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Univ.-Prof. Dr.habil. Oliver Grau
Chair Professor for Image Science

Univ.-Prof. Dr.habil. Oliver Grau

Office
Wing F, 1. Floor, Room 1.104
Phone
+43 (0)2732 893-2550
Fax
+43 (0)2732 893-4550
E-Mail

Homepage
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at
Address
Danube University Krems
Chair Professor for Image Science
Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30
3500 Krems
Austria


OLIVER GRAU was appointed in 2005 the first Chair Professor of Image Science in the German speaking countries.

His books include Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion, Cambridge/Mass., MIT-Press 2003, Mediale Emotionen, Frankfurt 2005, MediaArtHistories, MIT-Press 2007, Imagery of the 21st Century, MIT-Press 2011. He was invited to more than 200 lectures world wide, is translated in 12 languages and received various awards.

His research focuses on the history of media art, the history of immersion and emotions and the history, idea, and culture of telepresence, genetic art, and artificial intelligence.

Grau´s book "Virtual Art. From Illusion to Immersion", MIT Press (2003 book of the month Scientific American), offered for the first time a historic comparison and evolution in image-viewer theory of immersion as well as a systematic analysis of the triad of artist, artwork and beholder under the conditions of digital art.

Grau has chaired various research projects in the field of media art research supported by DFG, BMBF, VW, etc., he conceived new scientific tools for Image Science/digital humanities: the Archive of Digital Art (www.virtualart.at) financed by German Research Foundation (DFG), the textplatform for the field of media art histories, which is dispersed over several disciplines (www.mediaarthistories.org) and Goettweig Graphic Print Collection Online, Austria´s largest private graphic collection that contains 30,000 works, from Duerer to Klimt, www.gssg.at.

Grau developed new international curricula for Image Science MA and MediaArtHistories, MA, he taught at Humboldt University Berlin and served as professor at several international universities. He is an advisory board member of numerous international journals (e.g. International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, IJArt Journal, International Journal of Art and Technology, Rundbrief Fotografie, Ekfrase: Nordisk Tidsskrift for Visuell Kultur, IMAGES, Journal for Visual Studies in Southeast Europe, Second Nature International Journal of Creative Media) and was elected as member of the Young Academy of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the Leopoldina. Oliver Grau was chair of Refresh! First International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science, and Technology, Banff 2005, Berlin 2007, Melbourne 2009, Liverpool 2011, Riga 2013. www.mediaarthistory.org.
www.mediaarthistory.org
www.virtualart.at
Database Graphic Collection Goettweig
Wikipedia

Current Lectures and Keynotes
 
  • NÜRNBERG, Internationaler Kunsthistorikerkongress, CIHA 2012, GERMANISCHES NATIONALMUSEUM, Kongressvortrag, 15. - 20.07.2012.
  • KOREA, POSTECH University of Science and Technology, Eingeladener Abendvortrag, 12.12. 2011.
  • BARCELONA, VII ACCA International Symposium on Art Criticism in a global world, MACBA, Keynote, 18.11.2011.
  • KIEL: zweite interdisziplinäre Konferenz Illusion-Immersion-Involvement lautet "Bildräume", Fachhochschule Kiel, 29. Oktober 2011.
  • BASEL: ISMAR 2011, 10th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, KEYNOTE, 26.10.2011.
  • NEW YORK, Mobility Shifts: International Future of Learning Summit, New School, KEYNOTE, 14. Oktober 2011.
  • ATLANTA, Art Papers Live!, International Lecture Series, 12. Oktober 2011.
  • ISTANBUL, ISEA 2011, Keynote, MEDIA ART EXPLORES IMAGE HISTORIES: NEW TOOLS FOR OUR FIELD, 16. September 2011.
  • BRASILIEN:
    • FLORIANOPOLIS, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, 6. August 2011
    • GOIANIA, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Eröffnungsvortrag des Semesters an der Fakultät, 8. August 2011
    • BRASILIA, Eröffnungsvortrag der International Conference in Art and Technology, National Museum of the Republic Brasil, 10. August 2011
    • Universidade Federal do RIO DE JANEIRO 12. August 2011, Abendvortrag.
    • SALVADOR DE BAHIJA, 15. August 2011, Abendvortrag.
  • BREMEN, Jacobs University Bremen, Visual Archives in the Digital Age Symposion, 15. Juni 2011.
  • UKRAINE:  
  • LIVIV  Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, 22.05.2011, evening lecture
  • KIEW National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, evening lecture
  • CHARKOW  Karazin Kharkiv National University, 24.05.2011, ceremenial address
  • PARIS, Université Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne, Abendvortrag 06.04.2011.
  • WOLFENBÜTTEL, Internationale Tagung Kupferstichkabinett online, Entwicklungen, Ergebnisse, Perspektiven, 14.-16.03.2011, Konferenzvortrag 14.03.2011.
  • Seoul, “tech+ forum 2010” (in Association with the G-20 Summit Meeting), Jamsil Gym, by Invitation of the Ministry of Knowledge Economy (MKE) of the Republic of Korea, November 9th 2010
http://www.techplusforum.com/eng/index.jsp
  • Damaskus, Syrien, Invitation by Goethe-Institut, October 19th 2010
  • Irbid, Jordan, Yarmouk University, evening lecture, October 2010
  • Amman, Jordan, evening lecture, October 2010
  • Aarhus, Denmark, lecture at University of Aarhus, 16. 09.2010, evening lecture
  • Bern, Erster Schweizerischer Kongress für Kunstgeschichte 03.09. 2010, congress lecture
  • Hong Kong City University, School for Creative Media, Invited Lecture: Renewing Knowledge Structures For Digital Humanities, 11.8.2010.
  • London, EVA, British Computer Society, Covent Garden, July 5th to 7th 2010, Keynote

