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Prof. Dr. Roland Meyer
Roland Meyer has been DIZH Bridge Professor for Digital Cultures and Arts at the University of Zurich and the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) since July 2024. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Collaborative Research Centre «Virtual Lifeworlds» at the Ruhr University Bochum, where he worked on virtual image archives. Roland Meyer’s work as a media and visual culture researcher focuses on networked image cultures. He is particularly interested in the new aesthetic and operational functions of digital images under the conditions of global digital platforms, ubiquitous computing, mobile media and big visual data. He has published on…
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Katharina Morawek
Katharina Morawek is a trained scenographer and organizational developer. She is the managing director at the Center for Arts and Cultural Theory / Zentrum Künste und Kulturtheorie, a network at the interface of the University of Zurich and the Zurich University of the Arts, with close ties to the bridge professorship. She was the artistic director of the Shedhalle Zurich and founded numerous initiatives on the politics of history and democracy. She works with cultural institutions on questions of democratization and multiperspectivist narrations. From 2018 to 2024, she was one of the organizers of Institut Neue Schweiz INES, a think & act…
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Lars Pinkwart
Since September 2024, Lars Pinkwart is a research associate at the bridge professorship. He is pursuing a PhD at the University of Zurich, and holds an interdisciplinary MA in Design and Computation between TU Berlin and University of the Arts Berlin. Before, he studied media studies and visual culture in Potsdam and London. His research interests include synthetic data, computational models and the imaginaries of uncertainty, contingency and open-ended learning underlying contemporary forms of computation. Activities
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Dr. Kathrin Trattner
Kathrin Trattner is a postdoctoral researcher in the URPP «Digital Religion(s)» at the University of Zurich. She studied German philology and religious studies at the University of Graz. In her dissertation, she investigated the construction of enemies in military shooter games from an intersectional perspective. Her research interests include discourses of identity and alterity in the context of social media, right wing extremism and gaming cultures, nation(alism) and gaming, and religion and digital media. Activities