Prof. Dr. Dorothée King

“My transdisciplinary teaching grounds on my ongoing interests in creating intersections in arts, media, museums, and self-realization. My experience in Europe and North America has provided me with a deep knowledge for developing contemporary curricula, funded research projects, progressive outreach programs, and global networks. My work has afforded me experience in mentoring, coaching, and training museum and art educators, artists, art historians, and designers in a variety of languages and cultural backgrounds. I am practiced in the application of a variety of different educational formats to diverse bodies of students, BA to PhD level and further education.”

• since 2021
  Head Institute Arts and Design Education HGK FHNW
  (BA Arts and Design Education, MA Arts and Design Education, Co-Create, Food Culture Lab, Learning Lab, Intersectional Lab)
• 2023 -2025
  Head Resort Continuing Education, HGK FHNW, Basel, CH
• 2021 -2023
  Head Resort BA, HGK FHNW, Basel, CH
• 2021
  Vice President (one year term) HGK FHNW, Basel, CH
• 2018-2021
  Head Institute Learning and Teaching in Arts and Design, HGK FHNW, Basel, CH
  (BA Arts and Design Education, MA Arts and Design Education, Learning Lab Arts and Design)
• 2015-2018
  Lecturer, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, USA
  (Theory and History of Arts and Design / Interior Architecture / Graduate Commons / Continuing Education)
• 2009-2018
  Lecturer, University of the Arts Berlin, Germany
  (Art Education, Cultural Studies, Career and Transfer Service Center)
• 2015-2018
  Volunteer Art Teacher for the French American School of Rhode Island
• 2017
  Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Art & Art History, Providence College, RI, USA
• 2016-2017
  Docent RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, RISD, RI, USA
• 2014-2017
  Advisor, Transart Institute - MFA Program + Creative Practice PhD New York, NY, USA
• 2011-2014
  Coordinator BAS Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies, University of the Arts Berlin, Germany
  Coordinator Research Committee, University of the Arts Berlin, Germany
• 2011-2014
  Coordinator, Interdisciplinary, international third cycle Fellowship Program "Graduate School for the Arts and Sciences", BAS Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies, University of the Arts Berlin, Germany
• 2010-2014
  Director Bi-Lingual Pre-School Humpty Dumpty, Berlin, Germany
• 2009-2011
  Owner Heart Yoga School, Berlin
• 2007-2009
  Staff Scientist, Institute for Media, Interface Cultures MA, University for Art and Design, Linz, Austria
• 2008
  Communications Expert, Preview Berlin, Art Fair, Berlin, Germany
• since 2007
  Teacher for Ashtanga, Jivamukti and Vinyasa Yoga and Meditation
• 2005-2006
  Communications Expert, University for Art and Industrial Design, Linz, Austria
• 2004-2005
  Research Associate, Banff New Media Institute, Banff Centre for the Arts, AL, Canada
• 2004
  Assistant Producer, Media Department, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, USA
• 2002
  Web Designer, Exhibition Office Ute Meta Bauer, Stuttgart, Germany
• since 1999
  Consulting, Coaching, Communication and Curating for Museums and Art Schools

• PhD Arts Education, University of the Arts Berlin, Germany
• PhD Student, Interface Cultures, College of Media, University of the Arts and Design, Linz, Austria
• Graduate Student, Media Cultures and Art Theories, University of the Arts and Industrial Design, Linz, Austria
• M.A. in Media Arts (with merit), University of Portsmouth, Great Britain
• B.A. Communication Design / Interactive Media (with merit), Merz Academy, Stuttgart, Germany
• Pre-College Fine Arts, Krabbesholm College for Art, Architecture, and Design, Skive, Denmark
• Playing Big Facilitator, Tara Mohr, San Francisco, USA
• Life Coach, Dr. Bock Academy, Berlin/Zurich (200h)
• CAS: Teaching in Academia (CAS Hochschuldidaktik), FHNW, Switzerland
• Leadership Skills, FHNW, Switzerland
• The Zero Email Strategy, University Basel, Switzerland
• International Summer School Museum Studies, Johanneum, Graz, Austria
• Sponsoring for the Arts, Institute for Cultural Concepts, Vienna, Austria
• Presentations in English, VHS Stuttgart, Germany (10h)
• Moderation Techniques for Academia, Merz Akademie, Stuttgart, Germany
• Teacher Training Jivamukti Yoga, New York, USA
• Teacher Training Vinyasa Flow Yoga (YA), Spirit Yoga Berlin, Germany
• Countless workshops in Meditation and Wellbeing

