Stadt Bühl, Bildungsportal
Stadt Baden-Baden, Studium Generale
Guided thematic tours through museums
Seminars in philosophy, culture, art, design, and architecture
Image – Culture – Philosophy
Series on (Cultural) Anthropology
- Nicholas Cusanus "De Beryllo" 1458: On a founder of cultural studies in the 15th century (2017)
- Free will or unfree will? On a dispute between Erasmus of Rotterdam and Martin Luther from 1524/25 until today (2017)
- Enthusiasm. On a feeling inspired by the muses (2017)
- Primitivism? On the re-evaluation of indigenous in comparison to supposedly civilized forms of society (2018)
- Myths, Fake News and Alternative Truths? (2021). Answers from Philosophy
Series on Modern Era
- Hilla von Rebay and Peggy Guggenheim: Two protagonists who shaped the art world with their commitment to the Guggenheim Museum (2024)
- What is Enlightenment? Immanuel Kant and the educational reform by Wilhelm von Humboldt (2018)
-
What is Enlightenment - for women? (2019)
Series on Postmodern Age
- 300 years Kant: Are we enlightened? Questions for Immanuel Kant today
- What is Postmodernism? Towards a new self-image of mankind since the 80s ( 2019)
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"The dispute over difference.
Feminism and postmodernism in the present time"
Series on the Understanding of Time
- Future: Time. What is it for us? Answers by Ernst Cassirer (2020)
- Past: Vintage - Retro - "Shabby-Chic". Why? Answers from Frame Theory (2021)
- Present: Enthusiasm - Answers by Plato (2021)
- Breaks: What's the point? When the familiar and the traditional are called into question by art and design
- Answers by Walter Benjamin (SS 2021)
- Metaverse (WS 2023-24)
Historical series (Identities)
- Humanism and Pragmatism: Anglo-American vs. European Thought (2019)
- Alsace or „ali-sāzzo“ . Residents of the other bank of the Rhine. Postmodern philosophy in a new light (2021)
- Jewish Scholars Excluded in Germany. Consequences from the history of science: "The Hamburg Circle" 1919-1933 (2021)
- Russia: Post-Communism and Media (2023)
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Who am I? Colonialism and Africa (2023)
Series on Architecture, Art and Design and their philosophical background:
- On the "revolutionary potential" of the central building idea from the beginning of the Renaissance to modern times (2017)
- Architecture and Philosophy in Absolutism and Enlightenment (2018)
- The simple life. Indigenous forms of housing and construction in North and South America and its after-effects in art (2018)
- "Form Follows Function" – In architecture and design in the USA and Europe (SS 2019)
- 100 Years of Bauhaus (1919-2019). On the origin and development of a significant movement in Europe and the USA (2019)
- "Anything Goes". Postmodern architecture and its backgrounds in the real world (WS 2019)
- Vintage - Retro - Shabby Chick. Why? (2021)
- Women at the Bauhaus (1919-1933) (2021)
- Why? When the familiar and traditional is challenged by art and design (2021)
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"Zaha Hadid flies away from the ordinary and far into the future". Postmodern architecture as an expression of the spirit of life today (2021)
- Political myths: Anselm Kiefer (2022)
- Russia and Communism form the first hour in images (2022)
- Turner and Sensualism (2023)
Guided tours:
- Paul Cézanne, Metamorphoses, Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (2017)
- America, America, How real is real? Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden (2018)
- James Turrell, The Substance of Light, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden (2018)
- Die Brücke and Expressionism, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden (2018)
- War and media as part of the past, present and future: to the exhibition „Ensemble“ – Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden und Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris in Baden-Baden (2019)
- Postmodern Worlds – Deconstruction of the Familiar: "Karin Kneffel" in the Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden (2019)
- Why do we Collect? The Burda Brothers. Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden ( 2020)
- Impressionism in Russia. Dawn of the Avant-Garde, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden (2021)
- Katharina Sieverding. In Between Art and Politics, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden (2021)
- Margaret and Christine Wertheim. Value and Transformation of Corals (2022)
- Transformers. ´AI-Beings´ and classical art from the museum´s collection (2023)
- Nicolas Party: When Tomorrow Comes: New Perspectives on Space and Time (2004)
Ryan Gander, Mouse, animatroin figure, 2019, part of the exibition Transformers, Museum Frieder Burda, 2023
Video: Martina Sauer
Thematic tour with Martina Sauer through Daniel Knorr's installation room in the exhibition
ImPossible at the Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden. Photo: Marie-Christine Heck, March 22, 2024
Frieder Burda Museum, Baden-Baden
Guided thematic tours (Ger., Fr., Engl.)
