Conferences and Symposia
 

In the Master’s program International Media Cultural Work (IMC) international symposia and conferences play a major role. This kind of transdisciplinary professional exchange is a major objective of the degree program. All these events combine theory and practice, which means artistic/aesthetic as well as discursive approaches. They reflect not only the program’s  foci on research and creation, but also emerging new directions of designs, technologies and discourses,  and the ways by which IMC, its lecturers as well as its students, want to critically adopt them.

All IMC symposia and conferences are putting their emphasis on strengthening innovative media production and facilitation by original and in-depth theoretical debates and vice versa.
 

Ex\\Immersio Conference Series

Ex\\Immersio has been a series of conferences since 2019, which aims to brush against the grain: Its name expresses a figure of thought, that pursues a critical intellectual and artistic discourse on the popular term of “immersion”, scrutinizing the ubiquitous and overused term. By questioning and analyzing its axioms and implicit assumptions, Ex\\Immersio strives for critical artistic and philosophical positions, and different, maybe innovative reception paradigms of production and reception of intellectual and aesthetic knowledge. 

• 2019 Ex\\Immersio (1): Dissemination
• 2020 Ex\\Immersio (2): Media Aesthetic Education
• 2021 Ex\\Immersio (3): Media as Environments: Production and Facilitation
• 2022 Ex\\Immersio (4): Digital Ways to an Ecology of the Senses
• 2023 Ex\\Immersio (5): “Is there love in the immersive embrace?”
  Speakers: Dominik Breinlinger, Prof. Sabine Breitsameter, Prof. Thorsten Greiner, Jan Jacob Hofmann, Julian Kemper, Maren Kießling, Aleksandar Vejnovic, Robin Wiemann
• 2024: Ex\\Immersio (6): Soundscapes in Change. On Listening and Sustainability
  Speakers: Sara Bouslama, Prof. Sabine Breitsameter, Julian Kämper, Felix Kruis, Avan-Nomayo Ikponmwosa, Prof. Eric Leonardson, Teresa Otsa, Prof. Dr. Thomas Pleil, Lasse-Marc Riek, Klaus Schüller,, Dr. Claudia Tittel
• 2025: Ex\\Immersio (7): Taking up the Thread - Moving out of Established Confines
  Speakers: Dr. Judith Bihr, Prof. Sabine Breitsameter, Fadia Elgharib, Avan-Nomayo Ikponmwosa, Dr. Sarah Niazi, Klaus Schüller, 

World Soundscape Conferences

2012 and 2018, two World Soundscape Conferences took place under the scientific and artistic direction of Prof. Sabine Breitsameter, endorsed by the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, and visited by hundreds of participants from all over the world.

• 2012: The Global Composition. Conference on Sound, Media, and the Environment
  Keynotes by Gernot Böhme, Ioanna Etmektsoglou, Helmi Järviluoma, Derrick de Kerckhove, Bernie Krause, R. Murray Schafer, Katerina Tzedaki, Hildegard Westerkamp
• 2018: The Global Composition. Conference on Sound, Ecology, and Media Culture
  Keynotes by  Milena Droumeva, Ioanna Etmektsoglou, Maria Klatte, Eric Leonardson, Walter Tilgner, Hildegard Westerkamp
  Prolog (in absentia) by R. Murray Schafer