Clemens Apprich

Clemens Apprich is head of the Department of Media Theory as well as the Peter Weibel Research Institute for Digital Cultures at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where he holds the Professorship for Media Theory and History since 2021. 2011 he became research assistant at the Center for Digital Cultures at Leuphana University of LĂŒneburg, where he also worked as a visiting professor from 2017 to 2018. From 2018 to 2019 he was a visiting research fellow at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University in Montreal and from 2020 to 2021 he was an assistant professor in media studies at the University of Groningen. In fall 2023 he was appointed Vice-Rector for Research & Digitality at the University of Applied Arts. Apprich is the author of Technotopia: A Media Genealogy of Net Cultures (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017), and, together with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Hito Steyerl, and Florian Cramer, co-authored Pattern Discrimination (University of Minnesota Press/meson press, 2019).