Stephan Schwingeler

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Stephan Schwingeler (* 1979 in Dortmund ) is a German art historian and media scientist specializing in the fields of image studies , media art and computer games . Schwingeler is Professor of Media Studies at the HAWK University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hildesheim in the Faculty of Design. Before that he was professor for game design at the media Akademie - Hochschule Stuttgart . He also works as a curator .

Schwingeler is one of the pioneers in game studies internationally , which researches computer games as a relevant genre in the canon of the visual arts. Schwingeler was the first art historian in Germany to do a doctorate on computer games.

Life

Stephan Schwingeler studied art history and media studies in Trier and Florence . In 2007 he finished his studies with a Magister Artium with a master's thesis on the construction of perspective in computer games. The work was published as Schwingeler's first monograph under the title The Space Machine - Space and Perspective in Computer Games . In 2013 he received his doctorate with a thesis on artistic computer game modifications , e.g. B. at Cory Arcangel and JODI .

From 2010 onwards Schwingeler was a scientific advisor to the Next Level Conference , which is organized by the NRW KULTURsekretariat in cooperation with the Ministry for Family, Children, Youth, Culture and Sport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia . The conference is dedicated to the fields of art and culture of computer games and has been taking place in the Dortmunder U since 2012 after the early years in Cologne . In this context, he also successfully ran the blog of the Next Level Conference and was responsible for community management and the conference's social media presence.

From 2012 to 2014 he completed a scientific traineeship at the Center for Art and Media Technology and organized and curated a. a. the exhibitions “ Henry Flynt . Activities 1959– "," High Performance. The Julia Stoschek Collection as a guest at the ZKM ”and“ ZKM_Gameplay ”. The “ZKM_Gameplay” exhibition, which is dedicated to artistic computer games and game art , is theoretically based on Schwingeler's research results. The exhibition proves the artistic potential of computer games.

At the same time, he was teaching media art at the State University for Design in Karlsruhe under the rectorate of Peter Sloterdijk . He headed the “Game Lab” located there, which deals with artistic and experimental forms of game design .

From 2014 he was a permanent research assistant and curator at the Museum für Neue Kunst under the direction of Andreas Beitin . There he accompanied and curated various exhibition and publication projects, including an exhibition on serious games and the effects of globalization and digitization on the arts.

From 2017 Schwingeler was Professor of Game Design at the media Akademie - Hochschule Stuttgart . In 2018, Schwingeler accepted a call to the HAWK in Hildesheim, where he has held the professorship for media studies at the Faculty of Design since the 2018 summer semester.

Stephan Schwingeler's research interests include computer games as artistic material, game design, game studies , media art, image studies , media aesthetics , virtual reality , art theory and media theory .

reception

The media theorist Peter Weibel characterizes Schwingeler's book "Artwork Computer Game - Digital Games as Artistic Material" as a standard work and states in the foreword:

“Stephan Schwingeler's dissertation introduces a new genre into the discourse of art history. Schwingeler underlines the importance of the computer game medium for art history. He shows the deficit and at the same time fills the void by not only identifying the media properties of the computer game in a reference work and thoroughly processing it, but also convincingly and critically identifying the computer game as artistic material and thus as a new genre in the canon of the visual arts. "

honors and awards

  • Sponsorship award for young scientists from the Freundeskreis Trier University eV for the doctoral thesis Artwork Computer Game - Digital Games as Artistic Material .

Publications (a selection)

Independent writings

  • Artwork computer game - digital games as artistic material. An image science and media theoretical analysis . Transcript, Bielefeld 2014 ISBN 978-3-8376-2824-1 .
  • The space machine. Space and perspective in computer games . VWH Verlag, Boizenburg 2008 ISBN 978-3940317247 .

Editorships

  • I am Error - Disruptions in Computer Games , Navigations, No. 2/2012, ed. v. Benjamin Beil, Philipp Bojahr, Thomas Hensel, Markus Rautzenberg, Stephan Schwingeler u. Andreas Wolfsteiner, Siegen 2014, ISSN  1619-1641
  • The Ludic Society - On the relevance of computer games . Critical reports. Journal for art and cultural studies. No. 2/2009, ed. v. Ulrike Gehring u. Stephan Schwingeler, Marburg 2009.

