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Professorship for media aesthetics

About the person

Her focus is on the theory of digital media, media ecologies, intermedia art and the cultural significance of "atmosphere".

She combines media studies with questions of media culture studies.

Research

  • matters of Activity | Participation in the Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity, Associate Investigator
  • Ubiquitous Computing | Human - Technology - Design. Paradigms of Ubiquitous Computing (FHNW HGK Basel), Associate Investigator
  • Figurations of Immediacy
  • Construction of Media Authorships (publication project together with Prof. Dr Angela Krewani and Dr Irene Schütze), de Gruyter, ET: Spring 2020

Prof Dr Christiane Heibach

Professor of Media Aesthetics

Christiane HeibachPhoto: Michelle Mantel

Academic career

  • October 2019 - October 2021 1st Chair of the Society for Media Studies
  • Since September 2019 Associated Investigator in the Cluster of Excellence"Matters of Activity", sub-project "Symbolic Materials"
  • since April 2016 Professor of Media Aesthetics at the Institute of Information and Media, Language and Culture (I:IMSK) at the University of Regensburg
  • February 2015 - January 2017 Head of the SNF research project "Gestaltete Unmittelbarkeit. Atmospheric experience in an affective-responsive environment" at the Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design Basel
  • WS 2014/15 and SS 2015 Representation of the W3 professorship for media studies at the University of Konstanz
  • Since September 2013 Senior Researcher at the Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design Basel
  • Since April 2013 Visiting Research Fellow at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design
  • WS 2012/13 Substitute for the W3 professorship for fundamental philosophical issues in theology and media theory at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design
  • WS 2011/12 Substitute for the W3 professorship for media studies at the University of Konstanz
  • WS 2009/10 Guest lecturer in the PhD programme "Art and Design" at the Bauhaus University Weimar
  • July 2009 to December 2012 Project "Epistemology of Multimediality" at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, funded by the DFG with her own position and other material resources
  • 2008/09 Research assistant at Erfurt University Library for the organisation of the 98th German Librarians' Day 2009 in Erfurt
  • 2007 Habilitation, venia legendi for media studies and general literary studies
  • 2000-2008 Research assistant at the Chair of Comparative Literature/Media at the University of Erfurt
  • 1995-2000 Worked on her dissertation and worked as a secretary in a law firm (Frankfurt/Main)
  • 1991-1995 Worked as an advertising and PR assistant in a publishing house and an agency (Darmstadt/Hanau)
  • 1985-1991 Studied German language and literature, history and philosophy in Bamberg, Paris and Heidelberg
  • born 1967 in Lourenço Marques (today: Maputo) / Mozambique

Main research areas

  • Media Epistemology
  • Theory and aesthetics of digital media
  • Intersensoriality and intermediality
  • Figurations of the immediate in the history and theory of media
  • Ecology and media aesthetics

Teaching

Prof Heibach regularly offers courses on the following topics:

  • Media aesthetics
  • AI creativity
  • Art goes Digital: From computer poetry to artificial intelligence
  • Research seminar
  • Advanced seminar

Teaching Assistant

Viola Melzner M.A.

Publications

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Lectures and conferences

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Administrative Office

Renate Vogl

[Translate to English:] Renate Vogl
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