OPEN CALL:Distance courses and open research seminar series

Open for application now: Games and Artistic Practices (distance course), Contemporary Arts and Politics (distance course), The Politics and Aesthetics of Hyper-Scales (research seminar series).

Individual Project Work I—Games and Artistic Practices (VSIND1)
This distance course is offered at the undergraduate level, is free for EU nationals, delivered in English, and carries 15 credits (ECTS). It is taught through distance education consisting of online presentations, seminars, practical workshops and supervision. Students develop their own artistic project. The course runs from the beginning of June to the end of August. This year’s teaching team includes Ewa Einhorn, Carina Erdmann, Dr. Karolin Meunier, and Dr. Cathryn Klasto.

The course will explore how game-based thinking can challenge and enrich your artistic practice. The course will support you to develop your own projects (either as an individual or in partnership with other students enrolled on the course). The course is based on online presentations, seminars, and supervision in combination with intensive workshops. What can you, as an artist, do with games? How can game-based thinking challenge and enrich your artistic practice? In this course, you will explore games as a creative method, a form of philosophical experimentation, and an expanding space for expression, particularly for marginalised communities and specific social perspectives. You will examine tools and conceptual approaches from the knowledge field of games and explore how they can be applied—or reinterpreted—across different artistic disciplines.

Please note: You do not need to have previous experience in making games. The course offers an open and experimental way to apply ideas from games and play to your own artistic practice.

Application universityadmissions.se (for international applicants) and via antagning.se (for Swedish applicants). Deadline March 16.

More information on course and application requirements here.

Introduction to Contemporary Arts and Politics (VFSPOL)
This distance course is offered at the undergraduate level, is free for EU nationals, delivered in English, and carries 15 credits (ECTS). The course is delivered in English, blended (i.e., delivered online with optional in-person meet-ups in Sweden, Moldova and Romania). The course is an associated initiative of the Centre for Art and the Political Imaginary (CAPIm) and introduces key political themes and questions in contemporary art practices, theories and institutions. This year’s teaching team includes Dr. Kerry Guinan, Dr. Michele Masucci, Seda Yildiz, Prof. Mick Wilson with special guests as part of our optional intensive in-person meet-ups.

Following on from the success of the 2025 in person meet-up In Between Ourselves this year—we are working again with the partners tranzit.ro/ Iași, 1+1 and Oberliht Association, Chișinău—to bring together artists, curators, activists and researchers for Imagined Organizations: Practices of Artistic Research Moving Across Semiperipheries, Chișinău and Iași, July 22–27. Guests include Charles Esche, Florin Bobu, Livia Pancu, Maria Hlavajova, Minna Henriksson, Stine Herbert, Vitalie Sprînceană, and others.

The course adopts an inquiry-based approach. By considering a range of situations where questions of art and questions of politics intersect, we seek to gradually build a wider model or structural account of relations between these. The course is therefore not premised on a pre-resolved theory of “art and politics”. Instead, it provides a survey of instances, where themes and questions of politics and the political, and of art and the aesthetic, intersect. Among the concepts tested in this inquiry-based approach is that of the political imaginary.

Application universityadmissions.se (for international applicants) and via antagning.se (for Swedish applicants).

More information on course and application requirements here. Deadline March 16.

The Politics and Aesthetics of Hyper-Scales seminar series
Convened by Dr. Kerry Guinan, postdoctoral researcher at CAPIm (and contributor to the Introduction to Contemporary Arts and Politics summer course 2026), this open research seminar series explores how perceptions of scale both structure and limit political imaginaries. Interrogating ‘anthro-phenomenal’ projections of space and time, the series explores the possibillities of critical thought at extreme scales as diverse as those of the planetary and the microbial. The seminar is open to researchers, practitioners and students from all fields and disciplines who have a research interest, or a developing curiosity, in the intersection of politics and beyond-human spatial and temporal scales. Contact Dr. Guinan if you are interested to join the seminar series. Next meeting Friday March 27 at 3:30–5:30pm CET. Contact and schedule here. To learn more about other research seminars and associated courses, please see the CAPIm website.