苏黎世大学艺术与文化理论中心（ZKK）将自己视为电影，文学和艺术科学研究人员的协会，希望探索美学过程的文化理论潜力。ZKK的研究人员对艺术的不同观点感兴趣，通过专注于艺术实践的文化理论特征，加强对艺术及其固有的理论潜力的关注。
中心通过停止近几十年来在非艺术对象或过程上测试语言学或媒体美学发现的努力，作为知识、思想或技术历史的档案来理解和处理艺术本身，脱颖而出。采用苏黎世在新理论方面关注主题，材料和过程的传统，并强调其与当前文化科学辩论的相关性。
中心的四个核心领域是隐性和外显性美学、艺术与理论、跨文化研究和跨历史先锋派。研究是否可以以及如何假设艺术中已经发展的隐性和外显性美学的问题，包括人工智能、诗歌、语言学和表演学知识以及经验，探究艺术的文化分析功能以及生产美学、材料图像学的过程知识和实验启发。艺术与理论的交流过程侧重于美学对象和科学理论之间的交换过程，反思科学和艺术。跨文化研究分析艺术和理论在不同文化中如何相互作用，过程中产生的跨文化现象。跨历史先锋派研究的现有潜力在风险、投机、创新和现状。
The Centre for Arts and Cultural Theory (ZKK) at the University of Zurich sees itself as an association of scientific researchers in film, literature and art, hoping to explore the cultural theoretical potential of aesthetic processes. ZKK researchers are interested in different perspectives on the arts, strengthening their focus on art and its inherent theoretical potential by focusing on the culturally theoretical character of artistic practice.
The Center stands out by halting efforts in recent decades to test linguistic or media aesthetic discoveries on non-artistic objects or processes, as an archive of the history of knowledge, ideas, or technology to understand and deal with art itself. Adopt Zurich's tradition of focusing on themes, materials and processes in terms of new theories and emphasizing their relevance to current cultural-scientific debates.
The center's four core areas are implicit and explicit aesthetics, art and theory, cross-cultural studies, and cross-historical avant-garde. Examine whether and how it is possible and how to hypothesize questions about the implicit and explicit aesthetics that have developed in art, including knowledge and experience in artificial intelligence, poetry, linguistics, and performance, exploring the cultural analytical functions of art and the process knowledge and experimental inspiration of production aesthetics and material iconography. The process of communication between art and theory focuses on the process of exchange between aesthetic objects and scientific theories, reflecting on science and art. Cross-cultural studies analyze how art and theory interact in different cultures, and the cross-cultural phenomena that arise in the process. The existing potential for cross-historical avant-garde research is in risk, speculation, innovation and the status quo.