Kathrin Tillmanns

Kathrin Tillmanns is a Lecturer and researcher at the Department of Design, Peter Behrens School of Arts, Hochschule Düsseldorf. She is actively involved in the institut bild.medien, where she has served in management since 2021, and is a member of the Centre for Digitisation and Digitality (ZDD) since 2022. Her roles include teaching, research, institutional leadership, and peer review.

Her research focuses on imaging processes, particularly technically generated images, and their creation, impact, and reception from media-theoretical and cultural perspectives. She explores the materiality and relationality of images, the aesthetics of shadow, and the evolving human-technology relationship in the digital age.

Kathrin Tillmanns completed her doctorate in 2016 at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf’s Faculty of Philosophy, Institute for Media and Cultural Studies, under Prof. Reinhold Görling and Prof. Angela Krewani. Her dissertation addressed the media aesthetics of shadow.

She has exhibited as an artist since 2003 and contributes to academic governance as a member of several commissions, including the Research and Transfer Commission, DFG reviewer, ombudsperson for good scientific practice, and presidential appointee for appointments.

• Business Manager, institut bild.medien
• Member, Centre for Digitisation and Digitality (ZDD)
• Member, Peter Behrens School of Arts
• Member, Research and Transfer Commission
• Appointments Commissioner (Berufungsbeauftragte)
• Peer Reviewer, DFG
• Ombudsperson for Good Scientific Practice

She teaches in the areas of transdisciplinary image concepts, narrative systems, and hypermedia, contributing to the academic and artistic development of design students.