Matthias Bruhn

Matthias Bruhn (Dr. phil.) is an art historian and visual scientist. From 1997 to 2001 he was head of the research center Political Iconography at the Warburg House of the University of Hamburg, and from 2005 he was head of the research group “The Technical Image” at the Humboldt University Berlin. He was also a member of the board of the Cluster of Excellence “Image Knowledge Gestaltung. An Interdisciplinary Laboratory,” and is now involved in its successor “Matters of Activity.” Since 2018, as Professor of Art Studies and Media Theory, he has taught at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG) with a focus on “Technical Imagination.” There he also heads the German Research Foundation (DFG) research project “Designing Habits: The Digital Image as Application.”

Selected publications: Bildwirtschaft, 2003; Modernisierung des Sehens (ed. with K.-U. Hemken), 2008; Das Bild, 2009; Postdemokratie (ed. with N. Doll), 2015; Bilder der Präzision (ed. with S. Hillnhütter), 2018; Adaptivität (with K. Friedrich, L. Kähny, and M. Queisner), 2021