Claus Pias

Claus Pias (* 1967 in Cologne ) is a German media scientist and media historian . He is professor for media theory and media history at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg .

Life

Pias studied electrical engineering in Aachen as well as art history , German and philosophy in Bonn and Bochum . In 1993 he became a research assistant for architectural history at the Bauhaus University in Weimar . Three years later he switched to the chair for "History and Theory of Artificial Worlds" from Joseph Vogl . In 2000 he received his doctorate in Weimar and in 2002 he was appointed junior professor for "Media Technology and Media Philosophy" at the Ruhr University in Bochum . From 2006 to 2010 he was professor for " Epistemology and Philosophy of Digital Media" at the University of Vienna .

Pias has been teaching in Lüneburg since the winter semester 2010. In the same year he co-founded the Institute for Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media (ICAM) at the Faculty of Culture. In 2012 he was also co-founder of the Center for Digital Cultures and is a member of the board of directors of the research center. He is also director of the research group “Media Cultures of Computer Simulation” (Institute for Advanced Studies - mecs) and the Digital Cultures Research Lab (DCRL). Since 2010 he has been a Senior Fellow at the International College for Cultural Technology Research and Media Philosophy (IKKM) Weimar , at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK) Vienna , at the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin , at the Cultural Studies College of the Excellence Cluster "Cultural Basics of Integration" at the University of Konstanz and at the Kolleg- Research group "Image evidence. History and Aesthetics ”at the Free University of Berlin . He was visiting professor at Princeton University in 2017. He is also a member of the graduate colleges “Loose Connections: Collectivity in Urban and Digital Space” in Hamburg and “Cultures of Criticism” in Lüneburg.

Claus Pias' main research interests are media theory, the scientific history of media thinking, and the history and epistemology of simulation and cybernetics.

In addition to his publication activities, he published the collected minutes and documents of the Macy Conferences (1946–1953) in two volumes in 2003/2004 . From 2004 to 2013 he oversaw the publication of the critical writings in individual editions by Hermann Bahr . Together with Joseph Vogl , he publishes the media and science-historical book series »sequencia« at Diaphanes-Verlag Zürich / Berlin.

Fonts

Own works

• 1996: literature viewed. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach and the fine arts, Weimar: VDG
• 2002: Computer Spiel Welten, Zurich / Berlin: diaphanes, ISBN 978-3-935300-47-6 (2nd edition 2010)
• 2003: The era of cybernetics, Berlin: Alcatel SEL
• 2004: Anna Oppermann in the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg: Small series of the Hamburger Kunsthalle
• 2017: Computer Game Worlds, Chicago: Chicago UP, translated by Valentin Pakis, ISBN 978-3-0358-0013-5

As editor

• Thirteen lectures on media culture (= ('media) i. 1). Publishing house and database for humanities, Weimar 1999, ISBN 3-89739-099-X .
• with Joseph Vogl , Lorenz Engell , Oliver Fahle and Britta Neitzel: Kursbuch Medienkultur. The authoritative theories from Brecht to Baudrillard. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-421-05310-3 .
• New lectures on media culture (= ('Media) i. 3). Publishing house and database for the humanities, Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-89739-101-5 .
• Cybernetics. = Cybernetics. The Macy Conferences 1946–1953. 2 volumes. diaphanes, Zurich et al. 2003–2004;
  • Volume 1: Transactions. = Protocols. 2003, ISBN 3-935300-35-2 ;
  • Volume 2: Essays and documents. = Essays and documents. 2004, ISBN 3-935300-36-0 .
• Futures of the Computer. diaphanes, Zurich et al. 2005, ISBN 3-935300-56-5 .
• Since 2004: Hermann Bahr : Critical writings in separate editions .
• with Christian Holtorf: Escape! Computer games as cultural technology (= writings of the German Hygiene Museum Dresden. 6). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-01706-4 .
• Defense. Models. Strategies. Media. transcript, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-89942-876-6 .
• with Wolfgang Coy : PowerPoint. Power and influence of a presentation program (= Fischer. 18411). Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-18411-8 .
• Culture-free images. Inventions of no preconditions. Kulturverlag Kadmos, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86599-021-1 .
• with Thomas Brandstetter and Sebastian Vehlken: Think Tanks. Advising society. diaphanes, Zurich et al. 2010, ISBN 978-3-03734-086-8 .
• What was media? diaphanes, Zurich et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-03734-127-8 .
• with Inge Baxmann and Timon Beyes: Social Media: New Masses. (2nd Media Studies Symposium). diaphanes, Zurich et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-03734-748-5 .
• Cybernetics. The Macy Conferences 1946-1953. The Complete Transactions. diaphanes, Zurich et al. 2016, ISBN 978-3-03734-598-6 .
• with Stefan Rieger : Complete understanding. Utopias of communication. diaphanes, Zurich et al. 2016, ISBN 978-3-03734-631-0 .
• * with Inge Baxmann and Timon Beyes: Social Media - New Masses. diaphanes, Zurich et al. 2010, ISBN 978-3-03734-642-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Claus Pias in the catalog of the German National Library
• Claus Pias at the University of Vienna (until 2010)
• Courses offered by Claus Pias as part of the courses offered by the Institute for Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media (ICAM) at Leuphana Lüneburg (from 2010)
• Video interview 'Two minutes of science' at youtube.com
• Interview about computer games, 2002
• Center for Digital Cultures

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Website of the Center for Digital Cultures ( Memento of the original from March 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 16, 2015 
2. ^ Leuphana University of Lüneburg: Members. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 17, 2017 ; accessed on March 16, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Prof. Claus Pias (Leuphana University, Lüneburg) wants to spend Spring Semester 2017 as Visiting Professor in Princeton | Department of German. Retrieved March 16, 2017 . 
4. ↑ text catalog of the University of Duisburg-Essen
5. ↑ sequencing. Retrieved March 20, 2017 .