author – meson press

Johanna Drucker

Inga Luchs — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:40:01 +0000

Johanna Drucker is Distinguished Professor and Breslauer Professor Emerita, Department of Information Studies at UCLA. Her latest book is Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present.

Fabian Offert

Inga Luchs — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:36:27 +0000

Fabian Offert is assistant professor of the history and theory of the digital humanities and director of the Center for the Humanities and Machine Learning at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Leonardo Impett

Inga Luchs — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:35:16 +0000

Leonardo Impett is leader of the machine visual culture research group at the Bibliotheca Hertziana–Max Planck Institute for Art History, and assistant professor of digital humanities at the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge.

Markus Rautzenberg

Inga Luchs — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 11:27:55 +0000

Markus Rautzenberg is Professor of Philosophy at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany. He studied German and philosophy and, in 2000, obtained his Ph.D. in philosophy with a thesis on ‘sign–interference–materiality’. This was followed by a post-doc research scholarship in the ‘InterArt’ Research Training Group, and a subsequent position as research associate at the Institute of Philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin. In the years 2011–2014, he led the ‘Evocation: On the Non-Visual Power of Images’ project, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). His main fields of research include media theory, picture theory, theory and aesthetics of digital media and game studies.

Katrin Köppert

Inga Luchs — Mon, 25 May 2026 09:27:06 +0000

Katrin Köppert ist Juniorprofessor*in für Kunstgeschichte/populäre Kulturen an der Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig. Derzeit vertritt sie die Professur Medientheorien am Institut für Kulturwissenschaft und Medienwissenschaft der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Jennifer Eickelmann

Inga Luchs — Mon, 25 May 2026 09:26:20 +0000

Jennifer Eickelmann ist Juniorprofessorin für Digitale Transformation in Kultur und Gesellschaft an der Fakultät für Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften sowie dem fakultätsübergreifenden Forschungsschwerpunkt digitale_kultur an der FernUniversität in Hagen.

Masha Salazkina

Andreas Kirchner — Sat, 09 May 2026 20:38:35 +0000

Masha Salazkina teaches at Concordia University, Montreal. She is the author of In Excess: Sergei Eisenstein’s Mexico (2009), World Socialist Cinema: Alliances, Affinities and Solidarities in the Global Cold War (2023), and Romancing Yesenia: How a Mexican Melodrama Shaped Popular Culture (2024), and co-editor of Sound Speech Music in Russian and Soviet Cinema (2015), Global Approaches to Amateur Film Histories and Cultures (2021) and Teaching Migration in Literature, Film, and Media (2025). Most recently she has co-edited, with Matthew Croombs, a volume Cinemas of Global Solidarity (2026), and with Dalila Missero, a special issue of Feminist Media Histories on Gender, Media, and Developmentalism.

Didi Cheeka

Andreas Kirchner — Sat, 09 May 2026 20:11:59 +0000

Didi Cheeka is the artistic director of Decasia – Berlin-Lagos Archival Film Festival. He is co-founder and curator of Lagos Film Society – an alternative cinema centre dedicated to founding Nigeria’s first arthouse cinema. Didi is currently engaged in digitizing and researching Nigeria’s rediscovered colonial and post-war (1967-70) audiovisual archives.

Imme Klages

Andreas Kirchner — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:21:15 +0000

Imme Klages is a postdoctoral researcher in Film Studies at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz and former co-project leader of the DFG-funded project Mapping German Film Exile (2021–2025). Her research focuses on the exile of German-speaking filmmakers (1930–1950), remigration and postwar cinema, digital film historiography, and transnational networks.

Leif Weatherby

Andreas Kirchner — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:03:32 +0000

Leif Weatherby is associate professor of German and director of the Digital Theory Lab at New York University. He is author of Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism.

Matthew Handelman

Andreas Kirchner — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:00:41 +0000

Matthew Handelman is associate professor of German and interim director of digital humanities at Michigan State University. He is author of The Mathematical Imagination: On the Origins and Promise of Critical Theory.

Alexander R. Galloway

Andreas Kirchner — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:57:37 +0000

Alexander R. Galloway is a writer and computer programmer working on issues in philosophy, technology, and theories of mediation. He is author of several books on digital media and critical theory, including Uncomputable: Play and Politics in the Long Digital Age.

M. Beatrice Fazi

Andreas Kirchner — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:51:16 +0000

M. Beatrice Fazi is a philosopher working on computation, technology, and media. She is associate professor of digital humanities at the University of Sussex and author of Contingent Computation: Abstraction, Experience, and Indeterminacy in Computational Aesthetics.

Bernhard Siegert

Inga Luchs — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 18:32:20 +0000

Bernhard Siegert was from 2001 until 2025 Gerd Bucerius Professor for the History and Theory of Cultural Techniques at Bauhaus Universität Weimar. From 2008 to 2020 he was co-director of the International Research Center for Cultural Techniques and Media Philosophy at Weimar (IKKM). From 2021 until 2025 he led the project “The New Real—Past, Present, and Future of Computation and the Ecologization of Cultural Techniques” funded by the NOMIS Foundation. Siegert has held numerous visiting professorships and scholarships at (among others) UC Santa Barbara, New York University, University of British Columbia, Stockholm University, University of Cambridge, Freie Universität Berlin, and Harvard University. His most recent book is FINAL FRONTIERS. Eine Medienarchäologie des Meeres (Fink/Brill 2024, an English translation is forthcoming with University of Chicago Press in 2026).

Benedikt Merkle

Inga Luchs — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 18:30:56 +0000

Benedikt Merkle is a researcher at the institute for media studies and a member of the CRC 1567 “Virtual Lifeworlds” at Ruhr-University Bochum. He completed his doctoral project on the media-history and aesthetics of digitally networked objects and internet technology at Bauhaus-University Weimar. He held positions as scientific coordinator at the CRC 1187 “Media of Cooperation” at the University of Siegen and as a researcher within the NOMIS Project “The New Real” at Bauhaus-University Weimar. In 2023, he was a visiting researcher at UC Santa Barbara on a Fulbright scholarship.

Felix Hasebrink

Inga Luchs — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:29:52 +0000

Felix Hasebrink is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for Media Studies at Ruhr-University Bochum and a principal investigator of the DFG-funded research group “Infrastructure: Aesthetics and Supply.” He published his dissertation on the aesthetics of film production in contemporary “making-of” documentaries with transcript in 2024. His current research focuses on cinematic aesthetics of infrastructure, audiovisual media and physical remains, and the history and theory of animation.

Dorothea Walzer

Inga Luchs — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:17:57 +0000

Dr. Dorothea Walzer ist seit November 2015 wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für Germanistik der Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Zuvor war sie wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Germanistischen Institut der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin und Redakteurin der Zeitschrift Archiv für Mediengeschichte. Als Fellow des Elsa-Neumann-Stipendiums promovierte sie zu Alexander Kluge im Rahmen des Graduiertennetzwerks PhD-Net: Das Wissen der Literatur an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin und der Princeton University (2009/2010). Ein Forschungsaufenthalt an der Cornell University (2025) konzentrierte sich auf den Lu Märten Reader „Classless Forms“, der 2027 (zusammen mit Prof. Dr. Mari Jarris) bei Cornell University Press erscheinen wird. Ihre Habilitationsschrift über das Interview als literarische Form wird derzeit eingereicht.

Helena Durnová

Marcus Burkhardt — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 07:24:48 +0000

Helena Durnová teaches history of mathematics and computing as well as a course on history of science and technology at Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia. She has written on history of computing in Czechoslovakia in the 1950s and 1960s, including early programming practices there. She is interested in the intimate connections at the intersection of computing, mathematics, and language. She is also working on history of mathematics education in Czechoslovakia and together with Petra Antošová, Danny Beckers, Snezana Lawrence, is preparing the book A History of Mathematics Education in Czechoslovakia. Ideologies and Practices. to be published in the Springer series History of Mathematics Education.

Arianna Borrelli

Marcus Burkhardt — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 07:23:29 +0000

Arianna Borrelli is a historian and philosopher of natural philosophy and modern science working at the Käte-Hamburger-Kolleg “Cultures of Research,” RWTH Aachen, where her research focuses on reconstructing the variety of cultures of computer-aided research. She has a special interest for the interplay of scientific knowing and the tools mediating it and has worked on medieval mathematical cosmology, early modern meteorology and mechanics, as well as quantum theories from their early days up to the present. She is currently President of the DHST/DLMPST Commission for History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC) and her recent publications include: A. Hocquet, F. Wieber, G. Gramelsberger, A. Borrelli et al. 2024. Software in science is ubiquitous yet overlooked. Nature Computational Science 4: 465–8; A. Borrelli. 2023. Aristotelianism, Chymistry and Mechanics in Early Seventeenth-century Europe. In: D. Verardi (ed.). Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe, Bloomsbury, 105–44.

Lisa Schreiber

Marcus Burkhardt — Sat, 24 May 2025 06:10:08 +0000

Lisa Schreiber hat Kulturwissenschaften an der Europa-Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder und Medienkultur an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar studiert. 2021 hat sie an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum mit einer Arbeit zur Vermessung der Gefühle mit dem Facial Action Coding System (FACS) und dem Affective Computing promoviert. Das Buch ist bei meson press erschienen.

Clara Podlesnigg

Andreas Kirchner — Fri, 09 May 2025 22:11:28 +0000

Clara Podlesnigg is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in Digital Film Cultures at Goethe University Frankfurt. Her dissertation, written as part of the Research Training Program “Configurations of Film”, focuses on holograms and promises of technology in the context of digital platforms. She is a section editor for the journal Open Cultural Studies. Her research interests span everyday cultures, celebrity studies, educational media, gender and technology.

Fadekemi Olawoye

Andreas Kirchner — Fri, 09 May 2025 22:09:16 +0000

Fadekemi Olawoye is a doctoral candidate in the Graduate Research Training Program “Configurations of Film” at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. She holds a Master’s degree in Performance Studies from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Language from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. Her research interests include Nollywood studies, costume and makeup, identity formations, and African popular culture.

Kerim Doğruel

Andreas Kirchner — Fri, 09 May 2025 22:06:46 +0000

Kerim Doğruel is a former member of the “Configurations of Film” Research Training Program. His research is concerned with the materiality of electronic and digital media media theory, and game studies. He has written and taught about on- and off-screen crystals in computer games, circuit board cities and the rhetoric of architectural models, and is currently working on the design and uses of media technologies in prisons.

Birgit Schneider

Inga Luchs — Fri, 09 May 2025 09:26:03 +0000

Birgit Schneider ist Kultur- und Medienwissenschaftlerin und lehrt als Professorin an der Universität Potsdam. Ihre Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind Bilder und Wahrnehmungsweisen des Klimas zwischen Wissenschaft, Politik, Kunst und Medien, die Kommunikation des Klimawandels, Bilder der Ökologie sowie medien und naturästhetische Fragen. Ihre jüngsten Publikationen sind Global Forest Visualization: From Green Marbles to Storyworlds, gemeinsam mit Lynda C. Olman (2024), Der Anfang einer neuen Welt: Wie wir vom Klimawandel erzählen, ohne zu verstummen (2023), und Klimabilder: Eine Genealogie globaler Bildpolitiken von Klima und Klimawandel (2018).

Eva Horn

Inga Luchs — Fri, 09 May 2025 09:24:01 +0000

Eva Horn ist Professorin für Neuere deutsche Literatur und Kulturtheorie am Institut für Germanistik der Universität Wien. Ihre aktuellen Forschungsthemen sind Literatur und Wissensgeschichte, Ökologie, historische Naturkonzepte und Fragen einer Ästhetik des Anthropozäns. Zusammen mit Hannes Bergthaller hat sie Anthropozän: Zur Einführung (2019) publiziert. Jüngst von ihr erschienen ist Klima: Eine Wahrnehmungsgeschichte (2024).

