OLIVER GRAU is Professor for Image Science and Head of the Department at Danube University.
Grau lectured in numerous parts of the world, received various awards and is widely published (12 languages). Recent works include Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion (MIT-Press 2003), Mediale Emotionen (Fischer, 2005) and MediaArtHistories (MIT-Press 2007). 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.
He was head of the German Science Foundation project Immersive Art, whose team since 1998 developed the first international Database of Digital Art: www.virtualart.at now based at Danube University.
Grau directs as well the development of the Database of the Graphic Collection Goettweig, Austrias largest private graphic collection, which contains 30.000 masterprints from Duerer to Klimt: http://dbw.donau-uni.ac.at/gssg
Grau taught at Humboldt University Berlin and served as exchange professor at several international universities. He is an advisory board member of numerous international journals (e.g. IMAGES, journal for visual studies in Southeast Europe) and was elected as member of the Young Academy of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the Leopoldina. Oliver Grau was director of Refresh! First International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science, and Technology, Banff 2005. www.mediaarthistory.org.
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Current Lectures
- Seoul, South Korea: International Conference on Entertainment Computing (ICEC2010), October, Keynote
- Brasília: Brasilien, Konferenz: Panorama des Deutschen Denkens Heute, Deutsche Botschaft, September 2010, invited Lecture
- Damaskus, Syrien, Oktober 2010, Einladung des Goethe-Instituts
- Aarhus, Denmark, lecture at University of Aarhus, 16. - 17.09.2010
- Bern, Erster Schweizerischer Kongress für Kunstgeschichte 3.9. 2010.
- ISEA2010 RUHR, Europäische Kulturhauptstadt: Konferenzvortrag Media Art in Exploration of Image History, Dortmund, Dortmund, 23.08.2010
- London, EVA, British Computer Society, Covent Garden, July 5th to 7th 2010, Keynote
http://www.eva-conferences.com/eva_london/2010/conference_programme
- Belgrad und Novi Sad, Serbien, Invitation by Austrian Cultural Forum, Museum of Contemporary Art, 08.06.2010 Press Conference Clio Publishing Company, Belgrad, lecture Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad, 09.06.2010 lecture Museum of the Contemporary Art, Belgrade
- Jekaterinburg, Russland, 21.05.2010, invited Lecture University Jekaterinburg, 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.
- Third Bremen Symposion on (Early) Digital Art, Keynote, The MediaArtHistories Project and it's continuation at Danube University, 20.7.2009, Bremen University/Museum Weserburg.
- Budapest, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, 20.06.2009, Symposion
- European Network TransISTor PRAG Preservation, 20. - 23.5.2009 Techniques and methodologies for digital audiovisual works
- University Siegen, 08. - 09.05.2009, Conference Blickmaschinen, Lecture "Für eine Enzyklopädie der Visuellen Medien"
- Osnabrueck, April 25th 2009, European Media Art Festival, Keynote
- IBM WIEN, April 24th 2009, Conference: Amateure im Web 2.0: Medien, Praktiken, Technologien Für eine transdisziplinäre Bildwissenschaft.
- University of the Aegean, Griechenland, April 2009, Evolution and Genetic Art
- University Chemnitz, March 18th 2009, Tagung Bilder - Sehen -Denken. Zum Verhältnis von begrifflich philosophischen und empirisch-psychologischen Ansätzen in der bildwissenschaftlichen Forschung
- University Paderborn, January 20th 2009: Silogespräche 2009, “Die Kunst und der Raum – Räume für die Kunst”
- Germany: Karlsruhe, Graduiertenkolleg Bild, Koerper, Medium (Leitung Hans Belting): International Conference by HfG Karsruhe, November 15th and 16th 2008, „Technology and desire. The transgressive art of moving images“
- Germany: Duesseldorf, International Symposium on Media Art in NRW, Oktober 23th 2008, Keynote
- Austria: Göttweig Monastery, October 18th 2008, Conference: Gazing into the 21th Century: Media Art’s Challenge for our Societies
- Austria: Krems an der Donau, Danube University Krems: September 25th 2008, E-Welten in der Bibliothek, Visuelle Kompetenz für das digitale Zeitalter
- Germany: Dresden, Panometer, 17th International Panorama Conference 'Optics and Perspective', 13.September 2008, “Immersion's History”
- Korea: Seoul, Institute of the Arts, The 5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale: September 10th 2008, Invited Special Eveninglecture, “Civilizations and the Arts”
- Singapore: July 27th 2008: International Symposium on Electronic Arts: MediaArtHistories, 'media art institutions'
- Germany: Universität Bremen, Second Bremen Symposium on Early Digital Art: Machinic Art, Art History and Database, 12. Juli 2008, Database of Virtual Art
- China: Beijing, June 9th 2008, Official cultural programm of the Olympic Games
Synthetic Times - Media Art China 2008: The Recombiant Reality
- Germany: Kulturhaus Wolfsburg, April 19th 2008, Sience & Art Festival Phaenomenale 2008, Symposium “Was Menschen bewegt – die Welt der Gefühle”
- Krems - Stein, April 6th 2008, Minoritenkirche: Lower Austrian Day of Museum
- Italy: Venice, March 25th 2008, Fondazione Bevilacqua : MediaArt needs Histories and Archives
Telematic, Genetic and Immersive Art
- Poland: Danzig, March 11th 2008, Centre for Contemporary Art "Laznia": MediaArtHistory - Image Science - Digital Humanities
- USA: Haldeman Auditorium, Darthmouth College, 4.3.2008 “NEW PERSPECTIVES: MediaArtHistory - Image Science - Digital Humanities“
- Canada: Toronto, February 29th 2008, York University: Digital Humanities: Image - Immersion - Emotion
Awards and Distinctions
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.
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