Emergent Digital Media

Apply to the Emergent Digital Media class!

Regular stu­dent appli­ca­tions for 9‑semester diplo­ma stud­ies are pos­si­ble in spring 2026 for the win­ter semes­ter start­ing in October 2026, infor­ma­tion below.

Guests: Each semes­ter we wel­come you as guest stu­dent, for a change of degree with­in AdBK (‘Studiengangswechsel’), or as Erasmus incom­ing stu­dent.

For ques­tions please con­tact Francis Hunger: francis.hunger@adbk.mhn.de

Individual Consultations before study­ing with us: Unfortunately, we do not offer indi­vid­ual con­sul­ta­tions beyond the offi­cial port­fo­lio con­sul­ta­tion appoint­ments that are part of the reg­u­lar appli­ca­tion process. We apol­o­gize in advance as there are too many requests and we want to con­cen­trate on work­ing with the stu­dents in the class.

Portfolio

1. Cover letter/statement max 1 page A4 (i.e. Why do you want to study in this spe­cif­ic class? What will you con­tribute to the class?)

2. A4 Portfolio (10–15 images of work, option­al­ly with 2‑sentences descrip­tion, for videos please include click­able online link e.g. on Vimeo)

3. Tabular CV

4. One uni­fied PDF file A4, no larg­er than 8 MB, with the file name accord­ing to the fol­low­ing pat­tern: Last Name_First Name_Application_EmergentDigitalMedia.pdf

Diagram, showing to apply in March for wintersemester and in December for Summersemester

Diploma studies

9 semes­ters

Deadline: March 30 for the win­ter semes­ter (begin October the same year) – Only once a year.

  1. Please inform your­self about the eli­gi­bil­i­ty require­ments on our web­site https://generativemedia.net/information-for-students/ (sec­tion ‘Candidates’).
  2. Send the PDF port­fo­lio to francis.hunger@adbk.mhn.de (sub­ject “Mappenberatung”) before the dead­line.
  3. Based on the sub­mit­ted port­fo­lio, you will receive rec­om­men­da­tions for par­tic­i­pa­tion in the fur­ther pro­ce­dure with­in a few weeks
  4. If you apply: Send the print­ed A4 port­fo­lio and appli­ca­tion form by post to the uni­ver­si­ty. Please read the infor­ma­tion on the pro­ce­dure (https://www.adbk.de/en/studium/application/application-checklist/application-checklist.html) and use the appli­ca­tion por­tal (‘Bewerbungsportal’), where you also find the appli­ca­tion form.
  5. Approximately 4–8 weeks after sub­mis­sion you will receive a reply from the AdBK Student Administration Office. We kind­ly ask you to refrain from con­tact­ing us before­hand.

Language: Our class speaks English, but addi­tion­al the­o­ry cours­es and the work­shops most­ly speak German. The AdBK expects a German lan­guage cer­tifi­cate at B2-lev­el. If you have a lev­el A2 lan­guage cer­tifi­cate the appli­ca­tion is pos­si­ble under the con­di­tion that lev­el B1 will be proven with one year (the lev­els are: A1->A2->B1->B2).

Guest student

up to 1 Semester

  1. Deadline: December 30 for the sum­mer semes­ter (begin in April the fol­low­ing year), March 30 for the win­ter semes­ter (begin October the same year)
  2. Please inform your­self about the eli­gi­bil­i­ty require­ments on our web­site (sec­tion on can­di­dates)
  3. Please send the PDF port­fo­lio to francis.hunger@adbk.mhn.de (sub­ject line: “guest stu­dent”) in good time so that it can be viewed by Prof. Steyerl. Please dou­ble check the Portfolio infor­ma­tion above.
  4. Read the fol­low­ing page and also send the form “Antrag auf Gaststudium” choos­ing the 300 Euro Option as PDF: https://www.adbk.de/en/studium/study-organization/guest-studies.html
  5. If you are accept­ed, you will receive the signed form back and for­ward it dig­i­tal­ly to the student’s office sekretariat@adbk.mhn.de. Please also note the fur­ther pro­ce­dure (tuition fees) as described under the link above

Change of class (within AdBK Freie Kunst) – Klassenwechsel

  1. Deadline: December 30 for the sum­mer semes­ter, March 30 for the win­ter semes­ter
  2. Please inform your­self about the eli­gi­bil­i­ty require­ments on our web­site (sec­tion on can­di­dates)
  3. Please send the PDF port­fo­lio to francis.hunger@adbk.mhn.de in good time (sub­ject line: “Klassenwechsel”) so that it can be viewed by Prof. Steyerl. Please dou­ble check the Portfolio infor­ma­tion above.
  4. Together with the port­fo­lio please send the form “Antrag auf Klassenwechsel” as PDF: https://www.adbk.de/de/component/phocadownload/category/1‑studium.html?download=320:antrag-klassenwechsel
  5. Based on the port­fo­lio, we invite you to a short inter­view (via Zoom).
  6. If accept­ed, you will receive the signed form back and for­ward it dig­i­tal­ly to the Student Administration Office sekretariat@adbk.mhn.de

Incoming ERASMUS

Please fol­low the pro­ce­dure as described here: https://www.adbk.de/en/international/incoming-en/erasmus-incoming.html (Portfolio as described above)

Generelly we accept Erasmus exchange stu­dents for one semes­ter, but places are very lim­it­ed. Our work­ing lan­guage in class is inter­na­tion­al English. Additional cours­es, such as in the the­o­ry depart­ment usu­al­ly get taught in German.

Ph.D. Our class can not accept Ph.D. stu­dents, as our depart­ment has no accred­i­ta­tion. Hito Steyerl and Francis Hunger unfor­tu­nate­ly can not pro­vide Ph.D. men­tor­ships. Students who already pur­sue a Ph.D. with oth­er ded­i­cat­ed pro­grams can apply as guest stu­dent or for class mem­ber­ship to be inte­gral part of the class activ­i­ties, but accept that our class is not a grad­u­ate school pro­gram.

Bauhaus University Weimar (+ their Media Theory Department), Hamburg University of Fine Arts (via Simon Denny), Mozarteum Salzburg (via Paul Feigelfeld), Die Angewandte Vienna, ZHdK (via Felix Stalder, Roland Meyer, Knowbotiq), Warwick CIM (via their fac­ul­ty) – con­tact Francis to add more art+tech+society relat­ed Ph.D.s here!