Draft:Clemens Apprich

Clemens Apprich is professor in media theory and history at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. He is head of the Department of Media Theory and the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures, as well as Vice-Rector for Research and Digitality.

Life
Clemens Apprich studied philosophy, political science, cultural history and theory in Berlin, Bordeaux, and Vienna. During his studies, he was a member of Public Netbase, an Austrian platform for critical net cultures. In 2011, he became a research assistant at the Centre for Digital Cultures at Leuphana University Lüneburg, where he was also a visiting professor from 2017 to 2018. From 2018 to 2019, he was a visiting research fellow at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University in Montréal and from 2020 to 2021 assistant professor in Media Studies at the University of Groningen. In 2021, he was appointed professor of media theory and history at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. At Angewandte, he is head of the Department of Media Theory and the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures. Since autumn 2023, he is also the Vice-Rector for Research and Digitality.

Apprich is a member of the assembly of delegates of the Austrian Science Fund FWF and of Open Science Austria, as well as an affiliated faculty member at the Digital Democracies Institute at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. He serves as a reviewer for several international journals, academic publishers, and research communities including DFG, Big Data & Society, Space and Culture, First Monday, and Cambridge University Press.

Research
Clemens Apprich's research focuses on digital media and computational cultures, with a focus in filtering algorithms and their use in data analysis and machine learning methods. He is the author of Technotopia: A Media Genealogy of Net Cultures (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017) and, together with Wendy Chun, Hito Steyerl, and Florian Cramer, Pattern Discrimination (University of Minnesota Press/meson press, 2019). His work has also appeared in numerous international journals such as Big Data & Society, Digital Culture & Society, Fibreculture Journal, First Monday, Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, Kunstforum International, Texte zur Kunst).

Selected publications

 * As author


 * Pattern Discrimination. Minneapolis/Lüneburg: University of Minnesota Press/meson press, 2019. Together with Wendy Chun, Florian Cramer, and Hito Steyerl.
 * Technotopia: A Media Genealogy of Net Cultures. London/New York: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017.
 * Vernetzt – Zur Entstehung der Netzwerkgesellschaft. Bielefeld: transcript, 2015.


 * As editor


 * Plants, Androids and Operators: A Post-Media Handbook. Edited with Josephine Berry Slater, Anthony Iles, and Oliver Lerone Schultz. London: Mute, 2014.
 * Provocative Alloys: A Post-Media Anthology. Edited with Josephine Berry Slater, Anthony Iles, and Oliver Lerone Schultz. London: Mute, 2013.
 * Post-Media Book Series (with books by Claire Fontaine, Felix Stalder, Rodrigo Nunes, and irational.org). Edited with Josephine Berry Slater, Anthony Iles, and Oliver Lerone Schultz. London: Mute, 2012–2014.
 * Vergessene Zukunft. Radikale Netzkulturen in Europa. Edited with Felix Stalder. Bielefeld: transcript, 2012.