Writing is one way of magic to shift our perception. I offer experimental perspectives on artistic practices, creative living, and contemplation techniques. Even my academic papers are an invitation to live courage, spaciousness, and humorous self-realization.
My first monograph Smell Art! was published in German in 2016. My research on digital graffiti appeared in the Int|AR Journal 09. My writings are published with Routledge, the Journal for Curatorial Studies, and other international peer-review journals, and edited volumes.
I have co-edited three larger book projects: Teaching Artistic Strategies: Playing with Materiality, Aesthetics, and Ambiguity (forthcoming 2024), Playtest (2013), which features essays on experimental approaches in interdisciplinary art and artistic research, and Interface Cultures (2008), a compendium on interactive interfaces in electronic art.
Please find my publications on arts, design, and education below.
play:test. Versuche über die Kunst des Experimentierens
Kufus, Axel; King, Dorothée, Hentschel, Ulrike; de Campo, Alberto (Ed.): play:test. Versuche über die Kunst des Experimentierens, Berlin 2013.
Playtesting is a practice that plays with the ignorance of the outcome of the experiment by provoking the unexpected. Precondition is the involvement of engaged team-mates who are game for the ideas of the others. This attitude labels the activities and promotes projects at the Graduate School for the Arts and Sciences at Berlin University for the Arts. Its polyphony proofs the specialties of the distinct languages of music, visual arts, film, literature, or dance that are encountered here. What kinds of modes of cognition are produced with poetic research, intuitive insight, counterknowledge, levels of in between, and aesthetical experiments? Debated are possibilities of collective thinking and working at the borders of disciplines and also questions regarding localization in the current discussions on the interface of arts and sciences.
ABC der Graduiertenschule
King, Dorothée: ABC der Graduiertenschule, in: King, Dorothée, Axel Kufus, Ulrike Hentschel, Alberto de Campo (Ed.): play:test. Versuche über die Kunst des Experimentierens, Berlin 2013, p.190-195.
Interface Cultures – Artistic Aspects on Interaction
Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau, Dorothée Gestrich (Ed.): Interface Cultures – Artistic Aspects on Interaction, Bielefeld 2008.
From media art archeology to contemporary interaction design – the term interface culture is based on a vivid and ongoing discourse in the fields of interactive art, interaction design, game design, tangible interfaces, auditory interfaces, fashionable technologies, wearable devices, intelligent ambiances, sensor technologies, telecommunication and new experimental forms of human-machine, human-human and machine-machine interactions and the cultural discourse surrounding them.
Decoding Gaze in Immersive and Interactive Media Arts
Media Arts, in: Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau, Dorothée King (Hg.): Interface Cultures – Artistic Aspects on Interaction, Bielefeld 2008, 175-184.
Wir haben tüchtig viel Spaß - Freiübungen großartig
King, Dorothée: Wir haben tüchtig viel Spaß - Freiübungen großartig, in: Scheele, Friedrich (Ed.): Gruß aus Emden und Ostfriesland, Oldenburg 2008, 68-79.
Kunstuniversität Linz
Gestrich, Dorothée; Sommerer, Christa; Mignonneau, Laurent: Kunstuniversität Linz, in: Bossel Friedrich und Neubauer, Ralf (Ed.): acar2 – from artefact to actefact, Basel 2007, 181-191.
Interface Cultures – Artistic Aspects on Interaction
Interface Cultures – Artistic Aspects on Interaction
Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau, Dorothée Gestrich (Ed.): Interface Cultures – Artistic Aspects on Interaction, Bielefeld 2008.
From media art archeology to contemporary interaction design – the term interface culture is based on a vivid and ongoing discourse in the fields of interactive art, interaction design, game design, tangible interfaces, auditory interfaces, fashionable technologies, wearable devices, intelligent ambiances, sensor technologies, telecommunication and new experimental forms of human-machine, human-human and machine-machine interactions and the cultural discourse surrounding them.
Physical Computing and Hybrid Interfaces at Interface Cultures
Gestrich, Dorothée; Sommerer, Christa; Mignonneau, Laurent: Physical Computing and Hybrid Interfaces at Interface Cultures, in: Stocker, Gerfried und Schöpf, Christine (Ed.): Goodbye Privacy – Ars Electronica 2007, Ostfildern 2007, 385 – 390.