
Dr.phil. Viola Rühse, M.A.
- viola.ruehse@donau-uni.ac.at
- +43 2732 893-2570
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- Campus Krems, Tract F, 1st Floor, 1.03
- University for Continuing Education Krems
- Center for Image Science
- Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30
- 3500 Krems
- Austria
Functions
Head of Center
Programme Director
About the person
Viola Rühse works as the head of the Center for Image Science and course director at the University for Continuing Education Krems in Austria. She studied History of Art and German Language and Literature at the universities of Hamburg and Vienna and obtained her PhD with a dissertation on Siegfried Kracauer’s film writings. Her current main topics of research – in addition to film theory – are modern and contemporary art, science images, and critical theory. She also works as an artist/photographer and curator. One of her critical essays received the Bazon Brock Essay Award.
Projects (Extract Research Database)
Running projects
Duration: 01/12/2021–30/11/2023
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Viola Rühse
Funding: Bundesländer (inkl. deren Stiftungen und Einrichtungen)
Infrastructures for Digital Arts Teaching and Research in Higher Education
Duration: 01/03/2020–29/02/2024
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Viola Rühse
Funding: Bund (Ministerien)
Publications (Extract Research Database)
Rühse, V. (2022). Film und Kino als Spiegel - Siegfried Kracauers Filmschriften aus Deutschland und Frankreich. De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston
Rühse, V. (2022). At the Frontline: Lee Miller as a Surrealist War Correspondent. In: Lynn Hilditch, Lee Miller's Surrealist Eye: New Insights: 118-140, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2PA, UK
Horvath, A.S.; Rühse, V.; Raptis D. (2021). SoundSculpt: A Design Framework for 3D Modelling and Digitally Fabricating Sound Patterns. In: OzCHI 2020, OzCHI 2020: 32nd Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery, Proceedings 2020: doi.org/10.1145/3441000.3441017, OzCHI 2020, Australia
Rühse, V. (2021). Facebook’s MPK 20 Headquarters designed by Frank Gehry. In: Grau; O.; Hinterwaldner I., Retracing Political Dimensions: Strategies in Contemporary New Media: 242-256, DE GRUYTER, Berlin
Rühse, V. (2021). Travel-inspiring Skeletons in Spectre and Coco – Film Tourism and the Día de Muertos in Mexico. InMedia, 9.1.2021: https://journals.openedition.org/inmedia
Rühse, V. (2021). Paula Modersohn-Becker. Christoph Kohl und Claudia Rinke, Anders normal! Revision einer Sehschwäche, ISBN: 978-3-86206-934-7: 94-95, Kettler 2021, Dortmund
Rühse, V. (2021). Travel-inspiring Skeletons in Spectre und Coco - Film Tourism and the Día de Muertos in Mexico. InMedia, 9. Jänner 2021: http://journals.openedition.org/inmedia/2985
Rühse, V. (2021). Hannah Höch. Christoph Kohl und Claudia Rinke, Anders normal! Revision einer Sehschwäche, ISBN: 978-3-86206-934-7: 66-67, Kettler 2021, Dortmund
Rühse, V. (2021). Maina-Miriam Munsky. Christoph Kohl und Claudia Rinke, Anders normal! Revision einer Sehschwäche, ISBN: 978-3-86206-934-7: 96-97, Kettler 2021, Dortmund
Rühse, V. (2021). FRANEK. Christoph Kohl und Claudia Rinke, „Anders normal! Revision einer Sehschwäche“, ISBN: 978-3-86206-934-7: 58-59, Kettler 2021, Dortmund
Rühse, V.; Horvath, A. (2021). Chladni Patterns Gone 3D. Computational Design and Digital Fabrication Methods for Producing Sound-Informed Geometries. Howard Griffin, Connections: Exploring Heritage, Architecture, Cities, Art, Media,: Part II 316-326, AMPS Proceedings Series (published March 2021)
Rühse, V. (2020). Las pinturas de cine de Edward Hopper. Nostalgia del palacio de cine, desilusión del acomodador y amenazas de bomba. In: Universität Malaga, Boletín de Arte 20: Nr. 20, Universität Malaga, Malaga, Spanien
Rühse, V., Horvath, A.S. (2020). The Chladni Wall. In: Constantine Stephanidis et. al. (ed.), HCI International 2020 – Late Breaking Posters, Proceedings, Part II: 10.1007/978-3-030-60703-6_50, Springer, Copoenhagen, Denmark
Rühse, V. (2020). Luxurious cinema palaces in the roaring twenties and the 21st century: Critical analyses of movie theatres by Siegfried Kracauer and their relevance today. Cultural Intertexts, Nr. 10: 13-30
Rühse, V. (2019). Alison Knowles’s “Bean Rolls”: The influence of mycological and aesthetic discussions with John Cage on early women’s Fluxus aesthetics. In: RE:SOUND 2019, RE:SOUND 2019 – 8th International Conference on Media Art, Science, and Technology: Proceedings, DOI:10.14236/ewic/resound19.1., Universität Aalborg, Aalborg Denmark
Rühse, V. (2019). Duane Hanson’s Man on Mower – A Suburban American Everybody in the Mid-1990s. In: Anna Schober, Popularisation and populism in the visual arts: attraction images: 138-147, Routledge, New York, London
Grau, O.; Haller, S.; Hoth, J.; Rühse, V.; Schiller, D.; Seiser, M. (2019). Documenting Media Art: An Archive and Bridging Thesaurus for MediaArtHistories. Leonardo, 52: 435-441
Rühse, V. (2018). Das römische „Stadio dei Marmi“ in Fotografien von Armin Bardel. Armin Bardel, Aktuelle Fotografien, 2018: 11-16
Rühse, V.; Grau, O. (2018). Documenting Media Art: A WEB 2.0-Archive and Bridging Thesaurus for MediaArtHistories. LEONARDO, XX: 10
Rühse, V. (2018). Verschiedene Aspekte der Landschafts- und Stadtdarstellungen des österreichischen Fotografenduos „Silverfineart".
Lectures (Extract Research Database)
Expanding the Archive of Digital Art
Expanding the Archive of Digital Art, 08/12/2022
Visualizing Sound Waves - Complex Media Art and Chladni Patterns
CIHA 2022 - 35th World Congress of the Comite Internationale d'Histoire de l'Art 2022, 17/01/2022
Siegfried Kracauer’s mountain film idea – critical tourism and political contexts
Konferenz „Mountains and Cinema“, 14/10/2021
The branding of Vienna as a global city and tourist destination for the generation X – Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise and Viennese film promotion in the 1990s,
Konferenz „Tourism, arts and territories“, 07/10/2021
Edward Hoppers Kinobilder
Vortragsreihe „Aktuelle Tendenzen in Fototheorie und Bildwissenschaft“, 23/03/2021
Edward Hoppers Kinobilder
Aktuelle Tendenzen in Fototheorie und Bildwissenschaft, 23/03/2021
An der Front und in Hitlers Badewanne – Lee Miller als surrealistische Kriegskorrespondentin
HGB Leipzig, Institut für Theorie, 14/12/2020
SoundSculpt: A Design Framework for 3D Modelling and Digitally Fabricating Sound Patterns
OzCHI 2020: 32nd Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery, 02/12/2020
Wolfgang Petzet’s pamphlet Verbotene Filme [Banned films] and the censorship debate at the end of the Weimar Republic
Screening Censorship Conference, 16/10/2020
Sonoid
Lange Nacht der Forschung Digital 2020, 09/10/2020