Rembert Hueser has been Professor of media studies at Goethe University Frankfurt since 2014. Prior to this, he was Associate Professor for media and cultural studies at the University of Minnesota, from 2003 to 2013. His fields of interests are Media Studies, Architecture, History of Science, Contemporary Art, Cultural Studies. His publications in the field of architecture cover a range of topics, including: “Reeducation and the role of the IG Farben building as the new center of European post-war-order in RKO’s Berlin Express (1948); Japanese gardens in film philology; UNESCO and the destruction of the Nile temples in the Abu Goat map from the video game Goat Simulator; the affective dimension of architecture, fantasies of exile, and the afterlife of the so-called sexual revolution of 1968 explored in the context of Frankfurt’s former I.G. Farben and U.S. army headquarters; and Ovid’s architectural model of fama as the blueprint for Mauricio Kagel’s take on the Beethoven House in Ludwig Van (1970).
E-Mail: r.hueser@tfm.uni-frankfurt.de