The Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM) demands the interdisciplinary confrontation with the media arts. With her project study “Mediale Künste” with a diploma, she focuses on artistic practice in close connection with the development of media and theoretical skills. The Kunsthochschule pursues an interdisciplinary approach in the teaching and research of media and visual arts. At the Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln, the following place is to be occupied in the exMedia section from the winter semester 2027/28:

Professur für Expanded Gaming (m/w/d) Besoldungsgruppe W2 - Full time / unlimited The place may be occupied, if the conditions are met, both in the civil service relationship and in an unlimited private service relationship.

An interdisciplinary art practice focuses on games that are critical, inclusive and interdisciplinary and are located in a broader context of socially relevant artistic confrontation.

This professorship is an established artistic and scientific practice with growing national and international broadcasting as well as a proven presence in the field of Interactive Art & Games. Prerequisite is a proven experience in supporting students, promoting creative risk-taking and strengthening authentic artistic voices. A key criterion is a proven trans- or post-disciplinary research practice that includes one or more of the following areas: games as an art form; virtual worlds and ecological games; visual, acoustic, interface and narrative design; Games as social practice; as well as the physical and embodied connection of games to play and performance. In addition, experience is required in the communication and dissemination of works on various innovative platforms and in different cultural contexts (live events, exhibitions, site-specific practices, mobile and web-based media etc.). Located in the exMedia section, as part of the newly established focus ''Art & Technology', the teaching and development of innovative approaches to an expanded field of gaming as a technological, but also aesthetic and cultural phenomenon is an integral part of this professorship. This also applies to the promotion of artistic and experimental approaches to games and play, as well as the discussion of contemporary issues and critical perspectives on gaming and interactivity, in order to question conventions and the boundaries of inter-reactive media. Experience in game-engine-based and/or computational media practice would be advantageous with focuses such as critical approaches to gamification and behavioral design, augmented/virtual/mixed reality (AR, VR, MR), algorithmic aesthetics, AI-based immersive systems, real-time simulations or world building. Collaboration is expected within the fan group and beyond in research and creative fields such as Computational Thinking, 2D & 3D animation, sound, literary writing, digital art and new media. A key focus is on the continuous support of student projects. Educational suitability and experience, as well as empathy and social competence are expected. If necessary, the costs for language courses in German/English are taken over in order to enable active participation in the university's self-government, in particular cooperation in bodies and the further development of the curriculum. It is expected that the applicant* will have its food point in the Cologne area. The decisive criterion for vocation is an outstanding artistic ability. Further requirements are given in § 29 Kunsthochschulgesetz NRW.

The Academy of Media Arts Cologne is committed to a learning, teaching and working environment that is suitable for chance and non-discrimination and has an impact on the degradation of structural barriers (such as physical, linguistic, racist, age-related, gender-specific, heteronormative and other). It intends to increase the proportion of women in areas where You are underrepresented. Women are therefore preferably hired with the same suitability, ability and professional performance. The KHM explicitly requests qualified people with migration history and GDPoC to apply. People with a recognised severe disability and equal persons are preferably taken into account with the same suitability. .