Prof. Winfried Gerling

• Photography theory and practice
• Digitality
• Intermedial Formats and Intermedial Design
• Media art history
• Media environments

• since October 2018: Member of the research college "SENSING: Zum Wissen sensibler Medien" funded by the Volkswagen Stiftung
• April 2014 to March 2016: Vice Dean of the Department of Design, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
• December 2014 to September 2015: Spokesperson for the DFG Research Training Group 1539 "Sichtbarkeit und Sichtbarmachung. Hybride Formen des Bildwissens"
• April 2012 to March 2014: Dean of the Department of Design, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
• 2011 to 2015: Member of the DFG Research Training Group "Sichtbarkeit und Sichtbarmachung. Hybride Formen des Bildwissens"
• 2000 to 2012: Dean of the BA and MA programme in European Media Studies
• since winter semester 2000/01: Professorship for "Konzeption und Ästhetik der Neuen Medien" in the European Media Studies programme, Design Department, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
• since 1999: Teaching assignments, workshops and lectures at various universities and institutions nationally and internationally.
• 1996: Co-founder of multimedia produktionen in berlin / mib GmbH Berlin (Creative Director from 1999-2002)
• since 1994: multimedia projects for museums and exhibition houses
• 1991 to 2001: founder and member of the MedienInstitut (Medienlabor für kommunikative Strategien e.V. Berlin)
• 1991 to 2000: Exhibitions in the art context
• 1992 to 1994: scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation
• 1991 to 1998: guitarist in the noise pop band "worldcup"
• 1991 to 1992: tutor in the multimedia research project "Technisches Sehen" at the HdK Berlin
• 1991: Tutor in the field of 3D visualisation at the HdK Berlin
• 1988 to 1994: studied Fine Arts at the Berlin University of the Arts, graduating as Master Student (Installation and Photography)
• 1985 to 1987: studies in music and art at the Gesamt-Hochschule Kassel
• 1984 to 1987: employee of the Apex Gallery in Göttingen
• 1981 to 1984: Apprenticeship as precision mechanic

Multimedia projects

2005

• http://emw.fh-potsdam.de
  Relaunch of the website and teaching platform for the degree programme European Media Studies
  Project management and conception

2001/04

• Website and teaching platform for the degree programme in European Media Studies
  Project with students of the course

Conception and realisation in cooperation with mib GmbH and MedienLabor für kommunikative Strategien Berlin:

2001

• Website for the design distributor "garage blau"
  Project management, concept and design

2000

• The "Weltweiten Projekte" of the Federal States in Germany
  EXPO 2000, German Pavilion, Hanover, Point of Information
  Project management and conception
• www.odranoel.de
  Website for the exhibition: "Leonardo da Vinci: Joseph Beuys – der Codex Leicester. Zeichnungen"
  museum der dinge, Berlin
  Concept and design

1999

• "Ware Schönheit", museum der dinge, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
  Data image projection for the exhibition
  4 beamers project onto a cube of 2.5 m edge length, duration ca. 45 min
  Concept, design and programming with Markus Ramershoven
• "Topographie des Terrors – zum Umgang mit dem Prinz-Albrecht-Gelände nach 1945",
  Stiftung Topographie des Terrors, CD-ROM
  Concept

1997/98

• "Digitale Galerie", interactive visitor information system in 3 specially designed rooms
  Co-project management, overall conception (room design, software and hardware)
  Work analysis "Jean Fouquet, das Diptychon von Melun"
  Conception, design and programming
  "Madonna", the image of the Madonna in pictures and media from the early modern times until today
  Conception, design and programming
  "Details", data image projection in the Ricci staircase
  Concept, design and programming
  all in the Old Masters Picture Gallery SMB-PK, Berlin

1995/96

• "Martin Luther 1483-1546", IBM and Luther Hall Wittenberg,
  CD-ROM
  Project management, conception, design and programming
  (Nominated for the Europrix-Multimedia-Art 1998)

1994

• "Kulturen des Wissens", Siemens AG
  Interactive knowledge system
  Project management, conception, design and programming

1993

• "Navigationsspiel MMK", Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt a.M.
  Interactive essays on artists and works
  Conception, design and programming

In addition, as a member of the management team, conceptual support and development of numerous other on- and offline projects for mib GmbH.