- Heinz Mack, Licht - Schatten (2015)
- Andreas Gursky (2015/2016)
- Gerhard Richter, Birkenau (2016)
- Katharina Grosse (2016)
- Die Kerze (2016/2017)
- Sigmar Polke, Alchemie und Arabeske (2017)
- Rodney Graham, Lightening Box (2017)
- America! America! – How Real ist real? (2018)
- James Turrell, The Substance of Light (2018)
- Die Brücke (2018/2019)
- "Ensemble", Centre Georges Pompidou and Museum Frieder Burda (2019)
- Karin Kneffel (2019)
- The Burda Brothers (2020)
- Impressionism in Russia. Setting out for the avant-garde (2021)
- Katharina Sievering. In Between Art and Politics (2021)
- Value and Transformation of Corals: Christine and Margaret Wertheim (2022)
- Transformers. Meeting of ´AI-Beings´ and classical art from the museum´s collection (2023)
- Nicolas Party: When Tomorrow Comes: New Perspectives on Space and Time (2024)
- ImPossible. Art can give shape to the impossible. For what reason? (2024)
Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
Guided thematic tours (Ger., Fr., Engl.)
- Metamorphosen – Cézanne (2017-2018)
Postmodern Worlds. Deconstruction of the Familiar: Karin Kneffel at Museum Frieder Burda, 10.10.2019, Photo: Martina Sauer
Udo Kittelmann, the curator of Museum Frieder Burda, and the Swiss artist Nicolas Party in front of "Red Forest", 2023, pastel, 1063 x 623 cm, Foto: Martina Sauer, November 2,2023
Between Art and Science:
Christine and Margaret Wertheim at the Museum Frieder Burda Baden-Baden,
Jan. 27, 2022
Below: Crochet Coral Reef, Satellite Baden-Baden, Photos: Martina Sauer
Video-Lecture on Transformations Using the Example of Photo Series by
Katharina Sievering
Katharina Sieverding, Transformer Cyan Solarisation 5 A/B, 1973/74. Color photograph, acrylic, and steel frames, 2 parts, each 190 x 125 cm, © Klaus Mettig,
VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021
Technical University of Chemnitz
Online Conference of the German Society of Semiotics about Transformations, Section Image:
Video lecture, September 28, 2021 on
Vitality Semiotics. Impulses from the Hamburg Circle around Warburg, Cassirer and Werner about a new Method in Image and Cultural Philosophy
Article on postmodern worlds using as an example the pictures of Karin Kneffel
Karin Kneffel, Trauben, 240 x 199,8 cm, Museum Frieder Burda Foto: Karin Kneffel
"The Midden", Baden-Baden, collection of plastic
waste, Explanations from the mathematicianMargaret Wertheim, Photo: Martina Sauer, 27.01.2022
Fresenius Hochschule
University of Applied Sciences
SS 2022 educational film (intranet)
Cultural history of formation II, exibition and participative project:
"Margaret und Christine Wertheim. Value and Change of Coral Reefs", Museum Frieder Burda Baden-Baden, together with Prof. Dr. Petra Leutner, Akademie Mode & Design, Hamburg
Teacher Training
Protestant and catholic teacher:
Handelslehranstalt Bruchsal,
21.09.2018: What is Enlightenment? Immanuel Kant and the consequences
for the educational reform by Wilhelm von Humboldt
01.10.2019: A-Levels: god proofs
Erbprinz Ettlingen (near by Karlsruhe): private
Vhs Baden-Baden: SS 2025: Plato - The Allegory of the Cave
Züricher Hochschule der Künste, Institute for Cultural Studies in the Arts
2012, May to September
Research project at the Institute for Cultural Studies, Prof. Dr. Sigrid Schade in cooperation with the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Basel, Dr. Martina Sauer, FHNW HGK and the Institute of Neurosciences, Parma, Italy, Prof. Dr. Vittorio Gallese with PhD student Katrin Heimann:
»Abstract.Amodal.Affective: Exploring Unconscious Aesthetic Processes in the Creation of Art/Design - A Contribution to the Question of Knowledge and Competence in the Visual Arts«
