Art and Time | Photography

In the department of Art and Time | Photography teaching is centred on an open process that does not aim at reproducing static identities, narratives, or meanings, but instead seeks to generate transformative approaches and dynamic interactions.

In times of increasing exhaustion of resources, infrastructures, systems, apparatuses, bodies, and intelligences, photographic technologies are inseparably interwoven with economic and political structures, permeating our social and cultural spheres in multiple forms. Photography itself functions as an interface, setting data and meanings into motion.

Rooted in post-photographic thinking, the department positions itself as a space of enquiry, where conscious perception is practiced and the contemporary operations and contexts of images are critically examined. Within this framework students develop the ability to formulate questions and intentions in order to reflect on, contextualise, and communicate their own working processes.

Through active, experimental engagement, the programme fosters analytical, emotional, and speculative research into diverse realities, while also cultivating sensitivity to complex social issues. Concurrently, it seeks to expand the notion of the image within artistic contexts whether spatial, sculptural, performative, or text- and time-based.

The aim is not only to recognise personal interests, but to develop a way of working that, over the course of the studies, consolidates into an independent, critically engaged artistic position; one that actively contributes to the transformation of cultural, social, and political spaces.