International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy
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The International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy (IKKM) is a center for advanced studies at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
, and was founded in 2008 by Lorenz Engell and Bernhard Siegert
. The IKKM is part of the International Käte Hamburger Collegia for research in the Humanities initiative in the 'Freedom for Research in the Humanities' program of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Initial funding has been approved for six years (until 2014). The IKKM is located in Weimar
in the Palais Dürckheim build by Henry van de Velde
.
consisting of professors Raymond Bellour
, Hans Belting
, Régis Debray
, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
, and Sigrid Weigel
. Each year the IKKM invites up to ten internationally renowned scholars for one or two semesters to Weimar
, enabling them to pursue a research project and contribute to the development of questions regarding media-philosophy and research in cultural technologies. The first funding period of the IKKM consist of six annual research topics:
Lorenz Engell, Bernhard Siegert
Managing Director:
Jörg Brauns
Scientific Staff:
Michael Cuntz, Christoph Engemann, Laura Frahm, Harun Maye, Anne Ortner, Leander Scholz, André Wendler
Alumni Matters:
Wolfgang Beilenhoff
, Hans Belting
, Régis Debray
, John Durham Peters
, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Mario Carpo
, Søren Frank, Linda Dalrymple Henderson, Brian Larkin, Catherine Bertho Lavenir, Anna McCarthy, Wolfgang Pircher, Joseph Vogl, Samuel Weber
Winter term 2010/2011
Eric Alliez, Dominique Blüher, Bruce Clarke, Michael Diers, Thomas Hauschild, Erich Hörl, Gertrud Koch, Bettine Menke, Irit Rogoff
, Martin Schulz, Herta Wolf
Summer term 2010
Eric Alliez, Christoph Asendorf, Hartmut Böhme, Linda Dalrymple Henderson, Tom Gunning
, Erich Hörl, Jürgen Müller, Patricia Pisters, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, David N. Rodowick, Nikolaus Wegmann
Winter term 2009/2010
Christoph Asendorf, Jacques Aumont, Jiří Bystřický, Hartmut Böhme, Peter Geimer, Eva Geulen, Joachim Krausse, Dieter Mersch, Jürgen Müller, Patricia Pisters, Manfred Schneider
Summer term 2009
Wolfgang Beilenhoff, Georges Didi-Huberman, Richard Dyer
, Josef Früchtl, Frank Kessler, Joachim Krausse, Almira Ousmanova, Manfred Schneider
Winter term 2008/2009
Wolfgang Beilenhoff, Marta Braun, Georges Didi-Huberman, Thomas Macho, Claus Pias, Erhard Schüttpelz, Ludger Schwarte
Summer term 2008
Wolfgang Beilenhoff, Thomas Macho
Trailer of a movie commissioned by the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
and IKKM for the 150 anniversary of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
: http://www.ikkm-weimar.de/publikationen/sonstiges/ikkm-film/prm/280/0/index.html
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
The Bauhaus-University Weimar is a university located in Weimar, Germany and specializes in the artistic and technical fields. Established in 1860 as the Great Ducal Saxon Art School, it gained collegiate status on 3 June 1910 and received its present name in 1996...
, and was founded in 2008 by Lorenz Engell and Bernhard Siegert
Bernhard Siegert
Bernhard Siegert is a German media theorist and media historian.Siegert was born in Bremen. He majored 1987 in Germanic Studies, Philosophy and History at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg/Germany...
. The IKKM is part of the International Käte Hamburger Collegia for research in the Humanities initiative in the 'Freedom for Research in the Humanities' program of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Initial funding has been approved for six years (until 2014). The IKKM is located in Weimar
Weimar
Weimar is a city in Germany famous for its cultural heritage. It is located in the federal state of Thuringia , north of the Thüringer Wald, east of Erfurt, and southwest of Halle and Leipzig. Its current population is approximately 65,000. The oldest record of the city dates from the year 899...
in the Palais Dürckheim build by Henry van de Velde
Henry van de Velde
Henry Clemens Van de Velde was a Belgian Flemish painter, architect and interior designer. Together with Victor Horta and Paul Hankar he could be considered one of the main founders and representatives of Art Nouveau in Belgium...
