Dieter Daniels

Dieter Daniels, Professor at the Academy of Visual Arts (HGB) in Leipzig, participated in the TALK Series with a lecture which took place at Reykjavik Art Museum.

Daniels’s lecture entitled Audiovisualogy: hybridity of science, art, entertainment and business and responded to exhibition Cadences of Line and Color, then on view at Hafnarhús.

The starting point for the lecture was the fact that our world of experience today is characterized by the omnipresence of audiovisual products and structures. Through digitization, the cultural production of images and sounds becoming part of a hybridization merging media technologies, art genres and market strategies.

In the talk, Daniels’s responded to this fact by presenting a historical frame of reference, making comparisons to contemporary techno-cultural developments. The lecture will demonstrate interrelations between the history of science and technology, perception studies and art- film- and music theory in audiovisual practices, since the 18th century.

Dieter Daniels has been Professor of Art History and Media Theory at the Academy of Visual Arts (HGB) in Leipzig since 1993 and has contributed to numerous projects, exhibitions, and symposia in the field of media art. In 1984 Daniels co-founded the Videonale Bonn and served as the head of the Mediatheque at the ZKM, Karlsruhe from 1991-1993. He was the concept- and co-editor of «Media Art Net» (www.mediaartnet.org) from 2001 – 2005 and the director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media. Art. Research in Linz from 2005-2009.

Daniels has published extensively on 20th century art; on Marcel Duchamp, Fluxus, John Cage and media art, including the two volume compendium Audiovisuology: An Interdisciplinary Survey of Audiovisual Culture (2010). Since 2010 Dieter Daniels has been the speaker of the advisory board of the transmediale festival.