Giaco Schiesser

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Giaco Schiesser (* 1953 in Glarus ) is a Swiss theorist and cultural and media scientist.

Live and act

Giaco Schiesser studied philosophy, cultural studies and German at the Free University of Berlin . Thereafter teaching and research at the Free University of Berlin and at the German Seminar of the University of Basel .

From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, he was primarily active as a publicist and science editor: ten years as a member of the editorial team of the journal contradiction , five years as science editor at WoZ . In addition, as an associated member of the Hamburg Institute for Migration and Racism Research, he carried out research in particular on questions of contemporary subject constitutions and on questions of everyday racism.

He has worked at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) since the mid-1990s . At first he worked as a lecturer for the theory and history of visual communication and the media, before he created the study area New Media (today: BA Art & Media / Practice Field Digitiality) in 1998, which he worked with the artist group Knowbotic Research and the media artist Margarete until 2002 Jahrmann directed. Since then, the focus of his work has been on the profound economic, political, cultural and artistic consequences of digitization in post-Fordist society and on the concept of the "obstinacy of the media" as an attempt to more precisely define the mediality of the media and their artistic potential explore. In 2002 he was appointed professor for cultural and media theories . From 2002 to 2017 he was director of the Department of Art & Media at the Zurich University of Art and Design (2002–2007) and then the Zurich University of the Arts, ZHdK, member of the university management (both 2007–2017) and head of the research dossier at the ZHdK (2013-2018). Since 1997 he has contributed to the conception, establishment and implementation of artistic curricula (BFA, MFA) and artistic (practice-based) PhD programs, to the problems of artistic research as well as to questions of authorship , psychoanalysis and Bob Dylan as a DJ.

In December 2019 he was awarded the “Top 100 Leaders in Education” award. The prize, awarded for the first time by the Global Forum for Education & Learning (GFEL) in 2019, has the purpose of “to honor the relentless efforts and zeal of individuals who have played a prominent role in changing the face of education at the global as well as the local level. "

Since 2009, Giaco Schiesser has also been a permanent visiting professor for artistic and scientific Ph.D. at the Art University Linz (Austria). In this role, he conceived and founded a PhD cooperation program in artistic research (Zurich University of the Arts and Art University Linz), which he has also directed since it was founded in 2012 (since 2017 together with Florian Dombois). From 2009 until it was closed by the ETH in 2017, he was also a member of the board of the interdisciplinary Cortona Week (2009-2017), from 2013 to 2020 member, since 2015 Vice-President of the Executive Board of the Society for Artistic Research (SAR) , since 2013 is a member of the advisory board of Entresol, Network for the Sciences of the Psyche.

His research and publication focuses are culture, media, subject theory / epistemology / aesthetics, art research / democracy, publics and everyday culture.

Fonts (selection)

