Jens Hauser

Birthyear: 1969
Currently based: Karlsruhe
Affiliated institution: KIT
Website: https://kg.ikb.kit.edu/2973.php

Last updated: 2023-03-04

About

CV

Education
2014 Ph.D., Media Studies, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany (summa cum laude)

1991 Diplôme Universitaire de Technologie, Scientific Journalism (equivalent M.A. degree), Université François Rabelais de Tours, France

Positions

2016-2018 Postdoc Art & bio- and natural sciences/technology, IKK & Medical Museion, Copenhagen University

2014-2016 Postdoc Art & Bioscience, IKK & Medical Museion, Copenhagen University

2014-2018 Distinguished Affiliate Faculty, Department of Art, Michigan State University, USA

2007-2009 Research Associate, Institute for Media Studies, Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany

2006-2018 Affiliate Faculty, Department for Image Science, Danube University Krems, Austria

1992-2007 Television journalist/chief editor for cultural news, ARTE, Strasbourg/Paris

1993-1996 Television journalist/producer, Euronews, Lyon

1992-1993 Television journalist, Câblespace, Paris

1991-1992 Radio journalist, Radio France Internationale, Paris

Education
MA, PhD

News

2018-06-13

SLSAeu Green Conference

The 12th European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Conference organized in collaboration with Medical Sciences/Medical Museion and the University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Health with support from other UCPH departments, and Aarhus University. The chair of the conference is Jens Hauser, Paris and Copenhagen based media studies scholar and curator of numerous exhibitions.

Exhibitions & Events

Become motionless. Retrospective Yann Marussich

2018

Le Lieu Unique

Curator

{un][split} Micro Performance and Macro Matters

2018

Muffatwerk

Curator

Applied Microperformativity. Live Arts for a Radical Socio-Economic Turn

2018

Angewandte Innovation Lab (AIL)

Curator

MATTER(S) matter(s): Bridging Research in the Arts and Sciences

2018

Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University

Curator

WETWARE: art | agency | animation

2016

Beall Center for Art and Technology University of California Irvine

Curator

SO3, Art, Biologie et (Al)Chimie

2015

Espace Multimedia Gantner

Curator

Fingerprints...

2011

Schering Stiftung

Curator

TRANSBIOTICS. Temporal stability points

2010

RIXC, The Center for New Media Culture

Curator

SK-Interfaces – Exploding Borders in Art, Technology and Society

2009

Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain

Curator

The Article Biennale 2008

2008

i/o/lab Centre for Future Art

Curator

Still, Living

2007

BEAP (Biennale of Electronic Art Perth)

Curator

L'Art Biotech

2003

Le Lieu Unique

Curator

Bibliography

Hauser, Jens. »Disentangling Aliveness, Naturalness and Greenness.« In The New State of The Living, edited by Dmitry BulatovPerm: The Museum of Contemporary Art PERMM, 2019.
Hauser, Jens. »Rehabilitating Bacteria: A Contemporary Art/Science Interface.« In Shifting Interfaces : Presence and Relationality in New Media Arts of the Early 21st Century, edited by Hava AldoubyLeuven: Leuven University Press, 2019.
Hauser, Jens. »Greenness: Sketching the Limits of a Normative Fetish.« In The Aesthetics of Necropolitics, edited by Natasha LushetichVol.4. Experiments/On the Political, , 97-118. London: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018.
Hauser, Jens. »Art between Synthetic Biology and Biohacking: Searching for Media Adequacy in the Epistemological Turn.« Leonardo Electronic Almanac 22, no. 1 (2018): 128-136.
Hauser, Jens and Ingeborg Reichle and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger. »Synthetisch: Biologie und Kunst.« In Experimentalität: Hans-Jörg Rheinberger im Gespräch über Labor, Atelier und Archiv, edited by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, 94-103. Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2018.
Hauser, Jens. »Vert.« PALAIS 28 (2018): 145.
Hauser, Jens. »Art and Agency in Times of Wetware.« In Les paradoxes du vivant = The paradoxes of the living: |Les paradoxes du vivant = The paradoxes of the livingThe Paradoxes of the Living, edited by CollectifVol.04. Stream, , 263-269. Paris: PCA éditions, 2017.
Hauser, Jens. »Leuchtgehirne, Bakteriengoldgräber und DNA-Photoshopping: Kunst mit Biomedien und jenseits der Artengrenzen.« In Möglichkeit Mensch: Körper | Sphären | Apparaturen Möglichkeit Mensch: Körper, Sphären, Apparaturen: künstlerische und wissenschaftliche Perspektiven, edited by Claudia Emmert and Ina Neddermeyer, 132-140. Berlin: Neofelis, 2017.
Hauser, Jens. »Biomediality and Art.« In Recomposing Art and Science: Artists-in-Labs, edited by Irene Hediger and Jill Scott, 201-219. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016.
Hauser, Jens. »It’s Time for a Wetware Update.« In WETWARE: Art - Agency - Animation, edited by David Familian and Jens Hauser, 11-21. Irvine: Regents of the University of California, 2016.
Hauser, Jens and Paul Thomas. »Remediating Still Life, Pencils of Nature and Fingerprints.« In Relive: Media Art Histories, edited by Sean CubittLeonardo book series, , 275-307. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2013.
Hauser, Jens. Paul Vanouse - Fingerprints... Index - Abdruck - Spur. Berlin: Argobooks, 2011.
Hauser, Jens. »Observations on an Art of Growing Interest: Toward a Phenomenological Approach to Art Involving Biotechnology.« In Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism, and Technoscience, edited by Beatriz Da Costa and Kavita Philip, 83-103. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008.
Hauser, Jens. »I Turtle? Thoughts and Paradoxes based on Su-Mei Tse's Ich-Manifestation.« In Su Mei-Tse, edited by Enrico Lunghi and Susanne Ghez, 167-185. Chicago: The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, 2006.
Hauser, Jens. »Bios, techne, logos: un art très contemporain.« Inter 94 (2006): 14-19.
Hauser, Jens. »Taxonomy of an Etymological Monster.« In Hybrid : Living in Paradox, edited by Christine Schöpf and Gerfried Stocker, 182-193. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2005.
Hauser, Jens. L'art biotech. Paris: Editions Filigranes, 2003.

17 publications