Weiberg Birk HSLU DFK

Dr. Birk Weiberg Birk Weiberg

Project Head, Interdisciplinarity and Transformation

Weiberg Birk HSLU DFK

Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art​

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Interdisciplinarity & Transformation

Project Head, Interdisciplinarity and Transformation

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Biography

Birk Weiberg studied Art History, Media Arts, and Philosophy at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design and the Humboldt University of Berlin. 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, Junior Fellow at the International Center for Cultural Techniques Research and Media Philosophy (IKKM) in Weimar (2015), and Project Manager at Foundation SAPA, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts. Since 2008 he has worked in different functions at the Zurich University of the Arts, most recently he has been part of the longterm artistic research project "Computer Signals: Art and Biology in the Age of Digital Experimentation". At HSLU he was a PostDoc in the research project "Post-photography: Apparatus, Images, Practices in Art and Everyday Culture" and is currently a Lecturer in the program Data Design and Art and Project Head for Interdisciplinarity and Transformation.

Teaching and research focus
  • History and Theory of Photographic Images
  • Contemporary and Media Arts
  • Art and Technology
  • Science Studies with a Focus on Digitization and Data-driven Research

Projects

Research projects

  • ITC Artificial Ideation
  • Postfotografie. Apparate, Praktiken, Bilder in Kunst und Alltagskultur

Publications and presentations

Publications and presentations - Artistic, art-related work/art and design

  • Weiberg, Birk (2010). The Triumph of Astana [Film]. Zürich. http://thetriumphofastana.com

Publications and presentations - Book/catalogue

  • Holzer, Jacqueline; Budelacci, Orlando & Weiberg, Birk (Hrsg.). (2023). Update Available: Transforming Education in Design, Film and Fine Arts. Emmenbrücke: HSLU _ D&K.

Publications and presentations - Article, review; peer reviewed

  • Weiberg, Birk (2020). Modeling Performing Arts: On the Representations of Agency. Arti dello Spettacolo/Performing Arts, 6(6), 50-56. doi: 10.17613/6tsm-4787
  • Weiberg, Birk (2017). Functional Colors: The Varied Applications of Complementary Hues. Film History, 29(2), 91-107. doi: 10.2979/filmhistory.29.2.04
  • Weiberg, Birk (2012). Classical Hollywood as an Epistemological Network. Journalism and Mass Communication, 2(2), 421-427.

Publications and presentations - Article, review; not peer reviewed

  • Weiberg, Birk (2023). Against Programming: On the Development of Cultures of Coding in Art and Design. Nummer 11, 52-55. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7418207
  • Weiberg, Birk (2021). Fotografische Rohdaten. Zur Sichtbarmachung von Ed Ruschas Straßenfotografie. Rundbrief Fotografie, 28(2), 4-6.
  • Weiberg, Birk (2021). A Graph Database for Performing Arts in Switzerland. ICH Courier, 47, 22-25.
  • Weiberg, Birk (2021). Critical Camera Practices: An Alternative Approach to Post-Photography. Nummer, (10), 14-16.
  • Weiberg, Birk (2021). Building a Database for Performing Arts in Switzerland. University Heritage, 1.
  • Weiberg, Birk (2015). Post-Internet as Post-Apparatus. Studia Culturae, (23), 141-154.

Publications and presentations - Chapter/legal commentary/lexicon article

  • Weiberg, Birk (2023). Film Stills als postmediale Praktiken bei Cindy Sherman und James Franco. In Fabienne Liptay (Hrsg.), PostProduktion. Bildpraktiken zwischen Film und Fotografie (Vol.39, S. 161-177). Marburg: Schüren.
  • Weiberg, Birk (2021). The Entangled Apparatus: Cameras as Non-Distancing Devices. In Christina Jauernik; Wolfgang Tschapeller (Hrsg.), INTRA! INTRA! Towards an INTRA SPACE (Vol.25, S. 236-253). Berlin: Sternberg.
  • Weiberg, Birk (2021). Zeit als Material. Zugänge der bildenden Kunst zum Medium Film. In Stefanie Kreuzer (Hrsg.), FilmZeit. Zeitdimensionen des Films (S. 359-377). Marburg: Schüren.
  • Weiberg, Birk (2018). Speculations on Transpositional Photography. In Michael Schwab (Hrsg.), Transpositions (Vol.1, S. 177-189). Leuven: Leuven UP.
  • Weiberg, Birk (2018). Technischer Realismus. Filmtechnik zwischen Kunst und Wissenschaft. In Luisa Feiersinger (Hrsg.), Scientific Fiction. Inszenierungen der Wissenschaft zwischen Film, Fakt und Fiktion (Vol.14, S. 56-64). Berlin: De Gruyter.
  • Weiberg, Birk (2017). "Playing with a jigsaw puzzle." Citizen Kane als technischer Film. In Oliver Jahraus; Tanja Prokic (Hrsg.), Orson Welles' Citizen Kane und die Filmtheorie. 16 Modellanalysen (S. 317-336). Ditzingen: Reclam.
  • Weiberg, Birk (2014). Maschinenbilder. Zur postsubjektiven Kamera. In Heiko Schmid; Frank-Thorsten Moll; Ursula Zeller; Mateusz Cwik (Hrsg.), Archäologie der Zukunft (S. 23-44). Friedrichshafen: Zeppelin Museum.
  • Weiberg, Birk (2013). Zu einer Geschichte des asynchronen Bewegtbildes. In Lars C. Grabbe; Patrick Rupert-Kruse; Norbert M. Schmitz (Hrsg.), Multimodale Bilder. Zur synkretistischen Struktur des Filmischen (S. 63-80). Darmstadt: Büchner.
  • Weiberg, Birk (2005). Himmlische Mobilmachung. Zur Wolkentechnik in Hollywood. In Lorenz Engell; Bernhard Siegert; Joseph Vogl (Hrsg.), Wolken (Vol.8, S. 107-115). Weimar: Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.
  • Weiberg, Birk (2003). DCX. Your World in My Tears. In Jeffrey Shaw; Peter Weibel (Hrsg.), Future Cinema (S. 556-557). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Publications and presentations - Theses (Bachelor/Master/Dissertation/Habilitation)

  • Weiberg, Birk (2014). Image as Collective: A History of Optical Effects in Hollywood's Studio System. Dissertation, Universität Zürich, Schweiz.

Publications and presentations - Presentation (conference/report/lectures)

  • Weiberg, Birk (23.02.2022). Kritische Infrastrukturen und künstlerisch-technische Praktiken. Kritische Infrastrukturen und künstlerisch-technische Praktiken, Karlsruhe, DE.
  • Weiberg, Birk (02.03.2020). Eine Graphdatenbank für Darstellende Künste. DHd2020, Universität Paderborn.
  • Weiberg, Birk (08.10.2019). The Challenges of Open Networks: A Report on the Development of a Graph Database for Performing Arts. Мировое театральное наследие: сохранение и репрезентация в музейном пространстве, Государственный центральный театральный музей имени А.А. Бахрушина.
  • Weiberg, Birk (14.06.2018). Existenzweisen der Kamera. Workshop der AG Fotografieforschung: Fotografie und Technik, Marburg.
  • Weiberg, Birk (16.05.2018). Computational Photography as a Material-Discursive Practice. After Post-Photography 4. Modes of Production, St. Petersburg.