Project team:
Cooperation partner/practice:
Cooperation partner/theory:
Cooperation partners/young scientists:
Institute for Image and Cultural Philosophy,
Fresenius Hochschule, University of Applied Sciences
AMD Akademie Mode & Design Hamburg
and Institute of Technology Genua/Parma, Italy
Research Project in Hamburg/Germany
Summer Term 2022
Affective Perception and Design
together with AMD Hamburg / FB Design at Hochschule Fresenius: Prof. Dr. Petra Leutner and the Institute of Technology (IIT) Genoa/Parma, Italy CONTACT lab, Dr. Giuseppe Di Cesare and Giada Lombardi: https://whisperproject.eu/team-lab-robot and students from AMD Hamburg
June 13, 4 p.m. public guest lecture (hybrid) on "Affective Perception and Design" by Dr. Giuseppe di Cesare and PhD student Giada Lombardi ITT Genua/Parma, Italy, AMD / FB Design at Hochschule Fresenius, Alte Rabenstrasse 1, 20148 Hamburg, Room 1.01 (1st floor)
June, 14, lecures and workshop with students and the faculty: Giuseppe Di Cesare on "Affective Perception" and Martina Sauer on "The connection between vitals affects, vital forms and meaning formation: research backgrounds in cultural studies: Hamburg Circle 1919-1933"
German Society for Semiotics. International and interdisziplinary conference Signs.Cultures.Digitality. TU Landau, Germany
2024, September 24. -28.
DGS Panel Image & Fashion (Martina Sauer and Petra Leutner): Metaverse - KI and New Aesthetics? hybrid, D/En,. Program
CfP
of the panel image and fashion (hybrid, Ger/En) by Martina Sauer (image) und Petra Leutner (fashion) on
Metaverse - KI and New Aesthetics?
Keynote speech
Martina Sauer (image and cultural philosophy, Germany)
Giuseppe Di Cesare (neurosciences, Italy)
Vitality forms in action, speech, and design: a powerful communication tool for social interactions
Literature:
Di Cesare, Giuseppe et al. The neuronal basis of vitality forms. In National Science Review 7 (2020), 202—13
Lombardi, Giada and Giuseppe Di Cesare. From Neuroscience to Art:
The Role of “Vitality Forms” in the Investigation of Multimodality. In Art Style 10, special issue on Multimodality, edited by Martina Sauer and Christiane Wagner, 09/2022, 11—23
Lombardi, Giada, Martina Sauer and Giuseppe di Cesare. An Affective Perception: How “Vitality Forms” Influence Our Mood? In Art Style 11, special issue on Atmosphere and Mood, edited by Martina Sauer & Zhufez Wang, 03/2023: 127—39
Sauer, Martina. Abstract — Affective — Multimodal. On the processing of moving images following Cassirer, Langer and Krois. In Bildkörper. On the relationship between image technologies and embodiment, hrsg. v. Lars Christian Grabbe, Patrick Rupert-Kruse, Norbert M. Schmitz. Büchner: Darmstadt 2016, 46—71
Sauer, Martina. Developmental Psychology / Neuroscience and Art History - A Contribution to the Discussion of Form as the Basis of Perception and Design Principles. In ejournal.net, June 2011, 1—10
Institute for Image and Cultural Philosophy and the Department of Food and Drug Sciences, University of Parma, Italy
Research Project in Parma/Italy
Summer Term 2025
Neurosciences and Humanities:
Affective Perception - Synchronization Effects - Design
Projekt Team:
Dr. Phil. Martina Sauer (Image and Cultural Philosophie)
Dr. Med. Giuseppe Di Cesare (Neurosciences)
Charlotte Engelke (B.A. Candidate Design)
Project Description:
What constitutes synchronization effects (coordination processes) of opinions, ideas, attitudes in a community? Why and how do they occur? To what extent does this also take place through images?
