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Art and its Didactics: Impossible Machine, 2023

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visitor pointing at a exhibit, a weathercock mounted to a steel pole

young visitor stands in front of an exhibit

plaster-like mask with something stuck out of the mouth

a construction made from two biclyce wheels, a fan stand with engine and some other components

a head made from knead and paper or fabric attached to the upper part

complex wooden construction with acrylic tubes and ropes, surrounded by visitors

exhibit with clothing, in the background crowded visitors

a construction made from two biclyce wheels and some other components

wood construction, a lamp screen with fairy lights and some artificial insects hanging down

exhibition setup, a white mask with something stuck out their mouth, visitors in the background

three pens mounted to a metal arm sketching on white paper

exhibition setup, large lamp screen with other components combined into a machine, surrounded by visitors

Type: Semester Project Degree Programme: Fine Art Education Professorship: Art and its Didactics Advisor: Christian Parra Sánchez, Catalina Giraldo Vélez

In the winter semester of 2022/23, first-year students of the degree programme “Lehramt an Gymnasien Kunst (Fine Art Education)” designed and built an “Impossible Machine” based on the structure of a Rube Goldberg machine. Over many weeks, 19 students worked in groups to design and build five machines based on different natural phenomena. All five machines are connected to each other and are started by the first one. This triggers a chain reaction that sets the next machine in motion. Each machine automatically resets itself to its default setting, allowing it to be restarted. All machines are artistically and conceptually adapted to the selected natural phenomena.

Group BEE-LINGUAL: Paula Jänig, Luca Grün, Gina Fritzsche, Oriana Osterkorn

Group WIND: Silas Barkowski, Berenike Uhlig, Denise Sawade, Amelie Kazmaier

Group GEWITTER: Hannah Levien, Chantal Ludwig, Jakob Grathwohl, Vivien Barthel

Group TSUNAMI: Vanessa Hessel, Isabel Urlaub, Maria Saveliev, Jonathan Röckelein

Group LAWINE: Marius Siebenhüner, Josefine Rieger, Anna Dietzel