Among others:

• "Die Legende vom Leben des Buddha", POI and CD-ROM for the Museum of Indian Art, SMPK;
• "Berlin Images", CD-ROM for the Senate Chancellery Berlin (5 editions);
• "Sandro Botticelli: Der Bilderzyklus zu Dantes Göttlicher Komödie", audio-vision for the exhibition in the Kupferstichkabinett, SMPK; Berlin
• "Bauen im Licht", CD-ROM on Bruno Taut's Glass House in cooperation with the Werkbund Archive, Berlin
• "Lumpensammler im Datenraum", CD-ROM for the Werkbund Archive, Berlin

Lectures and workshops

2022

• March: "Bildeingriffe"
  Keynote at the Meet Up of the German Society for Photography (Section History and Archives) at the Sprengel Museum, Hanover

2022

• December: "Screen Images - Screenshot, Screencast, In-Game Photography"
  Book presentation with Sebastian Möring and Marco De Mutiis at C/O Berlin
• November: "Companion Technologies"
  Lecture at the "International Conference of Photography and Theory" 2022, Nicosia
• September: "Screen Images as Images of Images".
  Lecture in the context of the event series: "Capturing The (Game) World: Computer Games As New Places For Photographic Practice", C/O Berlin
• May: "Der Fall als mediale Figur des Widerstands".
  Lecture at Galerie Kriens on the occasion of the exhibition "High Class Things" by Tatjana Erpen
• March: "People Who Stare at Screens"
  Contribution to author workshop: "Video Conferencing- Practices, Politics, Aesthetics", Brandenburg Centre for Media Studies (online)

2021

• November: "Methoden der Bildforensik"
  Lecture at the study day on picture editing research "Zwischen Symbol und Information – Der bildredaktionelle Umgang mit der Fotografie im Journalismus", University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hanover
• October: "Environmental Selfies"
  Lecture at the conference: "Selfie-Forschung und ihre interdisziplinären Fragestellungen, Methoden und Ergebnisse", Centre for Ethics of Media and Digital Society, Munich School of Philosophy
• August: "Fallende Menschen"
  Lecture at the Museum Folkwang/Essen on the occasion of Tobias Zielony's exhibition "The Fall".
• June: "A Sense of Co-Presence"
  Lecture at the conference: "After Post Photography 6", St.Petersburg (online)
• May: "Das Bild als Wahrscheinlichkeit"
  Contribution to the author workshop: "Bild | Kanäle. Zur Theorie und Ästhetik vernetzter Bilder", Institute for Theatre and Media Studies, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (online)
• April: "Kamera"
  Contribution to the workshop for the preparation of a research group: "Nomadic Camera III: Konzepte und Begriffe zur Nomadic Camera", Institute for Art History, LMU Munich (online), LMU website on the project
• March: "Detecting the Border. Camera Technologies of Sensory Border Surveillance".
  Contribution in the workshop for the preparation of a research group: "Nomadic Camera II: Teilprojekte: transdisziplinäre und inhaltliche Schnittstellen", Institute of Art History, LMU Munich (online)

2019

• December: "Versatile Cameras – The GoPro Perspective".
  Lecture at the Department of Communications and Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem
• November: "Screenshots als provisorische Geste des Finalen".
  Lecture at the symposium "Paradoxien des Finalen", Academy of Media Arts, Cologne
• July: "Down and Out in Los Santos – Screenshot und In-Game Photography als dokumentarische Bilder des Digitalen"
  Lecture at the conference "Mit allen Sinnen", Saarland University, Saarbrücken
• March: "Die Kamera als Sensor"
  Contribution in the workshop for the preparation of a research group: "Nomadic Camera I: Themen und Perspektiven zur Nomadic Camera", Institute for Art History, LMU Munich

