The Animation Media Creators Region Stuttgart are developing a new initiative on the topic of Artificial Intelligence. Representatives of members of the AMCRS – including Jiayan Chen (SERU Animation), Andreas Hykade and Alexander Kreische (Animationsinstitut, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg), Matthias Drescher (FFL Film- und Fernseh-Labor Ludwigsburg), Maximilian Pfisterer and Willy Löbl (Frischvergiftung), Hans-Martin Schurer (Octomotion) and the AMCRS Manager Stefanie Larson – came together in an initial round of discussions, to exchange ideas and perspectives.
This regularly held open format will focus on topics, developments, and challenges in working with Artificial Intelligence and offer interested participants opportunities for dialogue and further development. Stay tuned – we will keep you updated on upcoming dates.
left to right: Jiayan Chen, Willy Löbl, Matthias Drescher, Andreas Hykade, Alexander Kreische, Hans-Martin Schurer, Stefanie Larson (Photos: Frischvergiftung)
Willy Löbl, Matthias Drescher
Maximilian Pfisterer, Jiayan Chen
Hans-Martin Schurer, Stefanie Larson
July 28, 2025
KUNST. KI. KONTROLLVERLUST: July 31 to August 2, 2025
The opening of KUNST. KI. KONTROLLVERLUST (ART. AI. LOSS OF CONTROL, July 31 to August 2, 2025) will be marked by a showcase on Thursday, July 31, from 17:00 CET, titled KUNST. KI. KREATION(ART. AI. CREATION). The exhibition will feature, among other works, interactive and audiovisual pieces by students of Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg’s Animationsinstitut, including the immersive AI installation “LIMBO,” which explores memory in the digital age. Additional graduation projects such as “Sensual,” based on hundreds of hand-painted watercolors, and “Gaïa,” which artistically envisions a planet-body inhabited by humans, address the theme of corporeality in visually powerful ways. The program is complemented by “UTOPIKUM,” a project by the creative lab Tinkertank, which invites visitors to actively co-create visions of the future on the Franck Areal.
On Friday, August 1, from 16:00 CET, the focus shifts to the intersection of art, technology, and entrepreneurship. Under the title KUNST. KI. KOMMERZ(ART. AI. COMMERCE), creatives, start-ups, and interested participants will gather for the “Meet-up der kreativen Intelligenz.“ During an open stage format, students, artists, and start-ups will present their projects. Guided tours of the showcase will follow. Registration for KUNST. KI. KOMMERZ is requested here.
On Saturday, August 2, from 16:00 CET, the event KUNST. KI. KAFFEE(ART. AI. COFFEE) invites visitors to participate and explore. Guided tours of the exhibitions offer deeper insights into the media art projects on display. The groups “Drink & Draw Ludwigsburg” and “Drink & Draw Stuttgart” will gather for drawing sessions and urban sketching in the industrial setting of the venue. An open discussion format titled “Auf einen Kaffee mit der KI“ will provide space to talk about artificial intelligence, the public sphere, and the future – approachable, understandable, and open to diverse perspectives.
The exhibited projects LIMBO, Sensual, Gaïa, and UTOPIKUM will be open to the public on all three days. No registration is required for KUNST. KI. KONTROLLVERLUST, and admission is free.
Venue: Franck-Areal, Pflugfelder Str. 31, 71636 Ludwigsburg
KUNST. KI. KONTROLLVERLUST is a joint project by the Fachbereich Kunst und Kultur der Stadt Ludwigsburg, the Wirtschaftsförderung Stadt Ludwigsburg, and the Animationsinstitut of the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg.
July 13, 2025
Unreal Engine MegaMeetup #9 with b.Rex on July, 23
Our CREATORS from b.ReX host the official “MegaMeetup” of the Unreal Engine community every three months. This format brings together professionals, beginners and industries that work with the Unreal Engine from Epic Games. In addition to keynote speeches on current topics, participants can also present and network on their own projects while enjoying food and drinks.
