Thanks to the Media Architecture Dual Master’s Degree at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar with the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, I am currently staying in Western New York for an academic teaching staff exchange. While Mark Shepard (artist and architect whose work addresses contemporary entanglements of technology and urban life) is visiting Weimar and teaching at the Bauhaus-Universität, I am humbled and thrilled to take his place here at SUNY UB for the fall term.

I am teaching two courses, one in the Faculty of Architecture / School of Architecture and Planning. Another course “Mobile Media with HTML5” is part of the Department of Media Study on UB’s North Campus is focusing on mobile media development with HTML5 and JavaScript as up to date tools for media artists.
The Media-Architecture program is about Architecture and media, an interdisciplinary study connecting architecture, media arts and urbanism studies. Half of the Master’s degree happens one year here in Buffalo and a second year in Weimar, Germany.
I am thankful for this invitation, everyone is wonderful and welcoming – and Western New York and the Buffalo/Niagara Region are really beautiful, especially in the fall. And it’s certainly very interesting from an academic point of view: There are many things that I learned and which I will hopefully be able to apply back in Germany.
Further Info:
* Mark Shepard
* Media Architecture, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
* CAST (Center for Architecture and Situated Technologies), University at Buffalo
* DMS (Department of Media Study), University at Buffalo