  • Art Education without Condition in Times of Neo-Feudalism and of a New Nihilism. (Chinese Translation, primary publication) In: New Arts , Journal of the National Academy of Art / China Art Academy, Hangzhou, V. 39, Number 5/2018.
  • The Florence Principles on the Doctorate in the Arts . A Publication by ELIA (European League of the Institutes of the Arts), Amsterdam 2016. (Co-Author)
  • The soundtrack of life. Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour and the Scary America. In: Olaf Knellessen, Giaco Schiesser, Daniel Strassberg (eds.): Seriality. Sciences, arts, media. Turia + Kant, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-85132-766-3 .
  • Third cycle. In: Jens Badura u. a. (Ed.): Artistic Research. A manual. Diaphanes, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-03734-880-2 .
  • What is at stake - Qu'est ce que l'enjeu? Paradoxes - Problematics - Perspectives in Artistic Research Today. In: Gerald Bast, Elias G. Carayannis (Eds.): Arts, Research, Innovation and Society. (= ARIS. Vol. 1). Springer, Cham / New York 2015, ISBN 978-3-319-09908-8 .
  • The unconditional psychoanalysis. Marginalia from a non-analyst. In: Brigitte Boothe, Peter Schneider (Ed.): Psychoanalysis and its education. Sphères, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-905933-04-8 .
  • Some frustration; Paradoxes, gaps, perspectives in artistic research today. In: Practices of Experimentation / Practices of Experimentation. Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-85881-259-9 .
  • Authorship after the author's death. Barthes and Foucault revisited. In: Hans Peter Schwarz (ed.): Authorship in the arts. Concepts - Practices - Media. Museum for Design Zurich, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-906437-22-4 .
  • The «Unconditional Art School» - Art Education in Post-Industrial Society. In: Hans Peter Schwarz (Ed.): ZHdK. A future for the arts. Publication on the foundation of the Zurich University of the Arts. Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-85881-200-1 .
  • Media, art, education. About stubbornness as an artistic productive force. In: S. Schade u. a. (Ed.): Interface. Schwabe, Basel 2005, ISBN 3-7965-2150-9 . (Translations into English and Chinese)
  • «Practically of no concern» - The Telegraph and the unleashing of the ecstasy of communication. In: Kurt Stadelmann, Rolf Wolfensberger: Desired Worlds. History and pictures of communication and technology. published by the Museum for Communication Bern . Chronos, Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-905313-59-6 .
  • The self-captivating subject - lust for life. In: Marion Strunk: Subjects, Stars and Chips. Subject positions in the arts. Edition Howeg, Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-85736-186-7 .
  • Paradise is westward! 9 theses on version 8.0 of the best of all worlds. In: René Pfammatter (Ed.): Multi Media Mania. Reflections on aspects of the new media. UVK, Konstanz 1998, ISBN 3-89669-224-0 .
  • The world of work, democracy, the state - some problem areas in the political and social environment of electronic markets. In: G. Schiesser u. a .: Electronic Markets: Importance and Meaning for Switzerland. Swiss Science Council, SWR, Bern 1996.
  • Lust for life, bound. Everyday racism as the blind spot of anti-racism. In: Alien in Paradise. Migration and racism. Edited by Udo Rauchfleisch. Lenos, Basel 1994, ISBN 978-3-85787-234-1 .
as editor
  • with Olaf Knellessen and Daniel Strassberg: Seriality. Sciences, arts, media. Turia + Kant, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-85132-766-3 .
  • Fast series. Department of Art & Media / Zurich University of the Arts, Volume 1/2013 - (Series-Ed.), ISBN 978-3-85881-409-8 .
  • with Christoph Brunner: Practices of Experimentation. Research and Teaching in the Arts today / Practices of Experimentation. Research and Teaching in the Arts Today. Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-85881-259-9 .
  • Yearbooks of the Department of Art & Media at the Zurich University of the Arts. ZHdK / Series editor Yearbooks Department of Art & Media / Zurich University of the Arts. 4 volumes. Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2006–2012, ISBN 3-905701-84-7 , ISBN 978-3-85881-187-5 , ISBN 978-3-85881-210-0 , ISBN 978-3-85881-259-9 .
  • as co-editor: Metaworx - Approaches to Interactivity. Birkhäuser, Basel / Boston / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-7643-0089-2 .
  • Otto F. Walter: Counterword . Essays, speeches, encounters. Limmat, Zurich 1988, ISBN 3-85791-141-7 .
  • as co-editor: contradiction . Semi-annual magazine. Zurich 1983–1993, ISSN  1420-0945 .
  • with Peter Arnold u. a .: Zwüschehalt. 13 experience reports from the New Left in Switzerland. Rotpunkt, Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-85869-010-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography , website for the Cultural Competence congress , 1. – 3. October 1998, accessed April 7, 2013.
  2. ↑ platform.imir.de
  3. ↑ societyforartisticresearch.org ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.societyforartisticresearch.org
  4. ↑ TagesAnzeiger, February 13, 2016
  5. ↑ distributedcreativity.org ( Memento of the original dated December 9, 2004 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / distributedcreativity.org
  6. ^ Paul A. Fishwick (Ed.): Aesthetic Computing. MIT Press, Cambridge MA 2006, p. 131.
  7. ↑ Torsten Meyer u. a. (Ed.): Education within a New Medium. Knowledge Formation and Digital Infrastructure. Waxmann, Münster 2008, p. 110f.
  8. ↑ Swissuniversities, Fine Arts PhD program
  9. ^ The Florence Principles on the Doctorate in the Arts . A publication by ELIA (European League of Institutes of the Arts)
  10. ^ The Education Conference: Improving the Means of Educational Transmittal. Edited by GFEL, Dubai 2019, p. 58.
  11. ↑ Ibid., P. 11.
  12. ↑ Fine Arts PhD program
  13. ^ Fritjof Capra, Pier Luigi Luisi: The Systems View of Life. A Unifying System, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Schiesser, Giaco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss theorist and cultural and media scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Glarus