News
- Project
The Processed Picture: Imaging in the Age of Photoshop. Principal Investigator, funded by the DFG at Ruhr University Bochum within the SPP Das digitale Bild (2172), 2020–2023.
- Conference
Memes in der Popkultur: Plattformen, Prozesse, Praktiken [Memes in Popular Culture: Platforms, Processes, Practices], 15th annual conference of the work group Populärkultur und Medien in collaboration with the work group Signale of the Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft, organized together with Laura Niebling, Kevin Pauliks and Jana Zündel, Goethe University Frankfurt a. M., 16.–17.11.2023.
- Publication
The Beginnings of Word Processing: A Historical Account. In: Digital Writing Technologies in Higher Education. Ed. Otto Kruse et al. Cham: Springer 2023, pp. 3–14.
- Teaching
Ästhetik digital verarbeiteter Bilder [Aesthetics of Processed Images]; Geschichte der Personal Computer [History of Personal Computers] (Ruhr University Bochum, winter term 2023/24)
Research
Fields of research
- Media history
- media theory
- media semiotics
- history of media studies
Research focus
- Digital image processing
- algorithms and computer programming
- North American and German media theory
Publications (selection)
Full list in CV (PDF), as plain text (TXT) or BibTeX file (BIB)
- Processed Pictures, Photoshop, and Unsharp Mask
International Journal for Digital Art History 8 (2021): 162-175.
- Friedrich Kittler’s Alphabetic Realism
Classics and Media Theory. Ed. Pantelis Michelakis. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2020, pp. 29–51.
- Wege und Ziele. Die unstete Methodik der Medienwissenschaft [Paths and Goals. The Wandering Methodology of Media Studies]
(together with Christoph Engemann and Florian Sprenger) Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft 20/1: 150–161.
- Married… with a Mission
(together with Anna Tuschling) Von Game of Thrones bis The Walking Dead. Interpretation von Kultur in Serie. Ed. Timo Storck and Svenja Taubner. Berlin–Heidelberg: Springer 2017, pp. 67–86.
- Der Klang der breiten Rille [The Sound of the Wide Groove] (Reply to Erhard Schüttpelz)
Internationales Jahrbuch für Medienphilosophie 3 (2017), online.
- Zur Vorgängigkeit der Operationskette in der Medienwissenschaft und bei Leroi-Gourhan [On the Precedence of the Operational Chain in Media Studies and Leroi-Gourhan]
Internationales Jahrbuch für Medienphilosophie 2 (2016): 7–29.
- Datenarbeit im “Capture”-Kapitalismus. Zur Ausweitung der Verwertungszone im Zeitalter informatischer Überwachung [Data-Labor in Capture-Capitalism. On the Expansion of the Valorization Zone in the Age of Informatic Surveillance]
Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft 2 (2015): 35–48.
- Handschrift im digitalen Umfeld [Handwriting in the Digital Environment]
Osnabrücker Beiträge zur Sprachtheorie (OBST) 85 (2014): 169–192.
- “Tap, tap, flap, flap.” Ludic Seriality, Digitality, and the Finger
Eludamos. Journal for Computer Game Culture 8/1 (2014): 33–46.
- Digitalität als Taktilität. McLuhan, der Computer und die Taste [Digitality As Tactility. McLuhan, the Computer and the Key]
Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft 2 (2010): 125–134.
Recent talks
- GIFs Galore! Online-Bildarchive am Vorabend des WWW [GIFs Galore! Online Image Archives on the Eve of the WWW]
Mögliche Muster: Zur Produktivität virtueller Bildarchive, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum. 29.6.2023.
- Photoshop and the Automation of Visual Culture
Workshop PhotoFutures, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, 19.6.2023
- Capture kaput? Datenarbeit mit Smart Speakern [Capture kaput? Data-labor with smart speakers]
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Voice Assistants in Private Homes. CRC Media of Cooperation. University of Siegen. Siegen. 8.5.2023.
- Sind Programmiersprachen poetisch? [Are Programming Languages Poetic?]
