Academy of Media Arts Cologne

The Academy of Media Art Cologne (KHM) was founded in 1990, and offers a special and unique concept of study: instead of separating the fields of film, television, art, design and theory, they are integrated into a single course of study leading to a diploma in Audiovisual Media. This study concept demands and facilitates an interdisciplinary engagement with the most varied artistic fields and spaces, from photography, video, feature films, documentaries, artistic television formats and animation to art in public spaces, architecture, sound, scenography, computer science in games, programming, and code, the theory and history of technology, art, the media, and aesthetics. The results are unconventional, experimental works that go beyond predetermined definitions and genres and beyond ready-made techniques. Low and high tech are just as important components as are the symbiosis of science, development and games, documentary or staged, conventional or manipulated elements. Coope...