Chris Tedjasukmana (Dr. phil.) is Professor of Everyday Media and Digital Cultures at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and spokesperson for Research Training Group 3064 “Technics of Witnessing: Witnessing as a Media and Cultural Practice”. He is a member of the faculty council 05: Philosophy and Philology and one of the ombudspersons for BIPOC, FLINTA* and LGBTQIA+ as well as for disabled, neurodivergent and chronically ill students at the FTMK.

CV

2026: Spokesperson of the Research Training Group “Technics of Witnessing: Witnessing as a Media and Cultural Practice”

Since 2020/21: Professor of Everyday Media and Digital Cultures at the Institute for Film, Theater, Media and Cultural Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Since 2018: Co-head of the research group “Aufmerksamkeitsstrategien des Videoaktivismus im Social Web”; funded by the Volkswagen Foundation until 2022

2018-2019: Visiting professor for Media Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna

2016-2018: Co-head of the research group “Bewegungsbilder 2.0: Videoaktivismus zwischen Social Media und Social Movements”; FU Berlin, Uni Bonn, Filmuni Babelsberg; grant: Volkswagen Foundation

2017-2018: Guest of the Director at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK), University of Art and Design Linz in Vienna

2016-2017: Visiting professor for media theories at the University of Art and Design Linz (interim professorship and head of department)

2016-2017: Research Fellow at the IFK in Vienna (did not attend)

2015-2016: Part-time adjunct lecturer for media theory at the Institute for Theater, Film and Media Studies, University of Vienna

2011-2019: Academic staff member at the Seminar for Film Studies, FU Berlin

2009-2014: Academic staff member at the Collaborative Research Center 626 “Ästhetosche Erfahrung im Zeichen der Entgrenzung der Künste”, Subproject B3 “Zur Illusion und Fiktion in der Filmästhetik”; Subproject “Zur perspektivischen Entgrenzung im Experimentalfilm und Post-Cinema”, FU Berlin

2009: Guest Researcher at the Copenhagen Doctoral School in Cultural Studies

2008: Visiting Scholar at the Pratt Institute, New York City

2006-2009: Doctoral scholarship at the International Research Training Group “InterArt”, FU Berlin

2006: Doctoral scholarship at the Research Training Group “Bild – Körper – Medium. Eine anthropologische Perspektive”, Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (did not attend)

2005-2006: Student assistant for Prof. Dr. Martin Seel, Institute for Philosophy, University of Frankfurt a.M.

2004-2006: Student assistant at the Research Training Group “Zeiterfahrung und ästhetische Wahrnehmung”, University of Frankfurt a.M.

2003-2004: Student research scholarship at the Research Training Group “Zeiterfahrung und ästhetische Wahrnehmung”, University of Frankfurt a.M.

2000-2006: Study scholarship from the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation

2003: Student assistant for Prof. Dr. Axel Honneth and Prof. Dr. Gary Gutting, Institute of Philosophy, University of Frankfurt a.M.

2001: Student assistant at the Academic (University) Senate of the University of Frankfurt a.M.

Stays abroad

2017-2018: Guest of the Director at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK), University of Art and Design Linz in Vienna

2009: Guest Researcher at the Copenhagen Doctoral School in Cultural Studies

2008: Visiting Scholar at the Pratt Institute, New York City

Awards

2014: Karsten Witte Prize of the Society for Media Studies (GfM) for the best film studies essay of the year


Functions in scientific societies

2015-2018: Founding spokesperson of the commission for good work in science at the board of the Society for Media Studies (GfM)

2016-2018: Spokesperson of the work group Political Theory and Media Studies (GfM)

Since 2015: Expert reviewer and liaison lecturer for the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in the field of arts, cultural and media studies

2014-2020: Co-editor of Montage AV: Zeitschrift für Theorie und Geschichte audiovisueller Kommunikation

Memberships

Since 2013: Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)

Since 2011: Society for Media Studies (GfM):

  • Since 2015 Commission for Good Work in Science
  • Since 2015 AG Gender/Queer Studies and Media Studies
  • Since 2014 Working Group Data and Networks
  • Since 2013 AG Film Studies
  • Since 2012 Working Group Political Theory and Media Studies

Since 2008: Network for European Cinema and Media Studies (NECS)

Ongoing research projects:

  • Spokesperson of Research Training Group “Technologies of Witnessing: Media and Cultural Practices“ “; funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)

Completed research projects:

  • Project manager of the research group “Attention Strategies of Video Activism on the Social Web”; funded by the Volkswagen Foundation
  • Project manager of the research group “Movement Images 2.0: Video Activism between Social Media and Social Movements”; funded by the Volkswagen Foundation
  • Academic staff member in Collaborative Research Center 626 “Aesthetic Experience in the Context of the Dissolution of Boundaries in the Arts”, subproject B3 “On Illusion and Fiction in Film Aesthetics”; subproject “On the Dissolution of Perspective in Experimental Film and Post-Cinema”, Freie Universität Berlin; funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)

Main research areas:

  • Medial witnessing
  • Video activism on social media
  • Food as an item of the diaspora

Further focal points:

