As part of the annual focus, the ZeM is funding a graduate conference in spring 2024. We look forward to receiving your submissions by September 29!

Thu 21.09. 5:30 pm, Filmmuseum Potsdam

Celebratory award ceremony of the CLIO with film screening in the context of “moving history – Festival of historical film Potsdam”.

Research, study, or knowledge transfer: Here you will find an overview of media science institutes and degree programmes in the state of Brandenburg, Germany.

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”.

Mon 09. – Fri 13.10., Seminarzentrum Gut Siggen

International Workshop on multidirectional memory of the Holocaust and colonialism in comics.

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.

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Fri 10. – Sat 11.11., ZeM

At the Media-Historical Forum of the Studienkreis Rundfunk und Geschichte, young scholars present their current research projects.

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.

ZeM Monographs 02

Julian Jochmaring proposes the concept of a “negative ambientality” to ground current ecological theories in media philosophy.

Fri 24.11. 5 pm, ZeM

A warm invitation to the presentation of the new publications in the ZeM series with short talks by the editors and authors.

ZeM Monographs 01

Maike Sarah Reinerth examines representations of memory and imagination through detailed film analyses from three eras.

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.

In view of the war in Ukraine, 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.

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 Edited volume 03

The iconic turn appeared more than 25 years ago with a radical proposition…

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…

ZeM Editions 02

German first translation of a text published anonymously under the title ‘Les Animaux plus que Machines’ (1750)…

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.

The volume published by Palgrave Macmillan provides an introduction to ongoing debates and develops its own approach to the critique of digitality.

For his outstanding scientific research and publication work, Dr. Simon Strick was awarded the Hans Bausch Media Prize.

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.

Overview of the academic events funded as part of the annual focus on “Digital Realities” (2022/23).

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….