Slavko Kacunko#
| Membership Number: | 3800 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | FILM, MEDIA & VISUAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | DENMARK |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2025 - present freelance author with focus on catalog raisonnés of contemporary artists.
- 2020 - 2024 CEO, Micro Human, a recognized non-profit organization (NPO) based in Berlin (Media Art Projects in public space / Global Health / Citizen Science).
- 2011 - 2019 Full Professorship for Art History and Visual Culture at the Institute for Arts and Cultural Studies, Copenhagen University
- 2009 - 2011 Representation Professor (W2) for Bildwissenschaft und Medienästhetik, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf
- 2003 - 2009 Assistant Professors (W1), Dept. of Art History, University of Osnabruck
- 2003 - Teaching Appointment, Dept. of Art History, University of Osnabruck
- 2001 - 2002 Postdoc, Fritz-Thyssen Foundation, Cologne
- 1999 - 2000 Teaching Appointment, Dept. Theater-, Film- and Media Studies at the Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main
Fields of Scholarship
- Art History and Archeology (historiographic focus)
- Aesthetical Discourse (history and theory of taste)
- Visual Studies and its Boundaries (mirrors, frames and ‘immediacy’)
- Art-based Research (bio-art and bio-media)
- Process arts (videographic, auditive, installative, and performative arts as well as the virtual / hypertextual cultural practices)
Honours and Awards
- 2012 Member, expert committee for the strategic Ph.D. grants, University of Copenhagen
- 2012 Founding member, Micro Human Initiative
- 2007 Member, LEF / Leonardo Education Forum – Expert Meeting on Media Art Education
- 2006 Member, Advisory Board, Media Art Database
- 2000 DRUPA-Award for the best Thesis (a 'History Pioneer Achievement in Video Art'), Germany
