Oliver Grau

Oliver Grau (rođen 24. listopada 1965. ) je njemački povjesničar umjetnosti i teoretičar medija s naglaskom na znanost o slici, modernost i medijske umjetnosti, kao i kulturu 19. stoljeća i talijansku umjetnost renesanse.

Djela Oliver Grau je profesor znanosti o slici i voditelj Odjela znanosti o slici na Sveučilištu Danube Krems. Njegove knjige uključuju: Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion (MIT Press / Leonardo Books, 2003) Mediale Emotionen (Fischer, 2005) MediaArtHistories (MIT Press / Leonardo Books, 2007) Održavao je predavanja na međunarodnim turnejama,Among others: Denmark, Aarhus, University of Aarhus, 16.-17.09.2010, invited lecture China, Hong Kong City University, School for Creative Media, Renewing Knowledge Structures For Digital Humanities, 11.8.2010, Invited Lecture Great Britain, London, EVA, British Computer Society, Covent Garden, 05.-07.07.2010, Keynote Russia, Moskau, Museum Garage, Center for Contemporary Culture, , 23.05.2010, invited lecture London: University of Westminster, Visual Culture Studies in Europe, 05.02.2010, Keynote Colombia, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Escuela de Artes Plásticas, Bogota, Internationale Conference, INTERMEDIOS - SOCIEDAD Y TRANSPARENCIA, 09.-11.09.2009, Keynote dobio brojne nagrade,Awards among other things: 2001 voted into Young Academy of the Berlin-Brandenburgischen Scientific Academy and the Leopoldina 2002 InterNations/Goethe Institute 2003 Book of the Month, Scientific American 2003 Research Scholarship from the German-Italian Center Villa Vigoni; 2004 Media Award of the Humboldt University objavio međunarodne publikacije na engleskom, španjolskom, portugalskom, srpskom, makedonskom, slovenskom, korejskom, kineskom jeziku. Njegovo glavno područje istraživanja je povijest medijske umjetnosti, uranjanje (virtualna realnost), i emocije, kao i povijest, ideja i kultura teleprisutnosti i umjetnog života. Grauova knjiga Virtual Art, koja je obrađena u više od 50 recenzija, ponudila je po prvi put povijesnu usporedbu teorije uranjanja na razini slika-promatrač, kao i sustavnu analizu trilogije: umjetnik, rad i promatrač, u uvjetima digitalne umjetnosti. Istraživanje je povezano s novim modelom evolucijske povijesti medija iluzije koji rezultira s jedne strane relativnom ovisnošću o novim čulnim potencijalima sugestije, a s druge strane o promjenjivoj snazi otuđenja gledatelja (medijska kompetencija).

Grau je osmislio nove znanstvene alate za humanističke znanosti / digitalne humanističke znanosti, upravljao je projektom "Immersive art" institucije "The German Research Foundation (DFG)", čiji tim je 1998 g. počeo razvijati prvu međunarodnu arhivu za digitalnu umjetnostDatabase of Virtual Art, Austria. pisanu na open source platformi na sveučilištu Danube-University Krems i otada je prate brojni spin-off projekti. Od 2000 g. DVA je bila prva on-line arhiva na kojoj se može redovito pratiti video dokumentacija. Od 2005 g. Grau je upravitelj baze podataka Goettweigs grafičke zbirke, najveće austrijske privatne grafičke zbirke koja sadrži 30.000 djela, u rasponu od Albrecht Duerera do Gustava Klimta. Grau je razvio novi međunarodni nastavni plan i program za znanost o slici: MediaArtHistories MA, akademski stručni program upravljanja digitalnom zbirkom, program dizajna izlaganja, vizualne kompetencije i master program znanost o slici. Department for Image Science: http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/de/department/bildwissenschaft/index.php Povrh toga, uvođenjem prijenosa predavanja putem weba (the Danube Telelectures), novi interaktivni format održavanja predavanja i rasprava je zaživio i odaslan je strimingom širom svijeta.