2018

• December: "Was der Fall ist… Prekäre Choregraphien"
  Book launch with Merle Ibach and Fabian Goppelsröder, Volkwang Art University, Essen, Germany
• October: "Bildschirmbilder"
  Lecture at the symposium "Fotografieren in der digitalen Kultur", Neue Schule für Fotografie, Berlin
• October: "Bildschirmbilder – Conception of an exhibition".
  Lecture at the workshop "Screen-Images Relaoded", Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Emmen CH
• September to December: Presentation of the text "Photography in the Digital – The Screenshot and In-Game Photography" at the Fotomuseum Winterthur in: SITUATION #145: Mapping Post-Photography
• May: "Detaching the Image"
  Keynote with Sebastian Möring at the conference "After Post Photography 4", European University, St. Petersburg
• May: "La Chute - Der Fall des Menschen und die Fotografie".
  Lecture in the lecture series of the IDA, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
• March: "The Screenshot as a tool of evidence".
  Lecture at the conference: "Helsinki Photomedia – Reconsidering the "Post-truth Condition": Epistemologies of the photographic image", Aalto University, Helsinki
• February: "Was der Fall ist… Prekäre Choregraphien".
  Reading and performance with Fabian Goppelsröder and Saskia Oidtmann at C/O Berlin

2017

• October: "Schirmbilder – Fotografieren im Digitalen".
  Lecture at the GfM annual conference 2017: "Zugänge" in Erlangen
• September: "Was der Fall ist… Prekäre Choregraphien".
  Book presentation with Fabian Goppelsröder, Merle Ibach and Hans Kanewitz at the conference: "Nach der Ikonischen Wende", ZhdK, Zurich
• July: "The Schirmbild - The Long and Short History of Screenphotography"
  Lecture at the conference: Bildschirmbilder - In-Game Fotografie und Screenshot als fotografische Praxis
  International workshop from 06-07^th July 2017 at ZeM - Brandenburg Centre for Media Studies, Potsdam.
• May: "Photography in the Digital – The Screenshot and In-Game-Photography"
  Paper presented at the conference: Critical Issues in Photography Today London, University of Westminster. Conference to mark the 10th anniversary of the publication of "Photographies".

2016

• September: "Gefährliche Augenblicke – die Fotografie und der Fall"
  Lecture at the conference: "Gefahr oder Risiko. Zur Geschichte von Kalkül und Einbildungskraft", University of Potsdam
• March: "The body and the (photo-)apparatus"
  Lecture at the conference: "Helsinki Photomedia - Photographic Agencies and Materialities", Aalto University, Helsinki

2015

• July: "Am Rande der Aufmerksamkeit – Digitales Knipsen als Problem für die Medienwissenschaft"
  Lecture at the lecture series of the Brandenburg Centre for Media Studies, Potsdam
• May: "Bedingungen digitaler Bildlichkeit"
  Contribution to the workshop of the Photography Working Group of the Society for Media Studies, Braunschweig
• April: "Be a Hero – Self-Shoots am Rande des Abgrunds"
  Lecture at the conference "#selfie – Imag(in)ing the Self in Digital Media", University of Marburg

2014

• November: "Tote Häuser. Hausmodelle in der Gegenwartskunst"
  Lecture at the conference "Das Haus und seine Vorstellung in den Künsten und Wissenschaften", University of Potsdam
• June: "Falling Men"
  Lecture at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne
• June: "La Chute – Bilder vom Fall und Sturz des Menschen".
  Lecture in the lecture series of the Research Training Group "Sichtbarkeit und Sichtbarmachung - Hybride Formen des Bildwissens".
• March: "Indexschwindel – Was von Bildern bleibt. Foto, Film, Game"
  Talk in the context of the project: "SCHWINDEL DER WIRKLICHKEIT", Academy of Arts, Berlin
• March: "Moved Images – Velocity and Instantness of Photographic Communication".
  Lecture at the conference: "Helsinki Photomedia – Images in Circulation", Aalto University, Helsinki
• January: "ALLEGORIA SACRA"
  Lecture on the artist video by AES&F as part of the lecture series "Filmästhetische Forschung", Arsenal, Berlin

