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Clemens Apprich
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Clemens Apprich in 2024
Occupation(s)media theory and history researcher

Clemens Apprich is professor in media theory and history at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. He is head of the Department of Media Theory and the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures, as well as Vice-Rector for Research and Digitality.

Life

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Clemens Apprich studied philosophy, political science, cultural history and theory in Berlin, Bordeaux, and Vienna. During his studies, he was a member of Public Netbase, an Austrian platform for critical net cultures. In 2011, he became a research assistant at the Centre for Digital Cultures at Leuphana University Lüneburg, where he was also a visiting professor from 2017 to 2018.[1] From 2018 to 2019, he was a visiting research fellow at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University in Montréal and from 2020 to 2021 assistant professor in Media Studies at the University of Groningen.[2] In 2021, he was appointed professor of media theory and history at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.[3] At Angewandte, he is head of the Department of Media Theory and the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures.[4] Since autumn 2023, he is also the Vice-Rector for Research and Digitality.[5][6][7]

Apprich is a member of the assembly of delegates of the Austrian Science Fund FWF[8] and of Open Science Austria,[9] as well as an affiliated faculty member at the Digital Democracies Institute at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.[10] He serves as a reviewer for several international journals, academic publishers, and research communities including DFG, Big Data & Society, Space and Culture, First Monday, and Cambridge University Press.

Research

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Clemens Apprich's research focuses on digital media and computational cultures, with a focus in filtering algorithms and their use in data analysis and machine learning methods.[11][12] He is the author of Technotopia: A Media Genealogy of Net Cultures (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017) and, together with Wendy Chun, Hito Steyerl, and Florian Cramer, Pattern Discrimination (University of Minnesota Press/meson press, 2019). His work has also appeared in numerous international journals such as Big Data & Society, Digital Culture & Society, Fibreculture Journal, First Monday, Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, Kunstforum International, Texte zur Kunst).

Selected Publications

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As autor

  • Pattern Discrimination. Minneapolis/Lüneburg: University of Minnesota Press/meson press, 2019. Together with Wendy Chun, Florian Cramer, and Hito Steyerl.[13]
  • Technotopia: A Media Genealogy of Net Cultures. London/New York: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017.[14]
  • Vernetzt – Zur Entstehung der Netzwerkgesellschaft. Bielefeld: transcript, 2015.[15]

As editor

  • Plants, Androids and Operators: A Post-Media Handbook. Edited with Josephine Berry Slater, Anthony Iles, and Oliver Lerone Schultz. London: Mute, 2014.[16]
  • Provocative Alloys: A Post-Media Anthology. Edited with Josephine Berry Slater, Anthony Iles, and Oliver Lerone Schultz. London: Mute, 2013.[17]
  • Post-Media Book Series (with books by Claire Fontaine, Felix Stalder, Rodrigo Nunes, and irational.org). Edited with Josephine Berry Slater, Anthony Iles, and Oliver Lerone Schultz. London: Mute, 2012–2014.[18]
  • Vergessene Zukunft. Radikale Netzkulturen in Europa. Edited with Felix Stalder. Bielefeld: transcript, 2012.[19]

References

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  1. ^ "Clemens Apprich". Leuphana University Lüneburg. Retrieved 2024-10-08.
  2. ^ "transmediale". transmediale.de. Retrieved 2024-10-08.
  3. ^ APA. "Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien begrüßt Clemens Apprich als neuen Professor für Medientheorie und -geschichte". science.apa.at (in German). Retrieved 2024-05-28.
  4. ^ "Prof. MMag. Dr. Clemens Apprich – Media Theory". Retrieved 2024-10-08.
  5. ^ "Vice-Rector for Research and Digitality - dieAngewandte". www.dieangewandte.at. Retrieved 2024-10-08.
  6. ^ APA. "Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien: "Die Angewandte als Experimentalsystem für die Welt von Übermorgen"". science.apa.at (in German). Retrieved 2024-05-28.
  7. ^ "Clemens Apprich - University of Applied Arts Vienna - uniko-MAP - Members - uniko - Universities Austria". uniko.ac.at. Retrieved 2024-10-08.
  8. ^ "Assembly of Delegates". Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Retrieved 2024-10-08.
  9. ^ "Clemens Apprich". OSA. Retrieved 2024-10-08.
  10. ^ "Our Team | Digital Democracies Institute". 2020-07-28. Retrieved 2024-10-08.
  11. ^ "KI in den Geisteswissenschaften: Der Mensch füttert, die Maschine kaut". DER STANDARD (in Austrian German). Retrieved 2024-05-28.
  12. ^ Grobner, von Cornelia (2021-05-31). ""Algorithmen sind wie kleine Kinder"". Die Presse (in German). Retrieved 2024-05-28.
  13. ^ Apprich, Clemens; Cramer, Florian; Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong; Steyerl, Hito (2018). Pattern Discrimination. Minneapolis / Lüneburg: University of Minnesota Press and meson press.
  14. ^ Apprich, Clemens; Derieg, Aileen (2017). Technotopia: a media genealogy of Net cultures. Media philosophy. London New York, [New York]: Rowman & Littlefield international. ISBN 978-1-78660-313-5.
  15. ^ Apprich, Clemens (2015). Vernetzt - zur Entstehung der Netzwerkgesellschaft. Digitale Gesellschaft. Bielefeld: Transcript. ISBN 978-3-8376-3045-9.
  16. ^ Apprich, Clemens; Berry Slater, Josephine; Iles, Anthony; Schultz, Oliver Lerone, eds. (2014). Plants, Androids and Operators: A Post-Media Handbook (PDF). London: Mute Books. ISBN 978-1-906496-96-8.
  17. ^ Apprich, Clemens; Slater, Josephine Berry; Iles, Anthony; Schultz, Oliver Lerone, eds. (2013). Provocative alloys: a post-media anthology (PDF). PML books. London: Mute [u.a.] ISBN 978-1-906496-94-4.
  18. ^ Mute (2013-12-18). "PML Books". Mute. Retrieved 2024-10-07.
  19. ^ Apprich, Clemens; Stalder, Felix, eds. (2012). Vergessene Zukunft: radikale Netzkulturen in Europa. Bielefeld: transcript-Verl. ISBN 978-3-8376-1906-5.
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