Nakon studija u Hamburgu, Berlinu i Sieni i doktorskog rada, Grau je predavao na Humboldt sveučilištu u Berlinu, bio je gost različitih istraživačkih laboratorija u Japanu i SAD-u i nakon poslije doktorske kvalifikacije predavača (habilitation) 2003 g. radio je kao profesor na različitim međunarodnim sveučilištima. Djelovao je kao savjetnik u međunarodnim stručnim časopisima i različitim udrugama. Grau organizira različite konferencije.* First International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology: http://www.mediaarthistory.org/refresh/index.html Second International conference on image science: http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/department/bildwissenschaft/veranstaltungen/id/11969/index.php Od 2002 g. Grau je pokušao udružiti istraživanje medijske umjetnosti i njenu povijest koje su raspršene na mnogim poljima i zato je bio osnivački ravnatelj Refresh!-a, First International Conference on the History of Media Art, Science and Technology, Banff 2005 (2007 Berlin, 2009 Melbourne, 2011 Liverpool) - prva međunarodna konferencija o povijesti medijske umjetnosti, znanosti i tehnologije. O.Grau: MediaArtHistories, MIT Press-2007 i on-line tekstualna arhiva mediaarthistory.org su rezultat ovih konferencija. Neke od nagrada: 2001 g. izabran za člana Young Academy of the Berlin-Brandenburgischen Scientific Academy and the Leopoldina; 2002 g. InterNations/Goethe Institute; 2003 g. Book of the Month, Scientific American; 2003 g. dobiva istraživačku stipendiju od njemačko-talijanskog centra Villa Vigoni; 2004 g. dobiva nagradu Media Award of the Humboldt University.

