Giaco Schiesser
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Giaco Schiesser (born 1953)
Biography
Giaco Schiesser was born in
From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s he mainly worked as a publicist and a scientific editor: For ten years he was co-publisher of the scientific-political-cultural journal Widerspruch, for five years in charge of the department Science & Humanities of the weekly WOZ Die Wochenzeitung, both published in Zurich. At the same time he was an associate researcher at the Hamburg-based Institute for Research of Migration and Racism (Institut Migrations- und Rassismusforschung) with a research focus on contemporary constitutions of the subject.
From the mid-1990s till 2021 he worked at
Since the beginning of the 2000s he served as a professor for the theories and media in the MFA programme (2002–2018) and as head of Department of Media & Art/HGKZ and of Department of Art & Media/ZHdK (2002–2017). In these capacities he assumed responsibility for the conception and realisation of novel artistic curricula–a New Media programme, novel BA and MA Fine Arts curricula–and, within the most recent years for the conception of novel artistic (practice based) Ph.D. programmes
In December 2019 he was honoured with the award «Top 100 Leaders in Education».[8] The purpose of the award (2019 was its first-time edition), awarded by the “Global Forum for Education & Learning (GFEL) is «to honor the relentless efforts and zeal of individuals, who have played a prominent role in changing the face of education at the global as well as the local level.”[9]
In addition, since 2009 he holds a permanent visiting professorship for artistic and scientific Ph.D. at
Member of the board of directors of Kurhaus Bergün AG, Switzerland (since 2005).
His work and his publications focus on theories of cultures, of media and of subjects / epistemology / aesthetics, art research / democracy, public spheres, every day culture.
Publications
- Author (Selection)
- Art Education without Condition in Times of Neo-Feudalism and of a New Nihilism. (Chinese Translation, primary publication) In: New Arts, Journal of the National Academy of Art / China Art Academy, Hangzhou, V. 39, Number 5/2018.
- The Florence Principles on the Doctorate in the Arts Archived 2016-12-21 at the Wayback Machine. A Publication by ELIA (European League of the Institutes of the Arts). Amsterdam 2016. (Co-Author)
- Der Soundtrack des Lebens. Bob Dylans Theme Time Radio Hour und das Unheimliche Amerikas. In: Serialität. Wissenschaften, Künste, Medien. Hrsg. von Olaf Knellessen, Giaco Schiesser, Daniel Strassberg. Wien: Turia + Kant 2015, ISBN 978-3-85132-766-3
- Dritter Zyklus. In: Künstlerische Forschung. Ein Handbuch. Ed. Jens Badura et al. Zürich: Diaphanes 2015, ISBN 978-3-03734-880-2
- What is at stake – Qu’est ce que l’enjeu? Paradoxes – Problematics – Perspectives in Artistic Research Today. In: Arts, Research, Innovation and Society. Eds. Gerald Bast, ISBN 978-3319099088
- Die unbedingte Psychoanalyse. Marginalien eines Nicht-Analytikers. In: Brigitte Boothe, Peter Schneider (Eds.): Die Psychoanalyse und ihre Bildung. Zurich: Sphères 2013, ISBN 978-3-905933-04-8
- «A Certain Frustration . . .» - Paradoxes, Voids, Perspectives of Artistic Research Today. In: Practices of Experimentation. Zurich: Scheidegger & Spiess / Chicago: University Press 2012, ISBN 978-3-85881-259-9
- Media / Art / Education. Eigensinn as an Artistic Productive Force. In: New Archeology 2009. Ed. Li Zhenhua. Shanghai: Look Print 2009 (also in German and Chinese)
- Media Authorship. In: Visual Arts. Indian and Swiss Authors on Media Art and Theory. [= The India Habitat' Centre's Art Journal, Vol. 9]. New Delhi: Habitat Centre 2009
- Autorschaft nach dem Tod des Authors. Barthes und Foucault revisited. In: Autorschaft in den Künsten. Konzepte – Praktiken – Medien. Ed. Hans Peter Schwarz. Zurich: Museum für Gestaltung 2007
- Working on and with Eigensinn. A neglected concept and its impact on Media, Art and Art Education. In: Interface Cultures. Eds. Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau und Dorothée Gestrich. Bielefeld: transcript 2008, ISBN 978-3-89942-884-1
- Art School without Condition: Art Education in Postindustrial Society. Notes on a Neglected Discussion. In: ZHdK. A Future for the Arts. Zurich University of the Arts Inaugural Publication. Ed. Hans-Peter Schwarz. Zurich: Scheidegger & Spiess / Chicago: University Press 2007, ISBN 978-3-85881-709-9
- Das sich selbst fesselnde Subjekt – Lust auf Leben. In: Subjekte, Stars und Chips. Subjektpositionen in den Künsten. Ed. Marion Strunk. Zurich: Edition Howeg 1999
- Das Paradies liegt westwärts! 9 Thesen zur Version 8.0 der besten aller Welten. In: Multi Media Mania. Reflexionen zu Aspekten der Neuen Medien. Ed. René Pfammatter. Konstanz: UVK 1998
- Arbeitswelt, Demokratie, Staat – einige Problemfelder im politischen und sozialen Umfeld elektronischer Märkte. In: G. Schiesser et al.: Electronic Markets: Importance and Meaning for Switzerland. Bern: Swiss Science and Technology Council (SSTC), 1996
- Lust auf Leben, gefesselt. Der ganz alltägliche Rassismus als blinder Fleck des Antirassismus. In: Fremd im Paradies. Migration und Rassismus. Ed. Udo Rauchfleisch. Basel: Lenoss 1994, ISBN 978-3-85787-234-1.
- Editor (Selection)
- Kurhaus Bergün. Der Traum vom Grand Hotel. Hier und Jetzt, Baden/Zürich 2021, 22022 ISBN 978-3-03919-526-8
- Serialität. Wissenschaften, Künste, Medien. Eds. Olaf Knellessen, Giaco Schiesser, Daniel Strassberg. Wien: Turia + Kant 2015, ISBN 978-3-85132-766-3
- General Editor Fast Series, Department Art & Media / Zurich University of the Arts, vol. 1/2013, ISBN 978-3-85881-409-8
- General Editor Series Yearbook Department Art & Media / Zurich University of the Arts, 4 vols. Zurich 2006-2012, ISBN 978-3-85881-259-9
- Practices of Experimentation. Research and Teaching in the Arts Today. Zurich: Scheidegger & Spiess / Chicago: University Press 2012 (Co-editor), ISBN 978-3-85881-259-9
- Metaworx – Approaches to Interactivity. Basel/Boston/Berlin: Birkhäuser 2003 (Co-editor), ISBN 978-3764300890
- Otto F. Walter: Gegenwort. Aufsätze, Reden, Begegnungen. Herausgegeben, mit einer Nachbemerkung und einer Bibliographie versehen von Giaco Schiesser. Zurich: Limmat 1988
- Widerspruch. Half-year journal. Zurich 1983–1993 (Co-editor)
External links
References
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- ^ "Giaco Schiesser - Society for Artistic Research". Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-05-19.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2004-12-09. Retrieved 2014-05-17.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Aesthetic Computing, Paul A. Fishwick (ed.), Cambridge MA: MIT Press 2006, p. 131.
- ^ Education within a New Medium. Knowledge Formation and Digital Infrastructure, Torsten Meyer et al. (eds.), Munster: Waxmann 2008, pp. 110f.
- ^ The Florence Principles on the Doctorate in the Arts Archived 2018-10-04 at the Wayback Machine. A Publication by ELIA (European League of Institutes of the Arts).
- ^ PhD-Programme Fine Arts[permanent dead link]
- ^ The Education Conference: Improving the Means of Educational Transmittal. Ed. GFEL, Dubai 2019, p. 58
- ^ Ibid., p. 11.
- ^ PhD programme Fine Arts
- ^ Fritjof Capra, Pier Luigi Luisi: The Systems View of Life. A Unifying System, 2014
- ^ "ETH - Cortona Week - Organization of Cortona Week and IDEA League summer school program". Archived from the original on 2014-05-17. Retrieved 2014-05-16.
- ^ Society for Artistic Research
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