Birgit Mersmann
Birgit Mersmann is Professor of Contemporary Art and Digital Image Cultures at the University of Bonn. Her core research areas include modern and contemporary Western and East Asian art, global art history, transculturality, migration aesthetics, museum and exhibition studies, digital art, image and media theory, and the history and theory of photography. In the DFG network "Transecologies" she contributes expertise in the fields of sustainable exhibitions & museums, AI art & climate crisis, data extractivism and interspecies relations. She is currently working on a research project on posthumanist perspectives in contemporary entomological art.