Johanna Drucker

Johanna Drucker at HyperStudio's Visual Interpretations Conference (2010)

Johanna Drucker (born May 30, 1952 ) is an American author, book artist, visual theorist and cultural critic . In her scientific publications she documents and criticizes visual language: letter forms, typography , visual poetry , art and digital aesthetics. Drucker is a professor in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles .

At the California College of Arts and Crafts printer received her BFA in 1973; from the University of California, Berkeley , she received her Masters degree in 1982 and her Ph.D. The Maryland Institute College of Art awarded her an honorary doctorate in 2016 .

Drucker was a professor of media studies at the University of Virginia and taught at Purchase College, SUNY, Yale University (1994–1998), Columbia University (1989–1994) and the University of Texas at Dallas .

Drucker was a Digital Humanities Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center, a Digital Cultures Fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Mellon Faculty Fellow in Fine Arts at Harvard University .

Drucker is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

• Temporal Photography. In: Philosophy of Photography. , Volume 1, No. 1, Intellect Publishers, Spring 2010, pp. 22-28. doi: 10.1386 / pop.1.1.22 / 7 .
• Sweet Dreams. Contemporary Art and Complicity , University of Chicago Press 2006, ISBN 978-0-226-16505-9
• Graphesis. Visual Forms of Knowledge Production , Harvard University Press 2014, ISBN 978-0-674-72493-8

Web links

• Faculty page at UCLA
• Publications 1982-2013, johannadrucker.net
• Interview with Johanna Drucker on art meets technology: the history and effects of the alphabet
• E-Poetry: Johanna Drucker on epc.buffalo.edu

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johanna Drucker earns honorary doctorate from the Maryland Institute College of Art newsroom.ucla.edu.
2. ^ Johanna Drucker - Biography . (English; short résumé).