Vorträge von Projektmitarbeiterinnen (Lectures)

3.10.2015, Utopien. Wege aus der Gegenwart (Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft 2015, Bayreuth, Deutschland, 30.9.-03.10.2015)

Jana Herwig: "Die Utopie bloß ertasten. Haptische Medien an der Grenze von Utopie/Dystopie" (as part of the panel "Materialität und Körperlichkeit medialer Dys-/Utopien)

14.9.2014, Symposium Paraflows .9 – INTIMACY, 12.-14.9.2014, Altes Rathaus, Wien

Jana Herwig: "Why do we care? Oder: Wie wir zu GerätepflegerInnen wurden", paraflows .9 – INTIMACY, Wien 

2./3.6.2014, Final Conference "Texture Matters. The Haptical and Optical in Media", MAK, Wien

Alexandra Seibel, "Textural Transfers: Joseph Urban and Hapsburg Kitsch in Modernist America"

Jana Herwig, "Mediations of Touch: Gloves, Sticks, and Switches"

Antonia Lant (in conversation with Joachim Schätz), "Revisiting 'Haptical Cinema'"

Klemens Gruber & Jana Herwig (moderation), roundtable with all conference participants

For more information and a list of all guests, speakers & discussants, see the conference homepage.

21.6.2013, NECS Conference (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies) Media Politics – Political Media, Prague, Czech Republic, 20.-22.6.2013 

Panel: "Politics of the Haptical"

Chair: Nicholas Baer (University of California, Berkeley)

Antonia Lant/Alexandra Seibel: "A Haptical Drive in Women’s Filmmaking?"

Fabian Ziegler: "La Vie en Velours: Hippies, Factories, Warhol"

Klemens Gruber/Oliver A. I. Botar (University of Winnipeg): "telehor: International Review of Visual Culture, Brno 1936"


9.3.2013, SCMS Conference (Society for Cinema and Media Studies), Chicago, 6.-10.3.2013

Panel: "Materialities of Touch in Media: Skin, Plastic, Fur"

Chair: Nicholas Baer (University of California, Berkeley)

Antonia Lant/Jana Herwig: "Fur, Film and the iPad: Tactile Virtuosities of the Screen"

Alexandra Seibel/Antonia Lant: "Cutting the Skin of the Film: Benjamin, r. Doyen and VALIE"

Fabian Ziegler: "Early Plastics - Tactile Transparency in Art and Media"






12.10.2012, 5. Forschungstag des tfm | Institut für Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft, depot, Wien

Klemens Gruber: "Texture Matters: The Optical and Haptical in Media"

Alexandra Seibel: "Haut, Film, Schnitt"

Fabian Ziegler: "Durchsichtigkeit/Durchfühlbarkeit"


21.6.2012, NECS Conference (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies) Time Networks: Screen Media and Memory, Lissabon, Portugal, 21.-23.6.2012

Panel: "The Sight of Touch"

Chair: Lucy Bolton (Queen Mary University of London)

Antonia Lant/Klemens Gruber: "Sitting, Seeing, Stroking: Why Texture Matters in Media Theory"

Fabian Ziegler: "Kazimir Malevich: Painting out Memory"

Alexandra Seibel: "Woven Memory"

Wanda Strauven (University of Amsterdam): "Early Memories of the Touch(able) Screen"


3.6.2012, Design der Zukunft (Teil I), DHBW Ravensburg, 2.–3.6.2012





Jana Herwig, "Der Widerstand des Digitalen - ein Paradoxon?"


2.4.2012, re:publica 2012: Action!, Berlin, 2.–4.5.2012





Jana Herwig: "Der wandelnde Computer-User. Utopien der mobilen Vernetzung (1945-2012)"


22.3.2012, SCMS Conference (Society for Cinema and Media Studies), Boston, 21.–25.3.2012

Panel: "Media Textures. Haptical Themes Onscreen and Off"

Chair: Alexandra Seibel

Respondent: Prof. Antonia Lant

Sheena Scott (University College London): "Feeling the Screen: The Changing Textures of the 1950s French Movie Theatre"

Lindsey Dolich (Stanford University): "Performing the Avatar Body: Motion-Capture and Haptic Visuality"

Katheryn Wright (Champlain College): "Touch Screen Technology and the Politics of Framing in Contemporary Visual Culture"


6.3.2012, 4. Forschungstag des TFM | Institut für Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft, depot, Wien

Jana Herwig: "Digitale Berührungen"