Annual conference of the research focus digitale_kultur: Digitale Hermeneutik. Germany’s State Distance-Learning University Hagen. Hagen. 17.2022.
- Digital Images as Processed Pictures
SIGCIS 2021: Online Edition, 25.9.2021.
- Ancestral Sin: Orality and Literacy in Classical Media Theory
Siren Echoes: Sound, Image, and the Media of Antiquity. Cornell University. Ithaca. 8.11.2019.
- Computer Images and Imaginations – CGI in the Early 1990s
(Re-)Imagining New Media in Art & Popular Culture at the End of the 20th Century. University of Bonn. Bonn. 11.10.2019.
- Interfaces in Photoshop. Zur Materialität digitaler Bilder [Interfaces in Photoshop: On the Materiality of Digital Images]
Medien-Materialitäten (GfM-Jahrestagung 2019). University of Cologne. Cologne. 27.9.2019.
- How Writing Turned Digital
Academic Writing in Digital Contexts: Analytics, Tools, Mediality. Zurich University of Applied Sciences. Winterthur. 6.9.2019.
- Diskurse des Digitalen [Discourses of the Digital]
Wovon sprechen wir, wenn wir von Digitalisierung sprechen? University of Bayreuth. Bayreuth. 13.02.2019.
Texts available online (in alphabetical order)
- Anfänge. Über Diskurse der Digitalisierung [Beginnings: On Discourses of Digitization]
Wovon sprechen wir, wenn wir von Digitalisierung sprechen? Ed. Martin Huber, Sybille Krämer and Claus Pias. Bayreuth: University of Bayreuth 2020, pp. 13–35.
- The Beginnings of Word Processing: A Historical Account
Digital Writing Technologies in Higher Education. Ed. Otto Kruse et al. Cham: Springer 2023, pp. 3–14.
- Blackbox Bildfilter. Unscharfe Maske von Photoshop zur Röntgentechnischen Versuchsanstalt Wien [Black Box Image Filter: Unsharp Mask from Photoshop to the X-Ray Research Institute Vienna]
Navigationen 2 (2020): 75–93.
- Ein Blick in den Rückspiegel. Zur Vergangenheit und Gegenwärtigkeit von Understanding Media [A Look in the Rear-View Mirror. On the Past and Presence of Understanding Media]
Navigationen 2 (2014): 87–101.
- Zum Bonner Programm einer neo-kritischen Medienwissenschaft [On a Scheme for a Neo-Critical Approach in Media Studies]
(together with Jens Schröter) Navigationen 2 (2016): 7–101.
- Buttons and Fingers: Our ‘Digital Condition’
Paper presented at Media in Transition 7 “Unstable Platforms: the Promise and Perils of Transition.” Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, Massachusetts. 15.5.2011.
- Comic Sans: The Typographer Replaced
Unterweiss Bulletin 2 (2018).
- Datenarbeit im “Capture”-Kapitalismus. Zur Ausweitung der Verwertungszone im Zeitalter informatischer Überwachung [Data-Labor in Capture-Capitalism. On the Expansion of the Valorization Zone in the Age of Informatic Surveillance]
Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft 2 (2015): 35–48.
- Digital Decoding and the Techno-Logic of Representation
Paper presented at the Annual conference of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts “Decodings.” Atlanta, Georgia. 8.11.2009.
- Digitale Kodierung und Repräsentation. DVD, CSS und DeCSS [Digital Decoding and Representation. DVD, CSS, DeCSS]
Navigationen 2 (2010): 95-112.
- Digitalität als Taktilität. McLuhan, der Computer und die Taste [Digitality As Tactility. McLuhan, the Computer and the Key]
Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft 2 (2010): 125-134.
- The Durable, the Portable, and the Processible
Paper presented at Media in Transition 6 “Stone and Papyrus, Storage and Transmission.” Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, Massachusetts. 25.4.2009.
- Formatwechsel. Zur Methodendebatte [Format Change: On the Debate on Methods]
(Together with Florian Sprenger and Christoph Engemann) Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft 2 (2020): 188–191.
