Thu 30. – Fri 31.03., European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) and online

In this interdisciplinary workshop, we discuss AI-culture as human and interactional practice.

What can the Humanities learn from environmental data? We invite you to express your interest to participate or propose your own challenge for this hackathon via our Questionnaire.

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

Tue 18.04., 3-5 pm, Medieninnovationszentrum Babelsberg (MIZ)

Fri 28.04., 3 pm,  ZeM

The ZeM cordially invites all members and interested parties to this year’s meeting of members.

Wed 31.05. – Fri 02.06., Haus der Brandenburgisch-Preußischen Geschichte Potsdam

What can the Humanities learn from environmental data?

Fri 09.06., 1 pm, ZeM

The ZeM invites subject-related PhD students to present key topics or questions from their dissertation project

ZeM Edited volume 04

This book examines historical and contemporary image practices and phenomena, including screenshots, screen photography, screencasts and in-game photography.

Tue 13. – Thu 15.06., Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich

The workshop seeks to investigate the relationship of photography and contemporary migration.

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.

The ZeM invites applications for the annual focus on “Digital Realities” for 2022/23. Start date is October 2022, submissions are open now.

ZeM Monographs 02

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

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.

ZeM member Dr. Katrin von Kap-herr received the award together with Dr. Alexander Scheidt for the seminar “… but you are a robot, aren’t you? – Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice” at the FHP.

ZeM Monographs 01

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

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)…

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!

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.

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 employee Anna Zaglyadnova receives the DAAD Prize for outstanding achievements of international students studying at German universities. We congratulate very much!

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 Editions 01

After the scandalous ‘L’Homme Machine’, La Mettrie wrote further machine-philosophical texts in Potsdam.

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

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

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….