About
Tamara Knapp is a multidisciplinary artist from Weimar where she also completed her bachelor's and master's degree in Visual Communications at Bauhaus-University. Before moving to Weimar she trained as a photographer in Heidelberg.
In her work she places great value on interdisciplinarity, so that often related disciplines in art and design meet thematic blocks from (natural-), (human-) scientific fields and become recognizable in their thematic implementation. She seeks her vocation in the creation and documentation of new aspects in the fields of visual research and has been teaching this since 2021 under the "Space for Visual Research" at Bauhaus-University Weimar. Since 2023 she is working in the department of Media and Experiment at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Bielefeld also.
In addition to her teaching, she works as a freelance media artist with her expertise in generative and analogue image creation in cross-media as well as the fields of photographic visuals. In general, she likes to be inspired by inconspicuous, everyday materials and her penchant for the intangible.
Info
Professionally trained photographer (3 years)
Master+Bachelor of Arts: Visual Communication/Visual Cultures Bauhaus-University (2016-2020)
Teaching: Bauhaus-University 2021-Now and HSBI-Bielefeld (2023-Now)
Awards
ADC-Junior Award (Silver)
Fedrigoni Card-Couture Award (Silver)
Weltformat Newcomer Award 2020
Type Directors Club: New York & Tokyo
TDC Certificate of Typographic Excellence & TDC Annual Book of Typedesign
Teaching
»Space for Visual Tools« Visual-Communication, Graphicdesign, Bauhaus-University Weimar, 2023
»Notation of Flow« Media and Experiment, HSBI Bielefeld, 2023
»Mixturen Spaces« Visual-Communication, Graphicdesign, Bauhaus-University Weimar, 2022/2023
»Space and Matter« Visual-Communication, Graphicdesign, Bauhaus-University Weimar, 2022
»Visual Data« Visual-Communication, Graphicdesign, Bauhaus-University Weimar, 2021/2022
»Between Spectator, Actor and Space« Visual-Communication, Graphicdesign, Bauhaus-University Weimar, 2021
»Fragmenting Chronology« Visual-Communication, Graphicdesign, Bauhaus-University Weimar, 2021
Podcast
Künstlerische Tatsachen, Arts & Science Residency (Talk & Programme) 2021
Teleskop Leipzig (Teleskop Radio & teleskopstudio) 2022
Talks & Workshops
»About Contemporary Graphic Design - Designing Systems & Tools» Designakademie Berlin 2023
»Notation of Flow« Media and Experiment at HSBI-Bielefeld 2023
»Designing Systems, performing events - On the necessity of intersection« 101 Weimar 2023
»The (un)natural phenomenologies of biophilia« Heterotopy Ilmpark Symposium 2023
»Künstlerische Tatsachen» Participant of the Arts&Science Residency 2021 & Podium Talk 2022
»Visual Tools in Touchdesigner« Workshop at Bauhaus-University Weimar 2023
»Space for Visual Research« Workshop Module Bauhaus-Universität Weimar 2021-2023
»Type and Object« Tutorial in the Department of Typedesign of Stefanie Schwarz 2020
Cooperations
Bauhaus-University Weimar, University of Applied Sciences and Art Bielefeld, Stadtmuseum Berlin, Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena, Geologische Sammlung Berlin, Deutsches Optisches Museum Jena, Professur für Biodidaktik Jena, Hans-Knöll Institut Jena, Conference for Artistic Research, Symbiotic Lab Berlin, Spree Berlin, Prince Charles Berlin, Koffäin, Paul Kalkbrenner, Jugendbildungsstätte Juist, Schmucksymposium Erfurt, Exit Strategy, Förderzentrum Sehen Weimar