.
Research
The Institute is a research establishment based on the fellow principle. Fellow appointment is supervised by an international advisory boardAdvisory board
An advisory board is a body that advises the board of directors and management of a corporation but does not have authority to vote on corporate matters, nor a legal fiduciary responsibility...
consisting of professors Raymond Bellour
Raymond Bellour
Raymond Bellour is a French writer, critic and theorist of cinema.Bellour is Director of Research Emeritus at the CNRS. Since 1986 he has taught at Paris III. In 1990 with Christine Van Assche and Catherine David he co-curated the Passages de l'image exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou...
, Hans Belting
Hans Belting
Hans Belting is a German art historian and theorist of medieval and Renaissance art, as well as contemporary art and image theory.-Background:...
, Régis Debray
Régis Debray
Jules Régis Debray is a French intellectual, journalist, government official and professor. He is known for his theorization of mediology, a critical theory of the long-term transmission of cultural meaning in human society; and for having fought in 1967 with Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara in...
, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, best known as "Sepp" Gumbrecht, is a German-born American literary theorist and currently the Albert Guérard Professor on Literature in the Departments of Comparative Literature, French and Italian, German, and Spanish and Portuguese at Stanford University and Zeppelin...
, and Sigrid Weigel
Sigrid Weigel
Sigrid Weigel is a German literature professor, and Director of the Centre for Literature Research in Berlin.She is a member of Academia Europaea, and the Modern Language Association.-Life:...
. Each year the IKKM invites up to ten internationally renowned scholars for one or two semesters to Weimar
Weimar
Weimar is a city in Germany famous for its cultural heritage. It is located in the federal state of Thuringia , north of the Thüringer Wald, east of Erfurt, and southwest of Halle and Leipzig. Its current population is approximately 65,000. The oldest record of the city dates from the year 899...
, enabling them to pursue a research project and contribute to the development of questions regarding media-philosophy and research in cultural technologies. The first funding period of the IKKM consist of six annual research topics:
- 2008/09: Hominization and Anthropotechnologies – the Making of Humans
- 2009/10: Referencialization and Ontogenesis – the Making of Things
- 2010/11: Semiosis—the Transformation of Objects into Signs
- 2011/12: Localization—the Production of Sites
- 2012/13: Synchronization—the Production of the Present
- 2013/14: Historization—the Production of the Past
Members
Directors:Lorenz Engell, Bernhard Siegert
Bernhard Siegert
Bernhard Siegert is a German media theorist and media historian.Siegert was born in Bremen. He majored 1987 in Germanic Studies, Philosophy and History at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg/Germany...
Managing Director:
Jörg Brauns
Scientific Staff:
Michael Cuntz, Christoph Engemann, Laura Frahm, Harun Maye, Anne Ortner, Leander Scholz, André Wendler
Alumni Matters:
Wolfgang Beilenhoff
Advisory Board
Jacques Aumon, Raymond BellourRaymond Bellour
Raymond Bellour is a French writer, critic and theorist of cinema.Bellour is Director of Research Emeritus at the CNRS. Since 1986 he has taught at Paris III. In 1990 with Christine Van Assche and Catherine David he co-curated the Passages de l'image exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou...
, Hans Belting
Hans Belting
Hans Belting is a German art historian and theorist of medieval and Renaissance art, as well as contemporary art and image theory.-Background:...
, Régis Debray
Régis Debray
Jules Régis Debray is a French intellectual, journalist, government official and professor. He is known for his theorization of mediology, a critical theory of the long-term transmission of cultural meaning in human society; and for having fought in 1967 with Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara in...
