Hans-Christian von Herrmann
PD Dr. phil.
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Kunsthistorisches Seminar/Medienwissenschaft
Ernst-Abbe-Platz 8
07743 Jena
e-Mail: hc.herrmann(at)t-online.de
Von Herrmann teaches media and cultural studies as well as theater
studies. He has held teaching positions at the Zentrum für
Literaturforschung Berlin; Universität Duisburg-Essen (Visiting
professor); Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (Visiting
Professor); Princeton University (Visiting Professor); New York
University (Visiting Professor). Currently von Herrmann teaches in the
Department of Art History at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.
In 2008/09 he will be a visiting professor at Freie Universität,
Berlin. Publications: Sang der Maschinen. Brechts Medienästhetik
(München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1996); Bühnen des Wissens.
Interferenzen zwischen Wissenschaft und Kunst (Hg. mit Helmar Schramm
u.a.) (Berlin: Dahlem University Press, 2003); Ästhetik als
Programm – Max Bense / Daten und Streuungen (Hg. mit Barbara
Büscher und Christoph Hoffmann) (Berlin: Kaleidoskopien, 2004; Das
Archiv der Bühne. Eine Archäologie des Theaters und seiner
Wissenschaft (München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2005); Wissen in
Bewegung. 80 Jahre Zeiss-Planetarium Jena (Jena: Ernst-Abbe-Stiftung,
2006).
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Abstract
Modern administration and modern art share a common interest in order as order. And it is this fact that makes it possible for the conference "The Office in the Studio: The Administration of Modernism" to look for transitions between these two domains that usually seem to be so different. In many respects 20th century art tried to mimic the office and its techniques to prove presence of mind (in the sense Walter Benjamin used the term). Nowadays artists refer to the office in many ways but not anymore with a radical avant-garde gesture but more analytically and with tongue-in-cheek.