The series of events will run until October, dealing artistically and theoretically with electromagnetic waves in urban environments – co-curated by ZeM member Prof. Dr. Birgit Schneider.

Mon 25.07. – Fr 19.08.2022

From July 25 to August 19 the ZeM office will not be staffed continuously.

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

Mon 19. – Fri 23.09., Filmuni

Professional artists/ filmmakers and MA/PhD students collaborate on the meaning of waste.

Thu 15. – Sun 25.09., Filmmuseum

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of her death, the Filmmuseum Potsdam is dedicating a retrospective to Asta Nielsen.

The ZeM is looking for a successor for the office management (administrative position), employment start date is 01.10.2022.

ZeM Monographs 02

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

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 01

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

Wed 23. – Fri 25.11., HIIG Berlin

A multifaceted term for centuries, autonomy has gained renewed relevance and meaning in the context of technical innovation.

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.

Fri 04. – Sat 05.11., FH Potsdam

The graduates’ conference deals with interaction spaces between human-human and human-machine.

ZeM Edited volume 03

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

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

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…

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…

Saskia Oidtmann is a ZeM fellow and is doing her PhD on the “Choreography of the Event” at the University of Potsdam.

ZeM Editions 02

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

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.

The number of publications that have appeared is now so large that Kadmos has created a flyer especially for the ZeM series (PDF in German). We thank the publisher for the great cooperation!

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.

The volume 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.

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 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….