Résumé Barbara Flueckiger
Professor at
the Institute of Cinema Studies, University of
Zurich, since February 2007.
Fall term 2011: research fellow at Harvard University, USA, with Prof. D.N. Rodowick, Chair, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies.
Since June 2011 research project "Film History Re-Mastered." This project investigates the changing perception of film history in the digital age and is funded by a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation. Abstract and further information on the university's research database.
2008-2011 research project AFRESA
on the digitization of archival film, in collaboration with industrial partners and the University of Basel's Imaging and Media Lab, funded by the Swiss Innovation Promotion Agency CTI.
Post-PhD thesis
(habilitation) accepted at the Free University
Berlin in June 2007.
2004-2006
Research
project
on aesthetic and narrative aspects
of computer generated visual effects in movies,
funded by the Swiss National Science
Foundation.
Visiting lecturer at the Filmakademie
Baden-Wuerttemberg in Ludwigsburg (Germany), at the
University St. Gallen, at the University of Zurich
(Switzerland), at the Hochschule für
Gestaltung und Kunst Zurich (Switzerland) and other
academic institutions in both Germany and
Switzerland.
2002 to 2004
Postdoc at the Institute of Media Science,
University of Basle in Switzerland.
2000 to 2002
Research project
Digital
Cinema
at the University of Art and Design Zurich in collaboration with
the industrial partners Sony Overseas SA and Swiss Effects and
academic institutions such as the University of
Basel and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Lausanne. Development and application of a
scientific methodology for basic research in the
interaction of digital innovation and aesthetics. Communication and fund raising.
Filmmusik
Biennale 2002
in collaboration
with the Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der
Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Bonn (Germany) and
other presentations at international conferences on
sound design.
Publications in
Swiss and German journals and periodicals on film,
literature and theatre.
Author of
Sound
Design. Die virtuelle Klangwelt des
Films
. Marburg: Schueren. 2001. 520
pages, ISBN 3-89472-506-0 This publication is
widely redarded as the standard text book on this
topic in German language. Second edition 2002.
Third edition 2006.
1997 to 1999
research project on sound design in American
mainstream films, funded by the Swiss National
Science Foundation. 2001 PhD.
1995 to 1997 conception and
organization of seminars in media training with the
Swiss Foundation FOCAL. Design of a bibliographical data base for books on film and multimedia
technique.
1992 to 1995
Studies at the University of Zurich (Switzerland)
and the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany):
German literature, film theory, philosophy and
media science. Main topics: emotions in the media,
public relation theory, rhetoric in politics,
theory of innovation and distribution. M. A.
1995.
From 1980 to 1992
location sound engineer with her own technical
equipment. Creation of more than 30 soundtracks for
international feature films. Collaboration with
many renowned directors such as Silvio Soldini
(Italy), Daniel Schmid (Switzerland), Markus Imhoof
(Switzerland) and Lea Pool (Canada).
Filmography
in German
only.
Languages:
German, English, Italian, French.
Interests:
Travelling, literature, music, natural science,
statistics, and art.
Daughter Silvana Konermann, * 1988, graduate student in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA.