Newsletter SS 22

Dear members of the Graduate Research Programme Changing Frames,
Dear interested readers,

Our final semester as a team is drawing to a close. In this newsletter, we would like to look back on four eventful and challenging years that have gone by faster than expected. These four years were characterized by ambitious research, interdisciplinary exchange and great challenges. A lot has happened: Not only have our fellows tracked down objects on numerous research trips (e.g. in the Swiss Alps), explored Dutch museum depots and Cologne conservation workshops, or worked their way through mountains of centuries-old documents in British archives. They also worked together to overcome the obstacle of a global pandemic through the development of new digital formats. They analyzed the pigments used in Dutch foliage paintings, gained a completely new understanding of the medium of paper in the paper workshops of the ABK, meticulously researched the locations of Kunst am Bau objects and created digital mediation films for their doctoral projects as well as an online interview series with international guests from Germany, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Switzerland or the USA, which was presented in the context of the research colloquia.

In addition to the shift into the digital realm, Changing Frames has also remained true to the traditional print medium as an output. The fellows worked together with the editorial team of the concluding publication A Matter of Teamwork on a glossary, which will be a fundamental part of this interdisciplinary publication, and in an associated project on the science communication, the (interactive) children's book Kunst! Forschen, in which the research projects are presented. Following the international and inter-university lecture series A Matter of Teamwork, organized by members of the research programm and the DFG research group Dimensions of techne in the Arts, the thematic issue Art Technology and Art History: New Perspectives of Cooperation was published.

Finally, we would all like to thank the VolkswagenStiftung, since, without its trust and support, this programme would not have existed. We would also like to express our sincere gratitude for the extension of funding into 2023, and we welcome our new colleague Anna D'Avino, who will join the coordination team in the final year. We now hope that you, as mentors, supervisors, practice partners or interested persons, who have followed the activities and the development of the research projects since autumn 2018, have also experienced the time together as enriching and inspiring as we have.

We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all of you for the many opportunities that our joint research and practice have offered us. We would also like to wish our colleagues, who have taken a different professional path, all the best for the future, and express our heartfelt congratulations to those who have taken on new professional responsibilities since the last semester.

We are glad that we were able to travel this path together, and we would now like to wish you a successful future! With tears of joy and tears of sadness, we send our warm greetings for the last time and in the name of all the researchers.

Best regards

Lisa Braun and Charlotte Hoffmann