Prof. Dr. Marie-Luise Angerer, Managing Director of the ZeM, passed away on 2 March 2024 after a long and serious illness. We have lost a warm, perceptive and dedicated colleague and friend.
For 2023/24, the ZeM is once again inviting applications to promote inter-university exchange in Brandenburg. This year’s topic is “Control of Loss”.
Research, study, or knowledge transfer: Here you will find an overview of media science institutes and degree programmes in the state of Brandenburg, Germany.
We cordially invite you to a workshop for German-language research on elementary media with Prof. Dr. John Durham Peters (Yale University) from 27-28 June 204. We look forward to receiving your abstracts by 17 March.
at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Department “Dramaturgy and Aesthetics of Audiovisual Media”. We look forward to receiving your application by 01.04.2024!
We are pleased to announce that the first six titles of the ZeM publication series are now available in Open Access. They are hosted as a separate series at media/rep/.
Mondays, 4-6 pm, online
Every Monday DIGAREC is live on Twitch! Play different games together and enter into a scientific exchange about them. Every second Monday there’s a ZeM special!
ZeM Monograph 03
100 years ago, radio was established in the German-speaking world as “Rundfunk”. In five case histories, Kai Knörr tells a media history of “Funken” – the electric spark – from the 17th-19th century.
Thu 18.04., 4:30 pm, Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
Presentation of the scientific-artistic research project “Collisions”.
In view of the current wars and conflicts, we would like to draw your attention to the aid and support programmes of GfM and the “Working Group Ukraine and Flight” – with the request for your support.
ZeM Edited volume 04
This Open Access book examines historical and contemporary image practices and phenomena, including screenshots, screen photography, screencasts and in-game photography.
Fri 26.04. – Sat 27.04., ZeM
A workshop by and for master’s students and PhD candidates of media studies and related disciplines.
In this book, Marie-Luise Angerer makes the affective short circuits between psyche and machine tangible as not unconscious, but “non-conscious” clockings of movement and time formations.
Tue 14.05., 4 pm, ZeM
Lecture by Dr. Esther Weltevrede (University of Amsterdam) as part of the series “The Interface Complex”.
ZeM Monographs 02
Julian Jochmaring proposes the concept of a “negative ambientality” to ground current ecological theories in media philosophy.
The number of publications that have appeared is now so large that Kadmos has created a flyer especially for the ZeM series (in German). We thank the publisher for the great cooperation!
Tue 21.05., 4 pm, ZeM
Lecture by Dr. Michael Dieter (University of Warwick) as part of the series “The Interface Complex”.
ZeM Editions 03
For more than six decades, between computer science, semiotics, art and cultural theory, Frieder Nake has dealt with the presence of the computer…
Tue 28.05., 4 pm, ZeM
Lecture by Joana Moll (Academy of Media Arts Cologne) as part of the series “The Interface Complex”.
ZeM Edited volume 03
The iconic turn appeared more than 25 years ago with a radical proposition…
Tue 04.06., 4 pm, ZeM
Lecture by Prof. Dr. Kim Albrecht (Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF) as part of the series “The Interface Complex”.
ZeM Monographs 01
Maike Sarah Reinerth examines representations of memory and imagination through detailed film analyses from three eras.
Tue 18.06., 4 pm, ZeM
Lecture by Dr. Timo Kaerlein (Ruhr University Bochum) as part of the series “The Interface Complex”.
Now in Open Access: Emotional life is increasingly read out, regulated and produced by digital technologies. Bernd Bösel opens up a genealogical view of the readjustments of this technification…
ZeM Editions 02
German first translation of a text published anonymously under the title ‘Les Animaux plus que Machines’ (1750)…
Tue 25.06., 4 pm, ZeM
Lecture by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Sabine Wirth (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar) as part of the series “The Interface Complex”.
ZeM Zwiegespräche
“The world is everything that is the case” – derived from the Latin verb cadere, “to fall”. But what is the case? Two authors investigate a concept in dialogue.
ZeM Editions 01
After the scandalous ‘L’Homme Machine’, La Mettrie wrote further machine-philosophical texts in Potsdam.
Overview of the academic events funded as part of the annual focus on “Digital Realities” (2022/23).
Affect gets measured, calculated, controlled. Politics as well as power have become affective. We have to rethink our ethical, aesthetical, political as well as legal regimes of affect organization.
ZeM Edited volume 02
Small robust action-cams like the GoPro have lastingly altered the conditions for making images…
A ZeM membership is open to anyone who is associated with one of the participating Brandenburg universities.
ZeM Edited volume 01
It is one of the central feminist concerns to take seriously the reality-constituting agency of narratives….