Jörg Dünne

Inga Luchs — Fri, 09 May 2025 09:22:49 +0000

Jörg Dünne ist Professor für Romanische Literaturen an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Zu seinen Forschungsschwerpunkten gehören das Verhältnis von Literatur und Räumlichkeit, Katastrophismus und Spektakularität, Human-Animal Studies sowie Fluviale Ästhetiken. Ausgewählte jüngere Publikationen: Quiltrologie: Kontaktszenen zwischen Straßenhunden und Menschen in der chilenischen Literatur und Kultur (2025, i.V.); Estéticas de la tierra en América latina: literatura, cine, arte (2024, hg. mit Jenny Haase); Kosmogramme: Geohistorische Skalierungen romanischer Literaturen (2019).

Judith Siegmund

Inga Luchs — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 15:16:03 +0000

Judith Siegmund ist Professorin für philosophische Ästhetik an der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Ästhetische Theorie, Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie und Kunstsoziologie, insbesondere Produktionsästhetik und Handlungstheorie.

Natascha Adamowsky

Inga Luchs — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 15:15:04 +0000

Natascha Adamowsky ist Professorin für Medienkulturwissenschaft an der Universität Passau. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Medienästhetik, Kulturwissenschaftliche Digitalitätsforschung, medienwissenschaftliche Spielkulturforschung, aktuell Spielzeuge und Spielplätze.

Anna Polze

Inga Luchs — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 15:04:38 +0000

Anna Polze ist Medien- und Kulturwissenschaftlerin. Sie arbeitet derzeit am SFB „Virtuelle Lebenswelten“ der Ruhr-Universität Bochum im Teilprojekt „Virtuelle Streitwelten. Foren und Tribunalisierungsdynamiken“. Ihre Promotion erfolgte im Rahmen des DFG-Graduiertenkollegs „Das Dokumentarische. Exzess und Entzug“ an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum im Jahr 2024. Anna Polze studierte Medienkultur und Kulturwissenschaft in Weimar und Berlin sowie in Lyon und Paris. Sie ist Mitglied der Redaktion der Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft (ZfM). Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind: Digitale (Bewegt-)Bildkulturen, Forensische Medien und Evidenzverfahren (Forensic Architecture), Medien der Migration, Ausstellungen.

Birgit Mersmann

Inga Luchs — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 14:57:02 +0000

Birgit Mersmann ist Kunst-, Bild und Literaturwissenschaftlerin. Seit 2023 hat sie die Professur für Zeitgenössische Kunst und Digitale Bildkulturen am Kunsthistorischen Institut der Universität Bonn inne. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen in den Bereichen Bild- und Medientheorie, Schriftbildlichkeit, Geschichte und Theorie der Fotografie, westliche und ostasiatische Kunst der Moderne und Gegenwart, globale Kunstgeschichte, Kunst und Migration, Transkulturalität und Transmedialität.

Hauke Ohls

Inga Luchs — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 14:55:56 +0000

Hauke Ohls ist Postdoktorand am Lehrstuhl für Zeitgenössische Kunst und Digitale Bildkulturen der Universität Bonn. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen in der modernen und zeitgenössischen Kunst, insbesondere der ökologischen und posthumanen Ästhetik, dem Diskurs um Objekt, Materialität und Bild sowie dem Verhältnis von Kunst und Ökonomie.

Jana Zündel

Inga Luchs — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:55:17 +0000

Jana Zündel is a postdoctoral fellow in the Graduate Research Training Program “Configurations of Film” at Goethe University Frankfurt. Her research focuses on moving images in meme studies, digital media culture(s), television studies and seriality. She holds an MA and a PhD in Media Studies from the University of Bonn. Her dissertation examined television and serial paratexts, i.e. title sequences, recaps and outros, as indicators of media cultural change. It was published in 2022 under the title “Fernsehserien im medienkulturellen Wandel”. Jana Zündel is a member of the editorial board for the journal Montage AV and spokesperson for the work group “Television” (German Society for Media Studies, GfM).

Zoe Sofoulis

Andreas Kirchner — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 06:44:51 +0000

Zoë Sofoulis, from the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University, is a retired interdisciplinary researcher with a longstanding interest in the myths and symbols of high-tech culture. Her earlier writings (under the name Zoë Sofia) focussed on science fiction, cyberculture, and electronic arts. She is more recently known for practical applications of qualitative cultural research and humanities perspectives in fields where technology and engineering predominate, especially urban water, where her papers have helped define a cultural and sociotechnical perspective on metropolitan water and demand management. When strangers ask if she has had children, Zoë is proud to say “No, but I’ve had postgraduates,” some of whom are contributors to this book.

Hannah Schmedes

Andreas Kirchner — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 06:41:36 +0000

Hannah Schmedes is a PhD candidate in Gender Media Studies at Ruhr-University Bochum. She is a researcher in the project “Bicycle Media. Cooperative Media of Mobility” at the University of Siegen and an associate member of the graduate program “The Documentary” at the Ruhr-University Bochum. Her dissertation on queerfeminist infrastructure critique explores how gender politics are coded into infrastructures and platforms. “Containing: Leaks” was the topic of her M.A. in European Media Studies at the University of Potsdam, which followed a B.A. in Cultural Studies and Philosophy at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg. She is part of the feminist collective Wiki Riot Squad, where she has led writing workshops on Wikipedia’s publishing and interface policies. Recent talks and publications have explored themes of porosity, leakiness, and witchcraft in relation to gender and infrastructure.

Ingrid Richardson

Andreas Kirchner — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 06:30:52 +0000

Ingrid Richardson is Professor of Digital Media in the School of Media & Communication at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. She is a digital ethnographer and phenomenologist with a broad interest in the human–technology relation and mediated embodiment, and the application of innovative research methods in these contexts. She is co-author of Ambient Play (MIT Press, 2020), Exploring Minecraft (2020), Understanding Games and Game Cultures (Sage, 2021), and Bodies and Mobile Media (Polity, 2023).

Lucy Suchman

Andreas Kirchner — Sat, 25 May 2024 10:51:36 +0000

Lucy Suchman is professor emerita in the anthropology of science and technology at Lancaster University, UK. Her most recent article on military imaginaries of AI-enabled warfighting was published in the journal Social Studies of Science.

Théo Lepage-Richer

Andreas Kirchner — Sat, 25 May 2024 10:47:34 +0000

Théo Lepage-Richer is a UTM postdoctoral fellow in the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology at the University of Toronto. His last piece on government organization and artificial intelligence was published in Big Data & Society.

Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal

Andreas Kirchner — Sat, 25 May 2024 10:41:15 +0000

Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal is Ruth and Paul Idzik Collegiate Chair in Digital Scholarship and assistant professor of English and film, television, and theater at the University of Notre Dame. His research—which spans media theory, science and technology studies, and literary criticism—has appeared in Critical Inquiry, Configurations, and Design Issues.

Nikolaus Poechhacker

Marcus Burkhardt — Thu, 02 May 2024 09:05:11 +0000

Nikolaus Poechhacker is Post-Doc senior scientist at the Digital Age Research Center (D!ARC), University of Klagenfurt and research fellow at the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation of Law, University of Vienna. He received his PhD in Sociology at the Technical University of Munich. In his work he researches the relationship between democratic institutions, law, social order, and algorithmic systems in various domains, bringing together perspectives from media theory, STS, computer science, and sociology.

Katia Schwerzmann

Marcus Burkhardt — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 06:58:46 +0000

Katia Schwerzmann ist Philosophin. Nachdem sie ihr Studium in Philosophie, Romanistik und Germanistik an der Université de Lausanne absolvierte, promovierte sie 2016 an der Freien Universität Berlin in Philosophie mit der Arbeit Theorie des graphischen Feldes (Diaphanes, 2020). Sie ist derzeit wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im Projekt Interact! an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Davor war sie Postdoktorandin am DFG-Graduiertenkolleg Medienanthropologie an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Von 2017 bis 2020 war sie Visiting Scholar an der University of Pennsylvania, UC Santa Cruz und Duke University. Sie schreibt derzeit ihre zweite Monografie, Toward a Hauntology of Touch, in der sie anhand des Begriffs der Berührung kulturtechnische Operationen erkundet, die den Kontakt zwischen Körpern gestalten und Formen der Sozialität bestimmen, die von Unterwerfung, Ausbeutung und Enteignung geprägt sind. In diesen Überlegungen spielt die aktuelle algorithmische Rationalität eine zentrale Rolle.

Nathalie Schäfer

Marcus Burkhardt — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 06:57:59 +0000

Nathalie Schäfer ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin und Doktorandin am DFG-Graduiertenkolleg Medienanthropologie an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Sie studierte Kunst, Musik und Medien (B.A.) an der Philipps-Universität Marburg und der Université de Poitiers. Im Anschluss erfolgte das trinationale Masterstudium European Film and Media Studies als Stipendiatin der DFH an der Université Lumière Lyon II, der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar und der Universiteit Utrecht (2019). Seit 2020 arbeitet sie an ihrer Dissertation zu Fame Enhancing Bots, in der sie eine Beschreibung der Praktik des Bottings als medienanthropologische Szene offeriert, die verschränkte Existenzweisen von Botter:innen und Algorithmen aufdeckt und die Plattform Instagram als digitales Milieu oder virtuelle Lebenswelt sowie Prozesse und Operationen analysiert, die durch die digitale Infrastruktur der Plattform die Potentialität für diese Existenzweise bereit stellen.

Gereon Rahnfeld

Marcus Burkhardt — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 06:56:18 +0000

Gereon Rahnfeld ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter und Doktorand an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar und forscht zu den Themen Expert:innen und Expertise im Bereich der Wissenssoziologie und der STS. Bevor er Teil des DFG-Graduiertenkollegs Medienanthropologie wurde, arbeitete er für den Verein Liquid Democracy. Er studierte Rechtswissenschaft, Kulturwissenschaften und European Studies in Hamburg, Prag, Leipzig und London.

Martin Kallmeyer

Marcus Burkhardt — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 06:54:52 +0000

Martin Kallmeyer ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am DFG-Graduiertenkolleg Medienanthropologie an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Er studierte Sozialwissenschaften und Gender Studies in Hannover, Bielefeld und Berlin und war wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Bereich Gender & Science der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Stipendiat des Exzellenzclusters “Bild Wissen Gestaltung” und Elsa-Neumann-Stipendiat des Landes Berlin. Seine Forschung zu “experimental medianatures” befasst sich mit den biodigitalen Operationsketten und Relationierungsweisen biotechnischer Experimente.

Gabriel Geffert

Marcus Burkhardt — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 06:54:08 +0000

Gabriel Geffert studierte Kunstgeschichte sowie Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften an der Technischen Universität Dresden und der Université Sorbonne Paris IV. Nachdem er sein durch das Deutschlandstipendium gefördertes Studium ausgezeichnet mit der Victor-Klemperer-Urkunde der Technischen Universität Dresden abgeschlossen hatte, arbeitete er primär als freier Mitarbeiter des Archivs der Avantgarden (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden) im Projekt Digitalisierung und Neustrukturierung der Sammlung Egidio Marzona. Aktuell ist er wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am DFG-Graduiertenkolleg Medienanthropologie an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar und promoviert in diesem Rahmen zum Topos des Films als Rausch.

Jasmin Degeling

Marcus Burkhardt — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 06:49:30 +0000

Jasmin Degeling ist Juniorprofessor*in für Medienanthropologie an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind Medien der Sorge, Gender und Queer Studies, Biopolitik, Politische Affekte sowie (Digitaler) Faschismus.

