Oliver Grau (Austria)

POSTCOVID: Getting back to Digital Arts Impact for us

Oliver is first Chair Professor for Image Science since 2005. He has 350 lectures and keynotes worldwide, including Olympic Games culture program and G-20 Summit. Grau's Virtual Art. From Illusion to Immersion, MIT Press is with 2000+ citations the most quoted art history monography since 2000. Main research: histories of media art, immersive images, art&emotion, artificial life and digital humanities.

Grau developed the first international archive for digital art (ADA, since 1998) funded by FWF and bmbwf with 1,6 Mio. Since 2005 Grau is also head of the of the Goettweig Graphic Print Online-Collection, Austria's largest private collection with 30.000 works, from Duerer to Klimt. New international curricula: MediaArtHistories MA and MediaArtsCultures supported with 5.5 Mio. Recent publ.: Imagery in the 21st Century, MIT-Press 2011; Museum and Archive on the Move (2017) and Retracing Political Dimensions (2021). Grau was founding director of the MediaArtHistories world conference series, next issue Venice 2022. In 2015 he was elected into the Academia Europaea and 2019 he received the Science Award of L. Austria.