F+F Summer School: Heisse Bilder, eisgekühlt

We are surrounded by “hot” images every day: Images that trigger something in us, move us to something, are supposed to prove or illustrate something and are never neutral. At the
Summer School, we cool down these images: We analyze and reflect on them, confront them with questions and look for answers as to how we can react to them. We classify their production methods and how they are disseminated. But not without then raising the operating temperature again and producing hot images ourselves. These will be exhibited as part of an exhibition at COALMINE at the end of August 2025.

We deal with images from art, media, politics and everyday life and are interested in the space between the following opposites: Fact – fiction/ visible – invisible / seduction – control. We will get to know artists, who explore the boundaries between fiction and fact in their work, explore speculative/critical fabulation as a storytelling technique, gain insight into
the work of journalistic picture editors in times of AI and “post-truth”, ask questions about the invisible/visible in images and archives and deal with the seductive power of images on the Internet.