The Centre for Art and Digitality – CKD is a practice-based research environment at the Royal Institute of Art (Kungl. Konsthögskolan) that, at an advanced level, investigates the cultural and societal implications of digitality. Through artistic practices, contemporary technologies are examined – particularly the acceleration of algorithmic and computational systems and how their use challenges prevailing political, ethical, and aesthetic values.
Under the project title Innovationslaboratorium (Innovation Laboratory), with support from the Jacob Wallenberg Foundation, CKD has during 2025 further developed a research-oriented workshop environment in which students and teachers can work with digital technologies, critically examine, and process the field within an expanded artistic context. Machines and software have been updated, further training of teachers takes place, and study trips and network-building activities are carried out continuously.
Through the different workshops for sculpture, mechatronics, and digital 3D technologies, and the workshops for photography, film, video, and new time-based XR technologies, we create conditions for cross-disciplinary artistic work and experimentation.
Throughout the year, practical courses, lectures, and workshops are carried out with the aim of illuminating and practically investigating the field of knowledge. A project-oriented course runs during 2025/2026 for bachelor’s and master’s students who wish to develop experimental projects. The course concludes with an exhibition in autumn 2026.
Royal Institute of Art (Kungl. Konsthögskolan) are dedicated in our engagement in the presently relevant confluence between new media, technologies and artistic practices and to have the possibilities to develop this field within the education and the artistic research at KKH. This focus has a deep history at the institution through pioneering projects such as, for example, the College for Art and New Media in the early 2000s.
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Working Group for CKD:
- Åsa Andersson Broms, 4D
- Martin Christensen, 3D
- Andreas Hammar, 3D
- Jennifer Rainsford, 4D
Professors affiliated with CKD:
- Johanna Gustafsson Fürst, 3D
- Asier Mendizabal, 3D
- Blaise Kirschner, 4D
- Tris Vonna Michell, 4D
Project Manager, Innovationslaboratorium:
- Agneta Linton, Head of Department
Contact
- Martin Christensen, martin.chiristensen@kkh.se
- Åsa Andersson Broms, asa.andersson.broms@kkh.se