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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.

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.

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).

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 wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter:in am Institut für Medienwissenschaft der Universität Paderborn sowie als PostDoc am DFG-Graduiertenkolleg Medienanthropologie an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar assoziiert. Nach dem Studium der Theater- und Literaturwissenschaft und Gender Studies in Bochum und Paris X hat Jasmin die Promotion zu Medien der Sorge (Büchner, 2021) im PhD-Net Das Wissen der Literatur (HU Berlin) begonnen und im Fach Medienwissenschaft in Bochum 2019 abgeschlossen. Jasmin war Visiting Scholar am German Department/UC Berkeley (2014) und Mitglied des Kooperationsnetzwerks Queer Temporalities and Media Aesthetic (RUB/Northwestern University/Illinois, 2016-2018) sowie Co-Sprecher:in der AG Gender und Queer Studies der GfM. Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind Medien der Sorge, Gender und Queer Studies, Biopolitik, Politische Affekte sowie Digitaler Faschismus. Aktuell arbeitet Jasmin an einem zweiten Buch zu zeitgenössischem Faschismus und der Differentialität post/digitaler Empfindungskulturen.

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.

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 Sciences at the University of Konstanz since 2008. Since October 2022 she is part of the Directorate of the Centre for Human | Data | Society. After earning her master’s degree in 1992 in Romance and German Studies, General Linguistics, studying at the University of Mannheim and the University of Nantes, she received her doctorate for a thesis on Roman Languages, Literature, and Media in 1996 (thesis: Charles Nodier. Digressionen), followed by the habilitation in 2002 (thesis: DeMONSTRAtion. Zur Repräsentation des Monsters in Literatur, Fotografie und Film). She has expert knowledge in the field of Digital Cultures, Media and Disability Studies, Assistive Technologies, and (Online) Gaming. Beate Ochsner was spokeswoman of the interdisciplinary Research Group “Media and Participation” (mediaandparticipation.com) supported by the German Research Foundation (2015-2022). Since 2021 she is a member of the Sensory Studies Research Directory (Montréal, Canada). She is founder of the Research Network “Social Serious Gaming” and member of the Expert Commission for the Evaluation of the Centre for Media Studies (Brandenburg).

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.

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.

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).

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mercedes Bunz

Marcus Burkhardt — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 11:26:05 +0000

Dr Mercedes Bunz is Senior Lecturer in Digital Society at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London. She came to London in 2009 to work as the technology reporter of The Guardian. Her research explores how digital technology transforms knowledge and power. Her last book is Communication (meson press & University of Minnesota Press 2019), with Finn Brunton and Paula Bialski, which discusses how contemporary communication puts us not only in conversation with one another but also with our machinery. Before that, she published The Internet of Things (Polity 2018) written with Professor Graham Meikle.