  • Film theory
  • Fitness and mindfulness apps
  • Gender/Queer Studies
  • Critical theory
  • Critical phenomenology
  • Media memory cultures
  • Platform research
  • Political aesthetics
  • Social Media / Social Videos
  • Theories of the public sphere
  • Theories of the body

Other academic functions:

  • Since 2024: Member of the Georg Forster Forum, core research area Humanities and Social Sciences at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU)
  • 2024: Head organizer of the 2024 annual conference of the Society for Media Studies (GfM) at JGU Mainz
  • 2023-2025: Managing director of the Institute for Film, Theater, Media and Cultural Studies (FTMK), JGU Mainz
  • 2023-2024: Member of the selection jury in the Volkswagen Foundation’s funding line “Aufbruch – New Research Spaces for the Humanities and Cultural Studies”
  • Since 2023: Member of the Philosophy and Philology faculty council, JGU Mainz
  • Since 2021: Member of the executive committee of the FTMK Institute, JGU Mainz
  • 2015-2018: Founding spokesperson of the commission for good work in science at the board of the Society for Media Studies (GfM)
  • 2016-2018: Spokesperson of the work group Political Theory and Media Studies (GfM)
  • 2014-2023: Co-editor of Montage AV: Journal for Theory and History of Audiovisual Communication

Books

  1. Jens Eder, Britta Hartmann, Chris Tedjasukmana: Understanding Video Activism on Social Media, London 2025. [Open Access.]
  2. Guido Kirsten, Chris Tedjasukmana (eds.): Klassische Filmtheorien, Mainz 2021.
  3. Jens Eder, Britta Hartmann, Chris Tedjasukmana: Bewegungsbilder: Politische Videos in Sozialen Medien, Berlin 2020. [https://www.bertz-fischer.de/Bewegungsbilder].
  4. Themenheft 1992, Montage AV: Zeitschrift für Theorie und Geschichte audiovisueller Kommunikation, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2016; ed. by Stephen Lowry, Chris Tedjasukmana.
  5. Adina Lauenburger, Chris Tedjasukmana, Lisa Åkervall, Sulgi Lie (eds.): Waking Life. Cinema between Technics Department and Life, Berlin 2016.
  6. Chris Tedjasukmana: Mechanische Verlebendigung: Ästhetische Erfahrung im Kino, Film Denken series, Paderborn 2014.
  7. Themenheft Politik, Montage AV: Zeitschrift für Theorie und Geschichte audiovisueller Kommunikation, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2014; ed. by Guido Kirsten, Chris Tedjasukmana, Julia Zutavern.

