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Mario Schulze researches the visuality and mediality of knowledge, focusing on the 20th century. He is the author of 'How Objects Learned to Speak: A History of Museum Objects 1968-2000' (transcript, 2017), which examines relationships between exhibition design, object ontologies, and consumer culture in cultural history museums. His current book project, 'Fluid: The History of a Scientific Film,' co-authored with Sarine Waltenspül, follows an unknown scientific film from fluid dynamics through the 20th century, exploring the epistemic, aesthetic, and political roles of film in the sciences. Mario's writings have appeared in journals such as Isis, Representations, and various edited volumes. He sees film and exhibition as formats for researching and publishing. The essay film 'unlearning flow' (2019) has been invited to several international festivals. In 2019, he curated the exhibition 'Films of the Wind' at Kunst Raum Lüneburg. He will curate the research exhibition 'String Figures' with Sarine Waltenspül at Museum Tinguely Basel, opening in November 2024. After studying cultural sciences, philosophy, and sociology in Leipzig, with internships in Basel and San Francisco, he received his doctorate in Cultural Analysis from the University of Zurich. His postdoctoral positions took him to HU Berlin and ZHdK. He has held fellowships at Collegium Helveticum and eikones at the University of Basel, and he represented the Chair of Media Aesthetics at the University of Basel in the autumn semester of 2021.
University of Basel • Basel
Conducting research and teaching in Media Studies.
The University of Basel generally requires C1 level proficiency in the language of instruction. For most English-taught Masters, TOEFL (min 92-95) or IELTS (min 7.0) is the standard.