About

Welcome to my website!

Currently I am working at the office of the Vienna Science and Technology Fund for the president of the ERC, and I am teaching at the Department of Social Studies of Science at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Vienna. My research interests are manifold: scientific visualization and imagination practices, the various enactments of social scientific knowledge, science communication, computer machine interfaces, information retrieval, new digital methodologies,… My PhD thesis, “Imag(in)ing Networks” (working title was: “Performative truths: images as affective evidences”) covers epistemic visualization practices in Social Network Analysis. From 2009-2011 I was working at the Information Retrieval Facility, and from 2005 - 2007 I was employed part time in an Austrian Science Fund research project on “The Materiality and Temporality of Performative Speech-Acts” at the Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna. Besides, I was freelancing….

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Events:

  • 18 March 2012
    On Purpose. New Derivative Order.
    Moderation Panel Discussion with Karin Knorr Cetina, Elie Ayache, Thomas Feuerstein und Gerald Nestler. Kunstraum Bernsteiner, Vienna, Austria
  • 25 April 2012
    BlackBox Suchmaschine
    Museumsquartier, D, Vienna, Austria
  • 24 May 2012
    Matrizen analysieren, Graphen träumen
    Diskussionsrunde Simulation Komplexer Systeme
    Institut für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Vienna, Austria

Contact:

If you want to contact me, please do so via this address: katjes [ at ] abwesend.de