Prof. Dr. Boris Čučković Berger

Boris Čučković Berger is University Professor (W2) for art history and digital image cultures at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich since 15 August 2021. Before joining the LMU, he was Associate Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, as well as a Visiting Lecturer at the Aesthetics, Criticism and Theory programme of Jnanapravaha Mumbai (JPM). He works on critical studies of art and technology, with a research focus on digital forms of production in historical perspectives such as the 2008 financial crisis or the emerging socio-technical conditions of platform economies.

2009: Bachelor in Art History and Information Science (double major), University of Zagreb

2009: “Franjo Marković” Award, Council of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia

2010: Rector’s Award, University of Zagreb, Croatia

2011: Master in Art History: Modern and Contemporary (distinction), supervised by Eric C. H. de Bruyn, Leiden University

2012-2014: VU Fellowship Programme Award, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

2014: Research Master in Visual Arts, Media and Architecture (distinction), supervised by Sven Lütticken, VU University Amsterdam

2014-2017: CHASE Arts and Humanities Research Council funding Award in the UK

2015-2017: Teaching Assistant, The Courtauld Institute of Art

2017-2021: Associate Lecturer, The Courtauld Institute of Art

2019: PhD in Art History (no corrections), supervised by Julian Stallabrass and Josephine Berry, The Courtauld institute of Art, London

2021: Visiting Lecturer, Aesthetics, Criticism and Theory (ACT), Jnanapravaha Mumbai

2021: University Professor (W2), Institut für Kunstgeschichte, LMU München

Publications

2019 Book Review: ‘More Than Real: Art in the Digital Age,’ volume edited by Daniel Birnbaum and Michelle Kuo, Critique d’Art. The International Review of Contemporary Art Criticism, Spring-Summer 2019, 163.

2018 Catalogue Essay: ‘Encoding a Fractured World: Cong Yunfeng’s Landscapes for the Anthropocene,’ for the exhibition The Sight of Code, Beijing Parkview Green Gallery, May – July 2018.

2017 Article: ‘The Office and its Silicon Cage,’ Immediations journal, Vol. 4, No. 2, 102-105.

2014 Reviewed Journal Article: ‘The Open Source Cultural Object: Grounds for the Political Aesthetics of Cultural Commons,’ Leonardo Electronic Almanac, special issue Red Art: New Utopias in Data Capitalism, MIT Press, 22-42.

2012 Reviewed Journal Article: ‘Autonomy Today,’ TkH Journal for Performing Arts Theory, special issue Art and Public Good, Belgrade (Serbia): TkH Platform, 16-21.

2012
Article: ‘The Contemporary Challenge of Specificity,’ The Edgar Wind Journal, Oxford University, Hillary Term issue, 27-29.

2011 Reviewed Journal Article: 'Artikulacija umjetnosti open sourcea i objekta postmedijske situacije', in: Frakcija journal 60-61, Special Issue: Artistic Labor in the Age of Austerity, 136-146.

2011 Reviewed Edited Volume Article: ‘Performing (with) Sculptures: Expanding the Field of Sculpture with Fluid and Sound,’ Spaces of Identity in the Performing Sphere, Sibila Petlevski and Goran Pavlić, eds. Zagreb: Academy of Performing Arts and Fraktura, 257-272.

2010 Reviewed Journal Article: ‘On Digitally Created Sculpture: The Problem of the Original, the Model and Unique Pieces,’ Annals of the Antun Augustinčić Gallery, special issue: Original in Sculpture, vol. 28/29, 271-288. (Croatian title: Razmatranje skulpture ostvarene digitalnom tehnologijom: problem originala, modela i unikata.)

2009 Catalogue Essay: ‘Aphrodite,’ for the Nina Brkic retrospective exhibition, Kurija Gallery, Prigorje Museum.

2009 Reviewed Edited Volume Article: ‘Open Source in Art: Originality, Art Process and Digital Preservation,’ co-author Hrvoje Stančić. Digital Resources and Knowledge Sharing, ed. David Bawden et al. Zagreb: Department of Information Sciences, University of Zagreb, 157-167.

Invited Lectures, Conference Papers and Panels

2023 Introduced and co-organised the two-day conference “Krisenkünste: Crisis and the Arts” at Schloss Nymphenburg in Munich, with Sebastian Bolz and Berenika Szymanski, and with support from the Siemens Stiftung. Keynote speaker: Peter Osborne, Kingston. January 12th and 13th, 2023.

2022 Invited Lecture: Crisis Indices: Digital "Fehler" beyond the Glitch, Symposium “Poetik des Fehlers”, Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, LMU Munich, July 29th, 2022.

2022 Invited Keynote: The Problem of Digital Space in Arts & Humanities, Institute of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, LMU Munich, June 14th, 2022.
2020 ‘Geoaesthetics: Art in Unstable Milieux’, panel speaker with Irit Rogoff and Anthony Iles,
Royal College of Art, May 5th, 2020.

2019 ‘What Do We Do When We Do Art History?’, panel discussion with the film screenings on Georges Didi-Huberman and Svetlana Alpers, with Steffen Haug and Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra, Birkbeck Cinema, February 9th, 2019.

2019 Panel chair: ‘Capitalism and Crisis’ on Imagining the Apocalypse conference, The Courtauld Institute of Art, October 18th-19th, 2019.

2018 Panel chair: ‘Is Digital Art History More or Less Disciplined?’ on the Mellon-funded conference Art History: Undisciplined, the Courtauld Institute of Art, June 19th-20th, 2018.

2017 Conference Paper: ‘A Window to Capital: Amazon Mechanical Turk and the Aesthetic Conditions of Critique,’ at the College Arts Association (CAA) annual conference, session topic Between Conformism and Subversion: Aesthetic Strategies and the Problem of the Political in Contemporary Art, New York, February 15th – 18th, 2017.

2017 Guest lecture: ‘There and Back Again: The Status of Digital Production in Contemporary Art’, King’s College London, graduate programme in Digital Culture and Society chaired by Dr Sara Marino, February 2nd.
2017 Conference Paper: ‘Latency of Source Materials: The Problem of “Unsupported Transit” in Photographic Representation c.2008,’ The Courtauld Postgraduate Conference, London, June 8th — 9th, 2017.

2014 Guest Seminar: ‘Photographic source materials’ at Caroline Levitt’s ‘Techniques and Meanings in Twentieth-century Art’, The Courtauld Institute of Art, November 19th, 2014.
2012 Conference Paper: ‘Where Representation meets Agency: The Idol in Modern Art,’ at the international conference Presence and Agency: Rhetorics, Aesthetics and the Experience of Art. Leiden (the Netherlands): LUCAS, Leiden University Center for the Arts and Humanities in Society, December 13th – 15th, 2012.
2010 Conference Paper: ‘Performing (with) Sculptures: Fluid, Sound and the Digital’, delivered with Igor Dvorščak at the international conference Spaces of Identity in the Performing Sphere. Zagreb (Croatia): Organizing committee of the project »Discursive Identity in the Performing arts: Bodies, Personae, Intersubjects«, February 11th – 14th, 2010.

2009 Conference Paper: ‘Open Source in Art: Originality, Art Process and Digital Preservation,’ at the international conference INFuture2009: Digital Resources and Knowledge Sharing. Zagreb (Croatia): Department of Information Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, November 4th – 6th, 2009.

2008 Conference Paper: ‘On Digitally Made Sculpture: The Problem of the Original, the Model and Unique Pieces,’ at the international conference Original in Sculpture. Klanjec (Croatia): MHZ - Antun Augustinčić Gallery, July 4th – 6th, 2008.