科隆媒体艺术学院 | Academy of Media Arts Cologne ....................................
The name "Academy of Media Arts" itself expresses the entire spectrum of interests supported by teaching and research at this institution, namely art in the age of its technological (re)production. The process of formulating and developing the interaction between artistic imagination, theoretical and historical knowledge and individual expression by means of new media places high demands on students as well as on the academic staff of the Academy. Both are working together to create a small utopia which involves bringing together and integrating those processes and interrelated interests in academic practice that continuously threaten to drift apart in everyday professional practice. An essential element of this process is also the joint development of a media/cultural identity, one conscious of its own social, political, aesthetic and ethical obligations. Today's media are social institutions.
Our utopia has not only the power of the idea on its side, but the future as well. A first-class training for creative work in the emerging technologies can only be achieved through a symbiosis of art and culture, of poetry, science and technology. In this context, it is and must remain an experiment. Not one that stagnates in its own isolated aims, however, but one that is committed by the results of its work to enrich the quality of the media landscape, and to subject it to continuous critical examination and analysis. It is an experiment in which the instructors are aware of their obligation to prepare their students for the increasingly competitive international market in audio visual media.
On October 15th, 1990, the first academy in the Federal Republic of Germany devoted to all areas of audio-visual media began its teaching programme.
科斯汀 伯格曼 | Kerstin Bergmann ....................................
至2004年科斯汀已经为科隆媒体学院工作7年。在这期间她代表科隆媒体学院策划过很多与媒体艺术有关的展览，其中有在东京的ICC、台北艺术馆、科隆路德威克美术馆的国际展览项目，并参与大量的国际短片电影节的工作。自2001年始，科斯汀的工作更多在建立商业与艺术之间的桥梁工作，作为制作人和艺术顾问的科斯汀，曾经与索尼公司、Marcel Odenbach, 国际博览会 Expo 、阿迪达斯公司，尤其是阿迪达斯在2008年举办的中国奥林匹克运动会的特殊顾问之职。
参与国际画廊博览会之中的国际媒体实验室暨论坛项目策划展映部分，联合策展人 Evelyn Mund, 科隆媒体艺术学院。
