Univ.-Prof. MMag. Dr. Clemens Apprich
Clemens Apprich is professor in media theory and history at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. He studied philosophy, political science, cultural history and theory in Berlin, Bordeaux, and Vienna. In 2011 he became research associate at the Centre for Digital Cultures at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, where he was also guest professor from 2017 to 2018. From 2018 to 2019 he was a visiting research fellow at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University in Montréal, and from 2020 to 2021 assistant professor in media studies at the University of Groningen. Clemens Apprich is guest researcher at the Centre for Digital Cultures (Leuphana University), as well as affiliated member of the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies (University of Groningen), the Digital Democracies Institute (Simon Fraser University), the Global Emergent Media Lab (Concordia University), and the Research College ‘Sensing’ (Potsdam University). His current research deals with filter algorithms and their application 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, together with Wendy Chun, Hito Steyerl, and Florian Cramer, co-authored ‘Pattern Discrimination’ (University of Minnesota Press/meson press, 2019). In addition, he acts as reviewer for a range of international journals as well as academic publishers (e.g. Big Data & Society, Space and Culture, Theatre Journal, First Monday, Cambridge University Press), and is a founding co-editor of spheres – Journal for Digital Cultures (www.spheres-journal.org).
Contact
Office Hours: by Appointment
Phone: +43-1-71133-3550
Email: apprich[at]uni-ak.ac.at
- documents/publications
- monographs
- edited books/publications
- articles
- Die Maschine auf der Couch. Oder: Was ist schon 'künstlich' an Künstlicher Intelligenz?, 2019
- Secret Agents: A Psychoanalytic Critique of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, 2018
- The Corrupt State of Artificial Intelligence: Clemens Apprich on Machine Learning and Bias, 2018
- Vom Wahn- und Wahrsprechen des technologisch Unbewussten, 2018
- Babylonian Dreams, 2017
- Daten, Wahn, Sinn, 2017
- Ora et labora (et lege): Zur Politik postdigitaler Handlungsfelder, 2016
- Rózsa Farkas: Post-Internet? Deine Mudda! Ein Gespräch von Clemens Apprich, 2016
- Tactical Media, 2016
- The Network Dynamics of Movements, 2014
- ...und natürlich kann geschlachtet werden!, 2011
- Reading the Digital City: New political technologies in the Network Society, 2011
- Teilen und Herrschen: Die "digitale Stadt" als Vorläuferin heutiger Medienpraxen, 2011
- Was bleibt? Einige Überlegungen zum Medienereignis WikiLeaks, 2011
- Protest 2.0 - Don't believe the Hype: Soziale Computernetzwerke als Gelegenheit und Herausforderung für politischen Aktivismus, 2010
- Upload Dissident Culture: Public netbase's interventions into digital and urban space, 2010
- Was soll Universität heute? Eine Sammelrezension zweier Neuerscheinungen zu den jüngsten Universitätsbesetzungen, 2010
- "Es braucht Menschen, die auf die Straße gehen!": Ein Gespräch mit Chantal Mouffe und Ernesto Laclau über radikale Demokratie und Protestmedien, 2009
- DRM... TRIPS... WIPO...: Ein kleines Glossar zum UrheberInnenrecht, 2009
- Macht und Machtlosigkeit: Ein Interview mit Saskia Sassen, 2009
- Prekär wählen, Protest leben! Ein Aufruf zur Neuverkettung, 2008
- chapters
- Abduction, 2022
- Kommentar zu Nam June Paiks ‚Fluxus Island in Décollage Ocean‘ (1963), 2022
- Pattern Discrimination, 2022
- As We May Have Thought, 2021
- Dancing with Machines, 2021
- The Never-ending Network: A Repetitive and (thus) Differentiating Concept of Our Time, 2020
- The Paranoid Machine, 2020
- What Was the Network? A Conversation on the Possibilities and Limits of the Network Imaginary, 2020
- Media Genealogy: Back to the Present of Digital Cultures, 2017
- Mediengenealogie: Zurück in die Gegenwart digitaler Kulturen, 2017
- Paranoia, 2017
- Sovereign Media, Critical Infrastructures, and Political Subjectivity, 2016
- Remaking Media Practices: From Tactical Media to Post-Media, 2013
- The Truth Games of Radical Net Cultures, 2013
- Biopolitical Interventions in the Urban Data Space, 2012
- Von Knoten zu Knoten: Eine Einleitung, 2012
- Was wäre wenn... Nicht nur träumen von einer Gegenöffentlichkeit, 2012
- Stadt am Netz: Virtuelle Gemeinschaften regieren, 2011
- Interventionen im Datenraum: Public Netbase (1994-2006), 2010
- It's the community, stupid!: Urbane Regierungstechniken der Selbstverwaltung, 2009
- Intermission at the Combat Zone: A Review of Public Netbase's Urban and Symbolic Lines of Conflitct, 2008
- conferences & symposia
- Automation, AI and the Future of Media, 2022
- Decolonizing Technology, 2022
- Democratizing AI?, 2022
- Filter, 2022
- How is Artificial Intelligence Changing Science?, 2022
- Malta Summer School, 2022
- Hybrid by Nature, 2021
- conference contributions
- Collaborative Filtering: From Neighbors to Models to (New) Collectives, 2022
- Uncanny Times: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Contemporary Media Cultures, 2022
- 'Hey Google, repeat after me' – Some (Further) Thoughts on Machine Animation, 2021
- Animated Intelligence, 2021
- Animierte Intelligenz, 2021
- Collaborative Filtering: Eine Idee früherer Netzkulturen, 2021
- Pattern Discrimination, 2021
- Was ist schon ‘künstlich’ an künstlicher Intelligenz?, 2021
- Haunted Futures: Network Culture and Collaborative Filtering, 2020
- functions & practice
- journalistic activities
- general functions & practice
- Decolonizing Technology, 2022–2023