The International Research Institute for Cultural Techniques and Media Philosophy (IKKM) was a center for advanced studies at the

Bauhaus-Universität Weimar The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is a university located in Weimar, Germany, and specializes in the artistic and technical fields. Established in 1860 as the Great Ducal Saxon Art School, it gained collegiate status on 3 June 1910. In 1919 the s ...

, and was founded in 2008 by

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and

Bernhard Siegert Bernhard Siegert (born 1959) is a German media theorist and media historian. Siegert was born in Bremen. He graduated in 1987 in Germanic Studies, Philosophy and History at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg/Germany. He followed Friedrich K ...

. The IKKM was part of the

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initiative in the 'Freedom for Research in the Humanities' , program of the German

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(

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). Initial funding has been approved for six years (until 2014). Until March 2020 the IKKM was located in the Palais Dürckheim build by

Henry van de Velde Henry Clemens van de Velde (; 3 April 1863 – 15 October 1957) was a Belgian painter, architect, interior designer, and art theorist. Together with Victor Horta and Paul Hankar, he is considered one of the founders of Art Nouveau in Belgium ...

Research

The Institute was a research establishment based on the fellow principle. Fellow appointment was supervised by an international

advisory board An advisory board is a body that provides non-binding strategic advice to the management of a corporation, organization, or foundation. The informal nature of an advisory board gives greater flexibility in structure and management compared to the ...

consisting of professors

Raymond Bellour Raymond Bellour (born 1939 in Lyon) is a French scholar, and writer. Best known to Anglophone readers for his publications on film analysis, his work is dispersed across a wide range of articles and books, few of which are available in English, i ...

Hans Belting Hans Belting (7 July 1935 – 10 January 2023) was a German art historian and media theorist with a focus on image science, and this with regard to contemporary art and to the Italian art of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Biography Be ...

Régis Debray Jules Régis Debray (; born 2 September 1940) is a French philosopher, journalist, former government official and academic. He is known for his theorization of mediology, a critical theory of the long-term transmission of cultural meaning in ...

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht Hans Ulrich "Sepp" Gumbrecht (born 15 June 1948) is a German-born American literary theorist whose work spans philology, philosophy, semiotics, literary and cultural history, and epistemologies of the everyday. As of June 14, 2018, he is Albert ...

, and

Sigrid Weigel Sigrid Weigel (born March 25, 1950, Hamburg) is a German scholar of literary studies, critical theory, a specialist of cross-disciplinary research, and a leading scholar of Walter Benjamin, Aby Warburg, and the cultural science (Kulturwissenschaft ...

. Each year the IKKM invited up to ten internationally renowned scholars for one or two semesters to

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, enabling them to pursue a research project and contribute to the development of questions regarding media-philosophy and research in cultural technologies. The first funding period of the IKKM consist of six annual research topics: * 2008/09: Hominization and Anthropotechnologies – the Making of Humans * 2009/10: Referencialization and Ontogenesis – the Making of Things * 2010/11: Semiosis—the Transformation of Objects into Signs * 2011/12: Localization—the Production of Sites * 2012/13: Synchronization—the Production of the Present * 2013/14: Historization—the Production of the Past

People

Members

Directors:

Advisory board

Jacques Aumon,

John Durham Peters John Durham Peters (born 1958) is the María Rosa Menocal Professor of English and of Film & Media Studies at Yale University. A media historian and social theorist, he has authored a number of noted scholarly works. His first book, ''Speaking Into ...

Fellows

Summer term 2011 Mario Carpo, Søren Frank,

Linda Dalrymple Henderson Linda Dalrymple Henderson (born 1948) is an American art historian, educator, and curator. Henderson is currently the David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professor in Art History Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on mod ...

, Brian Larkin, Catherine Bertho Lavenir, Anna McCarthy, Wolfgang Pircher, Joseph Vogl,

Samuel Weber Samuel M. Weber (born 1940, in New York City) is the Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities at Northwestern University, as well as a professor at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Weber began PhD studies at Yale Univers ...

Winter term 2010/2011 Eric Alliez, Dominique Blüher
Bruce Clarke
Michael Diers, Thomas Hauschild, Erich Hörl, Gertrud Koch, Bettine Menke,

Irit Rogoff Irit Rogoff () is a writer, theorist, teacher and curator. Her research interests include visual culture; contemporary art and critical theory; postcolonialism, geoculture, and geographies, cultures of education and gender. Rogoff obtained her ...

, Martin Schulz, Herta Wolf Summer term 2010 Eric Alliez, Christoph Asendorf, Hartmut Böhme,

, Tom Gunning, Erich Hörl, Jürgen Müller, Patricia Pisters,

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (; born 12 January 1946) is a Swiss-born Liechtensteiner historian of science. He was director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin from 1997 to 2014. His focus areas within the history of science ...

, David N. Rodowick,

Nikolaus Wegmann Nicholas is a male name, the Anglophone version of an ancient Greek name in use since antiquity, and cognate with the modern Greek , . It originally derived from a combination of two Greek words meaning 'victory' and 'people'. In turn, the name ...

Winter term 2009/2010 Christoph Asendorf,

Jacques Aumont Jacques Aumont (born 25 February 1942) is a French academic and writer on film theory. Born in Avignon he initially trained as an engineer but started contributing film criticism to '' Cahiers du cinéma'' in the late 1960s.Daniel DottoriniAumon ...

, Jiří Bystřický, Hartmut Böhme, Peter Geimer, Eva Geulen, Joachim Krausse, Dieter Mersch, Jürgen Müller, Patricia Pisters, Manfred Schneider Summer term 2009 Wolfgang Beilenhoff,

Georges Didi-Huberman Georges Didi-Huberman Fellow of the British Academy, FBA (born 13 June 1953) is a French people, French philosopher and art historian. Biography Georges Didi-Huberman was born on 13 June 1953 in Saint-Étienne, into a Sephardic family from Tun ...

Richard Dyer Richard Dyer (born 1945) is an English academic who held a professorship in the Department of Film Studies at King's College London. Specialising in cinema (particularly Italian cinema), queer theory, and the relationship between entertainment ...

, Josef Früchtl, Frank Kessler, Joachim Krausse, Almira Ousmanova, Manfred Schneider Winter term 2008/2009 Wolfgang Beilenhoff, Marta Braun,

, Thomas Macho, Claus Pias, Erhard Schüttpelz, Ludger Schwarte Summer term 2008 Wolfgang Beilenhoff, Thomas Macho

References

External links

* {{authority control Research institutes in Germany 2008 establishments in Germany Bauhaus University, Weimar Research institutes established in 2008