Essays

  1. Guido Kirsten, Chris Tedjasukmana: Film und Ideologie, in: Britta Hartmann, Ursula von Keitz, Markus Kuhn, Thomas Schick, Michael Wedel (eds.): Handbuch Filmwissenschaft, Stuttgart 2021 [article submitted and edited].
  2. Chris Tedjasukmana: Soziologische Filmtheorien, in: Guido Kirsten, Chris Tedjasukmana (eds.): Klassische Filmtheorie, Mainz 2021[https://www.ventil-verlag.de/titel/1885/klassische-filmtheorie].
  3. Chris Tedjasukmana: Metropolis (D 1927, Fritz Lang), in: Klassische Filmtheorie, Mainz 2021.
  4. Chris Tedjasukmana: Klassische Filmtheorien – Eine Einleitung, in: Klassische Filmtheorie, Mainz 2021.
  5. Chris Tedjasukmana, Jens Eder: Video Activism on the Social Web, in: Steve Presence, Mike Wayne, Jack Newsinger (eds.): Contemporary Radical Film Culture: Networks, Organizations and Activists, London, New York 2020.
  6. Julia Leyda, Chris Tedjasukmana: Film studies, feminism, and film curating in Germany: An interview with Heide Schlüpmann and Karola Gramann, in: NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies, 1, 2020.
  7. Jens Eder, Britta Hartmann, Chris Tedjasukmana: Bewegungsbilder 2.0: Videoaktivismus zwischen Social Media und Social Movements. A work report, in: Augenblick. Konstanzer Hefte zur Medienwissenschaft, No. 72, 2018.
  8. Chris Tedjasukmana: Das Netzvideo als Flaschenpost: Sylvia Rivera und queere Filmgeschichte, in: Simon Dickel, Dagmar Brunow (eds.): Queer Cinema, Mainz 2018.
  9. Chris Tedjasukmana: Double-edged visibility. Race, Camera Publicity and The Bodyguard, in: Montage AV: 1992, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2016.
  10. Chris Tedjasukmana: Queere Theorie und Filmtheorie in: Bernhard Groß, Thomas Morsch (eds.): Handbuch Filmtheorie, Wiesbaden 2016.
  11. Chris Tedjasukmana: Bergson, das Kino und der Postvitalismus, in: Maria Muhle, Christiane Voss (eds.): Black Box Leben: Zwischen Materialismus und Vitalismus, Berlin 2016.
  12. Chris Tedjasukmana: Kino, Leben, Melancholie, in: Chris Tedjasukmana, Adina Lauenburger, Lisa Åkervall, Sulgi Lie (Hg.): Waking Life: Kino zwischen Technik und Leben, Berlin 2016.
  13. Chris Tedjasukmana: Negative Solidarity: On the Topicality of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, in: Text + Kritik. Journal of Literature: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, No. 103, second edition. New version, 2015.
  14. Chris Tedjasukmana: Camp Realismus: Affekt, Wiederholung und die Politik des Melodrams in Todd Haynes’ Mildred Pierce, in: Thomas Morsch (Hg.): Genre und Serie, Paderborn 2015.
  15. Chris Tedjasukmana: Feel Bad Movement: Affekt, Aktivismus und queere Gegenöffentlichkeit, in: Käthe von Bose, Ulrike Klöppel, Katrin Köppert, Karin Michalski, Pat Treusch (eds.): I is for Impasse. Affective Queer Connections in Theory_Activism_Art, Berlin 2015.
  16. Chris Tedjasukmana: The Public Sphere of Cinema: Political Aesthetics in Times of Turmoil, in Montage AV: Politics, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2014.
  17. Guido Kirsten, Chris Tedjasukmana, Julia Zutavern: Editorial, in: Montage AV: Politics, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2014.
  18. Chris Tedjasukmana: Rauschen und Rotation. Phantasmagorien der Geschichte, in: Jeronimo Voss (Hg.): Phantasmagorical Horizon, Berlin 2014.
  19. Chris Tedjasukmana: Noise and Rotation. Phantasmagorias of History, in: Jeronimo Voss (ed.): Phantasmagorical Horizon, Berlin 2014.
  20. Chris Tedjasukmana: Mechanische Verlebendigung: Eine Genealogie des Kinos, in: Annette Brauerhoch, Nobert Otto Eke, Renate Wieser, Anke Zechner (Hg.): Entautomatisierung, Munich 2014.
  21. Chris Tedjasukmana: The Experience of Lost Possibilities: Kracauer, Benjamin and the Queer Historiography of Cinema, in Drehli Robnik, Amália Kerekes, Katalin Teller (eds.) Film as a Hole in the Wall. Cinema and History with Siegfried Kracauer, Vienna, Berlin 2013.
  22. Chris Tedjasukmana: How bad are the bad feelings in cinema? Political Emotions, Negative Affects and Aesthetic Experience, in: Montage AV: Bad Feelings, Vol. 21, No. 2, 2012.
  23. Bini Adamczak, Mike Laufenberg, Felicita Reuschling, Sarah Speck, Chris Tedjasukmana: Introduction, in Silvia Federici: Aufstand aus der Küche. Reproductive Labor in Global Capitalism and the Unfinished Feminist Revolution, volume 1 in the series Kitchen Politics – Queerfeminist Interventions, Münster 2012.
  24. Christian Tedjasukmana: Postvitalism and Cinematic Experience: Cinema, Life, Melancholia, in: Stefanie Kiwi Menrath, Alexander Schwinghammer (eds.): What does a Chameleon Look Like? Topographies of Immersion, Cologne 2011.
  25. Christian Tedjasukmana: Queer Life in Dark Rooms: AIDS, Melancholy and the Public Intimacy of Cinema, in: Doris Kern / Sabine Nessel (eds.): Unerhörte Erfahrung. Texte zum Kino, Basel, Frankfurt am Main 2008.
  26. Chris Tedjasukmana: Unter die Haut gehen, zur Welt sein und anders werden: Die Politik der Körper bei Claire Denis, Maurice Merleau-Ponty und Michel Foucault, in: Nach dem Film: Kino zwischen Text und Körper, Nr. 10, 2008. [https://www.nachdemfilm.de/issues/text/unter-die-haut-gehen-zur-welt-sein-und-anders-werden]

Smaller works

  1. Chris Tedjasukmana: Videos in Close Up: Planka.nu, available at: http://videoactivism.net/planka-nu/ (English and German)
  2. Chris Tedjasukmana: Videos in Close Up: Y’All Better Quiet Down, available at: http://videoactivism.net/yall-better-quiet/ (English and German)
  3. Maja Figge, Guido Kirsten, Chris Tedjasukmana, Julia Zutavern: Exzellenz und Elend: Für gute Arbeit in der Wissenschaft, in: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, No. 14, 1/2016.
  4. Chris Tedjasukmana: Kaugummi, in: Marius Böttcher, Dennis Göttel, Friederike Horstmann, Jan Philip Müller, Volker Pantenburg, Linda Waack, Regina Wuzella (eds.): Wörterbuch kinematographischer Objekte, Berlin 2014.
  5. Chris Tedjasukmana: „Cansei de ser sexy“. Queere Räume zwischen Ereignis und Alltag im Film Shortbus, in: diskus, Nr. 1, Jg. 55, 2007, also: online archive under http://www.copyriot.com/diskus/07-1/cdss.pdf [05/2011].
  6. Chris Tedjasukmana, Johannes Wilhelm: Sur l’eau et surplus. Utopie bei Adorno und Hardt/Negri, in: UNLiKE, Nr. 01, 2006.
  7. Chris Tedjasukmana: X Machina and the World of Tomorrow: Kino Kommunismus Wunschmaschinen, in: diskus, No. 02, Vol. 54, 2005 (with Dennis Göttel).

