Category Activities

2019.1 | The New Alphabet School HKW Berlin

9. Oktober 2018  by 

I am happy to announce my participation in The New Alphabet School at HKW Berlin (January 2019) The New Alphabet School is a school for artistic, curatorial, archival, poetic, activist, critical and affirmative research practices. Over the course of 3 years, it will function as a colloquium to engage in discussions and develop ideas for ... Read more...

2018.7 | AICA 1959 within its Geopolitical Context and the Question of the «Menschenbild» as a Paradigm of Post-War Modernity

31. Mai 2018  by 

My paper will discuss the geopolitical and cultural context of the Extraordinary Congress of AICA held in Brasília, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in 1959 as a starting point of reflection. In 1959, the second documenta was opened, the Biennial of São Paulo was put on view in a new building of Oscar Niemeyer, ... Read more...

2018.4 | Avantgarde, Politik und radikale Pädagogik im historiografischen «Turn» in der Kunst Lateinamerikas

14. März 2018  by 

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2017.9 | 3 Sessions on Postwar modernity | Universidade de Brasília

23. August 2017  by 

Lecture series at the Universidade de Brasília on current research topics in Brazilian-German art of the post-war era. September 18-19, 2017 Organized by Prof. Dr. Marcelo Mari Session 1, Sept 18 – Art: Exhibition of Brazilian Artists at Haus der Kunst in Munich 1959 The session will shed light on the contexts in which Brazilian ... Read more...

2017.3 | Max Bense / Aloisio Magalhães, Germany 1969

10. April 2017  by 

University of Geneva, invited lecture 15.3.2017 Max Bense / Aloisio Magalhães, Germany 1969 The Transcultural and Popular Context of “History of a Sign” If the Modernist impulse requires new approaches, then many argue that highlighting the networks of artistic exchange is one way of reactualizing the Modernist paradigm. In 1969, Brazilian artist and designer Aloisio ... Read more...

2016.3 | Small Data: Wissensproduktion und –vermittlung bei digitalen Visualisierungen der Kunstgeschichte

7. März 2016  by 

Vortrag DHd2016 Universität Leipzig 7.-12. März 2016 Der aktuelle Diskurs in den Digital Humanities dreht sich vorwiegend um die Frage nach der Fruchtbarmachung digitaler Daten für wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse. Dabei wird zunehmend die Maxime laut, dass geisteswissenschaftliche Kernmethoden informationstheoretische und –praktische Ansätze aufzunehmen hätten. Zu einseitig sei noch die Tätigkeit der Kunstgeschichte, nur digitale Quellen zu ... Read more...

2015 – | Image Installations in Digital Art History: Curating Research and Mediation

1. Januar 2016  by 

  The research project seeks to investigate the typology of aesthetic spatial structures (i.e. the dispositif), as well as the transfer processes of analog to digital still images in modern and contemporary art. Like film still images, slides in installations for instance, have defined “ways of seeing” by structuring time, using strategies of mise-en-scène, mediating ... Read more...