2013

• October: "Digitale Bildbestände als Grundlage neuer Visualisierungskulturen".
  Lecture at the annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft, Lüneburg

2012

• October: "Photographic Files – Gebrauch, Ordnung und Besitz".
  Lecture at the workshop: Collective Collections – Workshop zu Ordnungen und Praktiken digitaler Bildersammlungen, Bauhaus University - Faculty of Media, Weimar
• July: "Falling Men – Images of the Falling Human in Art and Photography".
  Lecture at the conference: "Apocalypse: Imagining the End", Inter-Disciplinary.Net, Oxford
• May: "Digitale Fotografie und Metadaten".
  Lecture at the workshop of the Working Group Photography of the Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft, Berlin
• March: "The Inseparables – Photography and the Indexicality of Metadata"
  Lecture at the conference: "Helsinki Photomedia – Images in Circulation", Aalto University, Helsinki

2011

• October: "Mittelerde bei Google Earth – Digitale Fotografie, Georeferenz und andere Metadaten".
  Lecture at the annual conference of the Society for Media Studies
• July: "Accidents will happen – Fotografie und Metadaten".
  Lecture in the lecture series of the Research Training Group "Sichtbarkeit und Sichtbarmachung - Hybride Formen des Bildwissens".
• July: "Fotografie und Metadaten – eine Einführung".
  Lecture at the workshop at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne: beach, party, wedding, japan... ? Photography and Metadata

2010

• July: "Upload / share / keep in touch – Fotografen in Gemeinschaften".
  Lecture at the international conference: "Wissensformen und Wissensnormen des Zusammenlebens. Literatur – Kultur – Geschichte – Gesellschaft" at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS)
• January: "This is not a Game – Alternate Realities: Expanding Digital Narratives into Real Life".
  Lecture CTM.10 – OVERLAP (with Christina Maria Schollerer)

2009

• July: "Media and Culture in Europe Summer School - Concepts of occidental aesthetics from Renaissance to Avantgarde".
  Summer School at Bahcesehir University, Istanbul. With Dieter Mersch and Nazli Eda Noyan

2008

• November: "Die Digitale Galerie in der Gemäldegalerie - Erfahrungen nach 10 Jahren"
  Lecture at the 15th Berlin EVA - Conference/Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts (with Prof. Dr. Arthur Engelbert)
• June: "Aus einer vergangenen Zukunft" at the conference "Medienamateure", Media Studies, University of Siegen
• January: "Simulacrum" public talk with Mirjam Schaub on the exhibition by Nils Olaf Bøe, at FIELD-Diskurslab, Berlin

2007

• November: "Multitasking - Ein Ausstellungs- und Tagungsprojekt zu einem Schlüsselphänomen zeitgenössischer Mediennutzung"
  Lecture at the 14th Berlin EVA - Conference/Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts (with Barbara Lauterbach)

2006

• November: "Zurück in die Gegenwart - zum Film DER EINSAME DER ZEIT" Lecture at the Filmmuseum, Potsdam

2005

• January: "Das Verborgene im Bild" Photography Workshop, Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts, Kiel

2004

• November: "Verstärker - Fotografie im Musikvideo" at the conference "FotoKino", Arsenal Berlin
• January: Salm2, a European cooperation project on the prototypical future development of the small town of Senones (Vosges/France) with Mischa Schaub (head of the Hyperwerk FHBB) as part of the Civitas event series of the FHP

2003

• November: Presentation of the DVD ACAR2Public at the international media festival VIPER in Basel CH
• October: "WE ARE NOT GOING BACK – Storytelling in der Modefotografie",
  Lecture at the international symposium: "Die Kunst der Mode", Institute for Arts and Media, University of Potsdam
• October: "ViceVersa" workshop with students of Hyperwerk, University of Applied Sciences Basel CH and students of the Computer Science Department of the European Humanities, University Minsk

2002

• October: Presentation of the workshop results "Fotonovela" by the Hyperwerk at the VIPER, Basel
• SS 02: "Fotonovela" workshop, Hyperwerk, University of Applied Sciences Basel CH

