Current projects

The ZeM promotes research through national and international cooperation and by awarding scholarships to doctoral and post-doctoral students as well as visiting scholars.

Research project

Boundary Values. Operational relationships between climate and migration

Prof. Winfried Gerling, Dr. Svea Bräunert, Paul Heinicker

Research project

Camera Studies

Prof. Winfried Gerling

Research project

Digital Blackface. Racialized affect patterns of the digital

Dr. Simon Strick

Cooperation

(Con)sequential Images. An archaeology of iconic film footage from the Nazi era

Prof. Dr. Chris Wahl

Cooperation

Cinepoetics. Center for Advanced Film Studies

Prof. Dr. Michael Wedel

Cooperation

Daring Media. Collaboration with the University of Cincinnati

Prof. Winfried Gerling, Dr. Svea Bräunert, Dr. Tobias Conradi

Cooperation

Infrastructures of Autonomy. In cooperation with HIIG

Dr. Bernd Bösel, Prof. Dr. Jan Distelmeyer

Cooperation

Working Group “Günther Anders and Media Studies”

Dr. Bernd Bösel

Research project

Technologies of Containment: Ontologies of Porosity, Leakiness and Holding

Prof. Dr. Marie-Luise Angerer, Hannah Schmedes, Christian Schwinghammer

PhD project

Sensitive Media. An Epistemology of Sensibility

Anja Breljak

PhD project

Radio as Relation. Listening, thresholds and the more-than-human

Kate Donovan

PhD project

Technologies of Empathy. Sensitive Bodies, Empathetic Subjects, Empathogenic Media

Vanessa Oberin

PhD project

(Re-)imagining Interfaces through Dis/ability. Designing Interactive Encounters for Museums

Nicole Schimkus

PhD project

Ground Indeterminacies. The current revitalization of ontology and the question of alterity

Christian Schwinghammer

PhD project

Dream Interfacing. The Desire of Transgression and Regulation in Neurotechnology

Alice Soiné

PhD project

Interfacing Narratives. Discursive practices and distributed agency in sensor-based human-computer relations

Daniel Stoecker