Biografie
Birk Weiberg studied Art History, Media Arts, and Philosophy at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design and the Humboldt University of Berlin. Since 2008 he has been Research Associate and Lecturer at the Zurich University of the Arts. In 2014 he gained a doctorate from the University of Zurich with a dissertation on the history of optical effects in Hollywood. He was Visiting Scholar at the California Institute of the Arts in 2012 and Junior Fellow at the International Center for Cultural Techniques Research and Media Philosophy (IKKM) in Weimar (2015). Since March 2018 he is a member of the SNFS project "Post-Photography" at HSLU. His research foci are the history and theory of photographic images, contemporary and media arts