Thinking Images – An Introduction to the Philosophy of Cinema

This course offers a wide-ranging introduction to various philosophical understandings of cinema, and it will pay particular attention to the different ways these understand the relationship between philosophy (concept) and cinema (image).
The students will be expected to read short extracts from the philosophers discussed in each class, and the lectures will include watching and discussing parts of films.

Week 1; Introduction to Film-Philosophy.
Week 2-3; A new technology, a new popular art, a new form of criticism (Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer).
Week 4-5; Dream Images: Psychoanalysing the Cinematic Signifier (Christian Metz, Slavoj Zizek).
Week 6-7; Postmodernism and the Politics of moving images (Frederic Jameson, Laura Mulvey, Homi K. Bhabha).
Week 8-9; Gilles Deleuze and the Cinematic Image of Thought (also Henri Bergson and Andre Bazin).
Week 10-11; Film Fables, Jacques Rancière and cinematic disagreements.
Week 12-13; Alain Badiou, A Cinema of Ideas.

Stephen Zepke – Short CV

Work History

-2012 (Summer semester): Lecturer – part-time (Lehrauftrage), Department of Media Studies, University for Applied Arts (Angewandte), Vienna. Course on Cinema and Philosophy.
-2010 (Summer semester): Guest Professor, Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb.
-Since 2009: Independent Researcher
-2007–2009: Lecturer – part-time (Lehrauftrage), Institute of Philosophy, University of Vienna. Courses on Aesthetics, Art and Philosophy in the 20th Century, Deleuze and Guattari.
-2004–2007: Lecturer – full-time (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), Academy of Fine Art, Vienna. Courses on Aesthetics, Political Philosophy, Cinema and Contemporary Art.
-2004–2007: Assistant to Harun Farocki and Chantal Mouffe, Academy of Fine Art, Vienna.
-2001–2004: Lecturer – part-time (Lehrauftrage), Academy of Fine Art, Vienna. Courses on Philosophy, Cinema, Art and English language.
-2000 – 2003: Assistant to Prof. Eric Alliez, Department of Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art, Academy of Fine Art, Vienna.
-1999: University Tutor, Department of General Philosophy, Sydney University, Australia.

Degrees

-Doctor of Philosophy, General Philosophy, Sydney University, Australia. Dissertation topic: ‘Art As Abstract Machine, Ontology and Aesthetics in Deleuze and Guattari.’ Supervisor: Paul Patton. Examining Committee: Eric Alliez, Brian Massumi and Daniel Smith. (1996 – 2002)
-Master of Arts (first-class honours), Art History, Auckland University, New Zealand. Thesis topic: ‘Colin McCahon and the Writing of Difference.’ Supervisor: Tony Green. Examining Committee: Tony Green, Laurence Simmons, Jonathan Lamb. (1989 – 1991)
-Bacholar of Arts, Majors in Classical Studies and Philosophy, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand. (1985 – 1988)

Scholarships and Fellowships

-2010 – MOEL Research fellowship, Austria.
-1996 – 1999: Australian Postgraduate Award.
-1993 – 1995: New Zealand Universities Postgraduate Scholarship.
-1993 – 1995: William Giorgetti Scholarship.
-1993: Fulbright Scholarship.

PhD Supervision and Juries

Currently Supervising:
- Antoine L’Heureux, ‘Art as Immanent Heterogeneity in Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari and Jacques Ranciere’, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK.
- Rob Garnett; ‘Abstract Humour, Humorous Abstraction, Gilles Deleuze and Contemporary Art’, Kingston University, London, UK.
- Andreas Soller, ‘Vom geschlossenen Organismus zu den offenen Organen. Der Riss im Firmament! Deleuze und Guattari und das kollektive Unbewusste’, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria.
- Mladen Bzumic, ‘Here, There, Elsewhere: When Images Travel: On Specificity and the De-materialization of the Art Image’, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria.
- Maria Aroni, ‘Curatorial/Aesthetics’, Art History department, Kingston University, London, UK.
- Nicolas Kolonias, ‘The Mysticism of Digital Games: Foundations on a Cross–Study of Deleuze Neuroscience and Eastern Philosophy in Digital Games’, Media Studies Department, Amsterdam University, Netherlands.
- Matthew Haigh, ‘The Political Workings Of Illustrated Text, With Focus On Global Warming’, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

Completed
- Desislava Terzieva, ‘Grafitti, Signs of Expression from the City to Deleuze and Guattari’, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria. 2009.
- Jacob Lillemose, ‘Art as Information Tool. Conceptual Aesthetics in Contemporary Computer Based Art’, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. 2011