• Search Committees:
  University for Arts and Industrial Design, Linz, Austria / Academy for Art and Design, Basel, Switzerland / University of the Arts Berlin, Germany
• Reviewer:
  SNF, Swiss National Fond, Switzerland / Austrian National Fund, Austria,
  University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Rhode Island School of Design, RI, USA
• Board Member / PhD Advisor:
  PhD Program for Arts and Media Research, Basel Academy of Art and Design and University for Arts and Industrial Design Linz, Austria
  

Monographs

• King, Dorothée: Kunst riechen! [Smell Art!], Oberhausen 2016.

Edited Volumes

• Kargin, Fatma; King, Dorothée; Savic, Selena: Teaching Artistic Strategies: Playing with Materiality, Aesthetics, and Ambiguity, Bielefeld, forthcoming 2024.
• King, Dorothée: Art of Making Art Schools (Open Access Reader), additional research by Bernhard Garnicnig, http://annotating.institutions.life/#ma
  
• Die Graduiertenschule für die Künste: Nine Works: Die Graduiertenschule für die Künste der Universität der Künste Berlin, Berlin 2014.
• Kufus, Axel; King, Dorothée, Hentschel, Ulrike; de Campo, Alberto (Ed.): play:test. Versuche über die Kunst des Experimentierens, Berlin 2013.
• King, Dorothée; Sommerer, Christa: Mauro Arrighi - Japanese Spell in Electronic Art, 2011.
• Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau, Dorothée Gestrich (Ed.): Interface Cultures – Artistic Aspects on Interaction, Bielefeld 2008.

Peer-Review-Articles

• King, Dorothée: Mindfulness and Meditation – Selfcare and being Digital in the Arts, Architecture Media Politics Society AMPS PROCEEDINGS SERIES ISSN 2398-9467, https://amps-research.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Amps-Proceedings-Series-28.1.pdf, 2023, 8-14.
  
• King, Dorothée: Can we breathe? In: Parr, Debra; Lynn, Gwen, Olfactory Art and The Political in an Age of Resistance, Routledge, 2021, 99-107.
• King, Dorothée: Whose Skin? On the tattooed body in contemporary arts, in Journal of Curatorial Studies 7.2, “Special Issue: The Curated Body”, spring 2019.
• King, Dorothée: Learning Lab Arts and Design: Re-Processing the Future of Art and Design Education, ART EDUCATION RESEARCH, e Journal SFKP No 16, November 23, 2019.
• King, Dorothée: Immersion into the Uncanny vs. Established Aesthetic Experiences - on the change of interface and imagery in video art games, in “In and Out of Art History: The Video Games Conundrum”, LEA (The MIT Press) Special Issue, 2018.
• King, Dorothée: Digital Graffiti, in Int|AR Journal 09 ‘Design Intervention as ACT, 2018, 82-89.
• King, Dorothée: Sensorimotor Contingencies. Kunstvermittlung und Gestaltung ästhetischer Erfahrung, in: Lang, Siglinde (Ed.): CfA: p/art/icipate #03 – GO PUBLIC! Art, Communication and the Public- ART MEDIATION PERSPECTIVE, Salzburg 2013, http://www.p-art-icipate.net/cms/sensorimotor-contingencies/
  

Articles and Book Chapters

• King, Dorothée; Kargin, Fatma; Savic, Selena: “Introduction” In: Teaching Artistic Strategies: Playing with Materiality, Aesthetics and Ambiguity. Transferring Research into Academic Teaching. Kargin, Fatma; King, Dorothée; Savic, Selena (Ed), Bielefeld, forthcoming 2024.
• King, Dorothée: Collaborating Lines, Interview with Xavier Veilhan, on the Nomadic Journal, February 27th, 2023, an edition by Doppelhouse Press, LA, https://thenomadicjournal.com/2023/02/27/collaborating-lines/
  
