Dr. Markus Rautzenberg
Dr. Markus Rautzenberg is a German media theorist. In 2007 he received his doctoral grade in Philosophy with a thesis on a “Theory of Pertubation”. Scholarships include: DFG-Doctoral Scholarship at the Graduiertenkolleg “Körper-Inszenierungen” (“The Staging of the Body”) and a DFG-Postdoctoral Scholarship at the international graduate school “InterArt”. Since 2009 he belonged to the research staff at the institute for Philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin, from 2011 to 2014 he headed the DFG-Research Project on “Evocation. Non-Visual Aspects of Iconicity” there. His main fields of research include: media theory, picture theory, theory and aesthetics of digital media and game studies. Publications: “Coping with the Real: Disturbances as Materialities of Communication”, in: Rune Graulund (Ed.), Desperately Seeking Authenticity. An Interdisciplinary Approach, Kopenhagen 2010; (with Andreas Wolfsteiner), Hide and Seek. Das Spiel von Transparenz und Opazität, München 2010; (with Kristiane Hasselmann und Erika Fischer-Lichte), Ausweitung der Kunstzone. Interart Studies – Neue Perspektiven in den Kunstwissenschaften, Bielefeld 2010; Die Gegenwendigkeit der Störung. Aspekte einer postmetaphysischen Präsenztheorie, Berlin-Zürich 2009.