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International Media Cultural Work

Prof. Dr. Judith Bihr

Experimental Media Cultural Practice and Media Aesthetic Facilitation

Dr. Bihr will join as an IMC staff member from winter semester 25/26 onwards. Currently, she works for IMC as an adjunct lecturer, offering courses on innovative exhibition concepts with reference to media and digitization.

Her courses discuss ideas for a museum of the future. On the basis of a conceptual guide, students will be introduced to the individual planning steps of curatorial implementation strategies with a focus on digitization and globalization. Bihr worked as a curator at ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, and is currently Deputy Director of the Museum Biberach. 

Prof. Sabine Breitsameter

Sound and Media Culture
Director of the Master’s Program International Media Cultural Work

Breitsameter is an award winning media producer, curator, dramaturg and festival director, pioneering in the field of art in digital networks and multimedia environments, with four decades of practical experience in the culture and media industry.

She has been jury member of various important media prizes, e.g. Prix Ars Electronica, ARD/ZDF Award “Women and Media Technology”, Deutscher Hörbuchpreis. Serves as Presidium’s Chair of the Hessian Film and Media Academy (hFMA), was appointed Advisory Board Member of the German Music Council. Her teaching, research and publications focus on experimental audiomedia, soundscape studies, and media ecology. Her heart beats for working with people from all over the world.

Hazem Obid

Lab Engineer

Independent Filmmaker and visual producer with international experience in the field of documentary and broadcast.

Klaus Schüller

Lecturer for Special Tasks

Klaus Schüller is a curator, head of the dark-pop band „Safran“ and interdisciplinary media maker. His special fields of interest are media aesthetic education in rural Germany.

Therefore he founded Netzwerk Bahnhof Langstadt e.V., a non-profit organization that fosters cultural and media aesthetic education and works together with schools, other educational and cultural institutions and non profit organizations. As a freelancer he also holds his own workshops at e.g. Stiftung Lesen and Stiftung Zuhören.

Robin Wiemann

Lab Engineer

Award-winning Audio Producer and lab-Ing Therefore he founded Netzwerk Bahnhof Langstadt e.V., a non-profit organization that fosters cultural and media aesthetic education. 

IMC Adjunct Lecturers


 

Claire Dorweiler

Fulldome Productions

Claire Dorweiler is lecturer for Fulldome productions, which use the 360° space around the audience. She holds an MFA in Media Art and Design of the Bauhaus University Weimar and works as freelancer. 

 

Her Fulldome productions were shown in several domes and planetariums all over Germany, as well as in Argentina and Colombia. She is especially interested in how artistic work can evoke a different perception of a topic and can contribute to social discourse.

 

York Freiling

Intellectual Property and Media Law

York Freiling teaches the elective module Media, Entertainment and Event Law.
 

He works as a lawyer in the law firm HOPPENSTEDT RECHTSANWÄLTE specialised in counselling all sorts of creative professionals and companies (www.contentlaw.de).The course Intellectual Property and Media Law offers a very hands on introduction to the legal aspects of creative work and the legal areas related hereto, mainly concerning Intellectual Property (copyright, trademarks, design, patents and know how), aspects of Press Law and Unfair Competition Law related to Social Media and Advertisement.

Christian Hoppenstedt

Copyright-Law, Entertainment-Law and Social Media-Law

This lecture provides an introduction to international copyright law and discusses its impacts to the creative industries as e.g. contracts in the film industry. 

Using the example of social media, topics like the freedom of speech as well as marketing and related regulations are treated.
Christian Hoppenstedt is a certified Lawyer for Copyright and Media Law. He is partner at HOPPENSTEDT RECHTSANWÄLTE, a law firm specialized in counselling all sorts of creative professionals and companies (www.contentlaw.de).

Avan-Nomayo Ikponmwosa

Avan is an adjunct lecturer at IMC, focusing on futurism in media art. He uses Afrofuturism to explore cross-cultural futures and teaches on social media strategies for cultural institutions, bridging innovation, culture, and inclusive storytelling.

Avan is an adjunct lecturer at IMC whose teaching centers on futurism in media art, with a particular emphasis on Afrofuturism as a framework for exploring multicultural visions of the future. His course invites students to critically engage with how media art shapes and reflects global narratives, especially those historically underrepresented. He also teaches social media strategy for cultural institutions, focusing on how digital tools can be used to build inclusive, forward-thinking public engagement. In addition to his teaching, Avan works as an independent curator and researcher exploring memory, futures, and connecting innovation with culture, and equity.

Stephen Kovats

Media Aesthetic Education Practices

Stephen Kovats is a canadian culture and media scientist based in Berlin. He has a background in architecture and urbanism. He was the artistic director of the transmediale from 2007 till 2011.

Stephen Kovats found his own non-profit-organization r0g_agency for open culture and critical transformation in 2012.
His lecture focuses on methods to create a dynamic comprehension between digital technology and societal, political and cultural environments.

Martin Münch, Dipl.-Soz.päd.

Interculturality and Inclusion in Media Cultural Work

Martin Münch holds the title of a Diplom – Sozial-pädagoge (Dipl-Soz.päd.)

His profession and practical experiences: Socialpedagogue at schools in the district of Darmstadt-Dieburg (since 2003); extensive experience in inclusive and intercultural projects and media cultural projects at schools, youth centers and international youth meetings; lecturer at Darmstadt UAS (Social work).
In his lecture he designs with the students media cultural projects related to the topics interculturality, inclusion and gender equality.

Aleksandar Vejnovic

IMC adjunct lecturers

Aleksandar Vejnovic is a Berlin based media educator and lecturer with a background in sound and media studies. 


 

He worked as a research assistant at the Soundscape & Environmental Media Lab at Darmstadt UAS, where he focused on acoustic ecology and 3D audio. Since 2018, he has been teaching courses in audience development and audience research. Alongside his academic work, Vejnovic is active as an educator, collaborating with various institutions and organizations to develop educational concepts centered around sound and media.

Further IMC adjunct lecturers: Marlene Breuer, Michelle Bunn, Dr. Kibreab Habtemichael Gebereselassie, Andreas Horchler, Jessica Menger, Valentina Petermann, Lasse-Marc Riek, Ute Ritschel, Reinhard Strömer