The Unreal Engine MegaMeetup #9 – Special Edition: Bullseye & Barcade (powered by b.ReX & supported by “Creative Connection / NEW STUTTGART“) takes place on Wednesday, July 23, 2025, at Bullseye Axtwerfen, Neckargartacher Str. 111, 74080 Heilbronn. Play with brand-new Unreal exhibits and demo your own project live on the Open Stage – instant feedback and applause guaranteed. The program includes the talk “AI Avatars as a New Form of Communication”. For founders & entrepreneurs, marketing leads, Unreal dev pros & newcomers, students – in short, anyone working with or seriously interested in Unreal Engine.
‘Is AI intelligent?’ is the question posed by internationally renowned AI researcher Bernhard Schölkopf in his keynote at the first edition of the Innovationslabor Zukunft (Innovation Lab Future). From May 28 to June 1, 2025, Schauspiel Stuttgart will transform the Kammertheater into a theatrical AI laboratory with 30 events.
Can an AI direct a play? Can AI help us overcome death? How does a human move in the metaverse? Human and machine – who is programming whom? Is AI emotional? With the help of experts such as Ranga Yogeshwar, Oscar winner Jan Pinkava (head of Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg’s Animationsinstitut), theatrical performance projects (by Wilke Weermann, Florian Etti, Alessa Bollack, and Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart), workshops by La Fura dels Baus, and performances by Rimini Protokoll, the festival explores complex questions about the future of artificial intelligence and society.
With the Innovationslabor Zukunft, Schauspiel Stuttgart creates a space for exciting encounters, diverse presentations, discussion formats, and keynotes featuring experts from science, business, the arts, and philosophy. Encounters with a humanoid robot, Kenza Ait Si Abbou, Ars Electronica Director Veronica Liebl, ZKM Director Alistair Hudson, film producer Nico Hofmann, Prof. Dr. Judith Simon (member of the Deutscher Ethikrat), Minister Petra Olschowski, producer and pianist Roberto Di Gioia, and many more. SWR Kultur will produce four live broadcasts/podcasts – including from the Kammertheater.
AI becomes tangible and experiential: AI live on stage, AI-driven live music production, AI in film, and actors performing live in the Metaverse.
In cooperation with SWR Kultur, Hochschule der Medien, Media Solution Center Baden-Württemberg, HLRS, ZKM Karlsruhe, EIT Culture and Creativity, ICE Innovation by Creative Economy, Akademie für Darstellende Kunst Baden-Württemberg
Jobs at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg’s Animationsinstitut
The Animationsinstitut is part of the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg and one of the world’s leading training institutions for Animation, Visual Effects, Technical Directing, Animation/Effects Producing and Interactive Media.
They currently have the following job vacancies:
Coordinator Artificial Intelligence (m/f/d) as of July 1, 2025 or as soon as possible. Full-time (39.5 hours/week), limited to 2 years.
Tasks:
Consulting and strategic development of teaching and organization
Central point of contact for students, teachers and staff for all AI topics
Collaboration with research projects of the R&D Department and our Animationsinstitut especially in the area of fair and sustainable AI use
Building and maintaining networks with regional and international AI partners
Support in selecting, implementing and prioritizing AI projects
Assistant to the Head of Institute (m/f/d), full-time (39.5 h), for a period of two years.
Tasks:
Facilitating communication between the Head of Institute, commercial management and teaching, as well as the lecturers and students of the Animationsinstitut
General secretarial and assistant tasks, correspondence, telephone and reception
Translation DE-EN and EN-DE
Travel and meeting coordination for the Head of the Institute
Coordination, preparation and follow-up of meetings and presentations in German and English
Travel bookings and other organizational activities for the Head of the Institute, staff and students
“Narrative of the Future – Future of the Narrative” – Lecture Series / Salon Orange Summer Semester 2025 at the Merz Akademie
How do we tell stories about the future? How will we tell stories in the future? And what role will AI play in all of this?
These are the questions that professors of the Merz Akademie and their guests will explore over the course of five evenings in the Salon Orange – each with a unique focus on different media. The series is curated by Dr. Barbara M. Eggert, Rector of the Merz Akademie and comics scholar.