http://www.eva-conferences.com/eva_london/2010/conference_programme

  • Serbia, Invitation by Austrian Cultural Forum
  • 08.06.2010 Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad
  • 09.06.2010 lecture Museum of the Contemporary Art, Belgrade
  • Lecture tour Russia: by invitation of the Ministry of Culture 
    • 21.05.2010 Ural University Jekaterinburg, invited lecture
    • 23.05.2010 Garage, Center for Contemporary Culture, Moskau, invited lecture
    • 26.05.2010 St. Petersburg, European University, Art History Department, invited lecture
  • Seoul, South Korea: Yonsei Universität, Internationale Humanisten Tagung, 13.-14. May 2010
  • Sofia, Bulgarien: 25. – 28.03.2010, invited lecture, University of Sofia & National Art Academy
  • London: University of Westminster, Visual Culture Studies in Europe, 5. Feb. 2010, Keynote
  • Berlin: Transmediale, Processual Media Arts Challenge for our Societies, 4. Feb. 2010
  • Hamburg: Warburghaus; Frühe Neuzeit - Späte Neuzeit. Phänomene der Wiederkehr in Literatur und Künsten ab 1970: Internationale Tagung des Nordverbundes Germanistik, 22. Januar 2010
  • Melbourne, Leonardo Education Forum, Re:live, Third International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, 26.11. - 29.11.2009
  • Kolumbien, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Escuela de Artes Plásticas, Bogota, KEYNOTE, Internationale Konferenz, INTERMEDIOS - SOCIEDAD Y TRANSPARENCIA, 9. - 11. 9. 2009.

Research Interests
 
  • Art and Media History of Illusion and Immersion
  • History of the Concept of Telepresence and Telecommunication
  • Current questions on genetic Art and the subhistory of artificial life

 

 

Member of the Editorial Board of Referenced Scientific Journals 

 

International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, United Kingdom
IJArt Journal, United Kingdom
International Journal of Art and Technology, United Kingdom
SECOND NATURE: International Journal of Creative Media, Australia
EKFRASE: Nordisk Tidsskrift for Visuell Kultur, Norway
JUNCTURES The Journal for Thematic Dialogue, New Zealand

Jordan Journal of the Arts
 

 

Editorial Board

 

Scientific Advisory Board of Interdisciplinary Research Center Humanities/Art/Technology at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
 

Consultant

Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft DFG (GER)
National Science Foundation NSF (USA)
Schweizer Nationalfonds SNF (SUI)
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst DAAD (GER)
European Research Council ERC (EU)

Awards and Distinctions

2011, Opening Speech POSTECH, South Korea (International lecture series for Nobel Prize winners and international top scientists), December 2011.
2010, Invitation by Ministery of Knowledge Economy of the Republic of Korea (MKE) for a lecture at G20 Summit/ “tech+ forum 2010”, Jamsil Gym, 09.11.2010.

2008, Invitation to the official cultural program of the  XXIX. Olympic Summer Games Beijing, Exhibition Synthetic Times - Media Art China 2008, Lecture Tsinghua University, June 9, 2008.

2004, Honorary Media Award of the Humboldt University Society.

2003, Scholarship holder of the German-Italian Center Villa Vigoni.
2003, Book of the Month, Scientific American.
2002, InterNationes/Goethe Institute Funding for the translation of the publication „Virtual Art“.
2001, Election into the “Young Academy” (at Berlin-Brandenburgische Academy of Sciences (BBAW) and the Leopoldina.

Current Interviews

Arte

Iconic Turn

Korean Television 2009

Serbian Television 2010

Ukrainian State TV 2011

Radio Interviews (German)

hör!spiel!art.mix; Interview about Media Art on Bayerischer Rundfunk on September 5th 2008, 20:30 - 22:30h

"Kultur am Sonntagmorgen", August 18 - September 15, 2002, Sundays 9:30 a.m.:

Was ist ein Bild? Antworten der Kunst und Philosophie, der Neurophysiologie, der Medienwissenschaft und Kunstgeschichte / Eine Gesprächsreihe von Rainer B. Schossig
[What is an image? Answers of art and philosophy, neurophysiology, media studies and art history / A series of talks by Rainer B. Schossig]

Part V, broadcasted on Deutschlandradio on September 15, 2002:
The media scholar Oliver Grau
Interview_big file
Interview_small file

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Publications
Press Reports
Reviews "Virtual Art"
Lectures
Conventions