Katharina Gsöllpointner
Katharina Gsöllpointner (born March 10, 1959 in Linz , Austria ) is an Austrian art and media scholar . She lives in Vienna .
Life
Katharina Gsöllpointner studied English, political science, German language and literature as well as journalism and communication science at the Paris Lodron University in Salzburg. In 1985 she was at the University of Salzburg with a dissertation on everyday culture and cultural criticism. She did her doctorate on the production of cultural reporting in Austrian daily newspapers , in which she combined empirical methods with the theory of the cultural sociologist Pierre Bourdieu .
Since the 1980s Gsöllpointner has worked as an art and media scientist with a focus on digital arts and media theory as well as systems theory and constructivism at scientific institutions and art universities in Austria, Germany and Hungary.
From 1991 to 1995, together with Peter Weibel, she was responsible for the programming of the Ars Electronica in Linz and was in charge of the organization. She was the editor in charge of the Ars Electronica catalogs .
In 2007 she founded the LOOP together with Sibylle Moser . Institute for systemic media research which, as a research institution, was a partner of the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the Center for Art and Media Technology (ZKM) in Karlsruhe. In 2010 she took over the institute and headed it under the name mediengarten until 2016 . Institute for Systemic Media Research GmbH as sole owner.
Katharina Gsöllpointner has designed and successfully managed a number of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research projects with international cooperation partners. She publishes, gives lectures and teaches on the aesthetics and cybernetics of the media .
2016 habilitation them with a thesis on Intermedia Production & Multimodal perception. On the Aesthetics of Digital Art and received the Venia Docendi for the subject of media theory at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where she has also worked as a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Digital Art (headed by Ruth Schnell) since 2012 .
Fonts
- as editor with Ruth Schnell and Romana K. Schuler: Digital Synesthesia. A Model for the Aesthetics of Digital Art. De Gruyter, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-045934-0 .
- as editor with Heinrich Deisl: Peter Weibel (= Der Konterfei. 14). Der Konterfei, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-903043-03-9 (2nd edition, ibid. 2016, ISBN 978-3-903043-16-9 ).
- as editor: media of advice. Aesthetics, methods, practice. Facultas.wuv, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7089-0834-2 .
- with Ursula Hentschläger: Paramour. Art in the context of new technologies. Triton, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-85486-030-7 .
Web links
- Homepage of Katharina Gsöllpointner
- Website of the research project "Digital Synesthesia"
- Website of the research project “Aesthetic Know-how. Language - Technology -Mediality "
- Website of the Art University Linz with a short biography (English)
- Katharina Gsöllpointner on the basis wien website
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of graduates (PDF file; 21 kB) from the University of Salzburg
- ↑ Internet page ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of Ars Electronica: see biography 1994
- ^ Internet site of Ars Electronica 1992
- ^ Website of the ZKM, Karlsruhe
- ↑ AESTHETIC KNOW-HOW. Language — technology — mediality. In: www.sprachmedien.at. Retrieved January 19, 2017 .
- ↑ DIGITAL SYNESTHESIA. In: www.digitalsynesthesia.net. Retrieved January 19, 2017 (American English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gsöllpointner, Katharina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian art and media scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Linz , Austria |