Ingrid Gessner
Biographic Data
| ID | 6326361 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ingrid Gessner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ingrid |
| FAMILY NAME | Gessner |
| SIGNATURE | GESSNER I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Regensburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6489-462X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
MatteRealities
“No ideas but in things!” William Carlos Williams’s leitmotif for the modernist epic Paterson seems to anticipate the current renewal of academic attention to the materialities of culture: When the Smithsonian Institution accounts for The History of America in 101 Objects (Kurin) or when Neil MacGregor, designated director of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, aims at telling The History of the World in 100 Objects (2011), they use specimens of materi…
Tamiko Thiel’s virtual reality installations as sites of learning in and beyond the museum
The incorporation of cultural productions and virtual experiences in museum spaces adds to the objects’ significance and also turns them into important contributions to adult education. Yet, how far do they trouble, decolonise, revisualise, tell alternative stories, interrogate intolerance and privilege or stimulate critical literacies? This article examines 3D virtual reality (VR) installations by the artist Tamiko Thiel as technologies of criti…
Heroines of Health
The Spanish-American War, dubbed the “splendid little war” by John Hay, began on April 25, 1898, and lasted until Spain signed the armistice on August 12, 1898. During the war death from infectious diseases caused seven times the number of fatalities as battle wounds. Although a patriarchal military system initially preferred male medical personnel, the Spanish-American War confirmed the competence of women in military service as nurses and docto…
The Aesthetics of Remembering 9/11
A decade after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, all three sites of violent impact have seen the dedication of national memorials to the victims. Hundreds of memorials have appeared in less likely places in the United States and around the world. This article offers an analysis of international 9/11 memorials along the lines of Michael Rothberg, as “a complementary centrifugal mapping that charts the outward movement of American power.” It traces we…
Heroines of Health
The Spanish-American War, dubbed the “splendid little war” by John Hay, began on April 25, 1898, and lasted until Spain signed the armistice on August 12, 1898. During the war death from infectious diseases caused seven times the number of fatalities as battle wounds. Although a patriarchal military system initially preferred male medical personnel, the Spanish-American War confirmed the competence of women in military service as nurses and docto…
Heroines of Health
The Spanish-American War, dubbed the “splendid little war” by John Hay, began on April 25, 1898, and lasted until Spain signed the armistice on August 12, 1898. During the war death from infectious diseases caused seven times the number of fatalities as battle wounds. Although a patriarchal military system initially preferred male medical personnel, the Spanish-American War confirmed the competence of women in military service as nurses and docto…
The Aesthetics of Remembering 9/11
A decade after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, all three sites of violent impact have seen the dedication of national memorials to the victims. Hundreds of memorials have appeared in less likely places in the United States and around the world. This article offers an analysis of international 9/11 memorials along the lines of Michael Rothberg, as “a complementary centrifugal mapping that charts the outward movement of American power.” It traces we…
Tamiko Thiel’s virtual reality installations as sites of learning in and beyond the museum
The incorporation of cultural productions and virtual experiences in museum spaces adds to the objects’ significance and also turns them into important contributions to adult education. Yet, how far do they trouble, decolonise, revisualise, tell alternative stories, interrogate intolerance and privilege or stimulate critical literacies? This article examines 3D virtual reality (VR) installations by the artist Tamiko Thiel as technologies of criti…
MatteRealities
“No ideas but in things!” William Carlos Williams’s leitmotif for the modernist epic Paterson seems to anticipate the current renewal of academic attention to the materialities of culture: When the Smithsonian Institution accounts for The History of America in 101 Objects (Kurin) or when Neil MacGregor, designated director of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, aims at telling The History of the World in 100 Objects (2011), they use specimens of materi…
Art (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Comics and Graphic Narratives (2 works) · History (2 works) · Media studies (2 works)