Teaching
For image science Grau has developed international curricula: the MA programme MediaArtHistory, the academic experts programmes Digital Collections Management and Exhibition Design, Visual Competence certified Program, and the MA programmes Image Science and Crossmedia. In addition, the Danube Telelectures has introduced a new interactive format for lectures and debates which is streamed internationally.
Grau developed new international curricula for image sciences: MediaArtHistories MA, academic expert programmes in Digital Collection Management and Exhibit Design, Visual Competencies and the masters course in Image Science. Moreover with the Danube Telelectures a new interactive format of lectures and debates came into being that is streamed worldwide.
After his studies in Hamburg, Siena and Berlin and his doctoral work, Grau lectured at the Humboldt University Berlin, was a guest in different research labs in Japan and USA and following his post doctoral lecture qualification (habilitation) in 2003 worked as professor at different international universities. He has acted as adviser for international professional journals and different associations. Grau manages different conferences. Since 2002 Grau tried to bring together the research on media art and its history which is dispersed over many fields and therefore was founding director of Refresh! First International Conference on the History of Media Art, Science and Technology, Banff 2005 (2007 Berlin, 2009 Melbourne, 2011 Liverpool, 2013 Riga). O. Grau: MediaArtHistories, MIT-Press 2007 and the online text archive mediaarthistory.org result from these conferences.
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