- Die Frage nach dem Digitalen [The Question Concerning the Digital]
Paper presented at the Annual conference of the German Society for Media Studies “Spekulation.” University of Frankfurt. Frankfurt am Main. 4.10.2012.
- Innis and Kittler: The Case of the Greek Alphabet
Paper presented at “Media Transatlantic.” University of British Columbia. Vancouver. 8.4.2010.
- Karl Büchers Kriegsschriften. Aus der Vorgeschichte der deutschsprachigen Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft [Karl Buecher’s ‘War Writings’. On the Prehistory of German Communication and Media Studies]
LiLi. Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik 179 (2015): 96–106.
- Der Klang der breiten Rille [The Sound of The Wide Groove] (Reply to Erhard Schüttpelz)
Internationales Jahrbuch für Medienphilosophie 3 (2017).
- Literaturverwaltungsprogramme und ‘Privatstile’: Ein Vorschlag zur freiwilligen Selbstkontrolle [Reference Management Software and ‘Private Styles’: A Proposal for Voluntary Self-Regulation]
Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft 1 (2018): 197–201.
- Markup and Materiality
Paper presented at the Conference of the European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSAeu) “Textures.” Stockholm School of Economics. Riga. 17.6.2010.
- Medien verstehen: Marshall McLuhans Understanding Media [Marshall McLuhan’s Understanding Media]
(Ed. together with Jens Schröter) Lüneburg: Meson Press 2017 (CC-BY-SA 4.0).
- Processed Pictures, Photoshop, and Unsharp Mask
International Journal for Digital Art History 8 (2021), S. 162-175.
- Reading the source code for Adobe Photoshop (part I)
SPP Das Digitale Bild (blog). 14.10.2020.
- README.1ST
Preface to: Textverarbeitung. Eine Mediengeschichte des Computers als Schreibmaschine [Word Processing. A Media History of the Computer as a Writing Machine]. Bielefeld: transcript 2012.
- Reciprocal Materiality and the Body of Code. A Close Reading of the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII)
Digital Culture & Society 1/1 (2015): 39–52.
- “Tap, tap, flap, flap.” Ludic Seriality, Digitality, and the Finger
Eludamos. Journal for Computer Game Culture 8/1 (2014): 33–46.
- Wege und Ziele. Die unstete Methodik der Medienwissenschaft [Paths and Goals. The Wandering Methodology of Media Studies]
(Together with Christoph Engemann and Florian Sprenger) Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft 1 (2019), pp. 150–161.
- Worin haust ein Computer? Über Seinsweisen und Gehäuse universaler diskreter Maschinen [In What Does a Computer Reside? On the Modes of Existence and Casings of Universal Discrete Machines]
Gehäuse: Mediale Einkapselungen. Ed. Christina Bartz, Timo Kaerlein, Monique Miggelbrink and Christoph Neubert. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink 2017, pp. 35–51.
- Wolkentechnik. Verfügbarkeit und Zerstreuung [Cloud Technics. Disposability and Dissipation]
Paper presented at HyperKult 18 “The Cloud.” Leuphana University. Lüneburg. 3.7.2009.
Teaching
Full list in CV (PDF)
2021
- Einführung in die Medienwissenschaft II [Introduction to Media Studies II]
Undergraduate course. University of Siegen
2020
Selected courses from previous years
Code
Unix
- contacts.sh (version 0.2.1)
Simple shell script for formatted output of data filtered from a CSV contacts file (see comments in code for further details)
- doom_fire.sh (version 0.2)
DOOM Terminal Fire for the Bash shell (after Fabien Sanglard)
- metternich.c (version 0.1.4)
Text-based Metternich solitaire game
- napoleon.c (version 0.4)
One-deck Napoleon solitaire using Unicode characters (see comments in code for further details)
Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
- tah_Makros_v0.1.dotm (version 0.1)
Global template containing VBA macros for easier typing of (typographic) quotes and editing of Word documents
BASIC
Citation Style Language (CSL)