Essays (in selection)

  • Game Art. Computer games in the visual arts . In: Natascha Adamowsky (Ed.): Digitale Moderne. Matthias Zimmermann's model worlds . Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-7774-2388-3 , pp. 62–71
  • The computer game in art discourse, In: Deutsches Filminstitut - DIF eV; Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main [ed.]: Film and Games - Ein Wechselspiel , Berlin 2015, pp. 212–220.
  • Unplayable games - Artistic computer game modifications in the media-theoretical limbo. In: Freyermuth, Gundolf; Gotto, Lisa; Beil, Benjamin: New Game Plus - Perspectives in Game Studies. Genres - Arts - Discourses , Bielefeld 2014, pp. 219–245.
  • Kill Screen: Transparency Turns into Opacity. Game Art between Immediacy and Hypermediacy. In: Catalog accompanying the exhibition Computer Games - Perspectives of Play in the Museum Ostwall / Dortmunder U, December 6, 2013 - January 3, 2014, Verlag der Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln, Cologne 2014, pp. 35–38.
  • It's all about connecting the dots - space and perspective in computer games. In: Beil, Benjamin; Bonner, Marc; Hensel, Thomas [Ed.]: Computer | Game | Pictures . Glückstadt 2014, pp. 25–59.
  • Computer games in the museum: curatorial remarks on ZKM_Gameplay. In: Jahrmann, Margarete [Ed.]: Ludic Society # 6 . Zurich 2013, p. 10.
  • Start New Game! Curatorial remarks on the game platform ZKM_Gameplay. In: ZKM | Center for Art and Media Technology [Hrsg.]: ZKM_Gameplay - The game platform in the ZKM . Karlsruhe 2013, pp. 7-11.
  • Art with computer games - artistic strategies between transparency and opacity. In: Beil, Benjamin; Hensel, Thomas; Schwingeler, Stephan et al. [Ed.]: I am Error - disruptions in computer games . Navigations, No. 2/2012. Siegen 2012, pp. 59–79.
  • Art with Computer Games: Artistic Strategies and Art-Historical References. In: Mitgutsch, Konstantin; Wimmer, Jeffrey; Rusch, Doris; Rosenstingl, Herbert [Ed ..]: Applied Playfulness. Conference Proceedings of the FROG Vienna Games Conference 2011 . Vienna 2012, pp. 219–235.
  • Schwingeler, Stephan; Henschel, Dorothée: The shot from Saigon. Prisoner kill for the camera. In: Paul, Gerhard [ed.]: Pictures that made history. 1900 until today . Göttingen 2011, pp. 196-204.
  • Lohoff, Markus; Schwingeler, Stephan: Interferences - An art historical consideration of computer games between science, commerce and art. In: Gehring, Ulrike; Schwingeler, Stephan [Hrsg.]: The Ludic Society - On the relevance of the computer game . Critical reports. Journal for art and cultural studies. No. 2/2009. Marburg 2009, pp. 16-39.
  • Schwingeler, Stephan; Weber, Dorothée: The shot from Saigon. Prisoner kill for the camera. In: Paul, Gerhard [Hrsg.]: The century of pictures. Picture atlas 1949 to today . Göttingen 2008, pp. 354-362.
  • Schwingeler, Stephan; Weber, Dorothée: The Real Face of War: The Execution in Saigon of Eddie Adams. The emergence of an icon against the background of its publication history in the print media. In: Iconography of Violence . Critical reports. Journal for art and cultural studies. No. 1/2005. Marburg 2005, pp. 36-51.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annual report of the State University of Design 2011/2012, p. 98 ( Memento of the original from February 26, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hfg-karlsruhe.de
  2. ↑ Stephan Schwingeler: ZKM_Gameplay - Lecture at the symposium Culture 4.0 - Now Loading? On the digital future of foreign cultural policy
  3. ↑ YouTube video: ZKM_Gameplay - The game platform in the ZKM - tour of the curators
  4. ↑ Five questions to Stephan Schwingeler - Laboratory for Gamers ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 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. , Interview in Monopol, special issue for Art Karlsruhe 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.monopol-magazin.de
  5. ↑ Peter Weibel: Foreword. In: Stephan Schwingeler: Computer game artwork - digital games as artistic material. An image science and media theoretical analysis . Transcript, Bielefeld 2014, p. 10
  6. ↑ "This": Splendid and multi-layered opening ceremony ( memento of the original from April 2, 2015 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. , Press release of the University of Trier from November 13, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-trier.de
personal data
SURNAME Schwingeler, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, media scientist, university lecturer, curator
DATE OF BIRTH 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund