I’m a media studies scholar at the Bar-Ilan University in Israel and a co-speaker of the working group media philosophy of the German Society for Media Studies. I'm currently researching the future of archives in Web3, digital trust, and how the current aesthetics of generative AI influence how we interact with digital technologies. I’ve written a book on the relation between creativity and destruction, photography and cultural heritage, and I’ve edited books and journals about Web3, Levinas and the arts, media of verification, media and religion, and human-machine relations.

My research is interdisciplinary and ranges from media histories of verification to media theory, digitality, ethics, aesthetics, and future-oriented media practices. I am particularly excited by aesthetic and media practices that combine the archaeological with the creative and future oriented. Recently, my research has focused on the governance of future archives in Web3 as part of a research project funded by the Azrieli Foundation.

In the past, I have held research positions in various academic institutions, including the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Charles University Prague, Collegium Helveticum Zurich, and the Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies Berlin Brandenburg. I did my doctorate at Bauhaus-University Weimar at the Excellence Center for Media Anthropology (KOMA).

Before my doctorate, I studied film studies and comparative literature (B.A.) at Free University Berlin and Sorbonne Paris 3 as well as media studies (M.A.) in a graduate program that combines theory and practice at University of Potsdam & University of Applied Science Potsdam. I also obtained a degree in Design Thinking at the School of Design Thinking at Hasso-Plattner-Institute Potsdam. Before my studies I was an architecture photographer at David Chipperfield Architects responsible for the documentation of the reconstruction of the Neues Museum Berlin (which resulted in a book).

Image: Obliteration © 2023 by Dr. Andreas Sieß is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

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