Goldsmiths - University of London

Peter Mörtenbock

Peter Mörtenböck is Professor of Visual Culture at the Vienna University of Technology and visiting researcher in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he has initiated the Networked Cultures project (www.networkedcultures.org), a global research platform focusing on translocally connected spatial practices. His current work explores the potential of networked ecologies and collaborative forms of knowledge production vis-à-vis the dynamics of geopolitical conflict and urban transformation. His essays on contemporary art, architecture and visual culture have appeared in international journals such as Grey Room, Architectural Research Quarterly and Third Text.

Academic qualifications

MA in Psychology, University of Vienna, 1992
MSc in Architecture, Vienna University of Technology, 1996
PhD in Humanities, Vienna University of Technology, 1995
Habilitation Degree in Cultural History, Graz University of Technology, 2002

Teaching

MA Contemporary Art Theory – Transforming Critical Practices (Laboratory Course)

Grants & awards

• Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship and European Reintegration Grant (FP6): ‘Networked Cultures – Negotiating Cultural Difference in Contested Spaces’, 2005-2008
• Visiting professor, Department of Media and Cultural Studies, University of Paderborn, 2002
• Visiting professor, Institute of Visual Art and Cultural Studies, Linz University of Art, 2000-2001
• Erwin Schroedinger Research Fellowship, Austrian Science Fund, 1998-2000

Research interests

architecture, urban culture, network organisation, contemporary art practices and relational theories

Selected publications

Books:

Other Markets: Informal Market Worlds (with H. Mooshammer), forthcoming 2013

space RE:solutions – Intervention and Research in Visual Culture (ed. with H. Mooshammer), transcript, 2011

Netzwerk Kultur: Die Kunst der Verbindung in einer globalisierten Welt (with H. Mooshammer) transcript, 2010Networked Cultures: Parallel Architectures and the Politics of Space (with H. Mooshammer), NAi Publishers, 2008

Networked Cultures: Parallel Architectures and the Politics of Space (with H. Mooshammer), NAi Publishers, 2008 Visuelle Kultur: Körper – Räume – Medien (ed. with H. Mooshammer), Boehlau, 2003

Visuelle Kultur: Körper – Räume – Medien (ed. with H. Mooshammer), Boehlau, 2003 Die virtuelle Dimension. Architektur, Subjektivität und Cyberspace, Boehlau, 2001

Veränderte Identitäten, Lang, 1996

Recent articles:

‘Network Economies of Waste’, in J. Steyn and N. Stamselberg (eds.): Cross Cultural Identities: Art, Migrants and the Metaphor of Waste, London: IB Tauris, 2011 fortc.

‘Trading Places: Architectures of Informal Markets’, in A. Ballantyne et al. (eds.): Architecture in the Space of Flows, London: Routledge, 2011

‘Networked Cultures’, in H. Anheier and Y. R. Isar (eds.): Cultures and Globalization Cultural Expression, Creativity and Innovation. London: Sage, 2010

‘Zwischen Palmen und Zypressen – Zivilgesellschaftliche Begegnungen im Raum der Ströme’, in Irene Nierhaus et al. (eds.): Landschaft, Gehäuse, Orientierung, Berlin: Reimer Verlag, 2010

‘Going Astray: Network Transformation and the Asymmetries of Globalization’, Grey Room, 2009

‘Crossing the Mediterranean: Networked Agencies in Art and Culture’, in L. Grinin and A. Korotayev (ed.): Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations: Cultural Dimensions, Moscow: Editorial URSS, 2009

‘Hürdenläufe der Ermächtigung’, in B. Richard and A. Ruhl (ed.): Konsumguerilla: Widerstand gegen Massenkultur?, Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2008

‘Spaces of Encounter: Informal Markets in Europe’, arq – architectural research quarterly, 2008

‘Network Operations: Nodal Points and Other Shapes of Global Networkification’, Junk Jet, 2008

‘Operation Desert’, MONU – Magazine on Urbanism, 2008

‘Plan and Conflict: Networked Istanbul’, Third Text, 2008

‘Networked Cultures’, FeedBack 04, 2007

‘Trading Indeterminacy’, field – the free-journal for architecture, 2007 [ PDF version ]