Katja Kwastek

Katja Kwastek (1970) is professor of modern and contemporary art at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, with a research focus on media aesthetics. Previously, she taught at Ludwig Maximilians-University (Munich), Rhode Island School of Design Providence), LBI Media.Art.Research (Linz) and Humboldt-University (Berlin).

Publications

• Camera. Gemalter und gerahmter Raum der italienischen Frührenaissance, Weimar: VDG, 2001. Based on PhD dissertation, University of Cologne, 2000. (German)
• with Hubertus Kohle, Computer, Kunst und Kunstgeschichte, Cologne: Deubner 2003, 191 pp. (German)
• editor, with Hubertus Kohle, zeitenblicke 2(1): "Digitale und digitalisierte Kunstgeschichte. Perspektiven einer Geisteswissenschaft im Zeitalter der Virtualität", Cologne, May 2003. (German)
• editor, Ohne Schnur. Kunst und drahtlose Kommunikation / Art and Wireless Communication, Revolver, 2004, 231 pp. Exh. catalogue. Exh. website. (German)/(English)
• editor, Art Alert. The Allianz Collection in Unterföhring, Munich, 2012.
• Aesthetics of Interaction in Digital Art, MIT Press, 2013. (English)
• editor, with Erin La Cour, ASAP/Journal 4(3): "As Slowly as Possible", Sep 2019. [1] (English)
• more

Interview

• "Radiotechnology and Visual Art. Katja Kwastek in Conversation with Sabine Breitsameter", May 2004.

Links

• Personal website
• Profile on Ludwig Boltzmann Institut (archived)
• http://netzspannung.org/cat/servlet/CatServlet?cmd=document&subCommand=show&forward=/biography/output/biography.xml&biographyId=139406