• King, Dorothée and Morris, Matt in Conversation: Copycat Kill or Smelling a Sense of Home. In Burchert, Linn: Atem. Breath, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021, 235-244.
• King, Dorothée: Digital Graffiti, in 10 years of Int|AR Compilation, Basel: Birkhäuser, 2021, 30-37.
• King, Dorothée; Freiss, Lisbeth: Materialwerte - Ideen materialisieren, Sinne vernetzen - Ein Gespräch mit Lisbeth Freiss und Dorothée King, in Nicole Berner / Anna Maria Loffredo (Ed.):
• Grenzen öffnen – Werte prüfen: Bildungswerte und Wertebildung in der Kunstdidaktik. Transdisziplinäre Entwürfe und Ergebnisse einer bilateralen Online-Ringvorlesung, München 2021, p.146-163.
• King, Dorothée: Learning Lab Arts and Design, in: Renner, Michael (Ed.): Re-Use, Basel, 2020
• King, Dorothée: Learning Lab Arts and Design: Re-Processing the Future of Art and Design Education, in: Langkilde, Kirsten (Ed.): Imagine, Basel, 2019, 127-136.
• King, Dorothée: Contemporary Art, M 204, Carb I, by Jackie Ferrara, 1980, in: Toby Rossner and Carol Gibson-Prugh (Ed.): RISD Museum Docent Viewpoint, September 2017.
• King, Dorothée: »Feel it«. Aus Einfühlungsästhetik wird Fühlästhetik. Positionen aus der zeitgenössischen bildenden Kunst, in Susanne Stemmler (Ed.): Objektivität und Subjektivität in den Künsten und den Wissenschaften, Berlin/Zürich 2014.
• King, Dorothée: Lidschatten, Staub und Katzenfutter. Forschende Zugänge zu Alltagsmaterialien in Bezug zu Werken der »artistic research« in: Kirsten Winderlich (Ed.): grund_schule Kunst Bildung: band 2 material. Oberhausen 2014, 25-36.
• King, Dorothée: ABC der Graduiertenschule, in: King, Dorothée, Axel Kufus, Ulrike Hentschel, Alberto de Campo (Ed.): play:test. Versuche über die Kunst des Experimentierens, Berlin 2013, p.190-195.
• King, Dorothée: Decoding Gaze in Immersive and Interactive Media Arts, in: Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau, Dorothée King (Hg.): Interface Cultures – Artistic Aspects on Interaction, Bielefeld 2008, 175-184.
• King, Dorothée: Wir haben tüchtig viel Spaß - Freiübungen großartig, in: Scheele, Friedrich (Ed.): Gruß aus Emden und Ostfriesland, Oldenburg 2008, 68-79.
• Gestrich, Dorothée; Sommerer, Christa; Mignonneau, Laurent: Kunstuniversität Linz, in: Bossel Friedrich und Neubauer, Ralf (Ed.): acar2 – from artefact to actefact, Basel 2007, 181-191.
• Gestrich, Dorothée; Sommerer, Christa; Mignonneau, Laurent: Physical Computing and Hybrid Interfaces at Interface Cultures, in: Stocker, Gerfried und Schöpf, Christine (Ed.): Goodbye Privacy – Ars Electronica 2007, Ostfildern 2007, 385 – 390.
  

Stories

• King, Dorothée: "The One With the Headhunter", May 2021 issue, The Sock Drawer, thesockdrawer.net
• Gestrich, Dorothée: ANNA, 2002, self-published.
• Gestrich, Dorothée: Browserwar, 2001, self-published.

Book Reviews

• King, Dorothée: Jungs und Kunst. Review in: BDK-Mitteilungen 2/2013.
• King, Dorothée: szenenwechsel. Review in: BDK-Mitteilungen 4/2010.

