“Re-thinking Artistic Knowledge Production: Global Media Cultures—Distributed Creativity.” An Introduction

  • Franziska Koch (Author)
    Heidelberg University

    Franziska Koch is a postdoctoral researcher and assistant professor to the chair of global art history at the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” of Heidelberg University. Her research centers on contemporary Asian art with a focus on China and Korea and on exhibitions as mediators of transcultural artistic and curatorial practices. As a member of the DFG-Research Network “Medien der kollektiven Intelligenz” (University of Konstanz, 2011–2014) she co-organized the symposium “Re-thinking Artistic Knowledge Production: Global Media Cultures–Distributed Creativity” (Heidelberg University, 2013). She is the co-editor of Negotiating Difference. Contemporary Chinese Art in the Global Context (Weimar: VDG Weimar, 2012). Her dissertation will be published as Die “chinesische Avantgarde” und das Dispositiv der Ausstellung. Konstruktionen chinesischer Gegenwartskunst im Spannungsfeld der Globalisierung (Bielefeld: transcript, spring 2016).

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Abstract

An introduction to the section, “Re-thinking Artistic Knowledge Production: Global Media Cultures—Distributed Creativity,” which features two contributions chosen from a symposium with the same title that took place May 23‒24, 2013 based on a collaboration between members of the DFG research network “Medien der kollektiven Intelligenz” (2011–2014, University of Konstanz) and hosted by the chair of global art history at Heidelberg University. 

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Published
2015-12-21
Language
en
Academic discipline and sub-disciplines
art history, anthropology, cultural studies, transcultural studies,
Type, method or approach
transcultural studies; art historical approach; cross-disciplinary reflection
Keywords
collaborative artistic and aesthetic practices, collective artistic practices, global media cultures, distributed creativity, transculturality
How to Cite
Koch, F. (2015). “Re-thinking Artistic Knowledge Production: Global Media Cultures—Distributed Creativity.” An Introduction. The Journal of Transcultural Studies, 6(2), 64–69. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.ts.23490