MUNITIONSFABRIK – The university’s magazine
From university newspaper to art magazine to scientific publication: looking back at the history of Munitionsfabrik (“ammunition factory”) the university’s magazine has taken on a large variety of different publication types and formats. It was founded during the winter semester of 1997/98 by Adam Seide as a transdisciplinary platform for experimental design and publishing. Since 2004 Munitionsfabrik has been edited and published by changing student groups. Visit Website
Bookboi*
Bookboi* is a student initiative of the HfG Karlsruhe, which has set itself the task of providing a platform for publications created at the university. On the one hand, the platform functions as an archive for student publications, which are produced in a small number of copies at the university, and on the other hand as an exhibition space and communication of current projects at fairs or university events. A constantly changing selection of exhibited works offers focused insight into current projects. Visit Website
UMBAU – Online Journal
UMBAU is an online journal for the promotion of art, research, and design emerging from Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG).
In 1992, a time of major socio-economic and technological change, the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design was founded as a “digital Bauhaus.” UMBAU, an architectural term roughly translatable as “remodeling” (to take a given structure and adjust it to contemporary situations) addresses this heritage and introduces a moment of destabilization. UMBAU welcomes trans-disciplinary modes of thinking through the situational, the unfinished, and the transitional. Visit Website
MAS
Materialien zu Ausstellungsdesign und Szenografie (MAS) is a publication series by the department of exhibition design and scenography (ADSZ) at the HfG Karlsruhe. It deals with the design of spaces as a critical practice.
MAS is designed as an ongoing collection of materials. The individual issues are regarded as exhibition and performance spaces whose design follows principles similar to those of a museum space or a theatre stage. MAS is concerned with materials that present new contexts and perspectives through their selection, combination, contextualization or commentary, and their designed presentation in print form.
KLAK
KLAK is a publishing platform of HfG Karlsruhe, dedicated to literary format. The booklets contain texts from the fields of prose, poetry as well as concrete poetry. The texts were written by participants in Prof. Dr. Stephan Krass' literature seminar at the HfG Karlsruhe. The issues of the KLAK magazine can be obtained from the literature vending machine in the foyer of the ZKM & HfG.
Seminar “artists books with photography”
Since the 1970s, artists' books have become an independent art form. Over the decades, they have developed into a overwhelming movement led by artists and publishers alike. All formats and possibilities of publishing and print-on-demand can be witnessed.
In the seminar, we look at iconic artists' books that have had a decisive influence on artistic photography, such as Ed Ruscha's "Every Building on the Sunset Strip" or Roni Horn's "Another Water". We then focus primarily on the flood of artists' books of the last decade. We then produce artist's books with photography ourselves and in a collaborative endeavor. Thus we become more and more interwoven with the fascinating world of sorting, forming, conceptualizing, assembling. The seminar takes place each semester and is led by Prof. Susanne Kriemann. Visit Website