Univ.-Prof. Dr. Robin Curtis

Robin Curtis

is Professor of Theory and Practice of Audio-visual Media at the Heinrich-Heine-University in Düsseldorf. Born in Toronto. Filmmaker (Nachlass, 1992), Curator (e.g. Special Programme “Out of Time” Oberhausen 2001, Werkleitz Biennale, 2002, Goethe Institute Tour “Geschlecht-Konfliktbewältigung” Israel/Palestine 2003) and Film and Media Scholar. Feodor-Lynen Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 2008-2011 at SUNY Buffalo, NY, USA. Adjunct Professor at New York University, Global Academic Center in Berlin, 2009-2012. Research Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin in the Collaborative Research Centre “Cultures of Performativity” 2002-2010, Doctorate 2003 at the Freie Universität Berlin. On editorial board of internet journal Nachdemfilm.de and of paper journal Pop. Kultur und Kritik (Transcript Verlag).

Recent Publications

Conscientious Viscerality: The Autobiographical Stance in German Film and Video, Berlin: Gebrüder Mann Verlag / Edition Imorde, 2006; Einfühlung – Zu Geschichte und Gegenwart eines ästhetischen Konzepts. [From Einfühlung to Empathy: The History and Contemporary Career of an Aesthetic Concept] Ed. Robin Curtis and Gertrud Koch. Munich: Fink Verlag, 2008; Synästhesie-Effekte: zur Intermodalität der äisthetischen Wahrnehmung. [Synaesthetic Effects:  The Intermodality of Aesthetic Experience] Ed. Robin Curtis, Marc Glöde and Gertrud Koch. Munich: Fink Verlag, 2010; Synchronisierung der Künste. [Synchronizing the Arts] Ed. Robin Curtis Gertrud Koch, Marc Siegel, Fink Verlag 2012 (in Press); Special Issue "Immersion", montage/av. Ed. Robin Curtis and Christiane Voss. 2/2/2008; Deixis und Evidenz. [Deixis and Evidence] Ed. Horst Wenzel, Ludwig Jäger, Robin Curtis and Christina Lechtermann. Freiburg: Rombach Verlag, 2008.
Numerous publications on medial memory, emotionality of the moving image and the filmic avant-garde.