Charlotte Bolwin

Marcus Burkhardt — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 06:48:27 +0000

Charlotte Bolwin ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Lehrstuhl für Digitale Kulturen der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar und Doktorandin am DFG-Graduiertenkolleg Medienanthropologie. Sie studierte Kultur- und Literaturwissenschaft sowie Mediensoziologie in Berlin und Paris und war studentische Mitarbeiterin am Exzellenzcluster Bild Wissen Gestaltung und am Lehrstuhl für Kultur- und Technikgeschichte am Institut für Kulturwissenschaft der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In ihrem Dissertationsprojekt untersucht sie die Bedeutung und Transformation von Materialität und materiellen Relationen in den techno/ästhetischen Gefügen digitaler Medienkunst. Ihre Forschungsinteressen umfassen Technikphilosophie, Kunsttheorie und Medienästhetik, (Medien-)ökologie und Neue Materialismen.

Giselle Beiguelman

Andreas Kirchner — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 11:32:50 +0000

Giselle Beiguelman is an artist and associate professor in the faculty of architecture, urbanism, and design at the University of São Paulo. She is the author of Políticas da Imagem: Vigilância e Resistência na Dadosfera Politics (Politics of the image: surveillance and resistance in the datasphere), among others. Her artistic works are part of museum collections in Brazil and abroad, including ZKM (Germany), Jewish Museum Berlin, and Pinacoteca de São Paulo.

Melody Devries

Andreas Kirchner — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 11:29:05 +0000

Melody Devries is a PhD candidate and digital ethnographer at Toronto Metropolitan University studying how users construct
political worlds online. She is coeditor of Rise of the Far-Right: Technologies of Recruitment and Mobilization, has recently published in the Canadian Journal of Communication, and is currently editing a special issue with Big Data & Society.

Winnie Soon

Andreas Kirchner — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 11:26:58 +0000

Winnie Soon is an artist and course leader/senior lecturer at Creative Computing Institute, University of the Arts London, as well as associate professor at Aarhus University. Their latest coauthored books are Aesthetic Programming: A Handbook of Software Studies and Fix My Code, intersecting critical art and technology practices.

Magdalena Tyzlik-Carver

Andreas Kirchner — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 11:22:41 +0000

Magdalena Tyzlik-Carver is associate professor of digital communication and culture in the Department of Digital Design and Information Studies at Aarhus University and curator of digital art and design. Her recent curatorial projects include the exhibitions Fermenting Data: Aarhus 8000-8220 (2021) and Screenshots: Desire and Automated Image (2019). She is coeditor of Executing Practices.

Alena Strohmaier

Andreas Kirchner — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 09:29:53 +0000

Alena Strohmaier ist gegenwärtig Vertretungsprofessorin für Filmwissenschaft an der Universität Paderborn. Davor war sie Projektleiterin des BMBF-Forschungsprojekts „Filmische Aneignungsprozesse von Videos der populären Aufstandsbewegungen 2009–11 im Mittleren Osten und Nordafrika“ (2019–2023) und wissenschaftliche Koordinatorin des BMBF-Forschungsnetzwerks „Rekonfigurationen: Geschichte, Erinnerung und Transformationsprozesse im Mittleren Osten und Nordafrika“ (2013–2019; beides Philipps-Universität Marburg).

Clemens Winkler

Marcus Burkhardt — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 06:57:25 +0000

Clemens Winkler is a postdoctoral design researcher at the Cluster of Excellence “Matters of Activity. Image Space Material” at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His work relates environmental concerns with social, scientific and technological development. By questioning atmospheric control with its epistemic foundations and institutional affiliations, he, for example, puts clouds into boxes to show what cannot be contained and therefore explores the human obsession with controlling the environment. Opening up participatory and playful frameworks through material transitions becoming intellectual and intimate markers led to his current position as visiting professor for the MA studio “Spiel und Objekt” at the University of Theatre Arts Ernst Busch Berlin.

Léa Perraudin

Marcus Burkhardt — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 06:56:09 +0000

Léa Perraudin is a postdoctoral researcher at the Cluster of Excellence “Matters of Activity. Image Space Material” at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her research is concerned with (media) infrastructures of the Anthropocene, experimental cultures in media, art and design, as well as practices of knowing, writing and making in the realm of environmental humanities and queer feminist technology studies. Léa is currently working on an extensive media theory of phase transitions, investigating the material ties of media infrastructures in contemporary technocapitalist environments through situated phenomena of transience, dispersal, abundance and solidification. Together with Martin Müller, Léa leads the experimental laboratory for knowledge exchange and speculative design “CollActive Materials,” funded by the Berlin University Alliance.

Diego Gómez-Venegas

Andreas Kirchner — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 21:50:33 +0000

Diego Gómez-Venegas is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Musicology and Media Sciences (Media Sciences section) of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His work focuses on the media-archaeo-genealogical traces of cybernetics and its links to our contemporary condition.

Beate Ochsner

Andreas Kirchner — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 22:55:35 +0000

Beate Ochsner is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Konstanz. Her research is situated at the intersection of media studies and Dis/Ability Studies, with a particular focus on media participation, media ecology, and practices of smart hearing. She was spokesperson of the DFG Research Group “Media and Participation” (2015–2022) and is Co-Director of the Centre for Human | Data | Society at the University of Konstanz. She is also a member of the GRTL in Mannheim. Her publications include authored and co-edited volumes such as Disability and Video Games (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), Mediale Teilhabe (meson press, 2023), and Techniques of Hearing (Routledge, 2023).

Anthony Glyn Burton

Andreas Kirchner — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 13:20:56 +0000

Anthony Glyn Burton is a Mellon-SFU Data Fluencies Fellow at the Digital Democracies Institute and a PhD Candidate in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University.

Anne Pasek

Andreas Kirchner — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 21:37:10 +0000

Anne Pasek is an assistant professor and the Canada Research Chair in Media, Culture, and the Environment at Trent University.

Cindy Kaiying Lin

Andreas Kirchner — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 21:33:00 +0000

Cindy Kaiying Lin is an assistant professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Pennsylvania State University.

Jordan B. Kinder

Andreas Kirchner — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 21:30:24 +0000

Jordan B. Kinder (Métis) is a postdoctoral fellow in environmental humanities at the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University (2022–23).

Zane Griffin Talley Cooper

Andreas Kirchner — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 21:28:25 +0000

Zane Griffin Talley Cooper is a PhD candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and a doctoral fellow at the Center for Advanced Research on Global Communication.

Matthias Krings

Andreas Kirchner — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 19:53:43 +0000

Matthias Krings is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. He has specialized in the study of African popular culture, media and visual anthropology, the anthropology of the body, and religion. His current research focuses on East African video jockeys who appropriate foreign films by remediating them through oral narrative performances; on the global mainstreaming of African popular music (recently labelled ‘Afrobeats’); and on skin colour-based categorization practices beyond racialization. Among his publications are edited volumes about ‘Global Nollywood’ and Tanzanian ‘Bongo Media Worlds’. His most recent book, ‘African Appropriations: Cultural Difference, Mimesis, and Media,’ was published by Indiana University Press. He has done extensive fieldwork in Nigeria and Tanzania.

Bertram Lang

Andreas Kirchner — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 21:56:33 +0000

Bertram Lang is a political scientist, China specialist, and academic coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Centre for East Asian Studies (IZO) at Goethe University Frankfurt. Since June 2021, Bertram has also served as academic coordinator of the CEDITRAA project, where he takes a particular interest in Chinese cultural soft power efforts and their limitations in African countries. His broader expertise is in China’s foreign policy and its impact on international norms, with a focus on the non-profit sector, anti-corruption, and Europe-China relations. In his recently completed dissertation, he analyses the transnational politics of Chinese philanthropy from an institutionalist perspective and traces global diffusion processes of organisational logics and legitimacy standards beyond the state.

Cornelia Storz

Andreas Kirchner — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 21:53:22 +0000

Cornelia Storz holds the Chair of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Goethe University Frankfurt. Her research focuses on how incumbent firms and entrepreneurs innovate, how universities stimulate knowledge creation, how organisations are facilitated by their institutional environment, and how digital firms are managing identities. Cornelia also works on issues on innovation and entrepreneurship in developing countries. In her most recent work, she explores new methods such as computer vision to analyse product similarity.

Stefanie Schulte Strathaus

Andreas Kirchner — Thu, 11 May 2023 19:45:39 +0000

Stefanie Schulte Strathaus is the artistic director of Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art in Berlin. From 2001-2019 she was a member of the selection committee of the Berlinale Forum. From 2006-2020 she was the founding director of the Berlinale section Forum Expanded. She curated film exhibitions, such as “LIVE FILM! JACK SMITH! Five Flaming Days in A Rented World” (2009, with Susanne Sachsse and Marc Siegel), „A Paradise Built in Hell“ (2014, with Bettina Steinbrügge), and “From Behind the Screen” (2018), as well as research and exhibition projects such as “Living Archive – Archive Work as a Contemporary Artistic and Curatorial Practice“ (2010-2013) and “Archive außer sich” (2017-2022). In 2021 she launched the biennial festival “Archival Assembly“.

Her work is dealing with the intersections of film restoration, exhibition and distribution, focussing on collaborative and decolonial thinking and practice. Schulte Strathaus is serving on the boards of the Harun Farocki Institut, NAAS – Network of Arab Alternative Screens, and the Master program Film Culture at the University in Jos/Nigeria.

Shintaro Miyazaki

Andreas Kirchner — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 06:55:14 +0000

Shintaro Miyazaki (b. 1980, Prof. Dr.) teaches and researches in the field of media studies (digitality, computation, critique, and social transformation) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Until 2020, he was a senior researcher at the Critical Media Lab, FHNW Academy of Art and Design in Basel, Switzerland.

Shane Denson

Andreas Kirchner — Sat, 25 Feb 2023 14:44:51 +0000

Shane Denson is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of Art & Art History and, by Courtesy, of German Studies in the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages and of Communication in Stanford’s Department of Communication.

Daniela Wentz

Andreas Kirchner — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 22:59:04 +0000

Daniela Wentz ist Kultur- und Medienwissenschaftlerin. Sie forscht an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum vor allem zur Geschichte, Theorie und Ästhetik von Affekttechnologien, zu Medien und Autismus und (digitalen) Bildpraktiken und -ästhetiken. Letzte Veröffentlichungen u. a.: „Nudged to Normal. Images, Behaviour and the Autism Surveillance Complex.“ Digital Cultures and Society 7 (2): 265–86, 2019; „Krieg der Trolle. Digitale Reproduzierbarkeit und Memetic Warfare“ Navigationen. Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften 19 (2): 135–148, 2019.

Laura Hille

Andreas Kirchner — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 22:57:46 +0000

Laura Hille studierte Soziologie und Kulturanthropologie an der Universität Hamburg. Sie ist Mitarbeiterin in dem Drittmittel-Projekt Zukunft machen. Vergangene und gegenwärtige Zukünfte des Silicon Valleys an der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg und Mitglied des Center for Digital Cultures. In ihrer Dissertation „Biohacking. Technologien einer kybernetischen Biopolitik“ untersucht sie gegenwärtige Reformulierungen des Lebens und die Regierung und Regulierung der Körper. Sie ist Teil des Editorial Collectives für spheres: Journal for Digital Cultures.

Rolf F. Nohr

Andreas Kirchner — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 22:39:05 +0000

Rolf F. Nohr is a professor of media aesthetics and media culture at Braunschweig University of Art and a University of Arizona external affiliate.

Jakob Claus

Marcus Burkhardt — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 06:06:07 +0000

Jakob Claus is a research associate at the Institute of Art and Visual Culture at Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg where he is currently working on a PhD on the conditions of colonial and ecological knowledge production in early twentieth century ethnology. He studied cultural and media studies in Berlin, London and Lüneburg.

Ravi Sundaram

Andreas Kirchner — Sun, 07 Aug 2022 20:28:57 +0000

Ravi Sundaram is professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. He is author of Pirate Modernity: Delhi’s Media Urbanism and editor of No Limits: Media Studies from India.

