Román Domínguez Jiménez
(Ph.D. in Philosophy, Université Paris 8) is assistant professor at the Aesthetics Institute of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where he directs the Paths and Trends of Film Diploma. He has participated in projects in France (MSH Paris Nord), Mexico and Chile, where he has developed notions such as gesture, rhythm and territory in film philosophy. He has published articles in journals such as Aisthesis (Chile), L’Atalante (Spain) and Appareil (France). He is preparing a book on the techno-aesthetics of contemporary gestures, from film to digital interfaces. His text in this volume is part of Project 11150797 funded by Conicyt (Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica) Chile.
Patricia Feise-Mahnkopp
is assistant professor of phenomenology at the Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences, Alfter (Bonn), Germany. She earned her Ph.D. at the Humboldt-University, Berlin, and held a dfg-Scholarship for a Doctorate Program at the University of Würzburg. Her dissertation was published as Die Ästhetik des Heiligen. Kunst, Kult und Geschlecht in der Matrix-Filmtrilogie. Köln: Böhlau 2011. Her main research interests are the philosophy of media, religion and gender on (techno-) phenomenological grounds.
Philip Freytag
is a philosopher with strong (transdisciplinary) interests in language, public understanding and symbolic practices. He currently works as a speechwriter for the German Research Foundation (dfg), after receiving his doctorate from Bonn University in 2019. In his award-winning Ph.D. thesis, he complements the question of a “Poetic Ontology of Film” by investigating the systematic background of the debates between Derrida and his critics. The work is published under the title Die Rahmung des Hintergrunds (Frankfurt/Main 2019). Earlier works explore the popcultural affinities of Derrida’s philosophy (“Infinite Responsibility. An Encounter between Derrida and Batman”, in: Aesthetics of Popular Culture, Bratislava 2015) as well as general problems of aesthetics (“The Contamination of Content and the Question of the Frame”, in: Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics, 6/2014).
Markus Gabriel
is full professor of Epistemology, modern and contemporary philosophy at the University of Bonn. In 2005 he was a visiting scholar at the university of Lisbon.
Zsolt Gyenge
works as an associate professor at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (Budapest, Hungary), where he teaches courses in Film theory, film history and visual communication theory. His field of research includes interpretation theories (phenomenology, hermeneutics), experimental film, video art and realism in cinema. He is the author of the book Image, Moving Image, Interpretation: A Theory of Phenomenological Film Analysis (published in Hungarian). He is currently working on a postdoctoral research entitled Expanded Screens: New Spectatorship and Subversion in Contemporary Moving Image Installations. He is the editor of the Scholarly journal on design and visual culture—Disegno, and is also active as a freelance film critic.
Gusztáv Hámos
is a media artist, curator and author. He has held professorships and teaching assignments a.o. at the University of Arts Berlin, Film University Babelsberg, The Hungarian University of Fine Arts Budapest, rwth Aachen University, Film Factory Sarajevo and Merzakademie Stuttgart. His artistic work includes video, film, photography and interactive installations and has been exhibited internationally. His field of research includes: media phenomenology; stillness and movement in the cinematographic context. Among his publications are: Viva Fotofilm bewegt-unbewegt, Marburg: Schüren, 2010, Sample Cities, Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2014, and Fiasco. Based on the Novel by Imre Kertesz, Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2014.
Karin Janker
is staff editor at Süddeutsche Zeitung in Munich. She received her doctorate at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, being member of the Graduate School Language and Literature. Her thesis was supervised by Prof. Dr. Barbara Vinken, Ph.D. Prior to this, she received her Master degree at the program “Aisthesis—Historical Discourses on Art and Literature” by the Bavarian Elite Network. Recent publications are “Vom Stummfilm zur Virtuellen Realität: Kinematographische Totalitätsansprüche in Mynonas
Hyun Kang Kim
is professor for design philosophy and aesthetics at the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf. In 2004 she finished her Ph.D. in German literature at the University of Bonn, in 2014 her habilitation in philosophy also in Bonn. Her Publications include: Image, Seoul: Yonsei University Press 2015; Slavoj Žižek. Die Philosophie des Realen, Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, utb, 2020; Slavoj Žižek. Philosophie für Einsteiger, Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2020; Design ist unterwegs. Design als dialektischer Prozess von Gestaltung und Entstaltung, in: Florian Arnold / Daniel Feige / Markus Rautzenberg (ed.), Philosophie des Designs, Bielefeld: Transcript 2020.
Atėnė Mendelytė
is assistant professor at the Center of Scandinavian Studies at Vilnius University. Previously, she was senior lecturer at the School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences of Örebro University. She is a film scholar and her research largely focuses on interdisciplinarity within the humanities and the intersections among film, philosophy, television, literature, photography, theatre and music. She received her doctorate in film studies from Lund University in 2018 and is now teaching various undergraduate and graduate film and visual studies courses. Her research areas include film-philosophy, intermediality, and aesthetics. She is currently a participant of MotherNet, an international project on contemporary European motherhood (together with Maynooth and Uppsala Universities) funded by European Comission. Among her most recent publications are “Understanding Samuel Beckettʼs Endgame through Game Theory” (in Symbolism, De Gruyter, 2019) and “Thomas Ligottiʼs Bungalow Universe and the Transversal Aesthetics of the Weird” (in Horror Studies, Intellect, 2019).
Christine Reeh-Peters
is junior professor for Theory and practice of artistic research at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf. Diploma in Film direction at the Lisbon Film School—Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema. M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics at the flul—Faculdade de Letras of the University of Lisbon. Her dissertation “The solaristic system” devises an ontology of film.
Ringo Rösener
is a postdoc at the Institute of Cultural Studies at Leipzig University. He teaches in the field of arts management, being currently engaged in his research on Heinrich Blücher, husband of Hannah Arendt, and on Jürgen Baldiga, a photographer and diarist of the gay subculture in Berlin in the 1980s and 1990s. Rösener is author and co-director of the documentary Among Men. Gay in East Germany (2012) and author of the book Freundschaft als Liebe zur Welt. Im Kino mit Hannah Arendt (2017). He is editor of the publication Heinrich Blücher: Versuche über den Nationalsozialismus (2020) and responsible for the online publication of Heinrich Blücher’s lecture series Sources of Creative Power (
Stefan W. Schmidt
studied philosophy, psychology and mathematics at the University of Bonn and finished his studies as M.A. (Magister Artium) in 2008. In 2013 he received his Ph.D. at the University of Wuppertal. The subject of his doctoral thesis is an analysis of Heidegger’s notion of freedom. From 2013-2014 he worked on a research project concerning phenomenological theories of memory financed by the Fritz Thyssen foundation. During this time, he was a research fellow at McGill University, Montréal. Furthermore, he taught history and theory of design at the Peter Behrens School of Arts (University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf) from 2015–2018. Currently, he works as a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Wuppertal. His main research interests lie in phenomenology, metaphysics, philosophy of memory and aesthetics as well as theories of place and space.
Martin Stefanov
studied philosophy, theatre, film and media studies as well as musicology in Vienna and Berlin. From 2011 to 2014 he was a member of the graduate school
Maria-Teresa Teixeira
is currently a research fellow at Universidade de Coimbra. She holds a Ph.D. in contemporary philosophy from Universidade de Lisboa and is the author of two books, Ser, Devir e Perecer A criatividade na filosofia de Whitehead and Consciência e Acção Bergson e as neurociências. She has translated Process and Reality by A. N. Whitehead into Portuguese. She has also published many papers in international journals and book chapters. She served as the International Process Network executive director and was the organizer of the 2017 International Whitehead Conference. Her overlapping interests include metaphysics and process thought and focus mainly on the philosophies of Henri Bergson and Alfred North Whitehead.
Hanna Trindade
is a former student of the program Erasmus Mundus EuroPhilosophie and has completed her Ph.D. at the Faculty of Human Sciences of the Charles University with a thesis entitled “Le vécu du cinema: Une approche husserlienne de l’expérience filmique”. She is currently the responsible organizer for cultural activities at the Media-Center of Bron in France and she participates in interdisciplinary projects devoted to cinema and philosophy in Lyon. Her publications include a chapter in the book Philosophy and Film: Bridging Divides (Routledge, 2019) and an article entitled “The Experience of Film Editing: A Husserlian Analysis” at the Bulgarian Journal Divinatio (2019).
Thomas E. Wartenberg
is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Mount Holyoke College. His main areas of focus are aesthetics, the philosophy of film, and philosophy for children. He has published two monographs on the philosophy of film and edited or co-edited four anthologies as well as written numerous articles in this area. Among his publications are Thinking on Screen: Film as Philosophy, Unlikely Couples: Movie Romance and Social Criticism, and Fight Club. He is the Film Editor for Philosophy Now. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in Germany and
Peter Weibel
is an Austrian artist, exhibition curator, art and media theorist. Since 1984 he is professor for Visual media design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and since 1999 the ceo of the zkm | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. Under numerous artistic directing positions are the Biennale of Seville, the Biennale of Venice, the Moscow Biennale for Contemporary Art and the Ars Electronica in Linz. Honorary memberships a.o. in the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in Salzburg, the Russian Academy of Arts in Moscow or the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Awarded a.o. with the Oskar Kokoschka Prize, the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art or the European Cultural Project Prize. Innumerous acclaimed publications in the field of media aesthetics, philosophy and media studies.