Birk Weiberg Former Senior Fellow

Birk Weiberg
April - September 2015

Vita

Birk Weiberg studied art history, philosophy, and media arts at the Karlsruhe University of the Arts and at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He received his Ph.D. in art history from the University of Zurich with a dissertation entitled “Image as Collective: A History of Optical Effects in Hollywood‘s Studio System.” Since 2008 he is working at the Zurich University of the Arts, as research associate and lecturer for media arts. In 2012 he has visiting scholar at the California Institute of the Arts.

Dated from 2015

Publications

“Maschinenbilder. Zur postsubjektiven Kamera.” In: Heiko Schmid, Frank-Thorsten Moll, Ursula Zeller, Mateusz Cwik (eds.): Archäologie der Zukunft. Friedrichshafen: Zeppelin Museum 2014. “Zu einer Geschichte des asynchronen Bewegtbildes.” In: Lars C. Grabbe, Patrick Rupert-Kruse, Norbert M. Schmitz (eds.): Multimodale Bilder. Zur synkretistischen Struktur des Filmischen. Darmstadt: Büchner 2013. “Classical Hollywood as an Epistemological Network.” In: Journalism and Mass Communication, vol. 2, no. 2, February 2012: pp. 421-427. “Himmlische Mobilmachung. Zur Wolkentechnik in Hollywood.” In: Archiv für Mediengeschichte, no. 8 (2005): pp. 107-115. with Jan Speckenbach: “DCX: Your World in My Tears.” In: Jeffrey Shaw, Peter Weibel (eds.), Future Cinema. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press 2003.