Vita
Anne von der Heiden is professor of art history and art theory at Kunstuniversität Linz. Having studied art, social sciences and psychology in Essen and Bochum, she worked several years as research assistant for Slavoj Žižek as well as with the research group “Antinomien der postmodernen Vernunft“. In 2002, Anne von der Heiden was fellow in residence at the Friedrich Nietzsche Kolleg in Weimar and assisted Joseph Vogl at the media faculty of Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. In the same year, she received a post-doc-scholarship at the postgraduate programme “Bild–Körper–Medien” of Hans Belting in Karlsruhe. In 2003, she acquired her Ph.D. from Ruhr-Universität Bochum with a dissertation on media theory, “Die negative Ökonomie des Heils. ,Jud Süß’ und die Medien”, reviewed by Manfred Schneider and Wolfgang Beilenhoff. From 2003 to 2005, von der Heiden was academic managing director of the research project "The Post-Communist Condition" at ZKM / Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe. Sponsored by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes and together with Boris Groys, von der Heiden curated an exhibition on media art from Eastern Europe at KunstWerke Berlin in 2004. From 2004 to 2006, she was also head of the research group “Das Leben schreiben. Medientechnologien und die Wissenschaften vom Leben. 1800/1900”, initiated by Joseph Vogl at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Furthermore, she was lecturer in Basel and professor at the KHM Köln as well as in München. Since 2010, Anne von der Heiden is professor in Linz.
Dated from 2015
Fields of research
Anti-Semitism; image-theory; contemporary arts; politics; social sciences; theories of violence; culture of Eastern Europe.
Publications
Monographs
Der Jude als Medium. "Jud Süß". Zürich: Diaphanes 2005.
Edited books
with Nina Zschocke: Autorität des Wissens. Kunst und Wissenschaft im Dialog. Zürich: Diaphanes 2012.
with Anna Tuschling, Till Heilmann: Medias in res. Positionen der Medienkulturwissenschaft. Bielefeld: Transcript 2011.
with Joseph Vogl: Politische Zoologie. Berlin/Zürich: Diaphanes 2007.
Ideologische Mechanismen der Gewalt. Weimar: VDG 2006.
Privatisations. Contemporary Art from Eastern Europe. (exhibition catalogue on film and photography from Eastern Europe, revised). Frankfurt/M.: Revolver Verlag 2005.
Per imaginem. Bildlichkeit und Souveränität. Berlin/Zürich: Diaphanes 2005.
Articles
“The Modern Ahasver. Infinite Transmission“. In: Birgit Mersmann, Alexandra Schneider (eds.): Transmission Image. Visual Translation and Cultural Agency. Cambrige: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2009, pp. 55-98.
“'Ma thèse!' Jacques Lacan als Medientheoretiker”. In: Bernd Stiegler, Alexander Roesler (eds.): Philosophie in der Medientheorie. Von Adorno bis Zizek. München: Fink 2008, pp. 159-170.
“Blutiger Mord. Absolutes Bild und Transformation”. In: Anja Lauper (ed.): Transfusionen. Zürich: Diaphanes 2005, pp. 51-70.
“Postcommunist ergo sum”. In: ders., Boris Groys, Peter Weibel (eds.): Zurück aus der Zukunft. Osteuropäische Kulturen im Zeitalter des Postkommunismus. Frankfurt/M.: Suhrkamp 2005, pp. 11-35.
“Die Wiederkehr des verfemten Teils. Der Körper in der Gegenwartskunst“. In: Syn- thesis Philosophica, Internationale Ausgabe der Zeitschrift Filozofska Istrazivanja Zagreb, vol. 17, 1/2002, pp. 87-108.