Katja Kwastek

Katja Kwastek (1970) is professor of modern and contemporary art at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She is the author of the book Aesthetics of Interaction in Digital Art (MIT Press, 2013) and specializes in intersections of art, new media and technology. Previously, she taught at Ludwig Maximilians-University (Munich), Rhode Island School of Design Providence), LBI Media.Art.Research (Linz) and Humboldt-University (Berlin).

Publications

• Camera. Gemalter und gerahmter Raum der italienischen Frührenaissance, Weimar: VDG, 2001. Based on PhD dissertation, University of Cologne, 2000. (German)
• with Hubertus Kohle, Computer, Kunst und Kunstgeschichte, Cologne: Deubner 2003, 191 pp. (German)
• editor, with Hubertus Kohle, zeitenblicke 2(1): "Digitale und digitalisierte Kunstgeschichte. Perspektiven einer Geisteswissenschaft im Zeitalter der Virtualität", Cologne, May 2003. (German)
• editor, Ohne Schnur. Kunst und drahtlose Kommunikation / Art and Wireless Communication, Revolver, 2004, 231 pp. Exh. catalogue. Exh. website. (German)/(English)
• editor, with Léa Kuhn, Art Alert. The Allianz Collection in Unterföhring, Munich, 2012, 93 pp. (English)
• Aesthetics of Interaction in Digital Art, MIT Press, 2013. (English)
• editor, with Erin La Cour, ASAP/Journal 4(3): "As Slowly as Possible", Sep 2019. [1] (English)
• more

Interview

• "Radiotechnology and Visual Art. Katja Kwastek in Conversation with Sabine Breitsameter", May 2004.

Links

• Website
• Profile on Ludwig Boltzmann Institut (archived)
• http://netzspannung.org/cat/servlet/CatServlet?cmd=document&subCommand=show&forward=/biography/output/biography.xml&biographyId=139406