Portrait - Prof. Winfried Gerling
 
   
Biography
Main fields of work
Memberships



Biography

  • Since January 2024: PI in the research project "Border Values: Operational Relationships of Climate and Migration" with Svea Bräunert and Paul Heinicker, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation
  • 2018 to 2023: Member of the research collegium "SENSING: On the knowledge of sensitive media" funded by the Volkswagen Foundation
  • April 2014 to March 2016: Vice Dean of the Department of Design, Potsdam University of Applied Sciences
  • December 2014 to September 2015: Spokesperson in the Spokesperson's Consortium of the DFG Research Training Group 1539 "Visibility and Visualization. Hybrid Forms of Image Knowledge"
  • April 2012 to March 2014: Dean of the Department of Design, Potsdam University of Applied Sciences
  • 2011 to 2015: Member of the DFG Research Training Group "Visibility and Visualization. Hybrid Forms of Image Knowledge"
  • 2000 to 2012: Dean of the BA and MA program in European Media Studies
  • since winter semester 2000/01: professorship for "Conception and Aesthetics of New Media" in the program European Media Studies, Department of Design, 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: art exhibitions
  • 1992 to 1994: scholarship holder of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation
  • 1991 to 1998: guitarist of the noisepop band "worldcup"
  • 1991 to 1992: tutor in the multimedia research project "Technisches Sehen" at the HdK Berlin
  • 1991: tutor in the field of 3D visualization at the HdK Berlin
  • 1988 to 1994: study of fine arts at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin, graduation as a Meisterschüler (installation and photography)
  • 1985 to 1987: Study of music and art science at the Gesamt-Hochschule Kassel
  • 1984 to 1987: employee of the gallery Apex in Göttingen
  • 1981 to 1984: Apprenticeship as precision mechanic


Main fields of work

Photography theory and practice, digitality, intermedial formats and intermedial design, media art history, medial environments



Memberships

  • Board of Directors of the ZeM (Brandenburg Center for Media Studies)
  • Digital Games Research Center DIGAREC, Potsdam
  • Gamology e.V. non-profit association for the support of computer game research, Potsdam
  • Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft
  • German Photographic Society