Hans Ulrich Reck

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Hans Ulrich Reck (* 1953 in Schönenwerd ) is a Swiss philosopher , curator , publicist and art historian . Since 1995 he has been professor of art history in the media context at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne , where he has been rector since April 1, 2014 .

Life

Reck, who grew up in Basel , is married to the jewelry artist Christine Bruggmann, from which relationship a daughter comes: Lea Reck, b. 1980, active in graphics, book design, visual communication, communication design. Hans Ulrich Reck studied a. a. with Helmut Fahrenbach, Ernst Bloch , Walter Schulz, Otto Friedrich Bollnow , Josef Simon , Konrad Hoffmann, Donat de Chapeaurouge, Klaus Schwager, Jürgen Paul, Hans Ott, Hans Mayer , Walter Jens and Wilfried Barner Philosophy, Art History and Modern German Literature at the University of Tübingen (graduated with the Magister Artium 1976) and communication design with Bazon Brock at the Bergische Universität - Gesamtthochschule Wuppertal . There he received his doctorate in philosophy in 1989 with a thesis entitled “Boundaries” - on aesthetics in current cultural theories and completed his habilitation in 1991 with the Venia legendi for “Aesthetics and general art history” based on the habilitation thesis Attributed Reality, which was published in 1994 . Everyday culture, design, art, film and advertising in the focus of media theory.

From 1976 on he worked as a journalist , freelance author and publicist , and since 1979 as a teacher . In 1987 he acquired a teaching qualification in art mediation / art education ( upper secondary school level ) at the Pedagogical Institute / Cantonal Teachers' Seminar in Basel-Stadt . 1979 co-founder, until 1981 he was also head of a culture and event center in Basel; 1983 to 1986 editor of the Bulletin of the Swiss Theater Association.

In 1983 he was appointed chairman of the work council of the International Design Center (IDZ) in Berlin - a position he held until 1986. In this and in general since that time, ongoing collaboration with Bazon Brock. From 1982 to 1995 Hans Ulrich Reck was a lecturer in art history, architecture and design theory, visual communication , semiotics , aesthetics and media theory at the Higher School for Design in Basel ; from 1989 to 1995 also at the secondary school for design in Zurich . In Zurich, in addition to theory classes, he also carried out formative theory design projects in cooperation with Aldo Walker and André V. Heiz.

From 1986 to 1996 he worked intensively with Martin Heller and the staff of the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich for the realization of exhibitions, catalogs and symposia. During this period the exhibition with the title “Imitations. Imitation and model. On the lust for the wrong ”with takeovers in Hagen and Berlin . As a co-production with the Higher School for Design, “Euphoria and misery. Professional field of visual design ”(April 1991 to July 1992), and the 1996 conference“ Aesthetics after the topicality of the aesthetic. A symposium on perspectives in cultural development on the occasion of Bazon Brock's 60th birthday ”.

From 1984 onwards he gave lectures in German, English , French and was an organizer and contributor to symposia, workshops, conferences on philosophy, aesthetics, art history, art science and theory, architecture and design, urban studies , semiotics in Germany, Austria and the Switzerland as well as in Amsterdam, Bombay, Sao Paulo, Chicago, New York, Rome, Paris, Venice, Barcelona, ​​Sydney.

Together with Alois Martin Müller and Jörg Huber, he conceived the lecture series “Interventions”, which began in 1991 (published as a series of books until 1998 by Verlag Stroemfeld / Roter Stern , Basel / Frankfurt). In 1990/91 the conception and publication of the series "Querschüsse" (Keyser Verlag, Munich) followed. 1992–1995 he worked as head of the chair and professor for communication theory at the University of Applied Arts Vienna . In 1995, Hans Ulrich Reck was appointed professor for art history in the media context at the Art Academy for Media in Cologne. As part of his work at the KHM, he developed the Jahrbuch für Künste und Apparate Lab with Siegfried Zielinski and Nils Röller .

In the summer and autumn of 1999, Hans Ulrich Reck and his computer science colleague at the KHM, Georg Trogemann, worked on a pilot research project on behalf of the Federal and State Commission for the KHM and other universities. Initiation, co-management and realization of this pilot project within the framework of the “Cultural Education in the Media Age” (“Kubim”) project carried out by the Federal and State Commission was created and carried out as basic scientific research under the title “Computer Science, Artistic Practice and Art Theory of the digital image technologies ”(modified from 2001 under the title“ KIT - Art - Computer Science - Theory ”). The work on it extended from autumn 1999 to summer 2003. Book and online publications emerged from it (Hans Ulrich Reck, Art as Media Theory. Vomzeichen zur Handlung, 2003; Georg Trogemann / Jochen Viehoff, Code @ Art. An elementary introduction to programming as an artistic practice, 2005; Code @ Art was also implemented as a network tool; Hans Ulrich Reck with Schoenerwissen / OfCD, txtkit 1.0 Visual Text Mining Tool, CDR and Netz-Tool, 2004).

In 1999/2000 he participated at the invitation of Michael Erlhoff in the co-conception and advice for an exhibition and catalog Today is Tomorrow. About the future of experience and construction ( Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany , Bonn). From 1998 to 2000, together with Hartmut Böhme , Christina von Braun , Martin Burckhardt , Wolfgang Coy and Friedrich Kittler, he formed the program commission for the organization of Interface 5, which took place under the title “Politics of the Machine” on behalf of the Hamburg cultural authority in September and October Carried out in Hamburg in 2000 and later documented and reflected on in a publication.