2001

• WS 01/02: "Post- Hyper- Trans- Human", Lectureship, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
• October: "Medien im Museum", block seminar in the Museology course, Basel CH
• April. Presentation of the model course European Media Studies, lecture, European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
• March: "Besucherinformationssysteme und Nutzeranalysen", lecture at the North German Museum Day, Bremerhaven
• WS 00/01: "Kulturvermittlung durch Multimedia", Lectureship, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

2000

• June: "Kulturvermittlung als Aufgabe", Lecture, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
• May: "the making of die wirklichkeit", lecture at the international symposium: "Verführung zum Sein", University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
• February: Start of the two-semester multimedia course (see 1999) in the Austrian Pillerseetal, (Regio-Tech, Hochfilzen)
• WS 99/00: Lectureship for multimedia productions at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam

1999

• May: Conception of a two-semester multimedia course for European LEADER centres consisting of intensive on-site seminars and distance learning via internet and conference calls (organised by mib GmbH) in August; start of the first courses in the Austrian Ötztal (Telezentrum, Umhausen) and in the Italian Vinschgau (Schloß Goldrain)
• February: Interaction course at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam

1998

• November: "mib special" lecture on multimedia art and culture education in "die box", Berlin

1997

• July: Speaker at the KEP- Qualification Project Cultural Development Planning in the State of Brandenburg
• May: Lecture at the transmediale `97 (10th video festival), Podewil, Berlin (cat.)

Exhibitions etc. (selection)

2022

• October: "la fine dell'europa", "die box", Berlin

2000

• January: cover photo for "Photography now", January/March issue

1999

• December: "Zweite Auktion internationaler, junger zeitgenössischer Zeichnung", "die box", Berlin
• November: "handbooks", bluebooks, San Francisco
• September: "gap" photographs from 1995-99, "die box", Berlin
• July: Photographs for the CD-ROM "Berlin Images" commissioned by the Senate of Berlin

1998

• December: "Erste Auktion internationaler, junger zeitgenössischer Zeichnung", "die box", Berlin
• November: "mediamenue II" "die box" presents computer games,
• June: "da bleibt keine flasche leer" Actions and animations for the World Cup, Internet café, Lindenpark e.V., Potsdam

1997

• July: Video "Rehearsal" during the Popmarathon at the HTC, Berlin

1996

• December: "Wiedersehen", Kunstverein, Hanover (cat.)
• January: "The Who", allgirls galerie, Berlin

1995

• November: "Telepolis" with the MedienInstitut Berlin, Brussels
• March: "Frühlingserwachen", Kunstverein, Hanover (cat.)

1994

• September: "Platons Höhle" Presentation of 2 interactive computer animations with the MedienInstitut Berlin, Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen
• July: "Simone Löffler 72-77", Künstlerhaus, Göttingen
• March: Presentation of "Navigationsspiel MMK", with MedienInstitut Berlin, Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt a. M.

1993

• February: "Handgepäck" (joint work with Irina Baschlakow), Bartlett School of Architecture, London (cat.)

1992

• December: "Klasse Schoenholtz", Gallery T. Gierig, Frankfurt a. M. (cat.)
• November: Symposium "Kunst-Vermittlung / Fünf Künstler, ein Täter, ein Gespräch" (W. Büttner, G. Bussmann, W. Delvoye, W. Gerling, R. Görß and R. Mields), Gallery Apex, Göttingen
• July: "was würdest du tun", group exhibition with Irina Baschlakow, Tina Born and Christof Ulbrich (2 collaborative works with Irina Baschlakow), Galerie Bergmannstraße 110, Berlin (cat.)

1991

• November: "Junge Berliner Kunst", Deutsche Aerospace, Munich (cat.)
• April: "Provinz, Dissipative Strukturen vor Ort", curator Thomas Wulffen (3 collaborative works with Oliver v. d. Berg), HdK, Berlin (cat.)
• March: Group exhibition with Irina Baschlakow, Oliver v.d. Berg and Christof Ulbrich, Eisenhalle, Berlin