Merz Akademie, Teckstraße 58, 70190 Stuttgart / May 13 to July 1, 2025, every Tuesday, 18:15 CET
Overview of the lectures:
May 13, 2025, 18:15 CET„Grafikdesign“ with Isabel Seiffert and Joost Bottema
May 20, 2025, 18:15 CET„Games und VR/AR“ with Jasmin Sibel and Mario Doulis
June 17, 2025, 18:15 CET„Media Art“ with Johannes P. Osterhoff and Olia Lialina
June 24, 2025, 18:15 CET„Film“ with Cem Kaya and Peter Ott
July 1, 2025, 18:15 CET„Comics“ with Stefan Dinter and Barbara M. Eggert
The Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg invites you to the symposium INPUT/OUTPUT – Impulses, Exchange, Story Market on April 7 and 8, 2025.
This two-day event combines an impulse session (Input) with a story market (Output), providing a platform for exchange between technology and film. The focus will be on the highly relevant and forward-thinking topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
The symposium will take place at the Caligari Cinema of the Filmakademie in Ludwigsburg and is open to students, alumni, external guests, and students from other film schools. Its goal is to foster dialogue and initiate collaborative projects.
The event will be moderated by Gerhard Maier, Artistic Director of the Seriencamp Festival & Conference.
Participation is free of charge, and the symposium will be conducted primarily in English. Pitching sessions will take place in both German and English.
The AI coordinator (m/f/d) is the central point of contact for the entire FABW on all topics related to artificial intelligence. He/she should act as a central advisor, multiplier and mediator for AI topics. He/she should stay up to date with established, new and emerging toolsets as well as the latest trends in AI and be able to contextualize them in terms of their impact on media production, evaluate them in terms of ethical and legal standards, and integrate them accordingly into the FABW’s production pipelines.
Responsibilities (among others):
Central point of contact for AI topics at the FABW
Advising on adapting teaching methods and curricula to maintain relevance in a media industry that uses artificial intelligence in production
Close collaboration with research activities of the R&D department and AI-related projects at the FABW and Animationsinstitut in particular with regard to fair and sustainable use of AI
Initiation of regional (IPAI, AI Alliance, Cyber Valley…) and international contacts with relevant AI initiatives to address the needs of the FABW and enable potential future collaborations
CREATORS presents: Transformative Technologies Part 1 – Spatial Computing
Event Tip – CREATORS presents: Transformative Technologies Part 1 – Spatial Computing
Hello, Tech Enthusiasts!
We invite you to an exciting, exclusive event where we’ll explore how Spatial Computing technology is reshaping our reality, with a focus on existing industrial use cases, presented by Max Schmierer from b.ReX. Afterwards, Stefan Wenzfrom Nvidia will showcase the latest developments in Artificial Intelligence and explain how this technology is set to impact virtual worlds, businesses, and the economy. You’ll also get the chance to try out the Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest 3!
Don’t miss this event if you want to stay ahead of the curve!
Event: Date: Tuesday, October 15,2024, 17:30 to 20:30 CET Location: b. ReX GmbH, Reinsburgstraße 96/1, 70197 Stuttgart
June 22, 2024
Pre-Fixe with Animation Lounge: KI in der Animationsproduktion
Together with the Film- und Medienfestival gGmbH (organizer of Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film) and the AMCRS, MFG organizes the Pre Fixe with Animation Lounge as a prelude to the monthly network meeting of the film industry (Jour Fixe). Speakers from the animation film scene present practical examples of current projects and provide insights into their work.
On July 8, 18:00 CET, Maximilian Pfisterer, communication designer (FH) / co-owner of our CREATORS from Frischvergiftung will give a presentation on the topic of “KI in der Animationsproduktion” (“AI in animation production”).
Maximilian Pfisterer
Frischvergiftung from Stuttgart is already successfully using imaging AI in its workflows. In projection mappings to completely transform existing buildings, to create visuals for music festivals or in collaboration with Andreas Hykade to generate morphings between given artworks. On July 8, the studio will provide some insights and give some keywords to get started yourself.
Maximilian Pfisterer radicalized himself as a VJ with his friend and partner Willy Löbl in the Stuttgart club scene and shortly afterwards switched from print to film. That was a while ago and Frischvergiftung has since become a flourishing animation studio.
The Jour Fixe offers a unique opportunity for exchange and networking with colleagues from the MFG Film Funding Unit. All participants are cordially invited to attend the subsequent Jour Fixe from 19:00 CET.
The event will take place at the Kulturzentrum Merlin, Augustenstraße 72, 70178 Stuttgart. Admission is free.
