Curriculum Vitae
Clemens Apprich is Head of the Department of Media Theory and the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where he has held the Professorship of Media Theory and History since 2021. He also serves as Vice-Rector for Research and Digitality. He studied philosophy, political science, and cultural history and theory in Berlin, Bordeaux, and Vienna. In 2011, he became a research associate at the Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC) at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, and was appointed a guest professor there 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. From 2020 to 2021, he worked as an Assistant Professor of media studies at the University of Groningen. Apprich is a member of the delegate assembly of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and an affiliated faculty member of the Digital Democracies Institute (DDI) at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver and the Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC) at Leuphana University of Lüneburg. Apprich's current research focuses on the history of mathematics as a form of media, particularly in relation to computational cultures and machine learning. 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, he co-authored 'Pattern Discrimination' (University of Minnesota Press/meson press, 2019). His forthcoming book is entitled 'Errant Intelligence: A Media History of Machine Learning' (University of Amsterdam Press), which offers a new framework for understanding the profound co-evolution of human and machine intelligence. Apprich is a series editor of 'In Search of Media' (University of Minnesota Press/meson press) and serves as a reviewer for various international journals, academic publishers, and research foundations (e.g. German Research Foundation, Swiss National Science Foundation, Big Data & Society, New Media & Society, Space and Culture, Open Philosophy, First Monday, Cambridge University Press).