PhD Examiner:
- Katve-Kaisa Kontturi, ‘Following the Flows of Process, Towards a New Materialist Account of Contemporary Art’, Art History department, University of Turku, Finland.
- Sjoerd van Tuirnen, ‘Mannerism in Philosophy, A Study of Gilles Deleuze’s Development of Monadology into Nomadology, of Leibnizian Approaches to the Problem of Constitution, and of Deleuze’s Concept of Mannerism’, Philosophy department, Ghent University, Belgium.
- Sandra Plummer, ‘Photography after Deleuze: Ontology, Reflexivity and Materiality’, The London Consortium, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.
- Tim Mathieson, ‘To Befall a Face’, School of Social and Environmental Inquiry, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Publications

Books
- Sublime Art; Towards an Aesthetics of the Future, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2013.
- New Futures; Science Fiction Cinema Beyond the Limits, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, forthcoming 2013.
-Art as Abstract Machine, Ontology and Aesthetics in Deleuze and Guattari, New York: Routledge, 2005.
-Deleuze and Contemporary Art. Collection edited with Simon O’Sullivan. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010.
-Deleuze, Guattari and the Production of the New. Collection edited with Simon O’Sullivan, London: Continuum Press, 2008.

Peer-Reviewed Articles
- ‘Dystopian Futures; The Politics of Interface films’, in NECSUS -The European Journal of Media Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1, forthcoming 2012.
- ‘Art as Abstract Machine; Guattari’s Modernist Aesthetics’, in Deleuze Studies 6.2, special issue on Guattari, edited by Gary Genosko, forthcoming 2012.
- ‘Contemporary art – beautiful or sublime? Kant in Rancière, Lyotard and Deleuze’, in Avello Publishing Journal Vol. 1, No. 1. 2011.
- ‘The Sublime Conditions of Contemporary Art’, in Deleuze Studies 5.1, 2011.
- ‘Anita Fricek: la pintura contemporánea como mecanismo de crítica institucional’, in Nómades, no. 30, April 2009.
- ‘La cartografía artística de la sensación, tres obras recientes de Rosario López’, in Antipoda, no. 7, December 2008.
- ‘Eco-estética: Mas allá de la estructura en la obra de Robert Smithson, Gilles Deleuze y Félix Guattari,’ in Universitas Philosophica, No. 49, December 2008.
- ‘Against Nihilism, Nietzsche and Kubrick on the Future of Man,’ in Journal of French Philosophy: Bulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française, Volume 17, Number 2, Fall 2007.
- ‘Resistiendo el presente: Félix Guattari, arte conceptual y producción social’, in Nómades, no. 25, Oct. 2006.
- ‘The Concept of Art When Art is not a Concept,’ in Angelaki, journal of the theoretical humanities, vol. 11, no. 1, April 2006.
- ‘McCahon’s Promised Land: The Politics and Aesthetics of Bicultural Mistranslation,’ in Landfall, no. 211, April 2006.

