JUNIOR DIRECTOR
Prof. Dr. Volker Pantenburg
Cranachstraße 47, ground floor, room 005
Tel.: +49 (0) 3643 – 58 40 36
volker.pantenburg [at] uni-weimar.de
Since May 2010, Volker Pantenburg is assistant professor for Visual Media with Emphasis on Research in Moving Image at the Faculty of Media of the Bauhaus University Weimar.
He studied Comparative Literature, History, Philosophy and Political Sciences at the Universities of Bonn and Paris IV (La Sorbonne). From 1998 to 2006, he worked as a lecturer and researcher at the University of Münster, where he finished his PhD in 2005 with a study entitled »Film as Theory. Researching the image with Harun Farocki and Jean-Luc Godard« (published in 2006). Between 2007 and 2010, he worked at the Collaborative Research Center "Aesthetic Experience and the Dissolution of Artistic Boundaries" at the Freie Universität Berlin, where he pursued a project on contemporary Film- and Video Installations and the manifold forms of exchange between cinema and the museum. In 2008 and 2009, he initiated and worked in the Project "Kunst der Vermittlung – Aus den Archiven des Filmvermittelnden Films."
At the IKKM, he directs the Junior Fellow Program focussing on the "Theory and History of Cinematographic Objects."
He studied Comparative Literature, History, Philosophy and Political Sciences at the Universities of Bonn and Paris IV (La Sorbonne). From 1998 to 2006, he worked as a lecturer and researcher at the University of Münster, where he finished his PhD in 2005 with a study entitled »Film as Theory. Researching the image with Harun Farocki and Jean-Luc Godard« (published in 2006). Between 2007 and 2010, he worked at the Collaborative Research Center "Aesthetic Experience and the Dissolution of Artistic Boundaries" at the Freie Universität Berlin, where he pursued a project on contemporary Film- and Video Installations and the manifold forms of exchange between cinema and the museum. In 2008 and 2009, he initiated and worked in the Project "Kunst der Vermittlung – Aus den Archiven des Filmvermittelnden Films."
At the IKKM, he directs the Junior Fellow Program focussing on the "Theory and History of Cinematographic Objects."