How artful creation helps organizations to surpass themselves.
Ecovium Video Storytelling
Future by Docu-Fiction: Inspirational Visioning & Creative Strategy Design
Demeter in the East
In April 2018 the “Association for the Promotion of Biodynamic Agriculture in East Germany e.V.” emerged from the formerly separate regional working communities of Berlin-Brandenburg and Saxony. The new board…
The Garage Campus
Chemnitz is the European Capital of Culture in 2025. Under the motto “C the Unseen – European Makers of Democracy”, the city has presented a convincing concept which, in addition…
Key Notes
Our work at the interface of art, business and science gave and gives us the opportunity to talk to many different people. Among them are artists, entrepreneurs, and researchers. The…
Age of Artists #2
Conference on dealing with uncertainty
17 – 19 March 2021 | Probstzella
Bauhaus hotel »Haus des Volkes«
Insights
Ona Jarmalavičiūtė & Benjamin Stromberg
Salomé Voegelin is a widely interested artist, writer and researcher working in different modalities. Her professional work is mostly engaged in the world sound makes, socio-political and aesthetic thinking via the practice of listening. She is the author of three influential books on sound: The Political Possibility of Sound (2018), Sonic Possible Worlds (2014),…
Thomas Castéran
I first met entrepreneur and video-maker Gaspard Bonnefoy while we were finishing our master’s studies in Montpellier. Back then, I remember rushing off to find an internship in a big company that would provide me the opportunity to start my career. Gaspard, meanwhile, was turning down a permanent job offer…
Benjamin Stromberg
A NEW NORMAL Whether the situation is acute like SARS-CoV-2 or creeping like the climate catastrophe: what is perceived as a state of emergency can, today, be understood as a constant companion in different guises. “Uncertainty is the new normal,” explained IMF chief Kristalina Georgiewa in a recent interview with…
Thomas Castéran
When asked how he became an artist, Renard looked at us, slightly puzzled, before answering: “This is a difficult question. I don’t really know how we become artists”. After a short pause, he finally added: “All I know is that at some point in my life and studies, I studied…
Dirk Dobiéy & Thomas Koeplin
A unique feature of artificial intelligence is that it knows no feeling. It works logically, although its logic is not always understandable for us humans. The reason may be that with us humans the feeling still comes first (even if we all feel it differently), followed by the slower mind,…
Dirk Dobiéy & Thomas Koeplin
Machines reduce our workload thanks to automation. They take on dangerous tasks, tasks that require precision, or tasks that bore us. The increasing efficiency or (if you will) intelligence of the systems makes it possible also to automate knowledge-intensive or complicated activities.
Dirk Dobiéy & Thomas Koeplin
One of the benefits of artificial intelligence is that it helps us take decisions today (or more so in the future) or releases us from them altogether. This sounds sensible and tempting in the face of a real or perceived increasing variety of possibilities. How welcome would a simple app…
Dirk Dobiéy & Thomas Koeplin
Technological progress is often equated with efficiency gains. For example, machines, especially those that get ascribed more and more certain intelligence, can often do things many times more efficiently than humans can. They relieve us of tasks and decisions and thus also reduce the wealth of personal experiences quite casually.
Dirk Dobiéy & Thomas Koeplin
The highest hopes for economic growth are linked to technological progress. Technological progress unveils fascinating possibilities. At the same time the upheavals associated with it are partly also highly problematic and their consequences mostly unpredictable. Most far-reaching, or at least most apparent, are the advances we have made in the…
Benjamin Stromberg & Dirk Dobiéy
In his life, Wolfgang Ullrich has worked intensively on art and its significance for our society and is able to combine his expertise with compelling analyses of contemporary social phenomena.
Our Network
Discover our versatile, global network to gain new perspectives and insights.
Sebastian Mai, PhD
Chief Orchestration Officer
After graduating in theoretical physics in 2014, Sebastian left the field of sciences to become a self-employed proposing coding and programming web based business solutions for customers.
Annalena Maas
Director of Getting Things Done
Annalena directs in various theaters as well as in the independent scene. Her works have one thing in common: they always look for other possibilities and perspectives. For her, acting artistcally is an essential building block for sustainable, entrepreneurial change.
Kathrin Dobiéy
Head of Serendipity
Kathrin is Head of Serendipity at Age of Artists. She has a business background and worked for different companies such as L’Oreal, VF Corp., and Idee.Design.Licht as a Sales & Marketing Manager.
Tina Winkel
Chief Culture Campaigner
Tina is a cultural scientist, media educator and currently project manager for the garage campus, one of the four large intervention areas of the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025. Since her first visit to a European Capital of Culture in 2009, the subject has become her passion.
Thomas Richter
Supreme Leader of Glitches and Aesthetics
Thomas Richter researches the transfer of artistic-aesthetic working methods and processes in organisations. In the context of Open Innovation, the expansion of innovation ecosystems, he is investigating the integration of artists and designers into entrepreneurial practice.
Benjamin Stromberg
President of Courageous Awareness
Benjamin Stromberg is consultant at Age of Artists with a transdisciplinary background. He studied communication and political science and then specialized in organizational development with a multiple focus on transformation, creativity and digitization.
“There are no dots. What is there is the connection.”
Stephen Nachmanovitch
Musician and writer
“Trust is the main point of good leadership.”
Lubnan Baalbaki
Conductor
”Everyone has a different creativity.“
Gaspard Bonnefoy
Entrepreneur und video maker
“It’s not about changing the repertoire of elements, at the most to widen it to its maximum. The dangers for creativity are the routine and the uniformity.”
Sebastian Heiner
Contemporary artist
“Each work gives me the opportunity to use an individual language.”
Lisa Peters
Contemporary artist
“There is no security. Terms like fault or failure only exist if you allow them.”
Lucija Mikas
Dancer
“I consider it as my job to create something new.”
Hye Young Kim
Contemporary artist
“I don’t believe in inspiration. I believe in construction.”
Joël Renard
Painter and Professor of Fine Arts
“I like not knowing. I like being surprised.”
Vanessa Notley
Painter and sculptor
“I’m always collecting impressions – no matter where I am.”
SAFI
Singer