Susanna Paasonen

Andreas Kirchner — Sun, 07 Aug 2022 20:19:57 +0000

Susanna Paasonen is professor of media studies at the University of Turku, Finland, and author of Dependent, Distracted, Bored: Affective Formations in Networked Media.

Joshua Neves

Andreas Kirchner — Sun, 07 Aug 2022 20:12:13 +0000

Joshua Neves is associate professor of film studies at Concordia University, and author of Underglobalization: Beijing’s Media Urbanism and the Chimera of Legitimacy.

Aleena Chia

Andreas Kirchner — Sun, 07 Aug 2022 20:03:54 +0000

Aleena Chia is lecturer in media, communications, and cultural studies at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she researches creative cultures in game development and computational wellness.

Francis Wagner

Andreas Kirchner — Sun, 15 May 2022 16:47:06 +0000

Francis Wagner (dey/deren) ist als wissenschaftliche Mitarbeit am Institut für Medienwissenschaft der HBK Braunschweig tätig und verfolgt ein Dissertationsprojekt zu den Beziehungen von Körperlichkeit(en), Ort(en) und Zeit(en) in Virtual Reality unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des queeren Potenzials derer. Zu Wagners Forschungsschwerpunkten zählen insb. Virtual Reality, Queer Theory und Gender Media Studies.

Markus Stauff

Andreas Kirchner — Sun, 15 May 2022 16:41:22 +0000

Markus Stauff (er/ihm) lehrt und forscht am Department Media Studies der Universität Amsterdam. Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Medien als Regierungstechniken; Fernsehen und cross-mediale Transformationsprozess; visuelle Kultur des Mediensports. Übersicht der Publikationen: https://www.zotero.org/groups/4390248/markus_stauff_publications

Herbert Schwaab

Andreas Kirchner — Sun, 15 May 2022 16:40:27 +0000

Herbert Schwaab (er/ihm) lehrt als Akademischer Oberrat am Lehrstuhl für Medienwissenschaft an der Universität Regensburg. Promotion 2006 mit einer Arbeit zur Filmphilosophie von Stanley Cavell in Bochum. Derzeitige Forschungsschwerpunkte: Fernsehgeschichte, Sitcom, Anime, Populismus im Fernsehen, Medialität des Fahrrads und Repräsentationen von Autismus.

Sarah Sander

Andreas Kirchner — Sun, 15 May 2022 16:39:31 +0000

Sarah Sander (sie/ihr), Dr. phil, ist Medien- und Kulturwissenschaftlerin und arbeitet derzeit am Institut für Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaften der Universität Wien. Ihre aktuellen Forschungsinteressen gelten Expanded Cinema, Medien des Aktivismus und der Kooparation, medialen Anthropologien und Migration.

Lex Keck

Andreas Kirchner — Sun, 15 May 2022 16:37:10 +0000

Lex Keck (keine Pronomen) war von 2017-2022 wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in und Koordinator*in am Lehrstuhl für Kulturtechnikforschung an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Forschungsschwerpunkte belaufen sich auf Hybride und Transite, die, unter dem Begriff der Scharniermedien zusammenfassend, als jedwede Formen und Aktionen von Klappen (wie etwa auch das Faltrad) in den Blick genommen werden.

Ulrike Bergermann

Andreas Kirchner — Sun, 15 May 2022 16:34:22 +0000

Ulrike Bergermann, Professorin für Medienwissenschaft, HBK Braunschweig, Schwerpunkte: Gender und Postcolonial Studies. Vita und Publikationen: ulrikebergermann.de, zuletzt: Kakaogeschmack. Koloniale Ästhetik und kollektive Taste Tanks, Berlin 2025

Julia Bee

Andreas Kirchner — Sun, 15 May 2022 16:32:40 +0000

Julia Bee ist Professorin für Gender Media Studies unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Diversität am Institut für Medienwissenschaft der Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

Henning Schmidgen

Andreas Kirchner — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 19:20:46 +0000

Henning Schmidgen ist Professor für Theorie medialer Welten an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Studium der Psychologie, Philosophie und Linguistik in Berlin und Paris. 1996 Promotion in Psychologie. Von 1997 bis 2011 Mitarbeiter am Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Abt. Rheinberger). Habilitation 2011. Von 2011 bis 2014 Professor für Medienästhetik an der Universität Regensburg, seither in Weimar. Letzte Veröffentlichungen Die Guattari-Tapes (Leipzig 2019) sowie Horn, or The Counterside of Media (Durham 2022).

Bernhard J. Dotzler

Andreas Kirchner — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 19:07:30 +0000

Bernhard J. Dotzler ist Professor für Medienwissenschaft an der Universität Regensburg. 2010 Visiting Kade Professor an der University of California, Santa Barbara. 2018 Charlotte M. Craig Distinguished Visiting Professor, Rutgers University. Seine Forschungsinteressen sind fortgeführte Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen aller Art, eine Kritik der maschinellen Intelligenz sowie Astronoetische Beobachtungen zur Informationstechnologie. – Buchpublikationen u.a.: L’Inconnue de l’art. Über Medien-Kunst (2003); Diskurs und Medium (3 Bde., 2006-2011); Zurück zu Foucault (2020); Mediengeschichte als Historische Techno-Logie (2. Aufl., 2021).

Marc Steinberg

Andreas Kirchner — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 22:15:26 +0000

Marc Steinberg is associate professor of film studies at Concordia University. He is the author of Anime’s Media Mix: Franchising Toys and Characters in Japan (Minnesota, 2012) and The Platform Economy: How Japan Transformed the Consumer Internet (Minnesota, 2019).

Melissa Gregg

Andreas Kirchner — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 22:12:40 +0000

Melissa Gregg is senior principal engineer in the Client Computing Group at Intel. Her previous books include Counterproductive: Time Management in the Knowledge Economy, Work’s Intimacy, and The Affect Theory Reader.

Julie Yujie Chen

Andreas Kirchner — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 22:09:39 +0000

Julie Yujie Chen is assistant professor in the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology (ICCIT) at the University of Toronto Mississauga and holds a graduate appointment in the Faculty of Information. She is lead author of Super-sticky WeChat and Chinese Society.

Rutvica Andrijasevic

Andreas Kirchner — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 22:05:14 +0000

Rutvica Andrijasevic is associate professor of international migration and business in the School of Management at the University of Bristol. She is author of Migration, Agency, and Citizenship in Sex Trafficking.

Gottfried Schnödl

Andreas Kirchner — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 09:50:20 +0000

Gottfried Schnödl works at the Institute for Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media (ICAM) at Leuphana University Lüneburg. His research focusses on the history of conceptions of technology and nature around 1900, on german literature of the fin de siecle, and on conceptions of relativity and mediality within media philosophy.

Guilherme Machado

Andreas Kirchner — Sun, 25 Jul 2021 13:15:27 +0000

Guilherme Machado holds a doctorate in Film and Media Studies. He is a former member of the Graduate Research Training Program “Configurations of Film” at Goethe University Frankfurt (2019–21). His research deals with the visual culture of labor and the epistemological implications of visual techniques and technologies used to control the production and circulation of labor-related knowledge.

Marin Reljic

Andreas Kirchner — Sun, 25 Jul 2021 13:12:59 +0000

Marin Reljić holds a doctorate in Musicology and Film Studies and is a former member of the Graduate Research Training Program “Configurations of Film” at Goethe University Frankfurt (2017–20). He was the first recipient of the Gisela and Peter W. Schatt Foundation’s scholarship. His postdoctoral project focuses on the interface between music/musicology and ecology.

Rebecca Puchta

Andreas Kirchner — Sun, 25 Jul 2021 13:09:02 +0000

Rebecca Puchta is a PhD candidate in Film and Media Studies and a former member of the Graduate Research Training Program “Configurations of Film” at Goethe University Frankfurt (2017–20). Situated at the intersection of film and cultural studies, her doctoral research project investigates representations of big data and surveillance in documentary filmmaking in the post-Snowden era.

Rebecca Boguska

Andreas Kirchner — Sun, 25 Jul 2021 13:04:02 +0000

Rebecca Boguska is a Film and Media Studies scholar. She was a recipient of the Postdoc.Mobility fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (Brown University and University of Passau), and is a former member of the Graduate Research Training Program “Configurations of Film” at Goethe University Frankfurt. Her postdoctoral research project, “Watery Assemblages,” focuses on contemporary coastal research centers and research practices related to the scientific investigation of water movements.

Marc Siegel

Andreas Kirchner — Sun, 25 Jul 2021 10:17:56 +0000

Marc Siegel is a Professor of Film Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. His research focuses on issues in queer studies and experimental film. His book A Gossip of Images is forthcoming from Duke University Press. Publications include the co-edited volumes, Film Culture 80: The Legend of Barbara Rubin (2018), Synchronisierung der Künste (2013), Outside. Die Politik queerer Räume (2005) and a 2014 special issue of Criticism on underground artist Jack Smith.

Kate Ince

Andreas Kirchner — Sun, 25 Jul 2021 10:07:26 +0000

Kate Ince is a Professor of French and Visual Studies at the University of Birmingham. Her work focuses on French cinema, women’s cinema and film philosophy. She is the author of The Body and the Screen: female subjectivities in contemporary women’s cinema (2017) and Georges Franju (2005), as well as numerous journal articles and co-edited publications in the areas of film studies and French literature and visual art.

Pierre Eugène

Andreas Kirchner — Sun, 25 Jul 2021 10:01:47 +0000

Pierre Eugène is Lecturer in Film Studies at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne (Amiens, France) and a member of the Cahiers du cinéma editorial board since 2020. His research focuses on Serge Daney, cinema writers and film aesthetics. He has published articles on many European and American filmmakers, and co-edited Jean-Claude Biette, appunti et contrappunti (De l’Incidence, 2018) with Hervé-Joubert-Laurencin and Philippe Fauvel. His book Serge Daney, Exercices de relecture 1962-1982 (Éditions du Linteau, 2023) has just appeared, and he is currently working on a book devoted to Paul Vecchiali’s film Femmes femmes (1974) (Yellow Now Editions).

Ganaele Langlois

Andreas Kirchner — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 19:07:32 +0000

Ganaele Langlois is associate professor in communication studies at York University, Canada, and associate director of the Infoscape Centre for the Study of Social Media (www.infoscapelab.ca). She is author of Meaning in the Age of Social Media and coeditor of Compromised Data: From Social Media to Big Data.

Alexandra Juhasz

Andreas Kirchner — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 19:00:38 +0000

Alexandra Juhasz is distinguished professor of film at Brooklyn College, CUNY. Her books include Women of Vision: Histories in Feminist Film and Video, coedited with Jesse Lerner (Minnesota, 2001), F Is for Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth’s Undoing (Minnesota, 2006) and Learning from YouTube.

Nishant Shah

Andreas Kirchner — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 18:56:43 +0000

Nishant Shah is director of research and outreach and professor of aesthetics and cultures of technology at the ArtEZ University of the Arts, The Netherlands. He is coeditor of Digital Activism in Asia Reader (meson press, 2015).

Ania Szczepanska

Andreas Kirchner — Sat, 22 May 2021 08:28:14 +0000

Ania Szczepanska is a graduate of the École normale, film historian and Lecturer et Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her works deal with Eastern European Film and Documentary Film. She made the documentary Nous filmons le peuple! (We Film the People!), produced by Abacaris films (broadcast on Ciné+ and TVP Kultura, released on DVD by Aloest), about the political involvement of filmmakers in Communist Poland. She is the author of: Do granic negocjacji. Historia Zespołu filmowego X Andrzeja Wajdy (1972-1983) (Cracow: Universitas, 2017 [At the border of Negotiation. History of the Andrzej Wajda’s Production Group X (1972-1983)]). In 2019 she made the film Solidarnosc, la chute du mur commence en Pologne (Solidarnosc, how Solidarity changed Europe) produced by Looksfilm for Arte/NDR.

