Lena Sophie Trüper

Ph.D. Student

E-mail: lstrueper@g.ucla.edu Fields of interest: European Cinema • Media Cultures • Gender Studies • Critical Theory • Digital Humanities

Lena Sophie Trüper studied Art History and Cultural Education at Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. In 2017, she graduated with her thesis, “In the Aquarium of Cybernetics,” on nature metaphors in the media art of the 1990s. Due to her professional training as a laboratory assistant in the chemical industries before her academic career, she developed a strong interest in automated systems and interdisciplinary research. After finishing her studies, Lena worked as a research assistant (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the DFG research training group “Knowledge in the Arts” at Universität der Künste in Berlin. She also got some working experience at several museums and institutions, including Städel Museum Frankfurt, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Max-Planck-Institut Empirical Aesthetics Franfkurt as well as Goldkammer Frankfurt and DZ Bank Art Foyer.

Her research interests include the cultural history of cybernetics, ecology and environmental studies, cinema, art and technology studies, contemporary media cultures and Digital Humanities.

Lena speaks English, German, Spanish, French and elementary Italian. Her attentions also entangle with gardening, hiking and cooking.

Education

M.A. Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main (2017)

Publications

Superstitious Cells: On the Biopolitical Correlations of Health, Waged Labor and Nationalism in Barbara Albert’s Böse Zellen (2003) In New Directions in German Studies, London: Bloomsbury Publishing. (upcoming 2022).
Von Ökosystemen und verkabelten Kartoffeln Maschinenkünste im Argentinien der 1970er Jahre, In Theorie und Praxis der Maschinenkünste, Berlin: de Gruyter. (upcoming 2022).
Opening the Cage: Hungaria 74 at Centro de Arte y Communicación (CAYC), In Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis (AAAV), Vilnius / Lithuania. (upcoming 2022).
Wolken der Kybernetik – Metaphern der Interaktivität. Ein Blick auf die Geschichte von Motion Tracking und VR In Georg Peez (ed.), Mixed Reality und Augmented Reality im Kunstunterricht. Beispiele, Forschung und Reflexionen zur Verknüpfung von physischen und virtuellen Wirklichkeitsanteilen in der Kunstpädagogik, 2021, München: kopaed Verlags GmbH.
“Visual Natural Metaphors of Cybernetics in Arts and Popular Culture” in: Genealogy of Popular Science, From Ancient Ecphrasis to Virtual Reality, hg. von J.M. Morcillo/C.Y. Robertson von Trotha, Bielefeld: transcript, 2020, pp. 419-436.
“No One Knows What Cybernetics is! On Communication and Control in Art after 1945″ in: The Assembled Human, 8. November 2019 – 15. March 2020, Museum Folkwang Essen, Berlin: Kerber, 2019, pp. 319-336.
“Macht’s gut, und danke für den Fisch! Meerestiere als Metaphern der Virtualität. Ein historischer Einblick in das visuelle Erbe der Kybernetik” in: Dokumentation des 31. Film- und Fernsehwissenschaftlichen Kolloquiums No. 4, 2019, pp. 231-249.
“Von Menschenbildern und Textmaschinen. Was Cyborgs im Film über den Wandel medialer Kommunikation erzählen” in: Visual Narratives – Cultural Identities, hg. von J. Bracker, Visual Past No. 3.1, 2016, pp. 469-508.