They are the neuroscientist Giuseppe Di Cesare from the research group form Parma in Italy on mirror neurons and vitality forms and philosopher and image scientist Martina Sauer form the Institute for Image and Cultural Philosophy from Germany and her research on vitality semiotics (VS) and her former student, the B.A. candidate in design, Charlotte Engelke, form the Fresenius University of Applied Sciences, AMD, Hamburg, who in their joint research project in Parma are specifically investigating on a neuroscientific basis how synchronization effects are stimulated through design.
Literature:
Di Cesare, Giuseppe et al. The neuronal basis of vitality forms. In National Science Review 7 (2020), 202—13
Lombardi, Giada and Giuseppe Di Cesare. From Neuroscience to Art:
The Role of “Vitality Forms” in the Investigation of Multimodality. In: Art Style 10, special issue on Multimodality, edited by Martina Sauer and Christiane Wagner, 09/2022, 11—23
Lombardi, Giada, Martina Sauer and Giuseppe di Cesare. An Affective Perception: How “Vitality Forms” Influence Our Mood? In: Art Style 11, special issue on Atmosphere and Mood, edited by Martina Sauer & Zhufez Wang, 03/2023: 127—39
Sauer, Martina. Abstract — Affective — Multimodal. On the processing of moving images following Cassirer, Langer and Krois. In: Bildkörper. On the relationship between image technologies and embodiment, hrsg. v. Lars Christian Grabbe, Patrick Rupert-Kruse, Norbert M. Schmitz. Büchner: Darmstadt 2016, 46—71
Sauer, Martina. Developmental Psychology / Neuroscience and Art History - A Contribution to the Discussion of Form as the Basis of Perception and Design Principles. In: ejournal.net, June 2011, 1—10.
Sauer, Martina.Marshall McLuhan in a new light. Old and new methods of influencing emotions in communities of the electronic age. In: Lars Grabbe, Andrew McLuhan & Tobias Held (eds.). Beyond media literacy. Marburg: Büchner 2023, 14-32.
Sauer, Martina. Vitality Semiotics (VS) and the Implications of Synchronization in Frames. Highlighted via the break caused by Katharina Sieverding's Transformers. In: Natalia Igl & Martina Sauer (eds.).
Frames and Framing: Dynamic Nature and Material Cognitive Interplays, special issue Zeitschrift für Semiotik, 3/4.
Institute for Image and Cultural Philosophy, Martina Sauer PhD Phil
and her student B.A. candidate in design, Charlotte Engelke, form the Fresenius University of Applied Sciences, AMD, Hamburg,
and the host institution: Department of Food and Drug Sciences, University of Parma, Italy, Giuseppe Di Cesare, PhD Med
Research Project
Summer Term 2025
Neurosciences and Humanities:
Affective Perception - Synchronization Effect - Design
What constitutes synchronization effects (coordination processes) of opinions, ideas, attitudes in a community? Why and how do they occur? To what extent does this also take place through images?
They are the neuroscientist Giuseppe Di Cesare from the research group form Parma in Italy on mirror neurons and vitality forms and philosopher and image scientist Martina Sauer form the Institute for Image and Cultural Philosophy from Germany and her research on vitality semiotics (VS) and her former student, the B.A. candidate in design, Charlotte Engelke, form the Fresenius University of Applied Sciences, AMD, Hamburg, who in their joint research project in Parma are specifically investigating on a neuroscientific basis how synchronization effects are stimulated through design.
Literature
Di Cesare, Giuseppe et al. The neuronal basis of vitality forms. In National Science Review 7 (2020), 202—13
Lombardi, Giada and Giuseppe Di Cesare. From Neuroscience to Art:
The Role of “Vitality Forms” in the Investigation of Multimodality. In: Art Style 10, special issue on Multimodality, edited by Martina Sauer and Christiane Wagner, 09/2022, 11—23
Lombardi, Giada, Martina Sauer and Giuseppe di Cesare. An Affective Perception: How “Vitality Forms” Influence Our Mood? In: Art Style 11, special issue on Atmosphere and Mood, edited by Martina Sauer & Zhufez Wang, 03/2023: 127—39
Sauer, Martina. Abstract — Affective — Multimodal. On the processing of moving images following Cassirer, Langer and Krois. In: Bildkörper. On the relationship between image technologies and embodiment, hrsg. v. Lars Christian Grabbe, Patrick Rupert-Kruse, Norbert M. Schmitz. Büchner: Darmstadt 2016, 46—71
Sauer, Martina. Developmental Psychology / Neuroscience and Art History - A Contribution to the Discussion of Form as the Basis of Perception and Design Principles. In: ejournal.net, June 2011, 1—10.
