Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden

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The Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden was launched in 2019 as a joint initiative of The Schaufler Foundation and TUD with the goal of researching and communicating the complex relationship between humans, machines, technology, and the world from the perspectives of the social sciences, the humanities, and the arts. The Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden is based at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, where the research training group is located, and at the Office for Academic Heritage, where the residency program is based.
The two pillars of the project are a graduate research training program, the Schaufler Kolleg@TU Dresden, and an artist-in-residence program, the Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden. In the graduate research training program and the residency, the challenges posed by new technologies and future societal issues are addressed through an exchange of artistic and scholarly practices.
The Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden is structured around three consecutive funding phases spanning a total of nine years. Each funding phase is dedicated to a central theme on which both the artists-in-residence and the doctoral candidates will work.

Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden under the direction of the Office for Academic Heritage

The Office for Academic Heritage oversees the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden Artist Residency, which offers an annual six-month fellowship to a rotating group of international artists or artist collectives. The program is aimed at internationally renowned artists of all genres and offers the opportunity to artistically explore the current theme in close collaboration with the Office for Academic Heritage’s residents and researchers at TUD.

Project team of the Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden:
Kirsten Vincenz (Director of the Office for Academic Heritage, Scientific and Art Collections, Spokesperson for the Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden)
Gwendolin Kremer (Research Associate at the Office for Academic Heritage, Scientific and Art Collections, Curator of the Schaufler Residency)
Pauline Hohn (Curatorial and Research Assistant, Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden)

At the conclusion of the residencies, the creative processes, results of artistic research, and developments in the artists’ work will be presented in a solo exhibition at the University Gallery in the Görges Building, as well as an artist book published by the Dresden-based Sandstein Kultur publishing house.