New at the department: Prof. Dr. Inge Hinterwaldner

Inge Hinterwaldner has been Professor of Art History at the KIT Department of Architecture since 13 December 2018.


Photo: Barbara Herrenkind


Prof. Hinterwaldner studied art history, archaeology and history at the University of Innsbruck from 1995-2000 and received his PhD in art history on interactive computer simulations from the University of Basel in 2009. At the National Centre of Competence in Research there "Bildkritik. Power and Meaning of Images" she headed the interdisciplinary research group "Image and Model" together with the sociologist Martina Merz and the computer scientist Thomas Vetter from 2009-2013. In addition, she taught at the Universities of Bern, Lucerne and the HGK Basel. In 2013, she taught as a substitute professor at the Institute for Philosophy and Art Studies at Leuphana University Lüneburg. Visits took her to Lüneburg in 2014 to the DFG Research Group "Media Cultures of Computer Simulation" (MECS), to Duke University in Durham in 2014-2105, and to MIT in Cambridge in 2015-2016. Afterwards, she took over the professorship for art and image history of modernity and the present at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Her research interests include image theory, model theory, theory of interactivity and temporality in the arts, machine- and computer-based art and architecture, interconnections of arts and sciences since the 19th century.

Teaching Concept

In my eyes, art history begins in our partly medial and highly technologized present. This also means addressing the latest electronic formats and looking at how artists and architects have used them in the past and are currently using them. Visual design techniques such as mapping, projecting, and modeling are currently being reformulated, but they also reveal historically and culturally colored, as well as exciting individual styles of thinking, working modes, and interests over the centuries. It is my intention to prepare the basis for a critical questioning and to show continuities and discontinuities for currently relevant topics in design practice by taking a deeper look into the past. Asking questions is often more important than giving answers. On a methodological level, experiments are undertaken to find out which beneficial paths digital technologies can open up for art history.

Inge Hinterwaldner's publications include:
Monographs:

  • The Systemic Image: A New Theory of Interactive Real-Time Simulations [Fink: 2010], MIT Press: Cambridge MA/London 2017.

Editorships:

  • Imagery in the Age of Modeling. Operative Artefacts in Design Processes in Architecture and Engineering, Wilhelm Fink Verlag: Munich 2017. (ed. with Sabine Ammon).
  • Disposable Images, Wilhelm Fink Verlag: Munich 2016. (ed. with Michael Hagner and Vera Wolff).
  • What is a picture? Answers in Pictures. Gottfried Boehm on his 70th birthday, Wilhelm Fink Verlag: Munich 2012. (ed. with Sebastian Egenhofer and Christian Spies).
  • Bild Modell Aller-Retour/Image Model Aller-Retour, e-journal Rheinsprung11, Vol. 1, No. 2, November 2011, http://rheinsprung11.unibas.ch/ (ed. with Johannes Bruder, Martina Merz and Reinhard Wendler).

Their publications are located at:
https://kit.academia.edu/IngeHinterwaldner


Photo: Barbara Herrenkind