• 2023/04 Artistic Practice centered in the Self
  Materialities, Energies PhD Forum, Royal Academy of Art, Stockholm Sweden
• 2023/03 Kunst Atmen. Künstlerisch-politische Strategien zur Aktivierung des Geruchssinns
  Université Paris 8 Saint-Denis, Paris, F
• 2023/02 Digital Identities, exploring the convergence of digital storytelling and inclusion
  Academy of Arts and Design Basel, Switzerland
• 2022/09 How to Apply for Professorship.
  Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Olten, CH
• 2022/09 Intuitive Research – Intuitive Teaching
  PhD Forum, Arts and Design Education, Zurich University of the Arts, CH
• 2022/07 Put On Your Oxygen Mask First: Prioritizing Self-Care for Arts and Museum Professionals
  Summer Webinar Series: Self-Care and Self-Advocacy for Museum Professionals
  ACRS, Association of Registrars and Collection Specialists, Chicago, US
• 2022/05 Intuitive Research
  Teaching Artistic Strategies: Playing with Materiality, Aesthetics, and Ambiguity,
  Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, CH
• 2022/04 Mindfulness and Meditation – Self-Care and Being Digital in the Arts
  A FOCUS ON PEDAGOGY: TEACHING, LEARNING AND RESEARCH IN THE MODERN ACADEMY, Ball State University, Indiana, US
• 2022/01 Tall Poppies at the Museum
  Museums Next: Museums, Health & Wellbeing Summit, GB
• 2021/08 Wellbeing and Organizational Development in Cultural Institutions
  Stiftung Nordmetall, Germany
• 2020/10 Well-being
  Meaning-Making During a Pandemic
  Deutsches Museum, German Museum, Munich, Germany
• 2020/07 Why art?
  Radio X, Discussion, Basel, Switzerland
• 2020/03 Interaction, Mindfulness Lecture Performance with Radek Rudnicki
  Smartplaces, 3rd Annual Conference, Dortmund
  Dortmunder U, Dortmund, Germany
• 2019/09 Olfactory Art and Feeling at Home
  Breath and the Arts
  Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
• 2019/09 How to overcome digital anxiety
  Lecture Performance Coaching Session
  ELIA - European League of Institutes of the Arts
  ELIA Academy, Annual Conference in Stuttgart, Germany
• 2019/07 Designing the Atmosphere
  ASLE Conference, Paradise on Fire
  UC Davis, CA, USA
• 2018/11 Learning Lab Arts and Design
  "Practice in creative and artistic research",
  Research Day at the Academy of Art and Design FHNW
  Basel, Switzerland
• 2018/07 Smell and Air in Contemporary Art
  Cultural Histories of Air and Illness Conference
  University of Warwick, Warwick, GB
• 2018/01 Olfactory Injustice
  Panel: Olfactory Art and the Political in an Age of Resistance
  CAA College Art Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA, USA
• 2017/06 Exhibiting Ephemeral Art
  Berlin University of the Arts, College of Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
• 2015/11 Olfactory Art
  The Wurks, Providence, RI, USA
• 2014/06 Olfactory Moments
  Colloquium Art Education
  Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany
• 2012/07 Vom Sprechen über Gerüche in der Kunst
  Colloquium Art Education, Loccum, Germany
• 2008/07 Deconstruction of Gaze in Interactive Media Art
  ISEA 2008, Singapore

Panels:

• 2021/05 The Aesthetic and Political Potential of Body Scents
  Uncommon Senses III: Back to the Future of the Senses, Concordia University, CA
• 2020/09 BA Theses Hyperwerk Process Design
  Institute Hyperwerk, Basel Academy of Art and Design, Switzerland
• 2020/01 Johannes Itten: Kunst als Leben
  Art Museum Bern, Switzerland
• 2019/09 Closing Notes. Making Sense
  ELIA Academy, Stuttgart, Germany
  ELIA - European League of Institutes of the Arts
• 2019/06 Symposium «future sense 1»
  Panel discussion
  Basel Academy of Art and Design, Switzerland
• 2019/03 Allez Hop!
  Digital Futures in Culture
  French-German Cultural Entrepreneurship Summit
  Roundtable Education, Mannheim, Germany.
  
