Nina Samuel

Visiting Assistant Professor
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212.501.3086
samuel@bgc.bard.edu



Visiting Assistant Professor and recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship for the 2011-2012 academic year. Her recently completed PhD in Art History at Humboldt University, Berlin, entitled "Image and Knowledge in Complex Dynamics" deals with visual epistemologies and drawing as a mode of thinking. Curator for ten years at a Berlin contemporary art gallery (kurt im hirsch); Scholarship at Swiss National Research Program eikones ("Iconic Criticism – The Power and Meaning of Images"); Predoctoral Research Fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Held a research position at the "Technisches Bild" group at Humboldt University Berlin, for which she is still an associate member. Currently holds a research position at "Embodied Information – ‘Lifelike' Algorithms and Cellular 'Machines’", based at Free University Berlin and Academy of Media Arts Cologne. Courses taught on 'Images in Art and Science' at Humboldt University Berlin and at Academy of Media Arts Cologne. Published articles on images in the realm of complex dynamics and mathematical imagery of scientists from Europe, the U.S., and Japan, on the epistemic interplay of drawing and computer graphics, and on dysfunctional and distorted computer pictures. Currently working on a publication dealing with images as tools in contemporary microscopy and the interactions of the biological and the visual.

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