The Hertz Lab was newly established in 2017. It combines the Institute for Visual Media and the Institute for Music and Acoustics to expand the former fields of activity in close transcultural exchange with international institutes and research establishments and to explore the possibilities of expressing and shaping media and art in an age of accelerating technological progress and digitization. The Hertz Lab operates as a platform for transdisciplinary R & D at the intersection of media arts, science, and society.