Rania Gaafar

Rania Gaafar studied English and German literature, Theatre studies, Media and Film studies at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz/Germany and at Philipps-University Marburg/Germany. She received a DFG – PhD scholarship at the Graduate School Bild, Körper, Medium – Eine anthropologische Perspektive (Image, Body, Medium – Towards an Anthropological Perspective) at Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe (University of Art and Design).

She was a research associate at the Media Art department at Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe and did a PhD about the mediality of experience in post-cinematographic images. She is currently working as research associate at Universität Siegen (Medienwissenschaft/Medientheorie).

Selected Publications include:

• Hg. Reenactments – German Colonialism and the Contemporary World, Third Text, London, NY: Routledge, 2018 
• Hg. Technology and Desire – The Transgressive Art of Moving Images, Bristol & Chicago: Intellect Press, 2014
• »The ›Cinematization of Video Art‹ – Evidenzen einer Neuen Sinnlichkeit im geopoetischen Filmraum: Isaac Juliens kinematographische Installationen« (The Cinematization of Video Art – Evidences of a New Sensuality in Geopoetic Film Spaces– Isaac Julien’s Cinematographic Installations), in: Ursula Frohne et al. (ed.), Kinematographische Räume. Filmische Ästhetik in Kunstinstallationen und inszenierter Fotografie, München: Fink, 2012, S. 48-74.
• »Planarity / Planetarity: Visual Art Practice as Cultural Technique and the Aesthetics of Xenography in Isaac Julien’s Moving-Image Art«, in: Hans Belting et al. (ed.), Global Studies: Mapping Contemporary Art and Culture, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2011, S. 360-379.
• »Migrating Forms – Contemporary African Photography at the Walther Collection«, in: Third Text 109, 25 (2), März, 2011, S. 241–247.
• »Expanded Cinema 3 – Meditations on Carnal Illusions and the Virtual Life of Images«, in: Stefanie Menrath et al. (Hg): That’s what a chameleon looks like. Contesting Immersion, Köln: Herbert von Halem, 2011, S. 155-182.
• »Phänomenotechniken des Films – Xenographie: Über die Spur der Fremdschrift des Bildes«, in: Beat Wyss und Martin Schulz (Hrsg.), Techniken des Bildes, München: Fink, 2010, S. 343 – 371.
• »Film als Medium der Sinne: Das Begehren der Bilder in Zeiträumen des deutschen Autorenfilms«, in: Daniel Lambauer et al. (Hg.), From Magic Columns to Cyberspace. Time and Space in German Literature, Art, and Theory, München: Martin Meidenbauer, 2008, S. 115-145