Book Reviews

  1. Serjoscha Wiemer: Das geöffnete Intervall: Medientheorie und Ästhetik des Videospiels, Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink 2014, in: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft Online.

Translations

  1. Hongwei Bao: Guerilla-Taktiken: Das Beijing Queer Film Festival und radikale Filmkultur, in: Montage AV: Nähe und Distanz, Vol. 28, Nr. 2, 2019; with Stephen Lowery. [https://montage-av.de/a_2019_2_28.html]
  2. Jonas Mekas: Cinedance, in: Montage AV: Choreographie, Vol. 24, No. 2, 2015.[https://montage-av.de/a_2015_2_24.html]
  3. Olga Kourelou, Mariana Liz und Belén Vidal: Krise und Kreativität: Zum Neuen Kino in Portugal, Griechenland und Spanien, in: Montage AV: Politik, Jg. 23, Nr. 2, 2014; with Guido Kirsten. [https://montage-av.de/a_2014_2_23.html]

Other editorships and editorial employees

  1. Melinda Cooper, Catherine Waldby, Felicita Reuschling, Susanne Schultz (Hg.): Sie nennen es Leben, wir nennen es Arbeit: Biotechnologie, Reproduktion und Familie im 21. Jahrhundert, volume 3 in the series Kitchen Politics: Queerfeministische Interventionen, Münster 2015.
  2. Silvia Federici: Aufstand aus der Küche: Reproduktionsarbeit im globalen Kapitalismus und die unvollendete feministische Revolution, volume 1 in the series Kitchen Politics: Queerfeministische Interventionen, Münster 2012.
  3. Martin Seel: Die Macht des Erscheinens, Frankfurt a.M. 2007.
  4. Andreas Becker et al (Hg.): Mimikry | Mimese: Gefährlicher Luxus zwischen Natur und Kultur, Schliengen 2006.
  5. Georg Bertram et al (eds.): Die Artikulation der Welt, Berlin 2006.
  6. Martin Seel: Paradoxien der Erfüllung, Frankfurt a.M. 2006.
  7. Andreas Becker et al (eds.): Reste: Zum Umgang mit einem Randphänomen, Bielefeld 2005.
  8. Nikolaus Müller-Schöll, Saskia Reither (Hg.): Aisthesis: Zur Erfahrung von Raum, Zeit, Text und Kunst, Schliengen 2004.

