The School of Media Arts is headed by professor and visual artist Jane Jin Kaisen. On this page, you can read more about the school's talks, seminars, teaching and more.
Activities - School of Media Arts
Professor Jane Jin Kaisen about the teaching at the School of Media Arts
"Utilizing time-based media as means of artistic expression, how do we position ourselves in relation to time and space? What genealogies and stories do we invoke to navigate by? What are the mediating capacities of the body? And what insights might we draw from the global exchange of ideas, interdisciplinary inquiry, minoritarian perspectives, histories of resistance, and the acknowledgment of non-anthropocentric forms of knowledge? What aesthetic tools can we use to address the complexities of our times and pose alternative visions and imaginaries by asking: 'What other worlds are possible'?
Each student's curiosity and unique vision is fostered through the development of own artistic practice in combination with seminars, workshops, lectures by invited guests, excursions and site visits, group critiques and individual studio visits. The program encourages experimentation, enhancement of material sensibility, artistic research, and a self-reflexive attitude and awareness of the various social, cultural, historical, and political dimensions of art."
The educational environment at the School of Media Arts is based on a culture of participation and dialogue, a commitment to artistic research, critical inquiry, and mutual respect and recognition of a diversity of practices, positions and trajectories. The curriculum is based on a combination of studio visits, group critiques, practical and theoretical workshops, topical seminars addressing the genealogies of Media Art, contemporary cultural theory, philosophical perspectives, together with reading groups, discussions and presentations by invited artists and lecturers, study circles, interdisciplinary collaborations, site visits and excursions. This enables students to develop and refine their artistic practice through experimentation, constructive feedback, material and theoretical elaboration, and awareness of how their artistic practice and works enter into dialogue with diverse publics and resonate within a broader field of art and social concerns.
The teaching language at the School of Media Arts is primarily English
Publication: Conversations, 2023
Conversations brings together a series of conversations between students at the School of Media Arts at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Arts that were carried out over the course of the spring semester 2023. Students have been in conversation around their practices and ideas while being asked to reflect upon (Re)memberings and (Re)groundings. For the reader, it is an invitation. An invitation into an intimate reading and engagement with some of the ideas and thoughts around the artistic practices and thinking, the being and doing together unfolding at the School of Media Arts.
Texts by: Nivetha Balasubramaniam / Ba Bladh / Ribka Pattinama Coleman / Alda Mohr Eyðunardóttir / Tringa Gashi / Noah Holtegaard / Sahar Jamili / Jane Jin Kaisen / Ville Laurinkoski / Nellie Lindquist/ Julie Nymann / Aske Olsen / Cecilie Penney / Simin Stine Ramezanali / Jacob Schill / Sofie Sjöö / Jan-Niklas Thape / Sara Krøgholt Trier / Philip Ullman / Sofie Winther / Jiawei Zheng Cover image: Nellie Lindquist, 2023 Editing: Ville Laurinkoski / Nellie Lindquist Graphic design: Nellie Lindquist / Aske Olsen Proofreading: Ani Liv Kampe Thanks to Archive Books / Zasha Colah / Jane Jin Kaisen / Arendse Krabbe
Published by: Billedkunstskolernes Forlag, Kongens Nytorv 1, 1050 Copenhagen, Denmark © 2023 - ISBN 978-87-7945-035-6
Photo documentation: Julie Nymann
Guest lecturers 2020-2026
Adam Khalil, Angela Melitopoulos, Anselm Franke, Archive Books, Arendse Krabbe, Avery F. Gordon, Brandon LaBelle, Cosmin Costinas, Dalida Maria Benfield, Don Mee Choi, Felisha Ledesma, Frederikke Hansen, Forest Curriculum, Haegue Yang, Ho Tzu Nyen, Hong Kai Wang, Hyunjin Kim, Inti Guerrero, Joen Veddel, Jessie Kleeman, Julie Edel Hardenberg, Larissa Sansour, Liisa Rávná Finbog, Maria Meinild, Marie Kølbæk, Mikas Lang, Nanna Lysholt Hansen, Jari Malta, Jeannette Ehlers, Jonas Eika, Lee Langvad, Mads K. Mikkelsen, Marie Kølbæk Iversen, Seolhui Lee, Shadi Angelina Bazeghi, Srđan Keča, Stina Hasse, Stine Marie Jacobsen, Tamar Guimarães, Terrassen, Tinne Zenner, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Vladimir Tomic, Yann Chateigné Tytelman, Zairong Xiang, Zasha Colah and others. Agnieszka Polska was jointly employed as a guest professor at the School of Media Arts from Fall 2020-spring 2022 and co-taught the program during this period.
Affiliated artists, teachers, researchers
Arendse Krabbe (b. 1979) - Assistant associate professor at The School of Media Arts
Arendse Krabbe is a visual artist based in Copenhagen whose practice evolves around listening. She works with her experience of listening being a practice that sensitizes.
Krabbe listens in an attempt to open and enable spaces of movement, entanglements, and complexities. Listening holds the potential to create new and other collectivities across species, systems, and borders.
Arendse Krabbe's work materializes as audio, video, performance, text, listening situations and site-specific works in public space.
PhD Candidate at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Julie Edel Hardenberg contributes to the teaching at the School of Media Arts - you can read more about her PhD Project here
PhD Candidate at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Jeannette Ehlers contributes to the teaching at the School of Media Arts - you can read more about her PhD Project here