Chair: Stefanie Bräuer
(in partnership with Critical Media Lab)
Biography
Clemens Apprich is a professor of media theory and history at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. He is the head of the Department of Media Theory as well as the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures, and acts as Vice-President for Research and Digitality. His current research concerns digital media and computational cultures, with a particular focus on filter algorithms and their deployment in data analysis, as well as machine learning methods. He is the author of Technotopia: A Media Genealogy of Net Cultures (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017) and co-author Pattern Discrimination (University of Minnesota Press/meson press, 2019). He is currently working on a new book project entitled Errant Intelligence (Amsterdam University Press, forthcoming).