Wolfgang Ernst (media scientist)

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Wolfgang Ernst (* 1959 ) is a German cultural and media scholar . He is professor for media theories at the chair for media studies at Humboldt University .

Life

Ernst studied history , archeology and Latin at the Universities of Cologne , London and Bochum . He did his doctorate on the historical aesthetics of antique collections and worked as a speaker at the German National Academic Foundation . Wolfgang Ernst taught as a guest lecturer in Leipzig and Kassel . He spent a year of research at the German Historical Institute in Rome and worked in the cultural semiotics research group on the research focus on literary studies in Berlin. From 1995 to 1999 he was a research assistant for theory and archeology of media in the art context at the Art Academy for Media in Cologne . Between 1997 and 2003 he represented several professorships at the Bauhaus University Weimar , the Ruhr University Bochum, the University of Paderborn and the Humboldt University in Berlin . Wolfgang Ernst worked with the bootlab Berlin together and took on the project media theater of Till Nikolaus von Heiseler part where it comes to experimental theory formats.

In 2001 he completed his habilitation at the Humboldt University in Berlin on German memory organizations in the 19th and 20th centuries and has been Professor of German Media Theory at the Chair of Media Studies there since April 2003. From 2015 to 2017 Wolfgang Ernst was managing director of the Institute for Music and Media Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Wolfgang Ernst on Wikipedia and the durability of web content (2012)

Wolfgang Ernst deals with "media archeology" and "media time". This includes considerations about real-time data transfers as well as machine processes when storing in archives and the "sonic". In his institute Ernst maintains what is known as a “media archaeological fund”, a collection of historically influential computers and magnetophones.

Fonts

  • The rumble of the archives. Order out of disorder ( ISBN 3-88396-176-0 ), Merve, Berlin 2002
  • In the name of history. Collecting - saving - (narrating) counting ( ISBN 3-7705-3832-3 , habilitation thesis HU Berlin), Wilhelm Fink, Munich 2003
  • The law of memory. Media and Archives at the End (of the 20th Century) ( ISBN 3-86599-016-9 ), Kadmos, Berlin 2007
  • Double band of equal origin. Time being and the time given of technical media ( ISBN 3865991440 ) and chronopoetics. Times and times of technical media ( ISBN 3865991432 ), Kadmos, Berlin, 2013
  • Signals from the past. A small historical review ( ISBN 978-3-7705-5477-5 ), Wilhelm Fink, Berlin 2013
  • Time sounds in the medium. Technological temporalities and the sonic as their privileged form of knowledge ( ISBN 978-3-86599-274-1 ), Kadmos, Berlin 2015

Writings in English

  • Digital Memory and the Archive. , ( ISBN 978-0-8166-7766-5 , edited and with an introduction by Jussi Parikka ) University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, London 2013
  • Stirrings in the Archive. Order from Disorder , ( ISBN 978-1-4422-5395-7 , translation of Das Rumoren der Archiv ) Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Boulder, New York, London 2015
  • Chronopoetics. The Temporal Being and Operativity of technological Media , ( ISBN 978-1-7834-8570-3 , selection and translation of texts taken from Gleichur originallichkeit. Zeitwesen und Zeitgebheittechnische Medien and Chronopoetik. Zeitweise und Zeitschriften Technische Medien ) Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Boulder, New York, London 2016
  • Sonic Time Machines. Explicit Sound, Sirenic Voices, and Implicit Sonicity , ( ISBN 978-90-8964-949-2 ) Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2016
  • The Delayed Present: Media-Induced Tempor (e) alities & Techno-traumatic Irritations of the Contemporary , ( ISBN 978-3-95679-340-0 ) Sternberg Press, Berlin 2017

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personal data
SURNAME Ernst, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural and media scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1959