Vita
Daniel Gethmann is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Architectural Theory, History of Art and Cultural Studies at Graz University of Technology. He is the Executive Editor of the Architecture Magazine GAM. After completing his PhD at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (cf. bibliography), Daniel Gethmann was a lecturer at the Department of Film and Television Studies at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum from 1998 to 2002. From 2002 to 2003, he worked as a Research Associate at the Department of Media Studies at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. In 2003 he was a stand-in for the professorship for „Media Technology and Media Philosophy“ at the Ruhr University Bochum. From 2004 to 2011, he was a Research Associate at the Institute of Architectural Theory, History of Art and Cultural Studies at Graz University of Technology, where he was appointed deputy head of the Institute in 2008.
Dated from 2014
Fields of research
Auditive culture, research on architecture from a cultural-studies perspective, media theory, history and theory of cultural techniques
IKKM Research Project
Models of the field
Of all the various manifestations and uses of models, the project ‘Models of the Field’ takes as its starting point one of their specific qualities: models form an excellent medium of transfer between different areas of knowledge. While oscillating between their representative and projective function, they produce a special form of clear accessibility which facilitates transfer and appropriation by other areas of knowledge. The function of models as objects designed to give material representation to subjects or circumstances, or to secure acceptance of planned buildings or projects, has been expanded to include a further function: the illustration of complex interconnections. They are even used to conceptualize a materialization of the non-material, a materialization which, as a medium between measurable phenomena and our perception, informs the concepts used to describe it. Experimental arrangements of this kind, which expand the concept of the model, constitute the subject of this project: models of electromagnetic fields and their visual representations. The aim here is to understand to what extent models are turning away from the representation of tangible, static phenomena, and towards the representation of forces, energies and structural forms which are in constant motion. The project is dedicated to the history of these models, and of the changes to the way we imagine our environment, changes transported by these models. The attempt to follow the circulation of these models between different areas of knowledge is based on the assumption that models act: they transmit a constructive relationship to reality, inform creative activity on various levels, and offer a material level of engagement for cognitive processes.
Publications
Monographs
Die Enden des Kabels. Kleine Mediengeschichte der Übertragung. Berlin: Kadmos (gemeinsam mit Florian Sprenger) (forthcoming)
Die Übertragung der Stimme. Vor- und Frühgeschichte des Sprechens im Radio. Berlin–Zürich: diaphanes 2006.
Das Narvik-Projekt. Film und Krieg. Bonn: Bouvier 1998. (doctoral thesis)
Edited Books
Staub. Eine interdisziplinäre Perspektive. Wien–Münster: Lit 2013 (gemeinsam mit Anselm Wagner) Klangmaschinen zwischen Experiment und Medientechnik. Bielefeld: transcript 2010 Kulturtechnik Entwerfen. Praktiken, Konzepte und Medien in Architektur und Design Science. Bielefeld: transcript 2009 (gemeinsam mit Susanne Hauser) Apparaturen bewegter Bilder. Münster: Lit 2006 (gemeinsam mit Christoph B. Schulz) Politiken der Medien. Berlin–Zürich: diaphanes 2005 (gemeinsam mit Markus Stauff)
Articles
The Aesthetics of the Signal: Noise Research in Long-Wave Radio Communications. In: Osiris 28: Music, Sound, and the Laboratory from 1750 to 1980, ed. by Alexandra Hui, Julia Kursell, Myles W. Jackson, Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2013, S. 64-79. Staub und Form. Zu Anthony McCalls „Solid Light Films“. In: Daniel Gethmann & Anselm Wagner (Hg.): Staub. Eine interdisziplinäre Perspektive, Münster–Wien: Lit 2013, S. 15-28. „Musick of Scraping Trenchers.“ Medienexperimente zur Frequenzbestimmung von Galileo Galilei, Robert Hooke, Felix Savart und die Medialisierung des Klangs. In: Axel Volmar & Jens Schröter (Hg.): Auditive Medienkulturen: Techniken des Hörens und Praktiken der Klanggestaltung. Bielefeld: transcript 2013, S. 45-60. Sprechende Pferde. Zur Kommunikationstheorie der Übertragung. In: Eva Waniek-Laquièze, Peter Berz, Marianne Kubaczek, Claus Pias, David Unterholzner (Hg.): Spielregel. 25 Aufstellungen. Eine Festschrift für Wolfgang Pircher. Berlin–Zürich: diaphanes 2012, S. 217-231. Für eine Sprache der Architektur. Ferdinand Schuster und die Neuordnung des Architekturstudiums an der TH Graz 1966. In: Anselm Wagner & Antje Senarclens de Grancy: Was bleibt von der „Grazer Schule“? Architektur-Utopien seit den 1960ern revisited. Berlin: jovis 2012, S. 80-87 (gemeinsam mit Winfried Ranz). Radiophone Stimminszenierungen im Nationalsozialismus. Eine medienwissenschaftliche Perspektive. In: Zeithistorische Forschungen = Studies in contemporary history 8.2 (2011), S. 277-285. Chemische Harmonika. Über die Entstehung eines Instruments zwischen Phlogiston und Pyrophonie. In: Daniel Gethmann (Hg): Klangmaschinen zwischen Experiment und Medientechnik. Bielefeld: transcript 2010, S. 35-53. Skizze eines Entwurfsraums. In: Hermann J. Hendrich (Hg.): Anna Margaretha Hohmann-Vogrin 1946-2009: Forschung und Lehre. Graz: Verlag der TU Graz 2010, S. 295-297. Abfall der Erkenntnis. Zur Mediengeschichte des Schabers seit Wilhelm Webers: Leges Oscillationis (1827). In: Anselm Wagner (Hg.): Abfallmoderne. Zu den Schmutzrändern der Kultur. Wien: Lit 2010, S. 171-186. Das „sprechende Licht“ und seine Aufzeichnung in der „Zukunft des Phonographen“. Zur Erfindung des Tonfilms aus der Radiophonie. In: Martin Stingelin & Matthias Thiele (Hg.): Portable Media. Schreibszenen in Bewegung zwischen Peripatetik und Mobiltelefon. München: Fink 2010, S. 267-284. Nichtmoderne Objekte. In: GAM 06: Nonstandard-Structures. Wien–New York: Springer 2009, S. 42-49. Interaktionen. Zur medialen Konstitution des Entwerfens. In: Daniel Gethmann & Susanne Hauser (Hg.): Kulturtechnik Entwerfen. Praktiken, Konzepte und Medien in Architektur und Design Science. Bielefeld: transcript 2009, S. 359-371.