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Dr. Nina Franz currently holds the theory component of the professorship \u00bbArt in Discourse\u00ab at the Institute of Fine Arts (50%) and works as a postdoc-research associate with a focus on \u00bbtheory and history of technology\u00ab at the Institute of Media Studies at Braunschweig University of the Arts (HBK).<\/p>\n
Her dissertation in cultural history and theory was supervised by Prof. Dr. Iris D\u00e4rmann and was published under the title Military Imaging Techniques: From the Early Modern Period to the Computer Age<\/em> in March 2025. Her current research focuses on techniques of witnessing in the context of warfare and contemporary image circulation. Other interests include the discursive history of automation and so-called artificial intelligence, the afterlives of psychotechnics in the digital age, and the negotiation of the climate catastrophe in the humanities and in contemporary art. In the summer term of 2026, she organized the \u00bbFestival der solidarischen Hochschule\u00ab at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig together with Dr. Anne Kurr.<\/p>\n She has worked as a freelance curator, including a larger scale exhibition project on commission of the Goethe-Institut in Beijing and Seoul. From 2018 to 2020 Nina Franz was a research associate at the Faculty of Media at Bauhaus-University Weimar. From 2015 to 2018 she was recipient of a doctoral scholarship of the Gerda Henkel Foundation, and from 2012 to 2015 she served as research associate at the Institute for Cultural History and Theory and at the Excellence Cluster Image, Knowledge, Gestaltung. She studied Cultural History and Theory in Berlin (M.A.) and Liberal Studies and Sociology at Grand Valley State University in Michigan (B.A.), including a summer term at East China Normal University in Shanghai in 2004 and at UC Berkeley in 2002.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00bbUnterlaufene Widerst\u00e4nde. Hugo Mu\u0308nsterbergs Psychotechnik und die Urspru\u0308nge einer Technologie der Beeinflussung\u00ab, in: Iris D\u00e4rmann, Sofie Fingado, Andreas Gehrlach & Waldemar Isak (Eds.): Gegenkr\u00e4fte \u2013 Gegenk\u00fcnste. Widerspenstige Perspektiven der kulturwissenschaftlichen \u00c4sthetik<\/em>. Kadmos, Berlin (forthcoming 2026).<\/p>\n With Katherine Chandler: \u00bbK\u00fcnstliche Intelligenz und die Konstruktion von Zielen: Ein Dual-Use-Szenario\u00ab, in: Ulrike Bergermann, Irina Raskin (Eds.): Critical Computing. Mit Relationen rechnen<\/em>. Meson Press, L\u00fcneburg (forthcoming 2026).<\/p>\n With Eva Wilson (Eds.): The Coming Catastrophe<\/em>, Spector Books, Leipzig (forthcoming 2026).<\/p>\n \u00bbHugo M\u00fcnsterbergs Technologie der Beeinflussung\u00ab, in: Appropriate! Journal zur Aneignung und Vermittlung von Kunst<\/em>, 2026, URL: <\/strong>https:\/\/www.appropriate-journal.art\/issue7\/franz<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00bbTargeting as a Closed-Circuit Operation \u2013 A Short History of Military Imaging\u201d, in: UMBAU<\/em>, Online Journal der HfG Karlsruhe, 2025, URL: https:\/\/umbau.hfg-karlsruhe.de\/posts\/targeting-as-a-closed-circuit-operation-a-short-history-of-military-imaging<\/a>.<\/p>\n Milit\u00e4rische Bildtechniken. Von der fr\u00fchen Neuzeit bis ins Computerzeitalter<\/em>. Series Undisziplinierte B\u00fccher. Gegenwartsdiagnosen und ihre historischen Genealogien, ed. by Iris D\u00e4rmann, Andreas Gehrlach & Thomas Macho. De Gruyter, Berlin, 2025. URL: https:\/\/www.degruyter.com\/document\/isbn\/9783111285139\/html<\/a>.<\/p>\n With Beate Absalon, Andreas Gehrlach, Sebastian K\u00f6the, Antonio Lucci, Stephan Zandt (Hrsg.): Empfangen. Die andere Seite der Gabe.\u00a0<\/em>De Gruyter, Berlin, 2023.<\/p>\n \u00bbKritik Annehmen. Vom L\u00f6sen des Double Bind\u00ab, in: Beate Absalon, Nina Franz, Andreas Gehrlach, Sebastian K\u00f6the, Antonio Lucci, Stephan Zandt (Eds.): Empfangen. Die andere Seite der Gabe.\u00a0<\/em>De Gruyter, Berlin, 2023, pp. 229\u2013234.<\/p>\n \u00bb\u00dcber das Protokoll hinaus. Zum Verh\u00e4ltnis von Kontingenz und algorithmischer Kontrolle im milit\u00e4risch-polizeilichen Phantasma der Automation\u00ab, in: Peter Plener, Niels Werber, Burkhardt Wolf (Eds.): Das Protokoll.\u00a0<\/em>AdminiStudies. Formen und Medien der Verwaltung, Vol. 2. J.B. Metzler, Berlin, 2023, pp. 213\u2013229, URL: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-662-66896-2_13<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00bbTactility, Sound and Diagrammatics. Ultrasound Imaging as an Interface to the Womb\u00ab, in: Christoph Ernst, Daniel Irrgang (Eds.): Interface Critique 4: Diagrammatic Operations<\/em>, May 2023, URL: https:\/\/interfacecritique.net\/work\/franz_tactility\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00bbUngehorsame Bildbetrachtung. Rezension zu \u203aSchauen und Strafen. Nach 9\/11\u2039 von Linda Hentschel\u00ab, Soziopolis<\/em>, 17 March 2021, URL: https:\/\/www.soziopolis.de\/ungehorsame-bildbetrachtung<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00bbPerpendicular Views\u00ab, in: Marina Pinsky: Four Color Theorem<\/em>. Triangle Books, Br\u00fcssel, 2021, URL: http:\/\/www.trianglebooks.com\/books\/marina-pinsky\/four-color-theorem<\/a>.<\/p>\n With Kate Chandler: \u00bbScreen Publics. Der Bildschirm als Wahrnehmungsmilieu\u00ab, in: Rebekka Ladewig, Angelika Seppi (Hg.): Milieu Fragmente. Technologische und \u00e4sthetische Perspektiven<\/em>, Leipzig: Spector Books, 2020, pp. 252\u2013263, URL: https:\/\/spectorbooks.com\/milieu-fragmente<\/a>.<\/p>\n