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: „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.