Current research on 'SensorMedia' and Technocultures of Tracking.
Broader areas of research comprise
genealogies and epistemologies of the visible;
intersections of media and science & technology studies;
aesthetics and politics of self-tracking and sensor-media;
environmental media; media theory & algorithmic governmentality.
Research-related papers & invited lectures (selected)
"Sensor-Media-Environments as Onto-Epistemological Challenge"
RMeS Conference "All about Media? The Future of Media Studies", LAB 111, Amsterdam, 09.-10.11.2023.
"Nocturnal Self-Care: Sleep-Tracking-Devices and Sensor-Media ‘Care Structures’"
NECS Conference 2023: "Care", Oslo/Norway, 13.-17.06.2023.
"Sensor-Medien-Umwelten und/als Technoökologien des Wahrnehmens"
(UN)ENDING SENSING. Abschlussveranstaltung des Forschungskollegs zum Wissen sensibler Medien, ZeM Brandenburgisches Zentrum für Medienwissenschaften, Potsdam/Germany, 07.07.2023.
“Die Arbeit der Nacht. Sleep-Tracking als Gouvernementale Medientechnologie.”
Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft 2022: Arbeit, Martin Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale, 28.09.-1.10.2022.
"Sensor-Media-Environments as Experimental Systems: Medianaturecultural Aspects of Putting 'Nature' to the Test."
CRC Annual Conference 2022 (SFB1187): "Testing in the Wild: Publics, Practices, and Infrastructures", Universität Siegen, 19.09.-21.09.2022.
“’Upside down you’re turning me…’: Re-Orienting Television Ratio(nality) or The Virtue of Verticality.”
NECS 2020 International Conference: Transitions: Moving Images and Bodies, University of Palermo, Italy, 18.-20.06.2020 [POSTPONED DUE TO CORONA CRISIS]
“SensorMedia – as object and concept.”
Invited Lecture: RMeS (Research School for Media Studies), Research Master Course: ‘Trending Topics – Engaging Objects’ , Amsterdam, 28.02.2020
“Media of ‘Making-Evident’: Epistemic Images and the ‘Problem’ of Inscription.”
Practicing Evidence – Evidencing Practice. How is (Scientific) Knowledge Validated, Valued and Contested? International Conference and Pre-Conference Workshop. Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung, DFG Research Group 2448, Munich, Germany, 18.-21.02. 2020
„Tatort als kulturelles Phänomen.“ (invited lecture)
50 Jahre Tatort, Duitsland-Instituut / Goethe-Institut Amsterdam, 12.01.2020
“Ökologien der Wahrnehmung. Zur medialen Onto-Epistemologie des Sensors.“
GfM 2019 - Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft: ‚Materialitäten‘, University of Cologne, Germany, 25.-28.09.2019
“Stating as-is? Sensor-Media and the Non-Narrative Narration of the Contemporary.”
NECS International Conference: Structures and Voices: Storytelling in Post-Digital Times, University of Gdańsk, Poland, 13.-15.06.2019
“Sensor and Sensibility. SensorMedia as aesthetic and epistemological challenge”
Invited Lecture at University College Utrecht, The Digital Citizen: Mapping Spheres of Change, Utrecht, 23.04.2019
“Reiterations of NOW. Sensor-Media and the genealogy of ‘The Contemporary Condition’”
XVII. International Film Studies Spring School: Moving Pictures, Living Machines: Automation, Animation and the Imitation of Life in Cinema and Media, Gorizia, Italy, 21.-26.03.2019
“Connect Capture Calibrate. Media environments for the Sensor-Self”
Digital Cultures : Knowledge/Culture/Technology. International Conference, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, 19.-22.09.2018
“Dis/Integrating Media Environments: Sensing in Algorithmic Culture”
NECS International Conference: Media Tactics and Engagement, UvA/VU Amsterdam, 27.-29.06.2018
“The Powers of the ‘Stack’? Self-Tracking as BioPolitical Feedback Loop”
XVI. International Film Studies Spring School: Technologies of Power / Power of Technology, Gorizia, 03.-07.03.2018
“Mediated Imaginations – Imagined Mediations”
Kunstlicht Launch Event , LIMA Media Art Platform Amsterdam, 08.02.2018
“Cloud Competing: Media Infrastructures of Self-Tracking Culture”
Global Culture of Competition: Rankings, Benchmarks, Ratings as / in Popular Media. Symposium Universiteit van Amsterdam, 18.-19.01.2018
“Beauty of Another Order : The Intimate Image World of F. Percy Smith”
InScience: International Science Film Festival, Nijmegen, 08.-12.11.2017
“Bio/Feedback/Loop: Self-Tracking and the Ecology of Affect in Algorithmic Culture”
ECREA – Philosophy of Communication Conference: Communication, Art, Media: Probing Impacts and Intersections, Lisbon, 13.-15.10.2017
“Making Visible: On ‚Epistemic Images‘”
Invited Lecture at University College Utrecht, 07.10.2016
Conference & Workshop Co-Organizer
Media Archaeology section: ‘Ecologies of Perception’ - XVIII MAGIS International Spring School: Living in the Material World: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Past and Present Media Ecologies, Gorizia, Italy, 28.-31.03.2020 [POSTPONED DUE TO CORONA CRISIS]
Media Archaeology section: 'Hands of Time: On Media Temporalities' - XVII. International Film Studies Spring School: Moving Pictures, Living Machines: Automation, Animation and the Imitation of Life in Cinema and Media, Gorizia, Italy, 23.-26.03.2019
NECS International Conference: Media Tactics and Engagement, UvA/VU Amsterdam, 27.-29.06.2018
Media Sports and World Building. Workshop / Master class, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 25.06.2018
Chair & Moderation
Media Archaeology workshop section: Hands of Time: On Media Temporalities - XVII. International Film Studies Spring School: Moving Pictures, Living Machines: Automation, Animation and the Imitation of Life in Cinema and Media, Gorizia, Italy, 23.-26.03.2019
(panel chair)
NECS 2018 Conference: Media Tactics and Engagement, UvA/VU Amsterdam, 27.-29.06.2018 (keynote lecture & panels)
Media Sports and World Building. Workshop / Master class, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 25.06.2018 (workshop)
NECS 2017 Conference: Sensibility & the Senses: Media Bodies Practices, Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris, 29.06.-01.07.2017 (panel)
International Conference: Critical Theory in the Humanities: Resonances of the Work of Judith Butler, VU Amsterdam, 05.-07.04.2017 (panel)