, John Durham Peters
John Durham Peters
John Durham Peters is an American academic and the A. Craig Baird professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa. A media historian and social theorist, he is probably best known for his first book Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication which traces out broad...
, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, best known as "Sepp" Gumbrecht, is a German-born American literary theorist and currently the Albert Guérard Professor on Literature in the Departments of Comparative Literature, French and Italian, German, and Spanish and Portuguese at Stanford University and Zeppelin...
Fellows
Summer term 2011Mario Carpo
Mario Carpo
Mario Carpo, , is an Italian architectural historian.Mario Carpo graduated from the University of Florence in 1983 with a degree in architectural history. He was a doctoral researcher at the European University Institute from 1984 to 1987, then an Assistant Professor at the University of Geneva...
, Søren Frank, Linda Dalrymple Henderson, Brian Larkin, Catherine Bertho Lavenir, Anna McCarthy, Wolfgang Pircher, Joseph Vogl, Samuel Weber
Samuel Weber
Samuel Weber is the Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities at Northwestern University, as well as a professor at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland....
Winter term 2010/2011
Eric Alliez, Dominique Blüher, Bruce Clarke, Michael Diers, Thomas Hauschild, Erich Hörl, Gertrud Koch, Bettine Menke, Irit Rogoff
Irit Rogoff
Irit Rogoff is a professor at Goldsmiths, University of London in the department of Visual Cultures, which she founded in 2002. She is also a writer and curator and has written and co-written a number of seminal texts. Her research interests include visual culture; contemporary art and critical...
, Martin Schulz, Herta Wolf
Summer term 2010
Eric Alliez, Christoph Asendorf, Hartmut Böhme, Linda Dalrymple Henderson, Tom Gunning
Tom Gunning
Thomas Francis Gunning was a Major League Baseball catcher. He played all or part of six seasons in the majors, from 1884 until 1889, for the Boston Beaneaters, Philadelphia Quakers and Philadelphia Athletics....
, Erich Hörl, Jürgen Müller, Patricia Pisters, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, David N. Rodowick, Nikolaus Wegmann
Winter term 2009/2010
Christoph Asendorf, Jacques Aumont, Jiří Bystřický, Hartmut Böhme, Peter Geimer, Eva Geulen, Joachim Krausse, Dieter Mersch, Jürgen Müller, Patricia Pisters, Manfred Schneider
Summer term 2009
Wolfgang Beilenhoff, Georges Didi-Huberman, Richard Dyer
Richard Dyer
Richard W. Dyer is an English academic specialising in cinema. As of 2006 he is Professor of Film Studies at King's College London. Previously he was at the University of Warwick...
, Josef Früchtl, Frank Kessler, Joachim Krausse, Almira Ousmanova, Manfred Schneider
Winter term 2008/2009
Wolfgang Beilenhoff, Marta Braun, Georges Didi-Huberman, Thomas Macho, Claus Pias, Erhard Schüttpelz, Ludger Schwarte
Summer term 2008
Wolfgang Beilenhoff, Thomas Macho
External links
- Homepage of the International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy (IKKM): http://www.ikkm-weimar.de
- Journal Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung (ZMK): http://ikkm-weimar.de/zmk
- IKKM-Audioblog: http://ikkm-weimar.blogspot.com/
- IKKM-Videos: http://www.vimeo.com/ikkm
Trailer of a movie commissioned by the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
The Bauhaus-University Weimar is a university located in Weimar, Germany and specializes in the artistic and technical fields. Established in 1860 as the Great Ducal Saxon Art School, it gained collegiate status on 3 June 1910 and received its present name in 1996...
and IKKM for the 150 anniversary of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
The Bauhaus-University Weimar is a university located in Weimar, Germany and specializes in the artistic and technical fields. Established in 1860 as the Great Ducal Saxon Art School, it gained collegiate status on 3 June 1910 and received its present name in 1996...
: http://www.ikkm-weimar.de/publikationen/sonstiges/ikkm-film/prm/280/0/index.html