Oliver Grau#
| Membership Number: | 4015 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | FILM, MEDIA & VISUAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | www.virtualart.at |
| Twitter: | https://ae-eu.academia.edu/OliverGrau |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/groups/377264145713664 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/oliver-grau-9429665/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- Feb 2000 to present Head of the "Archive for Digital Art (ADA)" (scientific conception; 18 staff to date), Berlin/Vienna -
- Oct 2005 to 2022 Chair Professor for Image Science / Head of the Department, Danube University Krems -
- Oct 2005 to present Project Head "Göttweig Online", Danube University Krems-
- Oct 2004 - Apr 2005 Visiting Professor, University Siegen, Germany / Media Studies -
- Apr 2002 - Sept 2005 Head of the project "Immersive Art" (individual DFG-Grant), Humboldt University Berlin -
- Oct 2002 - Oct 2003 Visiting Professor, Art University Linz-
- Oct 2003 - Sept 2004 Advisor: MA program “Art History and Cultural Studies”, University Leeds-
- Oct 1998 - Jan 2002 Research Lead in the DFG-Project Art and Media History of Virtual Reality, Humboldt University Berlin
Fields of Scholarship
- Digital humanities
- Art history and its media
- Image science
- Media art research
- Emotions and media
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Science Award of L. Austria
- 2016 Symposium in Honor of his research in Tel Aviv.
- 2014 Honorary degree (Doctor h.c.) in recognition of research in Image Science and developing the field of Media Art Histories from University of Oradea-
- 2011 Opening lecture of the international Dongkuk Humanities Series for Nobel Prize winners and international scientists at POSTECH, South Korea-
- 2010 Invitation for Keynote at “tech+ forum” / G-20 summit, by Ministery of Knowledge Economy of the Republic of Korea (MKE)-
- 2008 Invitation to the official cultural program of the XXIX Olympic Summer Games in Beijing, China, exhibition Synthetic Times - Media Art China, lecture at Tsinghua University-
- 2004 Honorary Media Award of the Humboldt University Society (Berlin, Germany)-
- 2003 Fellow at Villa Vigoni - German-Italian Center for European Excellence, Italy-
- 2003 'Scientific American' Book of the Month-
- 2002 Inter Nationes/Goethe-Institut funding for the translation of the publication Virtual Art (today the most quoted book in Art History worldwide since 2000)-
- 2001 Elected as the first art historian into the Young Academy at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) and the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina-
- 1998 Rotary Foundation
