CareerPlan

Professur für Expanded Gaming (m/w/d)

Köln, NORDRHEIN_WESTFALENFull-time2026-10-15 → 2026-11-11

Core

Professorship for Expanded Gaming focusing on interdisciplinary artistic practice, critical and inclusive approaches to games, and research in interactive art and games.

Role type

Senior academic researcher and educator (Professor W2)

Builds

Innovative teaching approaches, student projects, and research in expanded gaming as a technological, aesthetic, and cultural phenomenon

Domain

Art & Technology, Interactive Art, Game Studies

Deliverable

research

Required skills

Interdisciplinary artistic practice, critical and inclusive research, student mentorship, trans/post-disciplinary research, dissemination of work across cultural contexts

Preferred skills

Game-engine based practice, computational media practice, AR/VR/MR, algorithmic aesthetics, AI-driven immersive systems, worldbuilding

Technologies

Game engines, AR, VR, MR, AI systems

Responsibilities

Teaching innovative approaches to expanded gaming, mentoring student projects, conducting research in interactive art and games, disseminating work in live events and exhibitions

Seniority

Senior, academic professor