Third Picture Wins IDEENSTARK Competition
The IDEENSTARK jury decided: From around 140 applications from all over Baden-Württemberg, it selected 10 creative companies that are now jointly advancing their projects. One winning team is the film...
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Prof. Kevin B. Lee wins 54th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
The Eurimages Lab Project Award, worth €50,000, was bestowed upon the desktop documentary Bottled Songs, written, directed and produced by Kevin B Lee and Chloé Galibert-Laîné. The doc explores the...
Digital Folklore released online as a free PDF
We are very proud to share the news that “Digital Folkore”, edited by Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied and designed by Manuel Bürger, is finally released online as a free...
Gold for Solid White at the German Innovation Award 2019
The Solid White agency of our graduates Patrick Müller, Christian von Bock and Simon Walk received the award for “The Virtual Design Center Interactive”. This allows their customer dormakaba worldwide...
Master student Judith Engel receives a scholarship from the Baden-Wuerttemberg Art Foundation
This year, the Kunstverein Baden-Wuerttemberg awarded scholarships totalling 192.000 euro in the fields of music, visual arts, literature, performing arts and cultural management. An independent jury selected 22 scholarship holders...
Trail Blazers #9 at the New Museum in New York
Trailblazers means: No keyboard, no Google, just links! The next and ninth Trail Blazers will take place on Saturday, May 18 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the New...
Trademark: International
The DAAD’s annual statistics on the allocation of Erasmus+ funds prove this again this year: internationality is a top priority at the Merz Akademie. Based on the figures in itself,...
Prof. Kevin B. Lee at the exhibition “LiveInYourHead” in Geneva
The work of Crossmedia Publishing professor Kevin B. Lee is included in a new exhibition on the political practices of distraction, at LiveInYourHead in Geneva. A concept that is often...
Scholars of the summer semester 2019
Congratulations to our students on their scholarships! With our first semesters in the bachelor’s program Marta Obukhova, Nadja Schmidle and Paul Schmidl, we are happy about a scholarship from the...
Spekulativer Materialismus: Buchvorstellung und Gespräch
Katja Diefenbach, Professorin für Ästhetische Theorie an der Merz Akademie, stellt am 27. April ihr Buch “Spekulativer Materialismus. Spinoza in der postmarxistischen Philosophie” im Contemporary Institute for Art and Thought...