Keynotes and invited talks

  1. “From ICE Raids to #DeportationTok: Media Witnessing as Embodied Critique in the Age of AI Authoritarianism”, Conference “The Power and Norms of Critique”, Freie Universität Berlin, Ufer Studios Berlin, February 11-13, 2026.
  2. “Bezeugende Bilder im Tech-Autoritarismus”, Final Conference of the Priority Programme “Das digitale Bild: Digitale Bilder und der Authoritarian Turn. Visualization, Manipulation, Control”, University of Marburg, 12-14.11.2025.
  3. „De/Familiarisierungen des Wissens: Zeugenschaft im digitalen Wandel“, lecture series „De/Familiarizing: Intimität, Archive und ästhetische Praktiken“, University of Zurich, 05.11.2025.
  4. “Unordentliche Wissenspraktiken – Wie verändert sich der Umgang mit Wissen?”, Keynote at the Wikipedia Future Congress 2024, Nuremberg, 07 – 09.06.2024.
  5. “Outside Eyes”, roundtable discussion with Omar Kasmani and M. Ty as part of the workshop “Anyone Anywhere All the Time: Simultaneity, Disconnect, and the Queer Diasporic Ordinary”, Humboldt University, Berlin, 06 – 07.10.2023.
  6. “Aufmerksamkeitsstrategien des Videoaktivismus im Social Web”, joint talk with Jens Eder and Britta Hartmann at the “Forum Originalitätsverdacht” of the Volkswagen Foundation, Hanover, November 8-9, 2022.
  7. “Kritische Phänomenologie – Neue Perspektiven für die Medienwissenschaft?”, talk at the workshop “Kritik” of the AG Political Theory und Media Studies, Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf (online), August 15-16, 2022.
  8. “AIDS Crisis Revisitation”, short talk and discussion with Alexandra Juhasz at the international conference “Jean Carlomusto Made Me Queer”, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt a.M., 14-16.07.2022.
  9. Response at the workshop “Future as Catastrophe: Trust and Conflict under Conditions of Disastrous Future Expectations”, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt a.M., 07.-08.07.2022.
  10. “‘Celebrating Unity, Solidarity, Health, and Wellness’: Neoliberal Diversity als Farce bei Apple Fitness+”, joint talk with Leopold Lippert at the conference “Pop und Post. Feminismus im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung”, Fernuniversität Hagen, Campus Berlin, 02.-03.06.2022.
  11. “‘Let’s Honor the Latinx Community by Working Hard’: Körpersynchronisierung, Diversität und neoliberale Farce bei Apple Fitness+”, joint talk with Leopold Lippert at the international conference “(Neu-)Aufteilungen des Sinnlichen? Über die Politik der Sinne im Kontext (digitaler) Medien”, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, 20-21 May 2022.
  12. “Politische Performances: Digitaler Videoaktivismus auf TikTok”, Institute of Musicology, University of Vienna (online), 12.05.2022.
  13. “Fragile Practices of Witnessing”, talk as part of “Imagining the Situation: How Knowledge is Re/Produced, Witnessed, and Performed. A Workshop with Walid Raad”, together with Benjamin Whistutz, Kunsthalle Mainz, 09.05.2022.
  14. “Political Videos on Social Media: Strategies and Challenges”, joint talk with Jens Eder and Britta Hartmann at the international conference “Activating Attention: Political Videos on Social Media”, online, January 20-21, 2022.
  15. “Aktivistische Videos und Black Lives Matter”, guest talk in the master seminar “Inszenierung von Politik” by Benjamin Whistutz, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (online), 15.06.2021.
  16. “Überall wo’s stinkt: Fassbender und die Cancel Culture”, Masterclass “Bühnenbesetzungen. Die Affäre(n) um Rainer Werner Fassbinders Stück Der Müll, die Stadt und der Tod” of the Theater Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt a.M. in cooperation with the Jewish Museum, the Fritz Bauer Institute, the Schauspiel Frankfurt and the Deutsches Filmmuseum, 23.04.2021.
  17. “Open Table: Filmwissenschaftliche Fachzeitschriften”, roundtable discussion with Annette Brauerhoch, Rasmus Greiner, Laura Katharina Mücke, Linda Waack, Alexander Zons at the 34th Film- und Fernsehwissenschaftliches Kolloquium (FFK), Bauhaus-Universität Weiomar (online), 25.03.2021.
  18. “Videoaktivismus”, lecture series “Bildkulturen des Digitalen”, University of Dresden, 11.01.2021.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cdq53VR0Wo].
  19. “Grausame Öffentlichkeiten: Von Whitney Houston zu Black Lives Matter”, symposium “Intime Öffentlichekeiten: Klatsch und Skandal in Celebrity Cultures”, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, 02.07.2019.
  20. “Lob des Eskapismus: Kino als Befreiung vom Identitätszwang”, conference “Kinophilosophie und Kinopraxis”, Freie Universität Berlin, 28.06.2019.
  21. “Attention Strategies of Video Activism on the Social Web”, together with Jens Eder and Britta Hartmann, Radical Film Network Meeting, Kulturquartier Silent Green, Berlin, 04.05.2019.
  22. “Visual Strategies in Online Activism”, together with Jens Eder and Britta Hartmann, Institute for Protest and Movement Research, Technical University Berlin, 15.04.2019.
  23. “Aufmerksamkeitsstrategien des Videoaktivimus im Social Web”, NDR Webvideo Days, Hamburg, 05.12.2018.
  24. “On Social Reproduction: Gender and Sexual Politics”, with Kalindi Vora, Symposium “Dangerous Conjunctures: Resituating Balibar/Wallerstein’s Race, Nation, Class”, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 03.2018.
  25. “Carnal Networks: Affective Counterpublics and the Activist Videos of #BlackLivesMatter”, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, 10.01.2018.
  26. “Affektive Öffentlichkeiten: Zur politischen Ästhetik des Online-Videoaktivismus”, International Research Center Cultural Studies, University of Art and Design Linz in Vienna, 20.11.2017.
