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Christian Rolle, Ronja Kampschulte, Valerie Krupp, Julia Ehninger, Jens Knigge, Runa Hestad Jenssen, and Eckehard Pistrick presented initial results from the project’s various work packages at this year’s EAS conference in Vienna, held from April 8–11.
The second 3.5-week artist residency was successfully opened on February 1, 2025. The opening featured speeches by Ulm’s Deputy Mayor for Culture, Iris Mann, the City of Ulm’s cultural agent, Karl Philipp Engelland, as well as Christian Rolle.
From 15–17 October 2026, the major final meeting of the work package will take place in Klagenfurt, in cooperation with the GMPU (Gustav Mahler Private University), under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Eckehard Pistrick. During these days, Klagenfurt will host a wide range of talks, roundtables, and artistic interventions, unfolding also in unexpected locations around the famous Wörthersee.
The time has come: From 1 February to 22 February 2026, the second artists’ residency in the Eselsberg neighbourhood in Ulm will take place. In cooperation with the Cultural Department of the City of Ulm, Krealab, and the experimental music group EMU, and together with the artists Christine Söffing, Dr Andreas Grünvogel-Hurst, and Andreas Hauser, creative work and research with sound and sonic practices will be carried out in close collaboration with the local neighbourhood in an open, cooperative space.
Christine Soffing is an interdisciplinary artist with a synesthetic approach and has led the Ensemble for Experimental Music and Art (EMU) at the University of Ulm since 2010.
Dr. Andreas Grünvogel-Hurst works at the intersection of light art and electronic sound, teaches Pure Data (pd) and theoretical foundations, and is a member of EMU at the University of Ulm.
https://www.instagram.com/herrhauser/
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Andreas Hauser, known as Herr Hauser, is a musician, composer, and sound experimenter, a member of EMU at the University of Ulm, and producer of the radio show #mehrzweckbrötchenforschungsküche.
On September 7, the first participatory artist residency began in the city of Ulm at Eselsberg. With the support of the Department of Culture of the City of Ulm (Karl Philipp Engelland; https://www.ulm.de/kultur/dialoging-arts-darts) and artists Abelha Supersónica and Mathis Katzmaier, Ronja Kampschulte conducted community-based research in the neighborhood, focusing on the (further) development of participants’ individual skills and competencies. The research design was developed by the University of Verona. The artistic interventions will also be implemented and studied in Norway, Italy, and Serbia.
@ Tante Emma Kreation: https://tante-emma.design/.
On May 19th/20th, the team from the University of Cologne invited its practice partners from work package 3, as well as external experts, to a joint workshop in the context of research to discuss topics such as methodology, participatory research, research ethics, and thematic focuses.
Thank you to: Gözde Özenç İra, Dr. Matthew Machin-Autenrieth, Majid Maghareh, Nikolas Geschwill, Louis Böhm, Stephanie Bangoura, Prof. Eckehard Pistrick. Not visible: Prof. Sevi Bayraktar, Tanja Krase, Tanja Horstmann, André Uelner, Alberto Grilli, Dr. Anita Jóri, Dr. Runa Hestad Jenssen, Dr. Krisitie Lee Mortimer, Benjamin Kuss
Christian Rolle and Ronja Kampschulte took part in the 9th SIMM Seminar at the Musikfabrik in Cologne from May 9 to 11, to discuss the role of composing in social and community-oriented music projects: https://www.simm-platform.eu/seminars/simm-seminar-9/.
As part of the public call for artists, two performers from the field of performing arts (Matthis Katzmaier & Abelha Supersónica) were selected for the first residency focusing on cultural participation in Ulm (September 8–28, 2025).
https://abelha-supersonica.org
Ronja Kampschulte participated in a discussion at the "Audience of the Future" conference in the city of Ulm on November 21-22, 2024.
The d@rts consortium partners gathered on 2-3 July 2024 in the city of Bodø, Norway, one of the 2025 European Capitals of Culture, for the project’s first Consortium Meeting.
At the EAS conference 2024 in Dublin and the university's Dies Academicus in July 2024, the research team from the University of Cologne will be representing the d@rts project in the respective poster sessions.