Prof. Dr. Roberto Simanowski (SP3)
In May and June 2024, Prof. Dr. Roberto Simanowski (FU Berlin) will be a guest research fellow in our project.
He holds a doctorate in literature, with a dissertation on mass culture around 1800, and a habilitation in media studies, with a habilitation thesis on art in digital media (Textmaschinen, Kinetische Poesie, Interaktive Installationen, Transcript 2011). Roberto Simanowski has held professorships in German Studies at Brown University and in Media Studies at the University of Basel and the City University of Hong Kong. He is the founder and editor of the journal dichtung-digital.org (1999-2014), which examined the art and culture of digital media, and the author of several books on the art, culture, and politics of digital media, including Interfictions. Vom Schreiben im Netz (Suhrkamp 2002); Data Love (Matthes & Seitz 2014, Columbia University Press 2016); and The Death Algorithm and Other Digital Dilemmas (MIT Press 2018). For Todesalgorithmus. Das Dilemma der künstlichen Intelligenz (Passagen 2020), Simanowski was awarded the Tractatus Prize for Philosophical Essay Writing in 2020.
Simanowski is currently working on a book on the “Poetry of Double Coding”, about revolt and consent in computer-generated texts, as well as a book on language models as a technique of cultural struggle. He is an Associate Member of the Excellence Cluster “Temporal Communities” at the FU Berlin and, after his stay as a Visiting Fellow on the ERC project “Poetry in the Digital Age”, will continue his studies on the intersection of artificial intelligence and art as a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University in the fall semester of 2024.
Contact information:
Prof. Dr. Roberto Simanowski
EXC 2020 “Temporal Communities”
Freie Universität Berlin
Otto-von-Simson-Straße 15
14195 Berlin
E-Mail: roberto.simanowski"AT"fu-berlin.de
May - June 2024:
ERC-Projekt “Poetry in the Digital Age”
Universität Hamburg
Institut für Germanistik
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postfach #15, Raum B12009
20146 Hamburg
E-Mail: poetry-digital-age"AT"uni-hamburg.de