Visibilities 1: Appearance

Fabian Goppelsröder studied philosophy and history in Berlin and Paris and earned his doctorate at the Comparative Literature Department of Stanford University (CA) with a dissertation on "Calendar History and fait divers. The poetics of circumscribed space." He is currently a Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Peter Szondi Institute for General and Comparative Literature Studies at the Free University of Berlin. His research focuses on aesthetics, poetics, and media philosophy.

Dieter Mersch was a professor of aesthetics at the Zurich University of the Arts until his retirement and is the president of the German Society for Aesthetics. He studied mathematics and philosophy in Cologne, Bochum, and Darmstadt. Mersch is a co-editor of the International Yearbook for Media Philosophy. His areas of expertise include philosophical aesthetics, art theory, media philosophy, image theory, music philosophy, and continental philosophy of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Mira Fliescher (1971-2017) studied art history, film and television studies, and philosophy at Ruhr University Bochum. After a scholarship at the graduate college "Identity and Difference" at the University of Trier, she earned her doctorate in art studies at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig with a thesis on "Signatures of Alterity." From 2011 to 2013, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the graduate college "Visibility and Making Visible. Hybrid Forms of Image Knowledge" in Potsdam. From 2014 to 2016, she was a research associate at the Zurich University of the Arts, and from 2016 to 2017, she was an assistant at the Institute of Art History at the University of Graz. Her research interests included aesthetic thinking, distortion, signature, authorship, alterity, and the uniqueness of artistic thought.

Her most important publications include: "Signatures of Alterity" (2013), "The Wit of Art" (2020), and, together with Florian Dombois, Dieter Mersch, and Julia Rintz, "Aesthetic Thinking. Non-Propositionality, Episteme, Art" (2014).