• 2018/05 Discover – A Conversation between Art and Science
  Space in Higher Education
  Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design, RI, ISA
• 2018/05 Everybody’s House.
  Rosa Park House: Memory, Space, Re-Use
  Interior Architecture, Rhode Island School of Design, RI, USA
• 2007/06 Neo-Analogue Interfaces
  Hyperwerk, Basel Academy of Art and Design, Switzerland
  
• 2007/09 Emotional Interfaces
  Campus Symposium Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria

2022

• Teaching Artistic Strategies: Playing with Aesthetics, Materiality, and Ambiguity
  Scientific Exchanges, HGK FHNW, CH (SNF Fund: CHF 10.000)

2019

• Digital Collage: Learning Object Metadata (LOM): digital archive, research, and collaboration tool with interactive multiuser table interface, Lehrfonds FHNW, Basel, Switzerland (50.000)

2018

• Humanities Fund, Rhode Island School of Design, RI, USA
• Academic Affairs Conference Fund, RISD, RI, USA

2014

• Fellow Ship Program Graduate School for Arts and Sciences, Einstein-Stiftung Berlin, Germany (1 Mio)

2005

• Non-Linear Cinema, departure - Fund For Start Ups and Creative Industries, Vienna, Austria, (EUR 100.000)
  
  

Visual Rhetoric as a Three-Dimensional Practice
Justus Liebig Universität Giessen, Germany
(2nd supervisor)

Wandering Through the Mists
Tracing the Internet as Embodied Media in the Swiss and Austrian Alps
Art University Linz, AT with HGK FHNW, Switzerland
(2nd supervisor)

Smell in Contemporary Arts
Academy of Arts Munich, Germany
(2nd supervisor)

Kooperative Situationen in gestalterischen Prozessen
Universität Hildesheim, Germany, PH FHNW, Switzerland
(Mentor)

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Basel Academy of Art and Design, Basel, Switzerland
2023, Speak Up and Lead, Continuing Education, Department for Arts and Design Education
2023, Digital Identities workshop, Continuing Education, Department for Arts and Design Education
2023, PhD Supervision
2022, Media Literacy, Department for Arts and Design Education
2022, Media and Gender, Department for Arts and Design Education
2022, Arts and Design Communication, Department for Arts and Design Education
2022, Publication, Department for Arts and Design Education
2022, Personal Development, Department for Arts and Design Education
2022, Arts and Design Project, Department for Arts and Design Education (graduate)
2022, PhD Supervision
2022, MA Thesis Supervision, Department for Arts and Design Education (graduate)
2022, Arts Education Project, Department for Arts and Design Education (graduate)
2022, BA Thesis Supervision, Department for Arts and Design Education
2022, Creative Writing, Department for Arts and Design
2022, Context Design, Department for Arts and Design
2022, Focus Digital Learning, Department for Art and Design Education
2022, Education Project, Department for Art and Design Education
2021, PhD Supervision
2021, MA Thesis, Department for Art and Design Education (graduate)
2021, MA Art Project, Department for Art and Design Education (graduate)
2021, MA Writing Project, Department for Art and Design Education (graduate)
2021, Why Design, Department for Art and Design Education (graduate)
2021, Publication, Department for Art and Design Education
2021, Workshop, Department for Art and Design Education
2021, PhD Coaching Sessions
2021, MA Art Project, Department for Art and Design Education (graduate)
2021, BA Thesis Supervision, Department for Art and Design Education
2021, Teaching Arts Digitally – and staying sane, Department for Art and Design Education (Graduate)
2021, Mediation Project, Department for Art and Design Education
2021, Creative Writing, Department for Art and Design Education
2021, Communicate Arts and Design, Department for Art and Design Education
2021, Focus Digital Learning, Department for Art and Design Education
2020, Why Art, Department for Art and Design Education (graduate)
2020, Writing Project, Department for Art and Design Education (graduate)
2020, Creative Writing, Department for Art and Design Education
2020, How to communicate Art and Design, Department for Art and Design Education
2020, Alternative Art Schools, Department for Art and Design Education (graduate)
2020, MA Thesis, Department for Art and Design Education (graduate)
2020, Participation, Department for Art and Design Education
2020, Publication, Department for Art and Design Education
2020, BA Art Project, Department for Art and Design Education
2020, MA Art Project, Department for Art and Design Education (graduate)
2020, BA Thesis Supervision, Department for Art and Design Education
2020, MA Thesis Supervision, Department for Art and Design Education (graduate)
2020, Focus Digital Learning, Department for Art and Design Education
2019, Participation, Department for Art and Design Education
2019, Publication, Department for Art and Design Education
2020, Workshop, Department for Art and Design Education
2019, BA Art Project, Department for Art and Design Education
2019, MA Art Project, Department for Art and Design Education(graduate)
2019, BA Thesis Supervision, Department for Art and Design Education
2019, MA Thesis Supervision, Department for Art and Design Education (graduate)
2019, Public Lecture Series “Imagining Otherwise”
2019, ECAM PhD Program
2018, BA Art Project, Department for Art and Design Education
2018, MA Art Project, Department for Art and Design Education (graduate)
2018, BA Thesis Supervision, Department for Art and Design Education
2018, MA Thesis Supervision, Department for Art and Design Education (graduate)

