BINATIONAL ARTISTIC PhD-PROGRAM

Andrea Sick is Professor of Media- and Cultural-History and -Theory, and Vice Director of Artistic Research and International Affairs at the University of the Arts Bremen (HfK).  She heads the Binational Artistic-PhD-Program at HfK Bremen, in cooperation with international partners.

Sick studied German language and literature, politics, cultural sciences, and history of art in Heidelberg, Bremen, and Hamburg. In 2001 she obtained a doctoral degree at Hamburg University with a dissertation on the interactions between knowledge and cartography. Andrea Sick is the artistic coordinator  and curator (together with Dr. Claudia Reiche) of 'Thealit Frauen.Kultur.Labor' (1993), a cultural laboratory. Thealit designs and devises programmes to promote interaction between artistic and theoretical reflection, supporting protagonists in different fields as they explore and critique, test and modify their praxis. Difference, and in particular gender difference, is the central issue addressed in the work of thealit. One of Sick's research projects is The Dynamic Archive since 2018. Together with Ralf Baecker and Dennis Paul she curates the Salon Digital at University of the Arts Bremen (https://salon-digital.com/) and she is editor of the Manifestos Publication (Issus 1-3, digital and printed versions: http://manifestos.de/)

Research interests: performative and collaborative knowledge (production), the transitions between art, biology, and informationtechnology discourses, scores in the artistic and performative context (thedynamicarchive.net), mediatheory, technophilosophy, practices of archiving, queerstudies.