Sylvie Lindeperg

Andreas Kirchner — Sat, 22 May 2021 08:15:15 +0000

Sylvie Lindeperg is a historian, professor at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and member of the Institut universitaire of France. She is the author and co-editor of fifteen books exploring the connections between film, memory and history amongst which are: Clio de 5 à 7 (Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2000); Nuit et brouillard: un film dans l’Histoire (Odile Jacob, 2007) [Night and Fog: A Film in History. Tr. Tom Mes (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014); La Voie des images (Verdier, 2013); Les Écrans de l’ombre (Paris: Seuil, 2014); her most recent work is: Le Moment Eichmann (Albin Michel, 2016), coedited with Annette Wieviorka.

Lea P. Zierott

Andreas Kirchner — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 11:45:38 +0000

Lea P. Zierott is a research associate and PhD student in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Hamburg.

Clara Wieghorst

Andreas Kirchner — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 11:40:31 +0000

Clara Wieghorst is a research associate and PhD student at the Center for Digital Cultures and the Institute of Sociology and Cultural Organization at Leuphana University Lüneburg.

Urs Stäheli

Andreas Kirchner — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 11:35:16 +0000

Urs Stäheli is professor of sociology and sociological theory at the University of Hamburg, Germany. He is author of Spectacular Speculation: Thrills, the Economy, and Popular Discourse, among other books.

Tero Karppi

Andreas Kirchner — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 11:25:43 +0000

Tero Karppi is assistant professor at the University of Toronto. He teaches in the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology and in the Faculty of Information. He is author of Disconnect: Facebook’s Affective Bonds (Minnesota, 2018).

Martin Zeilinger

Andreas Kirchner — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 08:44:37 +0000

Martin Zeilinger (Senior Lecturer in Computational Art and Technology, Abertay University) is an Austrian researcher and curator currently based in Dundee, Scotland. His work focuses on critical artistic approaches to emerging blockchain and AI technologies, intellectual property issues in contemporary art, and aspects of experimental videogame culture. He has co-curated Vector Festival (Toronto) since 2014, and organized the 2019 MoneyLab symposium (London). His research is available in books such as Artists Re:Thinking the Blockchain and the MoneyLab Reader 2, and in journals including Philosophy & Technology, Culture Machine, and Media Theory.

Réka Patrícia Gál

Marcus Burkhardt — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 20:45:17 +0000

Réka Gál is a PhD student at the Faculty of Information at University of Toronto and a Fellow at the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology. She has completed her master’s in Cultural History and Theory at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her main research interests are in feminist media theory, science and technology studies, environmental humanities, and anthropology of outer space. In her dissertation project, she investigates contemporary outer space colonial initiatives, focusing on the implications of human-machine interdependence in outer space as it relates to issues of sustainability and environmental justice.

Desiree Foerster

Marcus Burkhardt — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 20:37:49 +0000

Desiree Foerster explores the impact of liminal experiences on human subjectivity. Her work often takes the form of collaborative research creation projects, where interactive art works intersect with her writings on process philosophy, speculative research, and aesthetic practice. She is a postdoctoral instructor at the Cinema and Media Department at the University of Chicago, after graduating from the Institute for Arts and Media at the University of Potsdam.

Wanda Strauven

Andreas Kirchner — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 19:24:27 +0000

Wanda Strauven is Adjunct Professor in Film and Media Studies at Columbia University. She is also affiliated with the Institute of Theater, Film and Media Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt. Her research focuses on early and avant-garde cinema, media archaeology, tactile media, and children’s interaction with media.

Peter Bexte

Andreas Kirchner — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 14:54:19 +0000

Nach einem Studium der neueren deutschen Literatur (M.A.) Promotion im Fach Kunstgeschichte. Seit 2008 Lehrstuhl ‚Ästhetik‘ an der Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln. 2005-08: Dreijährige Gastprofessur „Geschichte und Theorie der technischen Medien“ im Studiengang Europäische Medienwissenschaft, Potsdam. Senior Fellowships: 2011/12 IKKM Weimar; 2016 IFK Wien. Forschungsinteressen: optische Medien, Wahrnehmungstheorie, Philosophie der Relationen/Präpositionen

Antonio Somaini

Andreas Kirchner — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 22:21:20 +0000

Antonio Somaini is Professor of Film, Media and Visual Culture Theory at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, where he is also Chair of the Department of Film and Media Studies. His research interests include the history of film and media theories, as well as issues in contemporary visual culture, such as the implications of the high and low definition of images, and of the new technologies of machine vision. He can be reached at antonio.somaini[at]sorbonne-nouvelle.fr.

Vinzenz Hediger

Andreas Kirchner — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 22:17:07 +0000

Vinzenz Hediger is Professor of Cinema Studies at the Goethe University, Frankfurt and the Director of the Graduiertenkolleg “Configurations of Film.” He is a co-founder of NECS – European Network for Cinema and Media Studies and the founding editor of the Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft (Journal for Media Studies). He is a principal investigator in the research center “ConTrust – Trust and Conflict in political life under conditions of uncertainty” and a member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz. His research concerns the aesthetics of film within the larger framework of a history of risk and uncertainty in modernity. His objects of study include Hollywood cinema and industrial and ephemeral films. In addition, he has a strong interest in the main currents, deviations, and dead ends in the histories of film theories, an interest that he pursues in part as the co-editor of the book series Film Theory in Media History. In the Kolleg he conjoins these two interests by inquiring into the ways in which the history of cinema has always been a history of a form, and format, in crisis.

Laliv Melamed

Andreas Kirchner — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 22:13:09 +0000

Laliv Melamed is a postdoctoral researcher at the Graduiertenkolleg “Configurations of Film” at the Goethe University, Frankfurt. Her forthcoming book Sovereign Intimacy: Israeli Homemade Video Memorials and the Politics of Loss, is based on her dissertation with the same title that was the recipient of the 2017 SCMS Dissertation Award. She had published in English and Hebrew on topics of non-fiction media forms, Israel-Palestine, and the militarization of everyday media practices. Her most recent publications appeared in American Anthropologist Review and New Cinemas. She is the co-editor of the “Screen Memory” issue of International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society and a special issue on documentary infrastructures of the journal World Records, entitled “Ways of Organizing.” She is the director of the 2020 edition of Visible Evidence, the international conference for documentary and non-fiction film and media to be hosted by Goethe University, Frankfurt. In addition to her academic work, Melamed is a film curator and a programmer.

Philipp Dominik Keidl

Andreas Kirchner — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 22:07:23 +0000

Philipp Dominik Keidl is Assistant Professor of Screen Media in Transition at Utrecht University. His research focuses on media fandom, film heritage, and queer cinema. He is the coordinator of MI3: Media Industries, Infrastructures, and Institutions (Utrecht University) and a member of the Platform Lab (Concordia University).

Serjoscha Wiemer

Andreas Kirchner — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 21:30:57 +0000

Serjoscha Wiemer is a Senior Lecturer for Digital Media/Mobile Media at the Institute for Media Studies at the Paderborn University. Together with Bernd Bösel he is spokesperson for AG Affective Media Technologies. In 2011 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the media theory and aesthetics of computer games at the Ruhr University Bochum. His research interests include the historicity of perception, moving image studies, affect theory, game studies, and algorithmic media. See: www.serjoscha.net.

Bernd Bösel

Andreas Kirchner — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 21:17:27 +0000

Bernd Bösel is a postdoc researcher at the University of Potsdam, with a focus on philosophy, media studies and culture theory, and has been teaching in the joint curriculum “European Media Studies,” a collaboration with the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, since 2015. Between 2016 and 2018 he coordinated the DFG-funded research network “Affect- and Psychotechnology Studies.”

Elisa Linseisen

Andreas Kirchner — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 17:45:36 +0000

Elisa Linseisen ist Film- und Medienwissenschaftlerin mit einem Schwerpunkt auf der Ästhetik und Epistemologie des Digitalen. Seit Oktober 2024 ist Elisa Linseisen Professorin für Film- und Medienwissenschaft an der HFBK. Zuvor lehrte und forschte Elisa Linseisen an medienwissenschaftlichen Instituten in Hamburg, Wien, Weimar, Paderborn und Bochum. 2019 promoviert Elisa Linseisen zum Thema High Definition: Medienphilosophische Bildverarbeitung, die 2020 bei meson.press erschien. Elisa Linseisens Forschungs- und Lehrinteressen umfassen u.a. Anwendungstheorien, digitale Bilder, Post-Cinema, Queer Computing, unfertige Filme, Medien- und Technikphilosophie und Kanonkritik.

John Durham Peters

Andreas Kirchner — Sat, 01 Aug 2020 19:30:55 +0000

John Durham Peters is the María Rosa Menocal Professor of English and professor of film and media studies at Yale University. He is the author of Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication, Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition, and most recently Promiscuous Knowledge: Information, Image, and Other Truth Games in History (with the late Kenneth Cmiel).

Christina Vagt

Andreas Kirchner — Sat, 01 Aug 2020 19:20:22 +0000

Christina Vagt is assistant professor of European media studies in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. She is author of Geschickte Sprünge: Physik und Medium bei Martin Heidegger.

Mary Shnayien

Marcus Burkhardt — Sat, 13 Jun 2020 12:38:48 +0000

Mary Shnayien is a PhD candidate at the department for media studies at Ruhr University Bochum. She is a member of the Research College “NRW-Forschungskolleg SecHuman – Sicherheit für Menschen im Cyberspace”, funded by the state North Rhine-Westphalia and currently writing her dissertation on the history of science of IT-security with a special focus on backdoors.

Katja Grashöfer

Marcus Burkhardt — Sat, 13 Jun 2020 05:43:52 +0000

Katja Grashöfer is PhD researcher in the research training group “Documentary Practices. Excess and Privation” funded by the German Research Foundation at the Ruhr-University Bochum. In her doctoral dissertation she studies the documentation of events on Wikipedia.

Alexandra Schneider

Marcus Burkhardt — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 10:19:54 +0000

Alexandra Schneider is Professor of Film and Media Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz and Principal Investigator at the DFG-funded Research Training Group “Configurations of Film.”

Axel Volmar

Marcus Burkhardt — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 10:19:09 +0000

Axel Volmar is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Center “Media of Cooperation” (SFB 1187 Medien der Kooperation) at the University of Siegen. His research interests include the history and theory of digital media, infrastructures, and cultures, sound studies, digital temporalities and cooperative media.

Image by Fabian Stuertz.

Marek Jancovic

Marcus Burkhardt — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 10:13:26 +0000

Marek Jancovic is a lecturer at the Institute of Film, Theater, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Mainz and guest researcher at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis. His doctoral dissertation Misinscriptions: A Media Epigraphy of Video Compression explores the value of decay and error for media-historical research.

Ned Rossiter

Andreas Kirchner — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 18:37:13 +0000

Ned Rossiter is professor of communication at the Institute for Culture and Society with a joint appointment in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University, and author of Organized Networks: Media Theory, Creative Labour, New Institutions (2006), Software, Infrastructure, Labor: A Media Theory of Logistical Nightmares (2016) and (with Geert Lovink) Organization after Social Media (2018).

Reinhold Martin

Andreas Kirchner — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 18:33:00 +0000

Reinhold Martin is professor of architecture at Columbia University. He cofounded the journal Grey Room and is author of The Organizational Complex: Architecture, Media, and Corporate Space (2003), Utopia’s Ghost: Architecture and Postmodernism, Again (Minnesota, 2010) and The Urban Apparatus: Mediapolitics and the City (Minnesota, 2016).

Geert Lovink

Andreas Kirchner — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 18:23:39 +0000

Geert Lovink is a Dutch media theorist, internet critic, and author of Uncanny Networks (2002), Dark Fiber (2002), My First Recession (2003), Zero Comments (2007), Networks without a Cause (2012), Social Media Abyss (2016), and Sad by Design (2019). In 2004, he founded the Institute of Network Cultures at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. His center organizes conferences, publications, and research networks such as Video Vortex (online video), Unlike Us (alternatives in social media), Critical Point of View (Wikipedia), Society of the Query (the culture of search), and MoneyLab (internet-based revenue models in the arts). Recent projects deal with digital publishing and the future of art criticism.