  27. “Geteilte Empörung und gemeinschaftliche Gefühle: Öffentlichkeit und Aktivismus auf YouTube”, Catholic Private University Linz, 16.11.2017.
  28. “Aktivisten der digitalen Revolution”, Humanities Festival Vienna, 23.09.2017.
  29. “‘Realität ist hier zu ihrem künstlichsten geworden’: Realismus, Affekt und Gegenöffentlichkeit im deutschen Autorenfilm”, Summer Seminar on ‘Gender, Affect, Neoliberalism: The Realist Turn in Contemporary German and European Cinemas’, FU Berlin, 08.2017.
  30. “Weltgefühle: Zur Affektpolitik und Öffentlichkeit aktivistischer Netzvideos”, Workshop “Schreiende Minderheiten: Zur peripheren Gemeinschaftlichkeit in digital vernetzten und mobilen Medien”, University of Konstanz, 14.07.2017.
  31. “Bewegungs-Bilder 2.0: Videoaktivismus zwischen Social Media und Social Movements”, VW Foundation, Hanover, 13.06.2017.
  32. “Bilder in Bewegung, Bewegungen im Bild: Die mobilen Medien des Videoaktivismus 2.0”, talk as part of the lecture series “Mobilität und Medialität”, University of Vienna, 11/2016.
  33. “Bewegungsbilder 2.0: Öffentlichkeit, politische Ästhetik und die neuen Webvideos”, talk at the IFK, Vienna, 14.11.2016.
  34. “Smart Activism? Politische Webvideos und das Problem der Öffentlichkeit”, University of Art and Design Linz as part of the relatifs series, Linz, 08.11.2016.
  35. “Video Activism 2.0 and Its Networked Utopias: Poetics, Affects, Counterpublics”, talk at the international workshop “Utopia and Reality”, together with Jens Eder and Britta Hartmann, University of Zurich, 09.09.2016.
  36. “Embodied Politics: Audiovisual Media and the New Publics”, Conference “Embodiment, Perception, and Critical Practice”, Ruhr-University Bochum 08.-09.07.2016.
  37. “Zeiten des Aufruhrs: Videoaktivismus und affektive Geschichtsschreibung im Web 2.0”, guest talk as part of the lecture “Filmgeschichte am Leitfaden von Schau- und Wahrnehmungsanordnungen”, FU Berlin, 07.06.2016.
  38. “Politisches Handeln, Online-Videos und die Fallstricke der Social Media”, talk at the Institute of Linguistics, Musicology and Media Studies, University of Bonn, 21.01.2016.
  39. “Zeit unseres Lebens: Kleine Medienanthropologie des Films Boyhood”, talk in the lecture series “Deleuze (wieder) Sehen: 1996-2015”, University of Frankfurt a.M., Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach, Deutsches Filmmuseum Frankfurt a.M., 15.11.2015.
  40. “Wie camp ist der Realismus? Queere Affekte in Todd Haynes’ Miniserie Mildred Pierce”, talk at the Institute for Film, Theater and Empirical Cultural Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, 09.07.2015.
  41. “Bewegungsbilder und Protestprojektionen: Videoaktivismus 2.0 und die neuen Öffentlichkeiten”, lecture as part of the lecture series “The Art of Protest”, FU Berlin, 04.06.2015.
  42. “Die Öffentlichkeit des Ästhetischen: Video, Kunst, Aktivismus”, lecture at the Literature colloquium, University of Duisburg-Essen, 13.05.2015.
  43. “United in Anger. Aids und New Queer Cinema: Filme, Vorträge und Diskussion”, together with Julia Leyda, Kinothek General Students’ Committee Nielsen, Frankfurt a.M., 24-03.2015.
  44. “Mechanische Verlebendigung: Von den Lebensdiskursen zur filmischen Erfahrung”, talk at the conference “Black Box Leben: Zwischen Materialismus und Vitalismus”, Bauhaus University Weimar, 13.12.2013.
  45. “Das offene Kunstwerk: Filmische Perspektivität und ästhetisches Urteilen”, talk at the conference “Gruppieren, Interferien, Übertragen: Performative Räume zwischen Künsten und Medien”, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, 24.01.2013.
  46. “Abrissgeschichte. Klugs analytischer Realismus und die mechanische Verlebendigung im Kino”, talk at the conference “Poetik des Unwahrscheinlichen – Alexander Kluges Geschichte(n)”, Humboldt University Berlin, 14.12.2012.
  47. “Queer Trouble, Queer Times: Die Politik negativer Affekte”, talk at the symposium “Underground unterwegs” as part of the festival “Extra Trouble – Jack Smith in Frankfurt”, Mousonturm Frankfurt a.M., 23.12.2012.
  48. “Feel Bad Movement: Queerer Aktivismus, negative Affekte und politische Ästhetik”, talk as part of the lecture series “Geschlecht in Wissenskulturen: Politische Affekte in queer-feministischen Analysen”, Humboldt University Berlin, 04.07.2012.
  49. “Afterimages of Activism: AIDS-Documentary and Ghostly Media”, guest talk at the Institute for British Studies and American Studies, University of Vienna, January 10, 2012.
  50. “For Crying Out Loud: Wiederholung und Affekt nach dem Melodrama”, talk as part of the lecture series “Genre und Serie”, FU Berlin, 05.01.2012.
  51. “Im Video-Schneideraum: Zerfließende und kontingente Zeit”, annual conference of the SFB 626 “Werk, Kontingenz, Relevanz”, Berlin, November 4-5, 2011.
  52. “Projecting Life: On Cinematic Historiography”, talk at the conference “On the Periphery of Cinema – Practices, Materials, Objects”, Weimar, 17-19.06.2010.
  53. “Die Erfahrung verlorener Möglichkeiten: Kinematografie und Historiografie bei Kracauer und Benjamin”, talk at the conference “Bild – Raum – Materie: Film und Geschichte bei Siegfried Kracauer”, Budapest/Vienna, 04-07.11.2009.
  54. “Excitable Spit: Resisting Reversion and Repetition, talk with Bini Adamczak at the festival “Live Film! Jack Smith! Five Flaming Days in a Rented World!” Berlin, 28.10.-01.11.2009.
  55. “Cinematography as Historiography”, Eugene Lang College, The New School of Liberal Arts, New York, September 22, 2008.
  56. “Cinema, Biopolitics, and Postvitalist Work of Mourning”, talk at the Pratt Institute, Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies, New York, September 15, 2008.
  57. “Lebens-Form Kino. Für eine postvitalistische Trauerarbeit”, talk at the conference “Waking Life. Cinematic Mediations Between Technique and Life”, Berlin, July 10-12, 2008.