From November 2002 to April 2003, on behalf of the Rectorate of the University of Art and Design Zurich, Hans Ulrich Reck developed an expertise on the role of the theoretical subjects at art universities as well as proposals for a reform of theoretical education with further materials on the history of artist education , science and art theory .

Act

In his publications, Reck deals with topics, terms and artists in an encyclopedic way. The historical is combined with metatheoretical , epistemic, socio-theoretical, modernity-theoretical, sociological and philosophical insights. His work also deals with art, media and visual culture, art as media theory , creativity syndrome and the concept of dream .

Reck differentiates art with media and art through media in order to expand categorical ascription routines of art history and media art theory .

The problem of differentiating between dreams, thinking, imagining as well as the art forms of dreams and the forms of imagination of vision raises the question of how the phenomenon of the pictorial is related to perception and imagination . The decisive factor here is the hypothesis that dreams and visions are influenced by the representations of art and the art forms of the imaginary in historical turning points. Reck examines the theoretical content of the arts, especially of the 20th century , in terms of a rhetoric of design. The question of an art through media serves to sharpen the riches of art history .

In art as media theory: From the characters to action and myth Media Art (2002) examples of art and art history are examined: the history of portrait painting since the Renaissance, between visibility cult and hermetic allegory oscillating reference models of nature morte and Dutch still life , the réalisations of Paul Cézanne , Image Functions from the History of the Concept of Realism. In a similar encyclopedic way, Singularity and Morality: The Art of Aldo Walker from a pictorial rhetorical and media-philosophical perspective can be mentioned in this series. Art as media theory and dream: Encyclopedia have been supplemented in further steps by studies on an epistemology of the image from the point of view of the arts.

The Compendium Index Creativity unfolds aspects of creativity research and its relationship to the arts in 140 chapters. The book design reflects the non-linear complexity with the addition of navigation aids, markings, maps, paths, references and expanded to include a transcultural context . The arts are discussed from a civilizational perspective of diverse histories and geographies (Africa, Asia, Aboriginal Australia, USA).

Reck developed his aesthetics and art theory in discussions and collaboration with Bazon Brock, Jörg Huber, Jörg Zimmermann, Dietmar Kamper , Michael Erlhoff , Christian Reder , Bernd Ternes and a number of very different artists. In this way, Reck interlocks theory and practice, reflection and poetics in studios and workshops.

Reck is involved in the following monographs, among others

a selection of exhibitions and publications

  • Jean Zuber (1985/6),
  • U. Michel (1993),
  • Zelko Wiener (1994)
  • Franziska Zumbach (1995),
  • Mischa Kuball (1997/2002),
  • Aldo Walker (2003/4) and
  • Erik Steinbrecher ( Knacki, 2008).

In 1999 he contributed as co-editor (together with Michael Hardt , Luther Blissett and others) to the realization of the project 10-dencies: lavoro immateriale of the artist group “Knowbotic Research” (KR + cF) for the 1999 Venice Biennale . The collaborative installation was shown as Austria's official contribution, selected and curated by Peter Weibel .

With Andreas M. Kaufmann he is developing a cooperation under the working title “Freedom is the optimal distribution of dependency” for the project and exhibition cycle “Ruhr Atoll 2010. Art and Energy” for the European Capital of Culture Essen 2010.

Publications (selection)

  • Game form arts. On an art history of improvisation , as editor, with an afterword by Bernd Ternes, Philo Fine Arts, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86572-661-2
  • Dream. Encyclopedia , Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7705-4396-0
  • Creativity Index (Cologne 2007)
  • Stubbornness of images. Image theory or art philosophy? (Munich 2007)
  • The picture shows the picture itself as something absent (Vienna / New York 2007)
  • The Myth of Media Art. The Aesthetics of the Techno / Imaginary and an * Art Theory of Virtual Realities (Weimar 2007)
  • Singularity and morality. Aldo Walker's art from a visual rhetorical and media-philosophical perspective (Würzburg 2004)
  • Aldo Walker, 'Morphosyntactic Object' - Artistic Figure and Rhetorical Emphasis (Aarau 2003)
  • Art as media theory. From sign to action (Munich 2003)
  • Myth of media art (Cologne 2002)
  • Bachelor machines (extended new edition together with Harald Szeemann, Vienna / New York 1999)
  • Remember and power. Media dispositive in the age of the techno-imaginary ("Wiener Vorlesungen: Konversatorien und Studien", Volume 5), ISBN 3-85114-310-8
  • Lab. Yearbook for Arts and Apparatus of the Art Academy for Media Cologne, 1996–2002 (among others together with Siegfried Zielinski, 6 vols., Cologne)
  • Attributed Reality. Everyday culture, design, art, film and * advertising in the focus of media theory (Würzburg 1994)
  • Drawing boundaries. Aesthetics in current cultural theories (Würzburg 1991)
  • with a contribution by Christine Bruggmann: Ritual art between cult and museum. Dissonant aesthetics using the example of Africa (Edition KHM Volume 1) , Herbert von Halem, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-86962-230-9 .

Audio

Reck released audio recordings:

  • KHM Audiolectures 01: History of the Arts in a Media Context, (CD-Rom, Cologne 2003)
  • KHM Audiolectures 02: History of the arts in a media context; 'Refractions, settlements, expansions: Introduction and overview of drafts, practices, philosophies of the fine arts in the 20th century', (Cologne, 2006)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Art Academy for Media Cologne: Hans Ulrich Reck new Rector of the Art Academy for Media Cologne ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2014 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 April 2, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.khm.de
personal data
SURNAME Reck, Hans Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Schönwerd