Yvonne Spielmann
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ISEA2011
Yvonne Spielmann (Ph.D. habil.) is currently Chair of New Media at The University of the West of Scotland; she was previously Professor of Visual Media at Braunschweig School of Art. Prior to this latter appointment, she was Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Siegen, also in Germany. She is author of the German language monographs Eine Pfutze in bezug aufs Mehr. Avantgarde (1991), Intermedialitat. Das System Peter Greenaway (1998), and Video. Das reflexive Medium (2005). The Engish edition Video. The Reflexive Medium is published by MIT Press, 2008, the Japanese edition is forthcoming with Sangen-Sha Press, Tokyo, 2010. The Polish edition is under discussion. The book received the Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Techncis in the US. Her new book Hybrid Cultures will be released with Suhrkamp Press in fall 2010. Yvonne Spielmann has published extensively on film, video, new media, intermediality, visual arts and hybridity in approximately ninety articles, in both German and English. Her work has been translated into French, Polish, Swedish, Croatian, and Japanese. She has edited Kunst und Politik der Avantgarde (1989), Image – Media – Art (German and English, 1999, together with Gundolf Winter), What is Intermedia?, a special issue of Convergence, Winter 2002 (together with Jurgen Heinrichs), and is editor of Hybrid Identities in Digital Media, a special issue of Convergence, winter 2005 (together with Kerstin Mey) and the section Forty Years of Video Art of Art Journal (2006). Recent keynote lectures were given by her at the International Symposium on Electronic Arts, Belfast, UK, 2009 and the New Waves in New Media Conference, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2009. Speilmann’s research grants and fellowships include the Getty Center (1989/90), The Society for the Humanities at Cornell University (2000/2001), The Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Study & Conference Center (2002), The Daniel Langlois Foundation (2003 and 2004), the Japan Foundation (2005), the National University of Singapore (2007), The Royal Society of Edinburgh (2008), the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation (2009), and the Carnegie Trust (2008, 2009 and 2010).
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Chair of New Media at The University of the West of Scotland, previously Professor of Visual Media Braunschweig School of Art. In 2007 she was also Guest Professor at Free University Berlin. She is author of the German language monographs ‘Eine Pfutze in bezug aufs Mehr. Avantgarde’ (Avant-Garde) (1991), ‘Intermedialitat. Das System Peter Greenaway’ (Intermediality. The System of Peter Greenway) (1998), and ‘Video. Das reflexive Medium’ (2005). The English edition ‘Video. The Reflexive Medium’ is published with MIT Press, 2008. She is currently writing a new book on hybridity in digital media.
Research grants and fellowships include the Getty Center (1989/90), The Society for the Humanities at Cornell University (2000/2001), The Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Study & Conference Center (2002), The Daniel Langlois Foundation 2003 and 2004), the Japan Foundation (2005), the National University of Singapore (2007), The Royal Society of Edinburgh (2008), and the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation (2009).ISEA1997
Education: Study in German Literature, Philosophy and American Studies. Ph.D. (1989) with a dissertation on the concept of the avant-garde. In 1997 qualification as university lecturer with a postdoctoral thesis (habilitation) on the aesthetics of the interrelation of media images.Teaching appointments:film studies at the Free University of Berlin; media studies at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and the University of Konstanz, Germany. Fellowships and Grants: fellow at the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Santa Monica. Pre- and postdoctoral fellowships from the universites of Hannover and Konstanz. Grant by the German Research Foundation (DFG).Organizer of two international conferences: one on the avant-garde (1989), the other on the exchange of different arts and media (1991). In preparation: international conference on the interrelation of media images and images in media to be held in April 1998 at the University of Siegen, Germany. Publications: Articles and essays on experiment and avant-garde in film, fine arts, and electronic media, history and theory of visual media, aesthetic theroy, media history and theory, the interrelation of media in visual culture. books in German: Arts and Politics of the Avant-garde (editor), Frankfurt/Main 1989; The concept of the Avant-Garde, Frankfurt/Main 1991; Aesthetic Theory of intermedia (forthcoming). Currently Assistant Professor in media studies, Dept. of Art History at the University of Siegen, and Dept. of Media Studies at the University of Konstanz.
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Title: History and Theory of Intermedia in Visual Culture
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Title: Is There an Avant Garde in Digital Arts?
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Title: Hybridity: Interfaces, Identities, and the Arts
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Title: Eastern-Western Interaction in Digital Media
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ISEA2008
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Title: Interview: Frank Lyons
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ISEA2009
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Title: Interview: Masaki Fujihata
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ISEA2009
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Title: Keynote by Spielmann
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Title: Mapping Scapes of Sound and Vision (Notes on Simultaneous Echoes, by Masaki Fujihata)
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