Chapters in Books (Selection)
- ‘Art and the Aesthetics of the Interface; Autonomy, Sensation and Biopolitics’, in Down by law: Revisiting normativity with Deleuze/nomadic thought, edited by Rosi Braidotti. London; Continuum, forthcoming 2012.
- ‘The Transcendental Sublime; Derrida and Deleuze on the Third Critique’, in Derrida: hospitalidad, hostilidad, edited by Hernando Salcedo Fidalgo. Bogota: Los Andes University Press, forthcoming 2012. (Spanish)
- ‘Autonomous Aesthetics; Art and Life in Guattari’, in The Guattari Effect: The Life and Work of Felix Guattari 1930-1992, edited by Eric Alliez and Andrew Goffey, London and New York: Continuum, 2011.
- ‘Interface Aesthetics; Science-Fiction Film in the Age of Biopolitics’, in Responsibility for Things Seen, edited by Petar Milat. Published in conjunction with BadCo’s exhibition in the Croatian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, 2011.
- ‘El Readymade re-hecho: hacia una nueva genealogía del arte contemporáneo’, in Actualidad del Sujeto. Genealogías. Prácticas. Perspectivas. Edited by Mónica Zuleta, Alejandro Sánchez, Franz Hensel, Zandra Pedraza. Bogota: IESCO – Universidad Central, 2010.
- ‘Anita Fricek; Painting as Institutional Critique,’ in Deleuze and Contemporary Art, edited by Simon O’Sullivan and Stephen Zepke. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010.
- ‘Alain Badiou,’ in Film, theory and philosophy, the key thinkers, edited by Felicity Coleman. Durham: Acumen, 2009.
- ‘Deleuze, Guattari and Contemporary Art,’ in Gilles Deleuze: Image and Text, edited by Eugene W. Holland, Daniel W. Smith, Charles J. Stivale. London: Continuum, 2009.
- ‘Becoming a Citizen of the World: Deleuze between Allan Kaprow and Adrian Piper,’ in Deleuze and Performance, edited by Laura Cull. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009.
- ‘The Readymade: Art as the Refrain of Life,’ in Deleuze, Guattari and the Production of the New, edited by Simon O’Sullivan and Stephen Zepke. London: Continuum, 2008.
- ‘2001, A Space Odyssey: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future,’ Visual Collegium Reader/Zbornik Vizualnog kolegija, edited by Tanja Vrvilo and Petar Milat. Zagreb: Multimedia Institute, 2008. (Croatian/English)
- ‘Eco-Aesthetics: Beyond Structure in the work of Robert Smithson, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari,’ in Deleuze and Ecology, edited by Bernd Herzogenrath. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2008.
- ‘El ataque a la representación: la estética como política,’ in ¿Uno solo o varios mundos posibles? Diferencia, subjetividad y conocimientos en las ciencias sociales contemporáneas, edited by, Mónica Zuleta, Humberto Cubides, Manuel Roberto Escobar. Bogota: IESCO – Universidad Central, 2007.
- ‘Towards an Ethics of the Alien: Alain Badiou and 1950s ‘Arrival’ Films,’ Kino wie noch nie, edited by Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki. Vienna: Generali Foundation, 2006. (English/German)
- ‘Believing in the BwO: Artaud-Deleuze-Dreyer,’ Biographien des Organlosen Körpers, edited by Eric Alliez and Elisabeth Samsonow. Vienna: Turia+Kant, 2003.

Translations

French – English
- Felix Guattari, ‘On Contemporary Art, Interview with Oliver Zahm, April 1992’, in The Guattari Effect: The Life and Work of Felix Guattari 1930-1992, edited by Eric Alliez and Andrew Goffey, London and New York: Continuum, 2011.

German – English
- Elisabeth von Samsonow, ‘Inesthetique du grand peluche / The Inasthetic of the Big Stuffed Animal’, in Inaesthetics, vol. 2, Berlin: Merve, 2010 (with Anita Fricek).
- Gerald Raunig, ‘Heterogenetic Flight’, in Deleuze and Contemporary Art. Edited by S. Zepke and S. O’Sullivan. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010 (with Anita Fricek).
- Peter Sloterdijk, ‘Spheres’, in Review, No. 5, ‘Next Life’, pp. 72-93. Vienna: Verlag Anton Pustet, 2007 (with Anita Fricek).

Nationality: New Zealand

Current address:
Köhlergasse 5/18
1180 Vienna, Austria.

Contact:
e-mail – eszed@hotmail.com
home phone: 0043 1 9245 150

Mag. art. Herwig Steiner

Peter Weibel wurde 1944 in Odessa geboren, er studierte Literatur, Film, Mathematik, Medizin und Philosophie in Wien und Paris.

· 1984-89 Associate Professor for Video and

Digital Arts, Center for Media Study,

State University of New York at Buffalo, N.Y.

· 1989-94 Direktor des Instituts für Neue Medien

an der Städelschule in Frankfurt/Main

· 1984-2006 Professur für Digitale Kunst an der

Universität für angewandte Kunst in Wien

· 1993-99 Österreich-Kommissär der Biennale von Venedig

· seit 1993 künstlerischer Kurator an der Neuen Galerie am

Landesmuseum Joanneum in Graz

· seit 1999 Vorstand des Zentrums für Kunst und

Medientechnologie in  Karlsruhe

. seit 2007 Professur für Medientheorie an der Universität für

angewandte Kunst in Wien

Abteilung Medientheorie / Kommunikationstheorie

(o. univ. Prof. Peter Weibel)
Universität für angewandte Kunst
in Kooperation mit schikaneder future cinema
Projektleitung Dr. Gerda Lampalzer-Oppermann

Eröffnung: Do 10. 6. 2010, 20:30 Uhr
Film/Video/Performance: 21 Uhr

open: 11. 6. 2010 – 14. 6. 2010, 18-04 Uhr

schikaneder
Margaretenstraße 24, 1040 Wien

Ruben Demus
Laura Gaetano
Thomas Glänzel
Robert Mathy
Michael Mazohl
Michael J. Muik
Paul Leitner
Gerda Prantl
Johannes Schrems
Malin Schoenberg
Katharina Unger
Benjamin Weber
Thomas Wieflingseder
Viktoria Wöss
Merlin Wyschka
Conny Zenk / Matthias Hurtl /Markus Liszt