Further lectures

  1. “Neoliberale Diversität und synchronisierte Körper-Arbeit: Apple Fitness+ aus Sicht der kritischen Phänomenologie”, talk on the panel “Always On: Körper-Arbeit in neoliberalen Plattformkulturen”, Annual Conference of the Society for Media Studies, Martin Luther University Halle, 30.09.2022.
  2. “Gegen Nichtdiskriminierung: Iris Marion Young, Affirmative Action und die institutionellen Barrieren der Wissenschaft”, contribution to the panel “Mehr als Wissenschaftsfreiheit. Theoretische Perspektiven auf die Debatte um ‘Cancel Culture””, Annual Conference of the Society for Media Studies, University of Innsbruck, 23.09.2021.
  3. “Soziale Videos für soziale Bewegungen? Aufmerksamkeitsstrategien des Videoaktivismus im Social Web”, annual conference of the Institute for Protest and Movement Research “Hashtags, Tweets, Protests – Soziale Bewegungen im digitalen Zeitalter”, with Jens Eder and Britta Hartmann, 15.11.2019.
  4. “Industries of Outrage and Hope? Videoaktivismus in den Aufmerksamkeitsökonomien des Social Web”, panel at the annual conference of the Society for Media Studies, University of Siegen, 26.09.2018.
  5. “Jetzt ganz anders: Wie Kunst, Ökonomie und Aktivismus gesellschaftliche Alternativen denken”, with Jens Schröter, University of Art and Design Linz, 30.06.2017.
  6. “The Power of Activist Videos”, introduction at the conference of the same name, with Jens Eder and Britta Hartmann, ICI Berlin, 12.05.2017.
  7. “Was in der Öffentlichkeit auf dem Spiel steht”, introductory talk as part of the lecture series “Intime Öffentlichkeiten: Medien, Räume, Gemeinschaften”, University of Art and Design Linz/IFK Vienna, 28.03.2017.
  8. “Dispositive und Praktiken des Videoaktivismus”, talk, interdisciplinary workshop “Bewegungs-Bilder 2.0. Videoaktivismus zwischen Social Media und Social Movements”, 22.04.2016, Department for Technology and Society der TU Berlin.
  9. “Kamera-Aktivismus und die ‘Utopie Öffentlichkeit'”, talk at the annual conference of the Society for Media Studies on the topic of utopia, University of Bayreuth, 02.10.2015.
  10. “Exzellenz und Elend: Gutes wissenschaftliches Arbeiten zwischen Utopie und Wirklichkeit”, workshop at the annual conference of the Society for Media Studies on the topic of utopias, University of Bayreuth, 01.10.2015.
  11. “United in Anger: A History of ACT UP”, short lecture and discussion with Karin Michalski and Todd Sekuler at the colloquium “Begehren und Sexualitäten: Praktiken – Imaginationen – Kodierungen”, HU Berlin, February 6, 2015.
  12. “Organizing Pessimism: Film and the New Aesthetic Counter-Publics”, conference “Critical Theory, Film and Media: Where is ‘Frankfurt’ Now?”, Frankfurt a.M., 21.08.2014.
  13. “The Politics of Circular Forms: Perspective and Judgment in Contemporary Cinematic Installations”, Film-Philosophy Conference “A World of Cinemas”, Glasgow, 02.07.2014.
  14. “Mechanical Vitalization: Bergson and Film Experience”, talk at the SCMS panel “The Vitality of the Cinematic Image I: Aesthetics, Mood, Fantasy”, Seattle, 20.03.2014.
  15. “Of Skylines and Solar Systems: Perspective and the Circular in Contemporary Cinematic Installation”, talk at the conference “Post-Cinematic Perspectives”, ICI Berlin, 23.11.2013.
  16. Introduction to the film program “Das Kino und das Politische”, Berlin, Kino Arsenal, 05.07.2013.
  17. “Screening the Financial Crisis: The Challenge of Political Film Aesthetics”, talk at the NECS panel “What’s the Political in Political Film Aesthetics?”, Prague, 21.06.2013.
  18. Response to the NECS panel “Curious Commodities, Concrete Contingencies, Narratives of Nonsolution: Projecting Siegfried Kracauer’s Politics”, Prague, 21.06.2013.
  19. “Realismus und Gegenöffentlichkeit in der Krise: Alexander Kluge in Theorie und Praxis”, as part of the lecture series “Das Kino und das Politische”, Berlin, May 24, 2013.
  20. “Camp Realism: Political Affect, Melodrama and Todd Haynes’ Mildred Pierce”, contribution to the SCMS panel “Pink Narcissus, Mildred, and Kaboom: Queer Media, Then and Now”, Chicago, March 6, 2013.
  21. “Mechanical Vitalization: History, Affect, and Aesthetic Experience in Cinema”, talk at the NECS panel “Remembering Film/History: Cinematic Recirculation in Film and Television”, Lisbon, 21.06.2012.
  22. Introduction to the short film program „Anti-Kanon: Spektakel – Attraktion – Experiment“, Berlin, Kino Arsenal, 09.12.2011.
  23. “Rette sich wer kann (das mechanische Leben)”, lecture on the GfM panel “Dysfunktionale Organe: Zur Logik des Lebendigen im Kino”, Potsdam, October 7, 2011.
  24. “Delayed Presence: Experiencing the Afterimages of AIDS”, talk at the international conference “Import – Export – Transport: Queer Theory, Queer Critique and Activism in Motion”, Vienna, 28-30.04.2011.
  25. Introduction to “Nénette et Boni” as part of the Claire Denis retrospective at Kino Arsenal, Berlin, October 15, 2010.
  26. “Projecting Life (After the Revolution): Walter Benjamin, Judith Butler and Rainer Werner Fassbinder”, talk at the conference “Emerging Forms of Sociality”, Frankfurt a.M., 30.09.-02.10.2010.
  27. “The Experience of Lost Causes: Postvitalism and Historiography in Cinema”, talk at the panel “Lost Causes, Pending Cases: Film Theories of Historicity”, Network for European Cinema and Media Studies (NECS): Urban Mediations, Istanbul, 24-27. 2010.
  28. Lecture at the panel “Film Studies Between Text and the Body”, NECS: Budapest, 19-22.06.2008.
  29. “Cine-Aesthetic Experience Between Art and Science”, talk, “Art and Research – New Interfaces: European Doctoral Seminar in Culture, Criticism and Creativity”, Copenhagen, 05-07.06.2008.
  30. “Queer Life after the ‘Crushed Rebellion’: AIDS and Cinematic Work of Mourning in Todd Haynes’s ‘Safe'”, talk at the conference “That’s What a Chameleon Looks Like: Imagination, Illusion, Immersion”, Berlin, 31.01.-02.02.2008.
  31. “Schau und Spiel: Über das Erkenntnispotential des Kinos”, talk at the IFK Summer Academy, “Mind Game Movies: Zur Philosophie einer neuen Filmform”, Maria Taferl, 12-18.08.2007.
  32. Talk at the 1st colloquium of young scholars at the 12th International Symposium on Film “Wort und Fleisch: Kino im Spannungsfeld von Text und Körper”, Bremen, January 18-21, 2007.
  33. “Zufügen, Tilgen und Belassen: Über die Ästhetik des Unvollkommenen und den Chiasmus der Kinogeschichte”, talk for the symposium “Kratzer und Unschärfen: Annäherung an eine Ästhetik des Unvollkommenen”, Giessen, 27-29.10.2006.

