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Prof. Dr. Sigrid Schade studied between 1973 and 1977 Art History, German Studies and Empirical Cultural Sciences at the University of Tübingen and the Warburg Institute in London. She took her doctorate in 1982 with a thesis on “Representations of witches in the Early Modern period”. She was a volunteer at the Staatliche Sammlungen [National Collections] in Kassel and has lectured at the universities of Marburg, Kassel, Zurich and Bern. From 1986–91 she was a Research Assistant at TU Berlin and from 1991–93 at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) in Essen.
Following positions as a visiting and temporary professor at the University of Tübingen and Humboldt University in Berlin, Sigrid Schade qualified as a Professor in 1994, with a treatise on “Körperbilder und ihre Lektüren. Studien zum Einsatz von Körpersprachen in Kunst und Fotografie des 16. bis 20. Jahrhunderts" [Body images and their readings. Studies on the use of body languages in art and photography from the 16th to the 20th century] at the University of Oldenburg, to teach in the field of Art History/Art Studies. From 1994 to 2004, as Professor of Art History and Aesthetic Theory, she taught Cultural Sciences at the University of Bremen (given leave for the last two years). In 2002 she was appointed Head of the newly founded Institute (initially Department) for Cultural Studies in the Arts at HGKZ and developed the concept for its remit. Until the merger which created Zurich University of the Arts, she was also responsible for the Museum für Gestaltung (Design) in Zurich and its collections, which she helped to restructure. In close cooperation with the MfGZ [Museum für Gestaltung Zürich], she carried out various research projects sponsored by the SNSF in which holdings in the collections were studied and situated in a cultural-historical context.
Within the context of the research remit of the ICS, she supports and promotes research projects by lecturers and doctoral students at ZHdK and has planned and organized numerous symposia. Focus areas for her own research include the interaction between old and new media in art and mass culture, theories of media, perception and memory, concepts and theory development in visual culture and cultural analysis, the history and discourse analysis of art institutions and the art business, and contemporary female artists.
Publications include:
Constructions of cultural identities in newsreel cinema and television after 1945, pub. with Kornelia Imesch and Samuel Sieber, published by Transcript, Bielefeld, 2016.
Vera Frenkel, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2013, German and English.
Studien zur visuellen Kultur. Einführung in ein transdisziplinäres Forschungsfeld [Studies in visual culture. Introduction to a transdisciplinary area of research], pub. with Silke Wenk, published by Transcript, Bielefeld, 2011.
Re-Visionen des Displays. Ausstellungsszenarien, ihre Lektüren and ihr Publikum [Revisioning the display. Exhibition scenarios, their readings, and their audiences], pub. with Jennifer John, Dorothee Richter, JRP Ringier Kunstverlag, Zurich 2008.
«Bildwissenschaft» – Eine «neue» Disziplin und die Abwesenheit von Frauen [«Image Science» – a «new» discipline and the absence of women], in: The Institutes of Zurich University of the Arts, pub. by Hans-Peter Schwarz, Zurich 2008, p. 106–115.
Grenzgänge zwischen den Künsten, Interventionen in Gattungshierarchien und Geschlechterkonstruktionen [Border crossings between the arts, interventions in genre hierarchies and gender constructions], pub. with Jennifer John, published by Transcript, Bielefeld, 2008.
Inscriptions/Transgressions. Kunstgeschichte und Gender Studies [Art history and gender studies], papers from the annual conference of the VKKS [Association of Swiss Art Historians] 2005, pub. with Kornelia Imesch, Jennifer John, Daniela Mondini, Nicole Schweizer, in the series: Kunstgeschichten der Gegenwart [Art histories of the present day], Peter Lang Verlag, Bern, 2008.
“Is it now?” – Gegenwart in den Künsten [The present/ce in the arts], pub. with Sigrid Adorf, Sabine Gebhardt Fink, Steffen Schmidt, Zurich yearbook of the arts, Vol. 3 (pub. Hans-Peter Schwarz), Zurich, 2008.
SchnittStellen. Basler Beiträge zur Medienwissenschaft [InterFaces. Basel contributions to media science] vol. 1. pub. with Thomas Sieber, Georg Christoph Tholen, published by Schwabe, Basel, 2005.
Sigrid Schade is co-publisher with Silke Wenk of the series «Studien zur visuellen Kultur.» [Studies in visual culture] published by Transcript.
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