Frank Hartmann (media scientist)

Frank Hartmann (* 1959 in Bregenz ; † July 27, 2019 in Vienna ) was an Austrian media philosopher . He taught media and communication theory at the University of Vienna and since 2009 as a professor at the Bauhaus University Weimar .

Life

Frank Hartmann studied art history, sociology, communication studies and philosophy at the University of Vienna, received his doctorate in philosophy in 1987 with a thesis on Max Horkheimer and then worked as a university lecturer for media philosophy at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at the University of Vienna. He also worked as a PR and media consultant, publicist and science writer. From 1992–1999 Hartmann was executive secretary general of the Forum Sozialforschung Wien, an association of non-university research institutes.

In 2000 he completed his habilitation in media and communication theory at the University of Vienna. This was followed by teaching at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies in Vienna, at the Danube University Krems , at the University of Salzburg , at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and in the MultiMediaArt course at the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences . In 2007 he was visiting professor at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Erfurt , and in 2008 at the Bauhaus University Weimar .

In 2009 Hartmann was appointed professor for the theory and history of visual communication at the Bauhaus University Weimar. From 2011 to 2014 Hartmann was Dean of the Faculty of Design, since 2015 Senator of the University.

Hartmann died on July 27, 2019.

Fonts

Max Horkheimer's materialistic skepticism. Early motives of critical theory (= Campus Research. 645). Campus, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1990, ISBN 3-593-34274-X .
Thinker Thinking History: Exploring Philosophy and National Socialism. Passagen, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-85165-097-2 .
Cyber.Philosophy. Media-theoretical explorations. Passagen, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85165-228-2 .
Media philosophy (= UTB . 2112). WUV, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-85114-468-6 .
with Erwin K. Bauer : Imagery. Otto Neurath. Visualizations. WUV, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-85114-704-9 (2nd, extended and full edition, ibid 2006, ISBN 3-7089-0000-6 ).
Mediology. Approaches to a media theory in cultural studies. WUV, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85114-801-0 .
Global media culture. Technology, history, theories (= UTB. 2723). WUV, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-8252-2723-5 .
Multimedia (= UTB. 3033). Facultas.wuv, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-8252-3033-3 .
Media and Communication (= UTB. 3014). Facultas.wuv, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-8252-3014-2 .
as editor: Michael Buckland: From microfilm to knowledge machine - Emanuel Goldberg between media technology and politics. Biography (= research visual culture. 1). Translated from the English by Gernot Rieder. Avinus, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86938-015-5 .
as editor: from book to database. Paul Otlets utopia of knowledge visualization (= research visual culture. 2). Avinus, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86938-025-4 .
as editor with Lorenz Engell and Christiane Voss: Body of Thinking. New positions in media philosophy (= writings of the International College for Cultural Technology Research and Media Philosophy. 17). Wilhelm Fink et al., Munich et al. 2013, ISBN 978-3-7705-5529-1 .
as editor with Pierre Kramann-Musculus and Konstantin Wolf: "Please show me how to do Bauhaus!" Faculty of Art & Design Weimar (= yearbook of the Faculty of Design. 2015). VDG, Weimar 2015, ISBN 978-3-95773-185-2 .
as editor: factual image and social engineering. Otto Neurath (= research visual culture. 3). Avinus, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86938-056-8 .
Cultura mediática. In the era de la digitalización. Bauhaus-Universitätsverlag, Kromsdorf et al. 2017, ISBN 978-3-95773-228-6 .
as editor: Wilhelm Ostwald. Color theory, form theory. A critical reconstruction (= research visual culture. 4). Avinus, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-86938-090-2 .
Media modern. Philosophy and aesthetics. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2018, ISBN 978-3-658-18847-4 .

Web links

Literature by and about Frank Hartmann in the catalog of the German National Library
Medienphilosophie.net
Frank Hartmann: The Blue Planet - How a picture in the interplay of technology and culture shaped global awareness. dated January 9, 2010, in research (accessed March 16, 2013)
Frank Hartmann: About graffiti - urban public space between subversion, art and commerce. dated December 9, 2010, in research (accessed March 16, 2013)
Frank Hartmann: Media are not "concepts" - on the outcome of the typographical as a cultural technique, technical existence and the creeping end of philosophy as a text enterprise. from April 1, 2014, in research (accessed April 1, 2014)
Frank Hartmann: Paul Otlets Hypermedium. Documentation as an alternative to the library. from January 14, 2016, in LIBREAS # 28 | The library as an idea (accessed on March 18, 2016)

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Hartmann, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian media philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH	1959
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bregenz
DATE OF DEATH	July 27, 2019
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Media philosopher Frank Hartmann has died. August 7, 2019, accessed August 7, 2019 .

[2] ttp://www.uni-weimar.de/de/kunst-und-gestaltung/professuren/geschichte-und-theorie-der-visuellen-kommunikation/

[3] ttp://www.uni-weimar.de/de/universitaet/struktur/gremien/senat/

[4] ttps://www.uni-weimar.de/en/university/news/bauhausjournal-online/titel/die-fakultaet-kunst-und-gestaltung-trauert-um-prof-dr-phil-habil-frank-hartmann /