Curriculum Vitae
Clemens Apprich is head of the Department of Media Theory as well as the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where he holds the Professorship for Media Theory and History since 2021. He also acts as Vice-rector for Research and Digitality. Apprich studied philosophy, political science, cultural history and theory in Berlin, Bordeaux, and Vienna. In 2011 he became research associate at the Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC) at Leuphana University of Lüneburg and worked there as guest professor from 2017 to 2018. From 2018 to 2019 he was a visiting research fellow at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University in Montréal, and from 2020 to 2021 assistant professor in media studies at the University of Groningen. Apprich is, among other things, a member of the delegate assembly of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and chair of Open Science Austria (OSA), as well as an affiliated faculty member of the Digital Democracies Institute (DDI) at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. His current research deals with filter algorithms and their application in data analysis as well as 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, co-authored ‘Pattern Discrimination’ (University of Minnesota Press/meson press, 2019). He is currently writing a forthcoming book titled ‘Animated Intelligence’ (University of Amsterdam Press) and, additionally, serves as a reviewer for various international journals, academic publishers, and research foundations (e.g. DFG, SNF, Big Data & Society, Space and Culture, First Monday, Cambridge University Press).
