Image design

Lars C. Grabbe, Professor Dr. Lars C. Grabbe studied philosophy, sociology, and new German literature and media studies at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. In 2011, he completed his doctorate at Chemnitz University of Technology on "Georg Simmel's Object World." From 2010, he was a lecturer for "Theory and History of Symbolic Forms" at the Institute for Art, Design and Media Studies at the Muthesius Academy of Art in Kiel. In 2014, he also moved to the Department of Design at Münster University of Applied Sciences as a lecturer in media theory and communication. He has been a professor for theory of perception, communication, and media since June 2017. His main research interests include phenosemiosis, media theory and philosophy, image science, perception theory, communication theory, aesthetics, and film studies.

Patrick Rupert-Kruse, Professor Dr. Patrick Rupert-Kruse is a professor of media theory and immersion research at the Department of Media at Kiel University of Applied Sciences. He completed his dissertation in 2010 on the topic of imagination and empathy and has taught and researched at the CAU zu Kiel. He is the head of the Institute for Immersive Media (ifim) and has been the chairman of the Society for Interdisciplinary Image Science (GiB) since 2015. He is a founding member of the Research Group Moving Image Science Kiel and the responsible editor of the Yearbook of Immersive Media. His main research and work areas include the theory of immersive media, media theory and philosophy, media effects research, and moving image studies.

Norbert M. Schmitz, Professor Dr. Norbert M. Schmitz is a professor of aesthetics at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts in Kiel. Between 1992 and 1996, he worked as a university assistant in the Department of Art History at the Bergische Universität-Gesamthochschule Wuppertal. In 2000, he was a research assistant at SFB 240 at the University of Siegen for the project "Connection - Inclusion - Participation - Forms of Interactive Media Art.".