Lisa Conrad

Andreas Kirchner — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 18:16:37 +0000

Lisa Conrad is a lecturer at the Institute for Sociology and Cultural Organization (ISCO) and a research associate at the Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC) at Leuphana University Lüneburg.

Timon Beyes

Andreas Kirchner — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 18:04:02 +0000

Timon Beyes is professor in Sociology of Organisation and Culture at Leuphana University Lüneburg and Copenhagen Business School, and a director of Leuphana University’s Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC). Recent related publications include the coedited Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies and “The Media Arcane,” Grey Room 75 (with Claus Pias).

Benoît Turquety

Andreas Kirchner — Sat, 23 Nov 2019 23:26:56 +0000

Benoît Turquety is Associate Professor at the University of Lausanne, director of the SNF research project on Bolex and amateur cinema and of the EPIMETE/digital media epistemology research axis. He is a founding member of the Material Archival Studies Network and part of the Dispositives research group, of the Network for Experimental Media Archaeology, as well as the Technology and the Humanities project. He is the author of Inventing Cinema : Machines, Gestures and Media History (Amsterdam University Press, 2019). Focusing on early substandard film production, African video, or experimental poetry, his recent research aims to re-establish digital media as embedded material cultures, articulating machines, techniques, images, and sounds, modes of circulation and transmission, and networks of concepts.

John Mowitt

Andreas Kirchner — Fri, 30 Aug 2019 17:45:24 +0000

John Mowitt holds the Leadership Chair in the Critical Humanities at the University of Leeds. His publications range widely over the fields of culture, politics and theory. His most recent book, Sounds: The Ambient Humanities, appeared from University of California Press in 2015. He is a senior co-editor of Cultural Critique.

Rick Prelinger

Marcus Burkhardt — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 06:44:51 +0000

Rick Prelinger, professor of film and digital media at UC Santa Cruz, is an archivist, writer, and filmmaker. With Internet Archive, he built an open-access online repository of historical films beginning in 2000, which now contains 7,000 freely reusable films. His films include the archival feature Panorama Ephemera (2004), which played in venues around the world, and No More Road Trips?, which received a Creative Capital grant in 2012. His twenty-five participatory urban history projects have played to many thousands of viewers in San Francisco, Detroit, Oakland, Los Angeles, New York, and elsewhere. He is a board member of Internet Archive and frequently writes and speaks on the future of archives and issues relating to archival access and futures. With Megan Prelinger, he cofounded and codirects an experimental research library located in downtown San Francisco.

Tomislav Medak

Marcus Burkhardt — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 06:43:16 +0000

Tomislav Medak is a doctoral student at the Centre for Postdigital Cultures at Coventry University. He is a member of the theory and publishing team of Multimedia Institute/MAMA in Zagreb, as well as an amateur librarian for Public Library/Memory of the World and an artist in the performing arts collective BADco. His research focuses on technologies, capitalist development, and postcapitalist transition, particularly on economies of intellectual property and the unevenness of technoscience. He is the author of The Hard Matter of Abstraction—A Guidebook to Domination by Abstraction and Shit Tech for A Shitty World. Together with Marcell Mars he coedited Public Library and Guerrilla Open Access.

Marcell Mars

Marcus Burkhardt — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 06:41:44 +0000

Marcell Mars is research associate at the Centre for Postdigital Cultures at Coventry University (UK). Mars is one of the founders of Multimedia Institute/MAMA in Zagreb. His research, “Ruling Class Studies,” started at the Jan van Eyck Academy, examines state-of-the-art digital innovation, adaptation, and intelligence created by corporations such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, and eBay. He is a doctoral student at Digital Cultures Research Lab at Leuphana University, writing a thesis on “Foreshadowed Libraries.” Together with Tomislav Medak he founded Public Library/Memory of the World, for which he develops and maintains software infrastructure.

Rebecca Schneider

Andreas Kirchner — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 16:19:36 +0000

Rebecca Schneider is professor of theater arts and performance studies at Brown University. She is the author of Theatre and History (2014), Performing Remains: Art and War in Times of Theatrical Reenactment (2011), and The Explicit Body in Performance (1997).

Ioana B. Jucan

Andreas Kirchner — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 16:12:15 +0000

Ioana B. Jucan is a researcher and artist working at the intersection of theater and performance, philosophy, and new media. Several of her performance texts are collected in her book Cosmology of Worlds Apart.

Gertrud Koch

Andreas Kirchner — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 14:37:58 +0000

Gertrud Koch is senior professor at the Freie Universität Berlin and visiting professor at Brown University. She is the author of numerous books. Her last publication in English was Breaking Bad, Breaking Out, Breaking Even and in German was Die Wiederkehr der Illusion.

Thomas Patrick Pringle

Andreas Kirchner — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 14:28:27 +0000

Thomas Pringle is an SSHRC doctoral and presidential fellow at
Brown University, where he is a PhD candidate in the Department
of Modern Culture and Media.

Finn Brunton

Andreas Kirchner — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 22:42:28 +0000

Finn Brunton is assistant professor of media, culture, and communication at New York University. He works on the history and theory of computing and digital media technologies. He is the author of Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet, Obfuscation: A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest (with Helen Nissenbaum), and Digital Cash: A Cultural History.

Paula Bialski

Andreas Kirchner — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 22:33:38 +0000

Paula Bialski is junior professor of digital sociality at Leuphana University Lüneburg. She is an ethnographer of new media in everyday life and the author of Becoming Intimately Mobile.

Edward Nik-Khah

Andreas Kirchner — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 20:07:28 +0000

Edward Nik-Khah is professor of economics at Roanoke College. He is the author, with Philip Mirowski, of The Knowledge We Have Lost in Information: The History of Information in Modern Economics.

Philip Mirowski

Andreas Kirchner — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 20:03:38 +0000

Philip Mirowski is Carl Koch Professor of Economics and the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame. He is author of More Heat than Light: Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature’s Economics, Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science, Science-Mart: Privatizing American Science, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown, and, with Edward Nik-Khah, The Knowledge We Have Lost in Information: The History of Information in Modern Economics.

Armin Beverungen

Andreas Kirchner — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 19:51:38 +0000

Armin Beverungen currently works at the Department of Media Studies, Universität Siegen. He is a founding editor of spheres: Journal for Digital Cultures and the book series Digital Cultures. Previously, he was an editor of ephemera: theory & politics in organization (from 2007 to 2016). He researches at the interstices of media, social and organization theory, in the area of digital cultures. He is currently working on his habilitation project tentatively entitled Algorithmic Management. Armin is also a convenor for the EGOS Standing Working Group “Digital Technology, Media and Organization” (2018–2021).

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

Andreas Kirchner — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 23:31:13 +0000

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is Simon Fraser University’s Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media in SFU School of Communication. She is the author of several books, including most recently Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media.

Florian Cramer

Andreas Kirchner — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 23:25:58 +0000

Florian Cramer is reader in 21st Century Visual Culture at Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Hito Steyerl

Andreas Kirchner — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 23:16:01 +0000

Hito Steyerl is professor of experimental film and video at the Berlin University of the Arts. She is the author of several books, including most recently Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War.

Clemens Apprich

Andreas Kirchner — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 23:07:08 +0000

Clemens Apprich is visiting professor at the Institute of Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media (ICAM), Leuphana University of Lüneburg. He is the author of Technotopia: A Media Genealogy of Net Cultures.

Luke Munn

Andreas Kirchner — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 22:16:24 +0000

Luke Munn uses both practice-based and theoretical approaches to explore the intersections between technology and capital, body and code. His projects have been exhibited throughout Europe, North America, and Oceania. He is a Studio Supervisor at Whitecliffe College of Art & Design and a current PhD Candidate at the Institute for Culture & Society, Western Sydney University.

Matthias Koch

Andreas Kirchner — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 22:28:37 +0000

Matthias Koch is a research associate at the Institute for Advanced Study on Media Cultures of Computer Simulation (MECS) in Lüneburg, Germany. His research interests include the history and theory of media historiography, the history of science, phenomenology, and the works of Friedrich A. Kittler and Hans Blumenberg.

Andreas Bernard

Andreas Kirchner — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 22:10:59 +0000

Andreas Bernard is professor of cultural studies and speaker at the Centre for Digital Cultures, Leuphana University Lüneburg. Publications include Lifted. A Cultural History of the Elevator. New York 2014; Komplizen des Erkennungsdienstes. Das Selbst in der digitalen Kultur. Frankfurt am Main 2017.

Petra Löffler

Andreas Kirchner — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 15:38:38 +0000

Petra Löffler is Professor of “Theory and History of Contemporary Media“ at Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. Her particular research interests include media archeology, media ecologies, archival practices, and material culture.

Michael Andreas

Andreas Kirchner — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 16:12:18 +0000

Michael Andreas, Studium der Film- und Fernsehwissenschaft, Theaterwissenschaft in Bochum und Toronto. Danach wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Medienwissenschaft der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Fellow am MECS, Lüneburg sowie an der Mercator Research Group – Spaces of Anthropological Knowledge in Bochum, seither Lehraufträge in Bochum, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt und Wien. Zu seinen Forschungsinteressen gehören Digitale Kulturen, Politische Theorie und Postcolonial Studies.

Dawid Kasprowicz

Andreas Kirchner — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 16:03:29 +0000

Dawid Kasprowicz ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl für Philosophie digitaler Medien an der Universität Witten-Herdecke. Forschungsschwerpunkte umfassen Mediengeschichte und Theorie des Embodiment, Körpergeschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts sowie Medientheorie. Promotion zum Thema: „Der Körper auf Tauchstation: Zu einer Wissensgeschichte der Immersion“. Publikationen u.a.: „Technik | Intimität“. Schwerpunkt in der Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft 15 (2), Gasthrsg. gemeinsam mit Michael Andreas und Stefan Rieger, Diaphanes 2016; „Lebenstreue Medien. Von immersierten Körpern zu digitalen Menschmodellen.“ In: Jahrbuch für immersive Medien, Schüren 2015, S. 29-41.

Stefan Rieger

Andreas Kirchner — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 15:55:08 +0000

Stefan Rieger, Prof. Dr., Studium der Germanistik und Philosophie. Stipendiat im Graduiertenkolleg Theorie der Literatur (Konstanz), im Anschluss daran Mitarbeiter im Sonderforschungsbereich Literatur und Anthropologie. Promotion über barocke Datenverarbeitung und Mnemotechnik, Habilitationsschrift zum Verhältnis von Medien und Anthropologie (Die Individualität der Medien: Eine Geschichte der Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Suhrkamp 2001). Heisenbergstipendiat der DFG. Seit 2007 Professor für Mediengeschichte an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Aktuelle Arbeits- und Publikationsschwerpunkte: Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Medientheorie und Kulturtechniken.

Christian Heise

meson press — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 17:22:50 +0000

Christian is a Lecturer, Activist and Manager. As well as working on the DNI Innovation Fund, Christian is teaching Digital Media at Leuphana University. He is the Chairman of Open Knowledge Foundation Germany and Founding Board Member of freifunk.net. During the preperation of his Phd, he worked as Research Associate at the Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC) affiliated to Leuphana University. Prior to this he worked as Manager for DIE ZEIT and the German Press Agency DPA.

Howard Caygill

Andreas Kirchner — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 21:41:16 +0000

Howard Caygill is Professor of Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, London. His research interests are in the fields of the history of philosophy, aesthetics, and cultural history. He is the author of several books, including Walter Benjamin: The Colour of Experience (1998), Levinas and the Political (2002), On Resistance: A Philosophy of Defiance (2013), and the forthcoming Kafka: In Light of the Accident (2017).

Tobias Schulze

Andreas Kirchner — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 21:38:44 +0000

Tobias Schulze is a masters student in media studies at Humboldt University Berlin, a research assistant at the Digital Cultures Research Lab, Leuphana University Lüneburg, and a tutor at Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig. His focus in work and studies is on entanglements between art, temporality, and media.

Anne Dippel

Andreas Kirchner — Sat, 30 Sep 2017 12:01:27 +0000

Dr. Anne Dippel is Ethnographer and Historian at the University of Jena and a MECS Fellow. Amongst other research she does field studies on the production of cosmology between practice and theory in high energy physics. Recent publications are: A. Dippel, S. Fizek, “Ludification of Culture: The Significance of Play and Games in Everyday Practices of the Digital Age,” in Digitalisation: Theories and Concepts for the Empirical Cultural Research, ed. Gertraud Koch (London: Routledge, 2017); A. Dippel, S. Fizek, “Patterns and Traces: Pictures of Images and Collisions in the Physics Lab,” in Spuren: Erzeugung des Dagewesenen, Bildwelten des Wissens: Kunsthistorisches Jahrbuch für Bildkritik, Bd. 13 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017).

Martin Warnke

Andreas Kirchner — Sat, 30 Sep 2017 11:52:14 +0000

Prof. Dr. Martin Warnke is a MECS Director and works at Leuphana University Lüneburg. His areas of research are the media cultures of computer simulation and digital discourse media for image science. Recent publications are: M. Warnke, “On the Spot: The Double Immersion of Virtual Reality.” in Immersion in the Visual Arts and Media, ed. F. Liptay (Leiden: Brill/Rodopi, 2016), 205–214; M. Warnke, Theorien des Internet zur Einführung (Hamburg: Junius, 2011).

Jens Schröter

Andreas Kirchner — Sat, 30 Sep 2017 11:22:06 +0000

Jens Schröter (Prof. Dr. phil.) ist Professor für Medienkulturwissenschaft an der Universität Bonn: Forschungsschwerpunkte: Digitale Medien; Fotografie; Intermedialität; dreidimensionale Bilder; Medientheorie und Wertkritik; Audiomedien und auditive Kultur. Ausgewählte Publikationen: Handbuch Medienwissenschaft (als Hg.), 2014; 3D. History, Theory and Aesthetics of the Technical-transplane Image, 2014; Auditive Medienkulturen. Techniken des Hörens und Praktiken der Klanggestaltung (als Hg. zus. mit A. Volmar), Bielefeld: Transcript 2013. Verdrahtet. The Wire und der Kampf um die Medien, 2012.

Till A. Heilmann

Andreas Kirchner — Sat, 30 Sep 2017 11:15:03 +0000

Till A. Heilmann (Dr. phil.) forscht und lehrt an der Abteilung für Medienwissenschaft der Universität Bonn. Forschungsschwerpunkte: digitale Bildbearbeitung; Algorithmen und Computerprogrammierung; nordamerikanische und deutschsprachige Medienwissenschaft. Ausgewählte Publikationen: “Innis and Kittler: The Case of the Greek Alphabet”, N. Friesen (Hg.): Media Transatlantic, 2016, S. 91–110; “Zur Vorgängigkeit der Operationskette in der Medienwissenschaft und bei Leroi-Gourhan”, Internationales Jahrbuch für Medienphilosophie 2 (2016): 7–29; “Datenarbeit im ‘Capture’-Kapitalismus. Zur Ausweitung der Verwertungszone im Zeitalter informatischer Überwachung”, Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft 2 (2015): 35–48.

Bianca Westermann

Andreas Kirchner — Sat, 05 Aug 2017 10:26:10 +0000

Bianca Westermann ist postdoc-Stipendiatin der Fakultät für Philologie an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Ihr aktueller Forschungsschwerpunkt liegt auf sozialen Robotern, Cyborgs und mobilen Medien. Des Weiteren arbeitet sie zur medialen Konstruktion postmoderner Identität in digitalen Medien.

Andreas Weich

Andreas Kirchner — Sat, 05 Aug 2017 10:21:20 +0000

Andreas Weich ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in der Projektgruppe Lehre und Medienbildung an der TU Braunschweig. Forschungsschwerpunkte sind vor allem medienwissenschaftliche Diskurs- und Dispositivtheorie sowie Medienbildungsforschung. 2017 erschien seine Promotionsschrift Selbstverdatungsmaschinen: Zur Genealogie und Medialität des Profilierungsdispositivs.

Julius Othmer

Andreas Kirchner — Sat, 05 Aug 2017 10:13:53 +0000

Julius Othmer ist Referent für Medien in Lehre und Studium und leitet den Bereich Medienbildung an der TU Braunschweig.Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte umfassen neben Game Studies und Dispositivtheorie vor allem theoretische sowie anwendungsbezogene Medienbildungsforschung.

Martin Degeling

Andreas Kirchner — Sat, 05 Aug 2017 10:06:48 +0000

Martin Degeling ist post-doctoral fellow am Institut für Software Research, Caregie Mellon Universität. Seine Dissertation Online Profiling: Analyse und Intervention zum Schutz von Privatheit erschien 2016.

Marie-Luise Angerer

Andreas Kirchner — Sun, 02 Apr 2017 17:37:33 +0000

Marie-Luise Angerer was a professor of Media Studies at the University of Potsdam. The focus of her research is on media technology, affect and neuroscientific reformulations of desire and sexuality. Her publications include Desire After Affect (2014, German original 2007), Choreographie – Medien – Gender (with Yvonne Hardt and Anna-Carolin Weber, 2013), Timing of Affect: Epistemologies, Aesthetics, Politics (with Bernd Bösel and Michaela Ott, 2014), numerous articles in books and journals on the topic of posthumanism and affective politics.

Kathrin Thiele

meson press — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 22:41:48 +0000

Kathrin Thiele is Associate Professor in Gender Studies and Critical Theory at Utrecht University. Her research expertise lies in feminist and continental philosophies, theories of difference(s), and posthuman(ist) studies. Most recently she edited “Diffracted Worlds – Diffractive Readings: Onto-Epistemologies and the Critical Humanities” Parallax (2014, ed. with B. M. Kaiser), Doing Gender in Medien-, Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften: Eine Einfuhrung (2016, ed. with R. Buikema) and Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture: A Comprehensive Guide to Gender Studies (2017, ed. with R. Buikema and L. Plate). With B. M. Kaiser, she is founder and coordinator of Terra Critica.

Birgit Mara Kaiser

meson press — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 22:35:16 +0000

Birgit Mara Kaiser is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Transcultural Aesthetics at Utrecht University. Her research interests are aesthetics and affect, Deleuzian and (new) materialist literary criticism, postcolonial and transnational literature. Recent publications include Figures of Simplicity. Sensation and Thinking in Kleist and Melville (2011), Postcolonial Literatures and Deleuze (2012, ed. with L. Burns), “Diffracted Worlds – Diffractive Readings: Onto-Epistemologies and the Critical Humanities” Parallax (2014, ed. with K. Thiele), Singularity and Transnational Poetics (2015, ed.). She currently works on a book project on Cixous, Guattari and the production of subjectivity. With K. Thiele, she is founder and coordinator of Terra Critica.

Katja Müller-Helle

meson press — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 14:58:21 +0000

Katja Müller-Helle is post doctoral scholar at the Kollegforschergruppe BildEvidenz. Geschichte und Ästhetik of Free University of Berlin. Her research covers the history and theory of photography, media history, historiography of avant-garde cultures and theories of pictorial evidence. Among her publications are Zeitspeicher der Fotografie. Zukunftsbilder 1860–1913, Paderborn: Fink (forthcoming); „The Past Future of Futurist Movement Photography”, in: The Getty Research Journal, no 7, 2015: 109-23; „Stumme Zeugen. Fotografische Bildevidenz am Rand der Wahrscheinlichkeit”, in: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, no 11, 2/2014: 37-48; Blitzlicht. Berlin/Zürich: diaphanes, 2012 (edited with Florian Sprenger).

Jan Mueggenburg

meson press — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 14:47:07 +0000

Jan Mueggenburg is currently working as a post doctoral research assistant at the Institute for Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media at the Leuphana University in Lueneburg. He publishes and lectures about the history of computing, cybernetics and bionics. His latest publications include: “Der Delfin als Medium: Formation und Imagination in John C. Lillys Kommunikationsexperimenten,” in Designing Thinking: Angewandte Imagination und Kreativität um 1960, ed. Claudia Mareis (Paderborn: Fink 2016), 187–213, and “Clean by Nature: Lively Surfaces and the Holistic-Systemic Heritage of Contemporary Bionik,” communication +1, 3 (2014): Article 9.

Sebastian Vehlken

meson press — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 14:43:11 +0000

Sebastian Vehlken is Junior Director of the Institute for Advanced Study on Media Cultures of Computer Simulation at Leuphana University Lüneburg. He was visiting professor at Humboldt University Berlin, at the University of Vienna, and at Leuphana, and Research Fellow at the IFK Vienna. His main research interests focus on media theory, cultural techniques, and the media history of computer simulation and supercomputing. Recent publications include Neighborhood Technologies: Media and Mathematics of Dynamic Networks, ed. with Tobias Harks (Zürich: Diaphanes 2015).

Jean-Hugues Barthélémy

meson press — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 09:37:41 +0000

Jean-Hugues Barthélémy is Director of the Centre international des études simondoniennes (Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris-Nord / Fondation “pour la science”), editor and director of the Cahiers Simondon, and associated researcher at the laboratory EA 4414 HAR (University Paris Ouest—Nanterre La Défense). He is the author of several monographs on Simondon, including his recent Simondon (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2014; translation forthcoming: Bloomsbury, 2016), and of many articles on contemporary French and German philosophy.

Isabelle Stengers

meson press — Thu, 26 Nov 2015 11:21:29 +0000

Isabelle Stengers is professor of philosophy at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. She is trained as a chemist and philosopher, and has authored and co-authored many books on the philosophy of science. In 1993 she received the grand price for philosophy from the Académie Francaise. Her last book published in English is Thinking with Whitehead: A Free and Wild Creation of Concepts (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014).

Matteo Pasquinelli

Andreas Kirchner — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 21:19:52 +0000

Matteo Pasquinelli is Associate Professor in Philosophy of Science at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage of Ca’ Foscari University in Venice where he is coordinating the ERC project AIMODELS. His book The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence (London: Verso, 2023) won the Deutscher Prize 2024. He edited the anthology Alleys of Your Mind: Augmented Intelligence and Its Traumas (Meson Press, 2015) among other publications.

Andrew Lison

meson press — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 18:21:48 +0000

Andrew Lison is assistant professor of media study at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York. His writing has appeared in New Formations, Science Fiction Studies, and a number of edited volumes, including The Global Sixties in Sound and Vision: Media, Counterculture, Revolt (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), of which he is coeditor with Timothy Scott Brown.

Jussi Parikka

meson press — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 10:01:37 +0000

Jussi Parikka is a writer and professor in digital aesthetics and culture at Aarhus University. He is also Visiting Professor at FAMU in Prague and University of Southampton. He is the author of A Slow Contemporary Violence, A Geology of Media (Minnesota, 2015), The Anthrobscene (Minnesota, 2014), What Is Media Archaeology?, Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology (Minnesota, 2010), and Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses (2007).

David Elstein

meson press — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 06:53:22 +0000

David Elstein has spent fifty years in broadcasting, as a director and producer (at the BBC, Thames TV and London Weekend TV), Director of Programmes (at Thames TV and BSkyB) and Chief Executive (Brook Productions Ltd, Primetime Television Ltd, Channel 5 and Sparrowhawk Media). He has also chaired the British Screen Advisory Council, the National Film and Television School, the Commercial Radio Companies Association, DCD Media plc, Sports Network plc and Screen Digest Ltd. He has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Oxford, Stirling and Westminster. He is currently an executive producer at Portobello Films (whose “IDA” won the 2015 Oscar for Best Film in a Foreign Language).

