Prof. Andreas Köpnick
Film / Video
Ph. +49 (0)251 83 61125
koepnick[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Office hours: by appointment
Leonardo-Campus 2
Room 013
Andreas Köpnick, born in Bonn in 1960, studied sculpture, experimental film and media art at the University of Fine Arts Münster and the Academy of Media Arts Cologne in the 1980s and 1990s. Starting with fundamental research in the context of time-based art, installative and space-related video productions, his path led him to computer-based and net-based media sculptures and finally to the reloading of classical dramaturgies of narrative film. “Köpnick’s Videomagazyn” emerged, which is a virtual platform that deliberately positions itself outside artistic utilisation strategies. Taking into account current views of quantum theory, neuroscience and cognitive science as well as media archaeological perspectives, an “absolute theory of film” emerges as a spiritual answer to the rational concepts of “artificial intelligence” and “technological singularity”, which makes reality come alive as a self-referential, automedial phenomenon of consciousness.
Andreas Köpnick’s class for film, video and new media traces back to the film class founded by the experimental filmmaker Lutz Mommartz at the University of Fine Arts Münster in 1975. People were still working with analogue film on celluloid then. The free artistic approach to it as part of an art degree programme was an extraordinary innovation. In 1999, Andreas Köpnick took over the professorship, and the class was opened up to the rapidly expanding scope of digital production possibilities, video installation, photography and mixed media.
As the digital boom took on a life of its own, a return to the qualities of analogue media and perspectives began, along with their aesthetic interweaving with digital workflows. Classical forms of dramatic film are rethought and, on a range from “digital native” to “strictly analogue”, enter into dialogue with conceptual, participatory and net-based ways of thinking in contemporary art. Between narrative storytelling and non-linear hyperreality, between self-developed Super 8 film and fully digital cyberspace, there is just as much open and unbiased experimentation as between sound installation, sound design, performative intervention and newly experienced 2D ink drawing on handmade paper.