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, USA
2018, Participatory Exhibition, Graduate Commons (graduate)
2018, Early 20th Century Art, History of Art and Visual Culture
2018, Ephemeral Materials in Modern and Contemporary Art, Theory and History of Arts and Design
2018, Histories and Futures in Art School Education Rhode Island School of Design, Theory and History of Arts and Design
2017, Global Modernisms, Theory and History of Arts and Design
2017, Participatory Exhibition Design, Interior Architecture (graduate)
2017, Art and Activism Rhode, Continuing Education
2017, Contemporary Art Education, Continuing Education
2017, Introduction to Curating, Continuing Education
2016, Introduction to Curating, Continuing Education

University of the Arts Berlin, Germany
2018, Current Theories of Art Education, College of Fine Arts, Institute for Art Education and Aesthetics (graduate)
2017, Art Education and Ephemeral Materials, Institute for Art Education and Aesthetics (graduate)
2011-2014, Studio in Theory and Practice, Interdisciplinary, international Fellowship program "Graduate School for the Arts and Sciences"
2014, a-z. materials in contemporary artistic practice. Part 2, Institute for Art Education and Aesthetics (graduate)
2014, the beauty of repetition, Institute for Cultural Studies
2013, a-z. materials in contemporary artistic practice, Institute for Art Education and Aesthetics (graduate)
2013, Art and Animals, Institute for Art Education and Aesthetics (graduate)
2012, On-Site. Kids explore contemporary arts in Berlin (Excursions), Institute for Art Education and Aesthetics (graduate)
2009, How to write about art projects, Career and Transfer Service Center

Providence College, RI, USA
2017, Modern and Contemporary Art Survey, Department of Art & Art History (spring term)
2017, Modern and Contemporary Art Field Course, Department of Art & Art History (spring term)

University for Art and Industrial Design Linz, Austria
2009, Presentation and Publication. Writing and research in English, Institute for Media (graduate)
2009, Student Project Supervision for MA students, Institute for Media, Interface Cultures (graduate)
2009, Student Project Supervision for MA students, Institute for Media, Interface Cultures (graduate)
2008, Presentation and Publication. Writing and research in English, Institute for Media (graduate)
2008, Student Project Supervision for MA students, Institute for Media, Interface Cultures (graduate)
2007, Presentation and Publication. Writing and research in English, Institute for Media (graduate)
2007, Exhibition management and curating / Ars Electronica Project, Institute for Media, Interface Cultures
2007, Media Management / Ars Electronica Project, Institute for Media, Interface

+ freelance Workshops in the Museum and Cultural Sector Team Development, Wellbeing, Coproduction, and Mindfulness, Meditation and yoga retreats