Visibilities 1: Appearance

Fabian Goppelsröder studied philosophy and history in Berlin and Paris and did his doctorate at the Comparative Literature Department of Stanford University (CA) on "Kalendergeschichte 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 at Freie Universität Berlin. His research focuses on aesthetics, poetics and media philosophy. Dieter Mersch was Professor of Aesthetics at the Zurich University of the Arts until his retirement and is President of the German Society for Aesthetics. Studied mathematics and philosophy in Cologne, Bochum and Darmstadt. Co-editor of the International Yearbook for Media Philosophy. Main fields of work: 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 the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. After a scholarship at the research training group 'Identity and Difference' at the University of Trier, she completed her doctorate in art studies on "Signatures of Alterity" at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig. From 2011-2013 she was a postdoc at the Research Training Group 'Visibility and Visualisation. Hybrid Forms of Image Knowledge' in Potsdam. 2014-2016 research assistant at the Zurich University of the Arts, 2016-2017 assistant at the Art History Institute of the University of Graz. Her main research interests were aesthetic thinking, signification, signature, authorship, alterity and the peculiarity of thinking art. Most important publications are: Signatures of Alterity (2013), The Joke of Art (2020) and together with Florian Dombois, Dieter Mersch and Julia Rintz Aesthetic Thinking. Non-propositionality, Episteme, Art (2014).