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Giaco Schiesser (born 1953)〔http://viaf.org/processed/WKP%7CQ15430828〕 is a Zurich-based theorist of cultural and media studies. He is a professor for cultural theory and media theory, head of Department of Art & Media und member of the board Zurich University of the Arts, ZHdK (Switzerland). == Biography == Giaco Schiesser was born in Glarus (Switzerland). He studied philosophy, cultural studies and German literature studies at Free University in Berlin (Germany). Afterwards he became an associate lecturer at Free University and assistant lecturer at the Institute for German Literature, University of Basle (Switzerland). 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. Since the mid-1990s he has been working at Zurich University of the Arts.〔http://www.societyforartisticresearch.org/about/executive-board/giaco-schiesser/〕 First, as a lecturer of the theory and history of visual communication, then he conceptualized and realized the establishment of the department New Media (since 2008: Media Arts) at the University of Art and Design Zurich as head of that department, which he directed from 1999 to 2002 (together with artistic media group Knowbotic Research and media artist Margarete Jahrmann. Since then the focus of his work has been centering on the far-reaching economical, political and cultural impact of the digitalisation of today's postfordian society and on the conception of the ''Eigensinn'' of media,〔http://distributedcreativity.org/〕〔''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.〕 an attempt to analyze more precisely the «mediality of media» and its impact and effects. 2002 he was appointed to professor and in the same year to head of Department Art & Media, Zurich University of the Arts. In this capacity he has been contributing substantially to the conception and implementation of new BA and MA Fine Arts curricula and, within the most recent years to the conception of artistic (practice based) Ph.D. programmes and the problematics of Artistic Research.〔https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research, Paragraph "Artistic Research"〕 In addition, since 2009 he holds a permanent visiting professorship for artistic and scientific Ph.D. at University of Art and Design Linz (Austria) and has been a member of the board of interdisciplinary Cortona-Week,〔http://www.cortona.ethz.ch/people/index〕 organized by ETH Zurich and ZHdK. Since 2013 he has been a member of the Executive Board of the international Society for Artistic Research (SAR)〔Society for Artistic Research〕 and a member of the advisory council of Entresol, a network for the sciences of psyche (Zurich).〔http://entresol.ch/beirat〕 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Giaco Schiesser」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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