Science Communication

  1. “Demokratie im Gespräch: Protest im digitalen Zeitalter”, Bavarian State Center for Political Education and Bavarian Adult Education Association, online, 14.10.2020.
  2. “Aufmerksamkeitsstrategien des Videoaktivimus im Social Web”, NDR Webvideo Days, Hamburg, 05.12.2018.
  3. “Öffentlichkeit und Aktivismus auf YouTube”, discussion round after the lecture as part of the Dies academicus, Catholic Private University Linz, 16.11.2017.
  4. “Aktivisten der digitalen Revolution”, conversation with Rainer Schüller (Der Standard), Humanities Festival Vienna, 23.09.2017.
  5. “Was bedeutet Trumps Wahlsieg für den kulturellen Protest?”, interview in the program “Kompressor: Das Popkulturmagazin”, Deutschlandradio Kultur, 14.11.2016.
  6. “Alltagsrassismus in Deutschland”, interview with Christine Batty about witness videos and #BlackLivesMatter in the call-in program“Kosmo”, Funkhaus Europa, 12.07.2016.
  7. “Die Macht der Augenzeugen: Der Medienwissenschaftler Chris Tedjasukmana analysiert Videoaktivismus im Netz 2.0”, interview with Ralf Hutter, Neues Deutschland, 06.04.2016.
  1. MA S. Ästhetische Formen im Wandel: Film / Fernsehen / Neue Medien: Interface-Kulturen 
    Instructor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christian Tedjasukmana
  2. S. Gegenstände: Denken – Schreiben – Filmen: Dokumentationen des Selbst
    Instructor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christian Tedjasukmana
  3. Ü. Fachwissenschaftliche Spezialisierung: Forschungsforum
    Instructor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christian Tedjasukmana
  4. Ü. Lektürekurs
    Instructor: Larissa Cammarata; Dr. Julia Rabea Lind; Dr. Britta Ohm; Roman Olshevskiy; Dr. Clara-Franziska Petry; Katrin Schmitz; Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christian Tedjasukmana
  5. VL. Medien- und Kulturanalysen
    Instructor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christian Tedjasukmana

WiSe 2025/26

Information for students and graduates:

If you would like to ask me to be the supervisor/evaluator of your bachelor’s, master’s degree or doctoral thesis, I am generally happy to guide you through the process. Before you contact me, please make sure that

  • your planned project roughly overlaps with my research interests and
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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Chris Tedjasukmana
Professorship for Everyday Media and Digital Cultures
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Faculty 05
Institute for Film, Theatre, Media and Cultural Studies

Phone: +49 6131 39-22874
E-mail: tedjasukmana@uni-mainz.de