Mitarbeit bei der Forschungskooperation CNRS/Paris – Universität Salzburg, Bereich „Kultursemiotik“. Forschungsprojekt des Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung über „Gender und Film“. Gastprofessur für Filmwissenschaft an der FU Berlin. Seit 1993 Lehrtätigkeit an der Universität für angewandte Kunst in Wien, Lehrveranstaltungen zu Geschichte, Theorie und Ästhetik von Film und Medienkunst. 2009: Habilitation zum Thema „Cinéma brut. Eine alternative Genealogie der Filmavantgarde“. Wintersemester 2010: Vertretungsprofessur für Filmwissenschaft an der Goethe Universität Frankfurt/Main.

Publikationen

Zahlreiche Aufsatzpublikationen zu Film und Geschichte, feministischer Filmtheorie, Semiotik der audiovisuellen Medien, Filmavantgarde und Medienkunst.

Buchpublikationen:

– Cinéma brut. Eine alternative Genealogie der Filmavantgarde. Wien, New York: Springer/edition angewandte 2010.

– Peter Kubelka. Wien: PVS 1995 (Hg., gemeinsam mit Peter Tscherkassky).

– Geschichte im Kino. Eine Semiohistorie des französischen Films: Rohmer, Resnais, Godard, Allio. Nodus Publikationen: Münster 1991.

Gerda Lampalzer

Studium der Kommunikationswissenschaften an der Universität Wien
Arbeiten Im Bereich Installation, Objekt, Konzept (Video, Fotografie, Text)
Kuratorentätigkeit, Vorträge, Workshops und Publikationen zu Video und Medienkunst
Seit 2003 Mitglied der IG Bildende Kunst und der Vereinigung bildender Künstler Wiener Secession
Seit 2007 Mitglied bei FLUSS – NÖ. Initiative für Foto- und Medienkunst

Seit 1980 leitende Mitarbeit in der Medienwerkstatt Wien
Seit 1987 Lehrtätigkeit an der Universität für angewandte Kunst in Wien
Von 2001-2006  Dozentin an der Donauuniversität Krems (Internationales Journalismuszentrum)
Seit 2006 Lehrtätigkeit an der Universität für künstlerische Gestaltung Linz

1993 Stipendium für das Progetto Civitella d`Agliano, Italien
1994 und 2000 Videostipendium des BMfUK
1997 Artist in Residence bei United Media Arts Durham, Canada
2002 Gastatelier-Stipendium Hamburg
2004 künstlerischer Gastaufenthalt in Cebu, Philippinen

Preise:
1983 Preis des belgischen Ferrsehens R.T.B.F. für „ASUMA”
1992 Österreichischer Förderungspreis für Videokunst
1999 Anerkennungspreis des Landes Niederösterreich für Medienkunst
2004 Bestes Erstlingswerk beim DEBÙTNALE Award für „Frau sein heißt…“
2005 Nominierung für den Internationalen Medienpreis für Wissenschaft und Kunst mit TRANSLATION
2005 Karl-Hofer-Preis der Universität der Künste Berlin für TRANSLATION
2006 Würdigungspreis des Landes Niederösterreich für Medienkunst

working on the art-based fundamental research project
<Quantum-Cinema>
- a PEEK-project funded by the FWF
supervisor: Prof. Peter Weibel
www.quantumcinema-digitalvision.uni-ak.ac.at
Studies: Art History, Karl-Franzens University Graz
Philosophy, University of Vienna, Academy of Fine arts Vienna
Fashion, University of applied Arts Vienna
Discrete Mathematics and Geometry, TU-Vienna
Publications:
various art-reviews for www. artmagizne.cc
( planned publication developed from the 2008 Scholarship of the Department for
Science and Culture of the City of Vienna for a scientific research on)
„Scientific items within contemporary arts in Vienna“
„Liebe als Unmöglichkeitszustand“ in an anthology about the poet Herta Kräftner,
edited by Tiwald, Katharina (Hrsg).: Berührungen. Hertha Kräftner zum 80. Geburtstag. -
Oberwart: edition lex liszt 12 (2008)
recently working on my thesis, on the „Penrose Tilings“ Department of Art and Science
Tranfer at the University of aplied arts / Prof.Christian Reder
Tutors: Sen.Lect. Dr. phil. Ferdinand Schmatz , Prof. Burkhardt Schmidt and
Prof.Elisabeth von Samsonow (Academy of Fine arts Vienna)