Established in June of 2008 by the HFF "Konrad Wolf" (Academy for Film in Television Studies), the purpose of the Institute for Artistic Research is to expand and support the young discipline of artistic research at the HFF, in addition to the already established research in media studies. Artistic research has introduced a change in perspective into modern theory of art: Moving from a study of artistic works, their appearance, their esthetic design, and their effects based on a retrospective approach, to formal research dealing with the evolutionary process of an artwork, and developing new artistic methods for research and presentation of the relationship between individual and society.
Artistic studies at the HFF focus on time-based media, the areas of research cover the digitized image, presentations of space and sound, authentication strategies for media of the future, script development and poetic theory on film artists and styles.
The Institute for Artistic Research constitutes an interface and coordinator of the artistic, artistic-scientific, and artistic-technological research at the HFF. The Institute's employees organize various continued studies and teaching-research events, dealing topically with innovative practical approaches to audiovisual media productions, demonstrating and theory based processing of adjacent areas and interconnections. The Institute services also include the initiation and support of regional and super-regional artistic research projects, providing help in filing applications and obtaining third party funding, as well as establishing and supporting a university publication series.
