with poetry and wonder with reality. It is often a collision of terms that delivers something new and exciting. Wieki Somers attempts to create layered, functional products with a strong concept and material presence, aiming to evoke a sense of critical awareness and wonder. 

Please note: Applications for studies starting in the winter semester 2023/24 are still being accepted until April 30, 2023 and can be submitted online here.