Digital Interventions Bodies, Infrastructures, Politics

Simon Teune Simon Teune is a postdoctoral researcher at the Collaborative Research Center 1512 “Intervening Arts” at Freie Universität Berlin. His research focuses on protests and social movements in general, and the cultural embedding of protest movements in particular. He has worked on the visual representation as well as the media coverage of protests. Within CRC 1512, he works on the project “Expectations of the Impact of Artistic Intervention: An Enquiry into Self-Understanding, Practices, and Receptions.”.
Iryna Kovalenko Iryna Kovalenko is a doctoral researcher at the Collaborative Research Center 1512 “Intervening Arts” at the European University Viadrina of Frankfurt (Oder) and Free University Berlin. Her field of research is contemporary Ukrainian culture and literature. Within the CRC 1512, she is working on the project “The Practices of Artistic Intervention During the Ukrainian Revolution in 2013–2014.” She is examining how artists contributed to the protests on the Maidan, challenging dominant narratives and highlighting the unique aesthetics that emerged..
Brigitte Weingart ist Professorin für Medienkulturwissenschaft an der Universität zu Köln und Redakteurin der Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft. Gegenwärtige Schwerpunkte in Forschung und Lehre: Medientheorie und -geschichte, Genealogie und Medienästhetik der Faszination, Celebrity Cultures, Medienpraktiken der Aneignung.