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The International Research Institute for Cultural Techniques and Media Philosophy (IKKM) is a center for advanced studies at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, and was founded in 2008 by Lorenz Engell and Bernhard Siegert. The IKKM is part of the International Käte Hamburger Collegia for research in the Humanities initiative in the 'Freedom for Research in the Humanities' program of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Initial funding has been approved for six years (until 2014). The IKKM is located in Weimar in the Palais Dürckheim build by Henry van de Velde.

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Research

The Institute is a research establishment based on the fellow principle. Fellow appointment is supervised by an international advisory board consisting of professors Raymond Bellour, Hans Belting, Régis Debray, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, and Sigrid Weigel. Each year the IKKM invites up to ten internationally renowned scholars for one or two semesters to Weimar, enabling them to pursue a research project and contribute to the development of questions regarding media-philosophy and research in cultural technologies. The first funding period of the IKKM consist of six annual research topics:

  • 2008/09: Hominization and Anthropotechnologies – the Making of Humans
  • 2009/10: Referencialization and Ontogenesis – the Making of Things
  • 2010/11: Semiosis—the Transformation of Objects into Signs
  • 2011/12: Localization—the Production of Sites
  • 2012/13: Synchronization—the Production of the Present
  • 2013/14: Historization—the Production of the Past
  • Members

    Directors: Lorenz Engell, Bernhard Siegert

    Managing Director: Jörg Brauns

    Academic Staff: Christoph Engemann, Harun Maye, Katharina Rein, Leander Scholz, André Wendler, Daniela Wentz

    Alumni Matters: Wolfgang Beilenhoff

    Advisory Board

    Jacques Aumon, Raymond Bellour, Hans Belting, Régis Debray, John Durham Peters, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

    Fellows

    Summer term 2011

    Mario Carpo, Søren Frank, Linda Dalrymple Henderson, Brian Larkin, Catherine Bertho Lavenir, Anna McCarthy, Wolfgang Pircher, Joseph Vogl, Samuel Weber

    Winter term 2010/2011

    Eric Alliez, Dominique Blüher, Bruce Clarke, Michael Diers, Thomas Hauschild, Erich Hörl, Gertrud Koch, Bettine Menke, Irit Rogoff, Martin Schulz, Herta Wolf

    Summer term 2010

    Eric Alliez, Christoph Asendorf, Hartmut Böhme, Linda Dalrymple Henderson, Tom Gunning, Erich Hörl, Jürgen Müller, Patricia Pisters, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, David N. Rodowick, Nikolaus Wegmann

    Winter term 2009/2010

    Christoph Asendorf, Jacques Aumont, Jiří Bystřický, Hartmut Böhme, Peter Geimer, Eva Geulen, Joachim Krausse, Dieter Mersch, Jürgen Müller, Patricia Pisters, Manfred Schneider

    Summer term 2009

    Wolfgang Beilenhoff, Georges Didi-Huberman, Richard Dyer, Josef Früchtl, Frank Kessler, Joachim Krausse, Almira Ousmanova, Manfred Schneider

    Winter term 2008/2009

    Wolfgang Beilenhoff, Marta Braun, Georges Didi-Huberman, Thomas Macho, Claus Pias, Erhard Schüttpelz, Ludger Schwarte

    Summer term 2008

    Wolfgang Beilenhoff, Thomas Macho

    References

    International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy Wikipedia


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