Constructions of Media Authorship

The author is dead, long live the author the volume's interdisciplinary contributions reflect historical and current artistic practices within various media and attempt to grasp them from different perspectives.
The first part sheds a new light on different artistic and design practices and questions the still dominant view on the individual identifiable author. The second part discusses creative practices in literature, emphasizing the interrelation of aesthetic discourses and media practices. The third part investigates authoring in audiovisual media, especially film and TV, while the final part turns to electronic and digital media and their collective creativity and hybrid mediality. The volume is also an attempt to develop new methodological approaches, focusing on the interplay between various human and non-human actors in different media constellations.


Christiane Heibach, Regensburg University, Regensburg, Germany; Angela Krewani, Marburg University, Marburg, Germany; Irene Schütze, Art Academy at the University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany.