Talks

Organization of Conferences, Workshops and Panels

  • Workshop „Plattform-Politiken: Vermittlungen (un)sichtbarer Bildpraktiken und Interface-Operationen“ (with Jan Diestelmeyer, Jana Hecktor, Timo Kaerlein). HfG Karlsruhe 2025.
  • Conference “Generation Image. A conference on digital realism” (co-organized with Matthias Bruhn). ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe 2023.
  • Panel discussion „Fog of Systems“, Bani Brusadin, Jules Buchholz (Umbau Journal). HfG Karlsruhe 2022.
  • Conversation with Daisy Hildyard “The Second Body” (co-organized with James Langdon), HfG Karlsruhe 2020.
  • Panel Discussion “On artistic collaboration” (co-organized with Ariana Dongus), HfG Karlsruhe 2019.
  • Conference “Image Servitude” (co-organized with Matthias Bruhn). HfG Karlsruhe 2019.

Papers, Moderation and Keynotes

  • Paper: „Tiny Habits: Plattformdesign und Selbstoptimierung” as part of the panel “Macht*Relationen von Interfaces” (with Jana Hecktor, Jan Distelmeyer, Timo Kaerlein, Sabine Wirth) at GfM Jahrestagung, University of Paderborn 2025.
  • Paper: „Memory, ghosts and trauma. AI-generated photorealism beyond the deepfake“ as part of the conference “EVA Berlin: Artificial Intelligence, Digitality and Culture, Electronic Media and Visual Arts”, Fraunhofer Institute Berlin 2025.
  • Paper: “Synthetic memories, virtual histories. AI-generated photorealism and the remaking of the past.” as part of the conference “Performativity, Memory and - Imagination of Technical Images”, Leuphana University Lüneburg 2025.
  • Keynote: „The Matrix“ as part oft he lecture series „ANYMOS“, Kinemathek Karlsruhe 2024.
  • Moderation: “Political Spectra’s of the Artist Book” – a Round Table with Delphine Bedel (Metabooks), Paolo Caffoni (Archive Books), Anya Jasbar (Ahorn Books) / Bookbau Festival, HfG Karlsruhe 2022.
  • Lecture Perfromance: „Please Touch! The strange lives of objects online“ as part of the conference „Memex“, Eye Square Berlin 2022.
  • Keynote: „Materielle Verknüpfungen im postdigitalen Zeitalter“ as part of the lecture series „Online/Offline“, BBK Karlsruhe 2019.
  • Keynote: „Echte Dinge und digitale Doppelgänger“ as part of the Summer School „Decoding/ Recoding. Textual Infrastructures“, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig 2019.
  • Paper: „The Matter of the Web. Fundobjekte im postdigitalen Zeitalter?“ as part of the conference „Post-Digitale Kunst und Medienkultur“, Universität Köln 2018.
  • Keynote: „Kunst im virtuellen Museum“, Eye Square Berlin 2016.
  • Paper: „Fundästhetik und mediales Gleiten. Das objet trouvé André Bretons“ as part of the conference „Mediated Objects“, Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen 2014.
  • Paper: “Re-Arranging the World – Then and Now. What surrealist object practices can tell about curatorial things“ as part of the conference „Curatorial Things“, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin 2014.
  • Paper: “Flâneurs, found objects and the collection. From André Breton to Tacita Dean’s ethnographic installations” as part of the conference „The Collecting Impulse”, University of Illinois 2013.
  • Paper: “Extraordinary encounters with ordinary things. André Breton’s objet trouvé” as part of the conference „Material Meanings. European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies”, University of Kent 2012.
  • Paper: “On a theory of the found object” as part of the lecture series “New Perspectives in Art Research and Media Theory”, Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe 2012.
  • Paper: “In search of an aesthetic perspective. Proust’s conception of imagination” as part of the conference „Imagining Imagination”, Royal College of Art London 2011.

Podcasts

  • “Medienkompetenz = Demokratiekompetenz? #1: Bildmacht und Künstliche Intelligenz. Eine Folge zur Macht digitaler Bilder. Dr. Tabea Widmann (Referentin, Zeppelin Museum) im Gespräch mit Prof. Dr. Mateusz Dolata (Zeppelin Universität), Dr. Katharina Weinstock (HfG Karlsruhe) und Dr. Mara Koelmel (Abteilung Kunst, Zeppelin Museum), 30. Oktober 2025.