Bibliografija Oliver Grau (Ed.): Retracing Political Dimensions: Strategies in Contemporary New Media Art, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2020. Oliver Grau (Ed.): Digital Art through the Looking Glass: New strategies for archiving, collecting and preserving in Digital Humanities, Krems/Wien/Hamburg: Danube University Press 2019. Oliver Grau (Ed.) Museum and Archive on the Move: Changing cultural Institutions in the digital Era, Munich: DeGruyter 2017. Documenting Media Art: A Web 2.0-Archive and Bridging Thesaurus for MediaArtHistories. in: Leonardo Journal, Vol. 52, No. 5, 2019. Digital Art’s Complex Expression and Its Impact on Archives and Humanities: For a Concerted Museum Network of Expertise and Preservation. In Oliver Grau, Wendy Coones, Viola Rühse (eds.) Museum and Archive on the Move: Changing Cultural Institutions in the Digital Era, Berlin: De Gruyter 2017, pp. 99-117. Alguma vez nos vamos habituar à imersão? Histórias da Arte dos Media & Ciência da Imagem - Will we ever become used to Immersion? Media Art Histories & Image Science. In Victor Flores (ed.) A terceira Imagem - A Fotografia Estereoscópica em Lissabon: Documenta Portugal, pp. 39-62. The Complex and Multifarious Expression of Digital Art & Its Impact on Archives and Humanities. In: A Companion to Digital Art. edited by Christiane Paul. Wiley-Blackwell, New York 2016, 23–45. New Media Art. In: Oxford Bibliographies in Art History. edited by Prof. Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann. Oxford University Press, New York 2016, S. 1–18. Our Digital Culture threatened by Loss. In: Valentino Catricalà: Media Art: Towards a new definition of Arts in the Age of Technology. Pistoia 2015, S. 39–44. ARCHIV 2.0: Media Arts Impact and the Need for (Digital) Humanities. In: Giselle Beiguelman (Ed.): (itaú cultural). Sao Paulo 2014, S. 97–118. Druckgrafik bis Medienkunst: Neue Analyseinstrumente für die historisch vergleichende Bildforschung. in: Rundbrief Fotografie, Vol. 21 (2014), No. 1/2 [N.F. 81/82], S. 108-116. Our Digital Culture Threatened by Loss, in: The World Financial Review, 2014, pp. 40-42. New Perspectives for the (Digital) Humanities, in: The Challenge of the Object, Congress Proceedings of the 33rd Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art. T. 1-3. Ed. by G. Ulrich Großmann/Petra Krutisch, Nuremberg 2013, S. 990-994. Image Science & MediaArtHistories. New Infrastructures for 21th Century. in: Gunther Friesinger, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Thomas Ballhaus (Eds.): Mind and Matter. Comparative Approaches towards Complexity, Bielefeld: transcript 2011, S. 29-37. Imagery of the 21st Century, Cambridge/Mass.: MIT-Press 2011, ISBN 9780262015721. Mit Beiträgen von James Elkins, Eduardo Kac, Peter Weibel, Lev Manovich, Olaf Breitbach, Martin Kemp, Sean Cubitt, Christa Sommerer, Marie Luise Angerer, Wendy Chun u. a. [Rezensionen u.a. kunstgeschichtlich von Pamela C. Scorzin: Review: Oliver Grau (Hg.) Imagery in the 21st Century, in: Journal für Kunstgeschichte 15, 2011, Heft 4, S. 278-281; medienwissenschaftlich: Mattias Kuzina in: Medienwissenschaft 2/2012, S. 178 https://www.academia.edu/30974510/Imagery_in_the_21st_Century_Bookreview_; It`s Liquid https://www.itsliquid.com/imagery-in-the-21st-century.html ; 163. Harald Klinke: Rezension von Imagery in the 21st century, VI, 410, (16) S. III 2013, in: Kunstform, 14. 2013, 6; Österreich: Der Standard: Tanja Traxler: Am Wendepunkt der Kunstgeschichte, 8. Mai 2012; Brasilien: Cleomar Rocha u. Vanderlei Veget Lopes Junior, Imagens no seculo XXI: panorama, perspectivas e prospeccoes, in VISUALIDADES, Goiania v.9 n2 p. 213-217, jul-dez. 2011; Serbien: Jelena Guga: Silkovnost u 21.veku, in: NOVA MISAO – casopis za savremenu Vojvodine, br. 17 April/Mai 2012] Oliver Grau (Ed.): Истории на медиумската уметност (Media Art Histories, Macedonian Translation), Генекс, Кочани, 2009 Oliver Grau: Lembrem a Fantasmagoria! Polìtidca da Ilusào do Sèculo XVIII e sua vida apòs a morte Multimìdia, In: Diana Domingues: Arte, Ciència e Technologia (Media Art Histories, Portuguese Translation), Sao Paulo, Editora Unesp: 2009 Oliver Grau (Ed.): Virtuelna umetnost, (Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion, Serbian Translation), Beograd: Clio, 2008 Oliver Grau: Media art needs Histories and Archives (Korean Translation), In: The 5th Seoul international Media Art Biennale, conference proceedings, Seoul: 2008 Oliver Grau: Intermedijske etap navidezne resni`cnosti v 20. stoletju: Umetnost kot navdih evolucije medijev (Intermedia Stages of Virtual Reality in the Twentieth Century: Art as Inspiration of Evolving Media, Slovenian Translation), In: Mojca Zlokarnik: Likovne Besede, Ljubljana, Janus: 2008 Oliver Grau (Ed.): Media Art Histories, MIT Press/Leonardo Books, 2007. ISBN 978-0262514989 (Übersetzungen in Brasilien und Mazedonien). [Rezensionen: Deutschland: Christoph Klütsch: MediaArtHistories, in: kunsttexte.de, 1.07.2007; USA: Robert Atkins: Channeling New Media, in: Art in America, Dezember 2008, p. 47 – 50 https://www.academia.edu/44723806/Grau_Media_Art_Histories_Art_In_America_12_08 ; Serbien: Matko Mestreovic: Kako razumjeti medijsku umjetnost, in: Zarez IX/208, 14. lipnja 2007, p. 8f.; Australien: Daniel Palmer: Walter Benjamin and the Virtual: Politics, Art, and Mediation in the Age of Global Culture, in: TRANSFORMATIONS, Issue No. 15, November 2007; Polen: Mariusz Pisarski: Historie sztuki mediów, in: TECHSTY, Literatura i Nouva Media, 7.7.2007; Brasilien: Sergio Kulpas: histórias da artemídia, in: Encyclopédia Itaú Cultural: arte e tecnologia, August 2007; Großbritannien: Charlie Gere: MediaArtHistories, in: The Art Book, Volume 15, Issue 1, S. 51–52; Österreich: Eric Kluitenberg: MediaArtHistories, in: Springerin: Hefte für Gegenwartskunst, Vol. XIII, No. 3, 2007, p. 74.; Uruguay: Angel Kalenberg: Between Chaos and Cosmos, Rezension MediaArtHistories, in: Relaciones, Nr. 286, March 2008, p. 26–27; Litauen: Renata Sukaityte: Mediju menas kaip moksline-eksperimentine erdve, in: Menotyra, 2008, T. 15. No. 2, p. 50–61; Frankreich: Jens Hauser: MediaArtHistories: Eine andere Kunstgeschichte, ARTE.tv, Februar/2007; medienwissenschaftlich: Malte Hagener: Rezension von: Oliver Grau (Ed.), MediaArtHistories, MIT, Cambridge, MA-London 2007, in: Cinéma & Cie, no. 9, Fall 2007; bildwissenschaftlich: Martin Schulz: Rezension von: Oliver Grau: MediaArtHistories, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press 2007, in Kunstform 9 (2008), no.09] Oliver Grau (Ed.): Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion, (Chinese Translation), Tsinghua University Press 2006