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Schwarzer Text auf weißem Grund: 16. Tagung des Netzwerks Forschung Kulturelle Bildung, radikal - widerständig - streitbar?+ Kulturelle Bildung als soziale und gesellschaftspolitische Praxis, 18.–19. September 2025 am Campus Arts and Social Change, Hamburg-Harburg, Deadline 18. März | Black text on a white background: 16th Conference of the Network Research Cultural Education radical - resistant - controversial?+ Cultural education as a social and socio-political practice September 18-19, 2025 at the Campus Arts and Social Change, Hamburg-Harburg Deadline March 18

radical – resistant – disputatious?!

Cultural education and aesthetic practice are – in research, teaching and practice – directly integrated into social contexts. The 16th conference of the Cultural Education Network on September 18-19, 2025 at our Faculty of Arts, Health and Social Science of the Medical School Hamburg is dedicated to this content. Read more →

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empirics vs. art theory

Out now! My latest scientific article is now published at the Creativity Research Journal. It investigates a factor structure of my Rating instrument for two-dimensional pictorial works (RizbA) and discusses current gaps between art theory and empirical research on art. All data, methodology, and a preprint version are freely available under the premises of Open Science. Read more →

Screenshot der Titelseite der Publikation | screenshot of the publication’s title page

delir in pictorial works

Does delirium present itself in pictorial works? My colleagues just published a clinical study on this question, which uses my Rating instrument for two-dimensional pictorial works (RizbA). It is a systematic analysis of images of people in an geriatric context. As a co-author, I provided methodical advice on the use and analysis of Rizba. Read more →

A screenshot of the scientif article | Ein Screenshot des wissenschaftlichen Artikels

open editors

Make things open, it makes them better. We just published our scientific article addressing diversity of editorial boards in social science. I’m so happy about this lovely postdisciplinary collaboration with Andreas Nishikawa-Pacher and Tamara Heck within the Open Science Fellow Program by Wikimedia Germany. The name speaks for itself: It’s completely open including Open Source and Open Access. Read more →

Sharepic in which is written: 19.10.2022, Superrrr Lab, Dismantle Sanism: Creating a utopia in therapy and science, with Dr. phil. Kerstin Schoch and Lea Jungmann.

dismantle sanism

Sanism is everywhere but rarely talked about, in particular in therapy and science. This is why Lea Jungmann and I are doing this workshop for Disruption Network Lab at 19 October 2022. It‘s also a warming up for the upcoming conference MADNESS: Fighting for justice in mental health. Read more →

Cover of the journal: Graphic with black bars and white bars with black outline. JSTA is written at the bottom right.

ARTificial intelligence

Art meets IT. Thomas Gengenbach and I combined our knowledge and created this beautiful piece which now got published in the Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts. The neural networks use the RizbA scale I developed and allow an efficient rating of large samples of pictorial works. Our paper is Open Access and it wouldn‘t be us, if the code wasn’t Open Source as well. So feel free to reuse. Read more →

Auf violett glitzerndem Hintergrund steht geschrieben "The art of measuring art" | On purple glittering background is written "The art of measuring art"

PhDone

It’s official, I’m Dr. phil. in psychology now! You want to know what I spent my time with the last years? Here you go. My cumulative dissertation is now available as Open Access. It gives an overview of my research on an instrument for quantifying artworks on a formal pictorial level. This includes a total of 11 studies, and several publications. Read more →