Christian Herzog

meson press — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 06:53:10 +0000

Christian Herzog is a postdoctoral research associate at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC). He holds a PhD in media political economy and communications policy from Loughborough University, UK, with research interests centered around media policy, public service broadcasting/public service media, broadcasting history and open government. In February and March 2015 Christian was a visiting scholar at the University of Westminster, CAMRI. He is an academic advisor to the Finnish Academy-funded project ‘Facing the Coordination Challenge: Problems, Policies and Politics in Media and Communications Regulation’ at the University of Helsinki and on the editorial board of Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture. Christian’s research has appeared in journals such as the European Journal of Communication, International Journal of Cultural Policy, International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics and Media History. He is the author of ‘Towards a Market in Broadcasting: Communications Policy in the UK and Germany’ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).

Irina Kaldrack

meson press — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 07:46:50 +0000

Irina Kaldrack is a lecturer for “Society and Digitalization” at Bauhaus University, Weimar. She was full professor at the Foreign Studies College of Hunan Normal University in Changsha, China (spring semester, 2022) and was visting professor for “Knowledge Cultures in the Digital Age” at Braunschweig University of Art (2015–2021).

Martina Leeker

meson press — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 07:46:37 +0000

Martina Leeker has a background in theatre studies, media studies, theatre practice, and performance. She held an assistant professorship in theatre and media at the University of Bayreuth from 2002 to 2010 and was a senior researcher at Leuphana University Lüneburg’s Centre for Digital Cultures from 2013 until autumn 2018. Her research interests include theatre/performance and media, art and technology, systems engineering, infrastructures, the history of fascination with digital cultures, and methods and critique in digital cultures. As part of her academic work, Leeker is building on research with artistic methods, in particular performative methods, within lecture-performances
and speculation labs.

Stuart Elden

meson press — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 13:25:19 +0000

Stuart Elden is a Professor of Political Theory and Geography at University of Warwick, and Monash Warwick Professor, Faculty of Arts at Monash University. He is author of five books, including The Birth of Territory (University of Chicago Press, 2013), which won the Association of American Geographers Meridian book award for outstanding scholarly contribution. He has also co-edited and/or co-translated three volumes of Henri Lefebvre’s work. He is currently writing two books for Polity Press entitled Foucault’s Last Decade and Foucault: The Birth of Power.

Christian Wilke

meson press — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 10:04:29 +0000

Jennifer Ch. Müller

meson press — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 10:04:09 +0000

Laura Meneghello

meson press — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 10:03:42 +0000

Anna Rebecca Hoffmann

meson press — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 10:03:14 +0000

Alexander Friedrich

meson press — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 10:02:51 +0000

Alexander Friedrich ist Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Philosophie der Technischen Universität Darmstadt. Seine Forschungsinteressen umfassen Begriffsgeschichte und Metaphorologie, Technik- und Kulturphilosophie.

Sebastian Brand

meson press — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 10:02:29 +0000

Katja Barthel

meson press — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 10:02:05 +0000

Friedolin Krentel

meson press — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 10:01:44 +0000

Étienne Souriau

meson press — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:42:48 +0000

Étienne Souriau (1892–1979) lehrte an den Universitäten von Aix-en-Provence und Lyon, bevor er Professor an der Sorbonne wurde, wo er einen Lehrstuhl für Ästhetik innehatte. Er war Herausgeber der Revue d’esthétique und wurde 1958 in die Académie des sciences morales et politiques gewählt. Mit Die verschiedenen Modi der Existenz liegt nun erstmals eine Monographie Souriaus in deutscher Sprache vor.

Leif Thomas Olsen

meson press — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 16:38:17 +0000

Although most politicians are elected and bankrolled by the collective of citizens, is political work in general and policy-development in particular heavily influenced by the interests of the non-governmental and mainly corporate lobby, and voiced through the (nowadays) mainly privately owned media. This state of affairs was well described already by Jürgen Habermas, but has received much broader recognition in the last decade. The internet is often considered the tool by which the general public will regain influence. It is accessible, and in most countries free from censor-ship. But it is at the same time also a meeting-place for undemocratic, abusive and corrupt forces, often deliberately disguised as being the very opposite – a disguise only some surfers will reveal. The internet is also prone to develop new and often discreet hierarchies, mainly though what e.g. Clay Shirky calls the ‘long tail’, by which is meant that a very small number of highly exposed (and often well-funded) web- and social media contributors attract huge following, whereas the absolute majority of web- and social media contributors attract almost none. Still, the web’s open access creates an image of equality, one that is far from guaranteed when some contributors are well funded, and given heavy exposure by discreet and vested interests, while the large majority of less well-backed contributors are virtually lost in the mist. Because of the powerful corporate lobbies all countries have, and the weaknesses that not only the web but in fact most voluntary platforms wishing to challenge the incumbent suffer from, in terms of quantifiable and sustainable support, I argue in favor of an institutionalized counter-force, challenging the vested interests that often, and in professionally presented ways, disguise themselves as everybody’s common interests. ‘Growth’ could be a point in case. When further growth threatens the resource-base will short-term corporate profits be pitted against future generations’ quality-of-life. Well-crafted arguments in favor of growth can here easily outsmart less well-crafted but highly relevant arguments in favor of future generations – an abstract about which we however are far less certain than we can be about dollar, euro and cents, here and now. I call this institutionalized counter-force ‘The Citizen Lobby.'

Antonio Caronia

meson press — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:01:09 +0000

Antonio Caronia (1944-2013) studied mathematics, logic, and linguistics at the University of Genova, finishing it with a thesis on Noam Chomsky. Besides his studies he was a political activist in the Italian radical left. Further fields in which he conducted research were the study of mass culture, especially the interrelation of science, technology, and imagination. In addition, he turned to philosophy and anthropology, most notably concerning science fiction, comics, digital images, virtual reality, and telematic networks. Caronia worked as a translator, journalist, and university teacher. He taught at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera (Milano), the New Academy of Fine Arts (NABA) of Milano, and was the Director of Studies of M-Node, linked to the Planetary Collegium directed by Roy Ascott in Plymouth, UK.

Niklas Schrape

meson press — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 10:58:46 +0000

Dr. Niklas Schrape is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Digital Cultures at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany. He holds a double position at the Gamification Lab and the Institute for Advanced Study in Media Cultures of Computer Simulation (MECS). He studied Communications, Psychology and Sociology at the Freie Universität Berlin and Social and Economic Communications at the University of the Arts (UdK) in Berlin. He spent an abroad semester at the International Film School of Wales in Newport, UK. In 2011, Niklas finished his PhD thesis in Media Studies at Filmuniversität Babelsberg as a scholarship holder of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. In 2012, he published his thesis about rhetoric in games at Campus Verlag. His current research interest encompass the relation between Foucaults concepts of governmentality and self-techonlogies and gamification as well as the role of games in popularizing scientific modeling and simulation techniques.

Paolo Ruffino

meson press — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 10:57:16 +0000

Paolo Ruffino is a Research Associate at the Gamification Lab, Centre for Digital Cultures (Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany). He is also completing a PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London and works as Lecturer at the Game Cultures programme at London South Bank University. His PhD research involves a study of the concepts of consumer and producer in video games, the history of the medium of the video game and phenomena such as “modding”, independent gaming, open engines and game art. He is a member of the art collective IOCOSE. Paolo lives and works in London, UK.

Mathias Fuchs

meson press — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 10:39:06 +0000

Prof. Dr. Mathias Fuchs studied Computer Science in Erlangen and Vienna (Vienna University of Technology), and Composition in Vienna (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien) and in Stockholm (EMS, Fylkingen). In 2010 Mathias Fuchs received his Doctor title by Humboldt University of Berlin for a PhD thesis on the meaning of sounds (“Sinn und Sound”). He has pioneered in the field of artistic use of games and is a leading theoretician on game art and games studies. He is an artist, musician, media critic, and Professor at the Centre for Digital Cultures at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany. He is also Director of the Leuphana Gamification Lab.

Sonia Fizek

meson press — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 10:35:56 +0000

Dr. Sonia Fizek is a game scholar, a digital wanderer and an aspiring game architect. Since 2013 she has been conducting research at the Gamification Lab in the Centre for Digital Cultures (Leuphana University Luneburg). She completed her MA in Electronic Literature at the Institute of English Studies at Lodz University (Poland) and her PhD at the School of Creative Studies & Media at Bangor University (UK). Her most current academic interests focus on gamification, ludic turn, games for science, design, and audio gaming. She is leading seminars in game theory and analysis at Leuphana University and Hamburg Media School. In 2015 she joined the JOURNAL OF GAMING AND VIRTUAL WORLDS as the third Associate Editor. Alongside her academic work, Sonia is also concept designing and producing experimental digital games.

Kostas Axelos

meson press — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 15:24:39 +0000

Kostas Axelos was a Greek-French philosopher with an emphasis on the studies of Karl Marx and Martin Heidegger. His two doctoral theses were on Heraclitus and Marx. In addition he translated Heidegger, Georg Lukács, and Karl Korsch. He is best known for his works on the concept of the world, particularly the 1969 book Le jeu du monde; as one of the editors of the journal Arguments; and as editor of the book series of the same name published by Les Éditions des Minuit. Axelos is, however, much less well known in the English-speaking world, since Introduction to a Future Way of Thought: On Marx and Heidegger is only the second book to be translated to English. The first, his book on Marx, appeared in translation (1976), but none of his other full-length works has yet. (Cf. Elden, Stuart. “Introducing Kostas Axelos and ‘The World'” In Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 639-642. Vol. 24. 2006.)

Florian Sprenger

meson press — Sun, 08 Mar 2015 15:22:20 +0000

Florian Sprenger is professor of virtual humanities at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. He is author of Politics of Micro-Decisions: Edward Snowden, Net Neutrality and the Architecture of the Internet (Meson Press, 2015). His research covers topics such as the history of artificial environments, media of immediacy, and the internet of things.

Andreas Broeckmann

Marcus Burkhardt — Sat, 07 Mar 2015 09:12:38 +0000

He is art historian and curator, works at the Centre for Digital Cultures at Leuphana Universität of Lüneburg and heads the Leuphana Arts Program. He curated exhibitions and festivals in major European venues, incl. Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Vanabbe Museum, and transmediale Berlin. He holds a PhD in Art History from University of East Anglia, Norwich/UK. Broeckmann publishes and lectures about the history of modern art, media theory, machine aesthetics, and digital culture. He is the editor of Place Studies in Art, Media, Science and Technology (with G. Nadarajan, Weimar 2009).

Yuk Hui

Marcus Burkhardt — Sat, 07 Mar 2015 09:07:17 +0000

He studied Computer Engineering and Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong and at Goldsmiths College in London. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institut de Recherche et d’Innovation of Centre Pompidou and is currently postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Digital Cultures of Leuphana University of Lüneburg. Hui publishes internationally on philosophy of technics and media, in periodicals such as Metaphilosophy, Cahiers Simondon, Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, etc. He is author of On the Existence of Digital Objects (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming).

Marcus Burkhardt

Marcus Burkhardt — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 11:45:44 +0000

Marcus Burkhardt is Professor for Media, Algorithms and Society at Paderborn University where he researches transformations of digital media and their impact on our cultures. His academic background is in media studies, philosophy and computer science. He conducted his Ph.D. in the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture at Justus Liebig-University Giessen on the media history and theory of digital databases. Besides exploring the potentials of Open Access book publishing in the humanities his research focuses on the transformations of knowledge in the age of Big Data and on algorithmic environments. His research areas and interests comprise History and Theory of Digital Media, especially Logi(sti)cs of Database Technologies, Big Data, and Algorithmic Environments; Media of Knowledge Production and Dissemination; Media Philosophy; Media Theory.