Natascha Adamowsky

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Natascha Adamowsky (* 1967 ) is a German cultural and media scientist with a research focus on media aesthetics, history and digital knowledge cultures.

Life

Natascha Adamowsky studied from 1989 to 1994 at the Institute for Social and Business Communication at the University of the Arts in Berlin and from 1995 to 1998 was a doctoral candidate at the Graduate School 'Intermediality' at the University of Siegen . There she received her doctorate in 1998 with the thesis "Play figures in virtual worlds". From 1998 to 1999 she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Graduate College 'Enabling Technologies for Electronic Commerce' at TU Darmstadt . From 1999 to 2002 she worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Cultural Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin , from 2002 to 2009 there as a junior professor for cultural studies (game theories and media culture) and completed her habilitation there in 2009 with a thesis on the topic: “The miracle in the modern. On the aesthetic culture of modern self-transgression in science, technology and the arts ”. In 2011 she became professor for media culture studies at the University of Freiburg . In 2017 she accepted the professorship for Digital Media Technologies II at the media studies seminar at the University of Siegen.

Publications (selection)

Adamowsky has edited several compilations and published numerous articles in specialist journals.

As editor

Essays

  • On the art of finding and the game of showing: forms of subjectivity exercise. In: Regine Strätling (Hrsg.): Spielformen des Selbst. The game between subjectivity, art and everyday practice. Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 3-8376-1416-6 , pp. 59–76.
  • Miracles of the Sea - cultural and media aesthetic considerations on the figure of the octopus in Jules Verne. In: Clemens Risi, Robert Sollich, Anna Papenburg (ed.): When does the last swan go? Aspects of a Cultural History of Miracles. Leipzig 2011, pp. 87-105.
  • Medialized environments and medial practices. For the aesthetic design of networking processes. In: Josef Bairlein, Wolf-Dieter Ernst, u. a. (Ed.): Net cultures. Collective. Creative. performativ, Munich 2011, pp. 137–150.
  • Mediated environments and strategies for coping with contingencies - digital surveillance systems in game mode. In: Herfried Münkler , Matthias Bohlender, Sabine Meurer (eds.): Security & Risk. On dealing with danger in the 21st century. Bielefeld 2010, pp. 223-238.
  • Mediated environments - media aesthetic considerations on art and computer games in urban space. In: Winfried Kaminski, Martin Lorber (Eds.): Clash of Realities 2008, Playing in digital worlds. Munich 2008, pp. 47-60.
  • A nature of unlimited suppleness. Media-theoretical considerations on the connection between aesthesis, performativity and eventfulness using the example of the abnormal. In: Stefan Münker, Alexander Roesler (Ed.): What is a medium? Frankfurt am Main 2008, pp. 30-64.
  • Approaches to an Aesthetics of the Mysterious - Examples from 19th Century Marine Research. In: Wolfgang Krohn (Hrsg.): Aesthetics in Science. Interdisciplinary discourse on the design and presentation of knowledge. In: Special issue No. 7 of the magazine for aesthetics and general art history. Hamburg 2006, pp. 219-232.
  • The miraculous as a social performance practice - experiment and entertainment in the media change of the 18th century. In: Jörn Steigerwald, Daniela Watzke (Ed.): Stimulus, imagination, attention. Arousal and control of the imagination in the classical age (1680–1830). Würzburg 2003, pp. 165-186.
  • Body Snatcher Chic - technical invasions and body fantasies. In: Klaus Peter Dencker (Ed.): Interface 5. The politics of the machine. Hans Bredow Institute, Hamburg 2002, pp. 161–172.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.uni-siegen.de/phil/medienwissenschaft/personal/lehrende/adamowsky_natascha/?lang=de
personal data
SURNAME Adamowsky, Natascha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1967