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The Society for Artistic Research (SAR) conference will take place at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar from 29 March to 2 April 2022. Artists and theorists from all over the world who are dedicated to the field of artistic research are expected to attend. This is the first time the event will be held in Germany.

Die Gewinnerinnen und Gewinner des neudeli Fellowships im Wintersemester 2021/22 stehen fest: In einer spannenden Jurysitzung am 22. Oktober 2021 in Weimar konnten vier Einzelgründerinnen und ein Gründungsteam mit Ihren Pitches überzeugen. Als »neudeli Fellows« erhalten sie in den kommenden sechs Monaten die Chance, ihre Idee mit Unterstützung der neudeli-Coaches voranzubringen: darunter sind zwei Studierende der Fakultät Kunst und Gestaltung.

On 1 September, Dr. Birgit Wudtke was appointed Professor of Photography at the Faculty of Art and Design. She is successor to emeritus Hermann Stamm.

Kristin Jakubek received a »Best Of Earth Fulldome Award« in the category »Best Student Film« for her 360-degree film »A Toothless Grin« at the 15th FullDome Festival. For the first time, the award was jointly presented by an association of four international fulldome festivals. In addition to Jena, this included partner festivals from the USA, England and Australia. Out of over 100 entries, 19 films were nominated in six categories for the »Best Of Earth« awards.

For his Bachelor's thesis »MateriaLab«, Florian Henschel not only received the Social Design Award of the »German Design Graduates« (GDG) platform, funded with 1,000 euros in prize money by the Hans Sauer Stiftung, but also one of the »Supports«, participation in the »Cradle to Cradle NGO« networking evening. Two further "Supports" went to Master's alumni of the Faculty of Art and Design: Elias Fahle convinced with his customisable orthosis »Parachno«", Maximilian Schatz with his material experiment »Faser.Faden.Filament.«.