Prof. Dr. Till Julian Huss

Prof. Dr. Till Julian Huss is our Research Associate for Art and Media Theory at the Art & Design Department in Berlin and also our Vice Dean at the UE Innovation Hub in Berlin-Potsdam. He holds a Ph.D. in Art & Image History from the Humboldt University of Berlin and his background is in Philosophy, Art Theory, and Art Practice as well. For many years he worked on an interdisciplinary research project at the Cluster of Excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung, an interdisciplinary Laboratory at HU Berlin. He is well connected in the art scene and frequently writes about and for contemporary artists, galleries and museums. At the UE he started to focus his research on design theory and practice-based research (artistic and design research). Since he teaches partly at the IHUB in Potsdam, his new research interest is a philosophical and cultural critique of interfaces and AI technology. Because of his strong relationships, personal and academic with China, Taiwan and Thailand, he is passionate about diversity and contact zones between Western and Non-Western aesthetics and cultural practices.

 

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

• since 2023: Vice Dean Art & Design and Business at UE Innovation Hub
• since 2019: Research Assistant for art and media theory at UE Art & Design
• 2018–2019: Lecturer at the bologna.lab of the Humboldt-University in Berlin, University of Fine Arts Münster and UE Art & Design
• 2018: PhD in Art and Image History at the Humboldt-University in Berlin
• 2015–2018: Research Assistant in the research project Visual Shapings of Time of the Cluster of Excellence 'Image Knowledge Gestaltung. An interdisciplinary laboratory' at the Humboldt-University in Berlin
• 2017: International Public Art field research of the PACC (Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts) in China
• 2016: Research stay in China (Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts)
• 2011–2015: Research Associate at the University of Fine Arts Münster
• 2010: Meisterschüler of Prof. Michael van Ofen at the University of Fine Arts Münster
• 2008–2010: Additional Fine Arts study at the University of Fine Arts Münster, Akademiebrief (Diploma)
• 2003–2009:Teacher training at the University of Fine Arts Münster and the Westfalian Wilhelms-University in Münster (Art and Philosophy), state examination
• 1983: born in Dachau

PUBLICATIONS IN ENGLISH (Articles)

2018

• The Temporalities of Urban Development in Beijing Dashilar.‹ [Engl./Chinese] In: Public Art Magazine, pp. 45-56, Shanghai
• Picturing Modern Urban Life. László Moholy-Nagy and the Metropolis.‹ [Engl./Chinese] In: Jun Jiang (Ed.): The Publicness of Everyday Life, pp. 99-128, Shanghai

2015

• Models of intense perception of time.‹ In: Trommeter-Szabó 2004-2015, exhibition catalogue, S. 4-9. Munich