Dr. Stefanie Bräuer

Dr. Stefanie Bräuer is an art historian and media studies scholar, and educator. She studied in Jena, Berlin, Basel, and Siena. After contributing as a research assistant to a project on ultrashort audiovisual forms in Basel and Luzern, she was a guest researcher at the German Center for Art History in Paris. Her doctoral thesis explored the implementation of oscilloscopic imagery in early 1950s experimental animated film (Schueren, 2024). Currently, she teaches courses at Hochschule Luzern on the history of audiovisuality with a focus on animation, on the theory and culture of digital media, as well as a media aesthetics of experimental practices in the arts, science and technology. She is PostDoc at the Critical Media Lab at IXDM, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW where she works on a historical network analysis of 1980s and 1990s video practice and net activism in Basel.