Biography and Academic Work

Pof. Heide Hagebölling-Eisenbeis. Consultant MCA Media Culture Art.
Co-Founder Academy of Media Arts Cologne/Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln KHM

Heide Hagebölling-Eisenbeis is author, artist and designer in the field of media-scenography and interactive dramaturgy that incorporates new narrative modes.

In partnership with Manfred Eisenbeis, she conceptualised and co-founded the Academy of Media Arts Cologne/Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln KHM 1988 – 1990. Since 1990 she taught at the KHM and developed the interdisciplinary field of media-scenography and interactive dramaturgy that embraces new modes of narratives in space. International publications, lectures, presentations and exhibitions on this topic.

Curriculum Vitae

Studies in art, design, art history and theory of visual communication at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach (Dipl. Des.). Film Studies at the Tisch School of Arts, New York University. Communication and media sciences at the Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania (MPhil).

HHE worked and lectured at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt and the University of Heidelberg. She hold a 2-years guestprofessorship at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach where she established with Manfred Eisenbeis and the filmmaker Werner Nekes the Film- and Video-Art Section. During her professorship at the Polytech Rheinland-Pfalz, Trier, she founded the Dept. of Interdisciplinary Design and Media.

As a member of the Arbeitsgruppe Medienentwicklung-Medienforschung AGM/Group of Media Development and Research she was involved in several studies on mediaculture and she developed and designed new applications and content for interactive net-based media systems for museums, exhibitions and artistic applications.

Since the 1980ies her academic and artistic work focuses on the interrelationship of art, design, new media and culture. In cooperation with Manfred Eisenbeis she organized international colloques for the UNESCO, Paris i.a.

Synthesis – the Visual Arts in the Electronic Age, 1986
Babel – the Myth of Human Understanding in Art, Science and Technology, 1992.

She participated with her works in several group exhibitions

• Centre Pompidou, Paris
• Bauhaus Museum, Berlin
• Ars Electronica, Linz
• L’Immagine Elettronica, Bologna
• La Villette / Cité des Sciences/, Paris
• Imagina, Monte Carlo
• MILIA, Cannes, France

HHE considers her approach as an open process of artistic research, creative development and a synthesis of various areas such as music, performance, public art and media.

INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC WORK

  LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS

   – CARPENTER CENTER / HARVARD UNIVERSiTY, MASS., USA

   – CAVS, CENTER FOR ADVANCED VISUAL STUDIES, MIT, MASS., USA

   – NEW YORK UNIVERSiTY / TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS, NYC, USA

   – PRATT INSTITUTE, BROOKLYN, NY, USA

   – UNIVERSiTY OF ARTS AND CENTRAL ST.MARTINS, LONDON, GB

   – ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION (AA) / SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, LONDON, GB

   – RENMIN UNIVERSiTY, ßEJING, CHINA

   – ACADEMY OF DANCE, BEIJING, CHINA

   – TAIPEI NATIONAL UNIVERSiTY OF ARTS TNUA, TAIWAN

   – DEPT. OF CULTURAL STUDIES, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF TAIWAN

   – DEPARTMENT OF ART, TAMPERE UNIVERSITY, FINLAND

   – HELSINKI UNIVERSiTY OF ART, FINLAND

   – DEPT. OF ART, UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN, HOLLAND

   – UNIVERSiTY PARIS 8, FRANCE


  MEMBERSHIP

   – ACADÉMIE EUROPÉENNE DES SCIENCES, DES LETTRES ET DES ARTS/

       EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES, PARIS

   – EUROPEAN CULTURAL PARLIAMENT / ECP, BERLIN

   – ICOM, INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF MUSEUMS

   – MEMBER OF THE ADVISORY BOARD NRW-KULTURSEKRETARIAT FOR ART AND CULTURE


  AWARD UNESCO PICASSO MEDAL

   AWARD OF THE UNESCO PICASSO MEDAL IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MANFRED EISENBEIS, 1992


  Cooperation Festivals and Competitions

   • International VideoArt Festival Locarno
      cooperation with UNESCO Paris; Locarno, Switzerland; opening 1986

   • EuroPrix MultiMedia Art, MILIA;
      Cooperation with Prof. Peter A. Bruck,
      Techno-Z Forschungs- & Entwicklung GmbH;
      Cannes/Salzburg/Vienna; since 1996

   • kurzundschön moving images – international competition for young creatives
      Concept, art direction, management. Collaboration: Judith Ruzicka,
      Dr. Claudia Schmid (WDR). Cooperation Westdeutscher Rundfunkg WDR and
      Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Germany; 2007–2014