Sauer, Martina.Marshall McLuhan in a new light. Old and new methods of influencing emotions in communities of the electronic age. In: Lars Grabbe, Andrew McLuhan & Tobias Held (eds.). Beyond media literacy. Marburg: Büchner 2023, 14-32.
Sauer, Martina. Vitality Semiotics (VS) and the Implications of Synchronization in Frames. Highlighted via the break caused by Katharina Sieverding's Transformers. In: Natalia Igl & Martina Sauer (eds.). Frames and Framing: Dynamic Nature and Material Cognitive Interplays, special issue Zeitschrift für Semiotik, 3/4.
Institute for Image and Cultural Philosophy, Martina Sauer PhD Phil
and her student B.A. candidate in design, Charlotte Engelke, form the Fresenius University of Applied Sciences, AMD, Hamburg,
and the host institution: Department of Food and Drug Sciences, University of Parma, Italy, Giuseppe Di Cesare, PhD Med
Research Project
Summer Term 2025
Neurosciences and Humanities:
Affective Perception - Synchronization Effect - Design
What constitutes synchronization effects (coordination processes) of opinions, ideas, attitudes in a community? Why and how do they occur? To what extent does this also take place through images?
They are the neuroscientist Giuseppe Di Cesare from the research group form Parma in Italy on mirror neurons and vitality forms and philosopher and image scientist Martina Sauer form the Institute for Image and Cultural Philosophy from Germany and her research on vitality semiotics (VS) and her former student, the B.A. candidate in design, Charlotte Engelke, form the Fresenius University of Applied Sciences, AMD, Hamburg, who in their joint research project in Parma are specifically investigating on a neuroscientific basis how synchronization effects are stimulated through design.
Literature
Di Cesare, Giuseppe et al. The neuronal basis of vitality forms. In National Science Review 7 (2020), 202—13
Lombardi, Giada and Giuseppe Di Cesare. From Neuroscience to Art:
The Role of “Vitality Forms” in the Investigation of Multimodality. In: Art Style 10, special issue on Multimodality, edited by Martina Sauer and Christiane Wagner, 09/2022, 11—23
Lombardi, Giada, Martina Sauer and Giuseppe di Cesare. An Affective Perception: How “Vitality Forms” Influence Our Mood? In: Art Style 11, special issue on Atmosphere and Mood, edited by Martina Sauer & Zhufez Wang, 03/2023: 127—39
Sauer, Martina. Abstract — Affective — Multimodal. On the processing of moving images following Cassirer, Langer and Krois. In: Bildkörper. On the relationship between image technologies and embodiment, hrsg. v. Lars Christian Grabbe, Patrick Rupert-Kruse, Norbert M. Schmitz. Büchner: Darmstadt 2016, 46—71
Sauer, Martina. Developmental Psychology / Neuroscience and Art History - A Contribution to the Discussion of Form as the Basis of Perception and Design Principles. In: ejournal.net, June 2011, 1—10.
Sauer, Martina.Marshall McLuhan in a new light. Old and new methods of influencing emotions in communities of the electronic age. In: Lars Grabbe, Andrew McLuhan & Tobias Held (eds.). Beyond media literacy. Marburg: Büchner 2023, 14-32.
Sauer, Martina. Vitality Semiotics (VS) and the Implications of Synchronization in Frames. Highlighted via the break caused by Katharina Sieverding's Transformers. In: Natalia Igl & Martina Sauer (eds.). Frames and Framing: Dynamic Nature and Material Cognitive Interplays, special issue Zeitschrift für Semiotik, 3/4.
Institute for Image and Cultural Philosophy
Dr. phil. Martina Sauer
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Germany - 77815 Bühl (Baden-Baden)