Prof. Dr. Barbara Flückiger

• Prof. Dr. Barbara Flückiger worked as a film professional in Europe, Canada and the USA before her studies in German philology, film theory and journalism in Zurich and Berlin.

• Since 2007
  Professor for film studies at the University of Zurich
  
  

• 2011 – 2014
  Research project "Film History Re-mastered" investigated the changing perception of film history in the digital age. In fall 2011 and summer 2012, she was a research fellow at Harvard University, where she explored material and aesthetic aspects of historical film colors.
  
  

• 2012 – 2014
  Research project at the Zurich University of the Arts and the Institute of Media Psychology of the University of Berne to analyze the emotional impact of analog vs. digital formats
  
  

• 2013 – 2015
  Project manager of the research project DIASTOR on the digitization of archival film, in collaboration with Disney Research Zurich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, and several partners from the industry
  
  

• 2015
  European Research prize, an "Advanced Grant" for her research on film colors
  
  

• Monographs

• 2008: Visual Effects. Filmbilder aus dem Computer. Marburg: Schüren. 528 Seiten

• 2001: Sound Design. Die virtuelle Klangwelt des Films. Marburg: Schüren. 2nd edition 2002, 3rd edition 2006, 4th edition 2010, 5th edition 2012, 530 pages

• Both monotographs are established text books in their respective fields.

• Editorship

2008: KINO CH / Cinéma CH. Marburg: Schüren. Mit Philipp Brunner und Alain Boillat

• Digital Humanities Project

• 2013 f. Interactive resource Timeline of Historical Film Colors. Comprehensive database on the technology and aesthetics of film colors, with more than 5'000 photographs of vintage film prints, primary and secondary sources, filmographies, links and downloads.

• Timeline of Historical Film Colors: http://zauberklang.ch/filmcolors/ und http://filmcolors.org

• Project leader:

• ERC Advanced Grant FilmColors (09.2015–08.2020). Budget: EUR 2.9 Mio. by European Research Council ERC. University of Zurich.

• Film Colors. Technology, Cultures, Institutions. (11.2015–10.2018). Budget: CHF 663'519, Swiss National Science Foundation. University of Zurich.

• Research project DIASTOR. Bridging the Gap Between Analog Film History and Digital Technology (05.2013–010.2015)

  Budget: CHF 2 million, CHF 1.4 million by implementation partners, CHF 625,000 by the Commission of Technology and Innovation CTI. Project partners: Federal Institute of Technology, ETH, Zurich (main research partner); Disney Research Zurich (main implementation partner), five additional implementation partners (film labs, film archives, software and hardware developers). University of Zurich.

• Research project Visual Effects (10.2004–09.2006). Budget: CHF 279'146, funded by a merit-based grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation. University of Zurich.

Co-project leader:

• Research project Analog vs. Digital – The Emotional Impact of Film Recording Processes on the Audience (05.2012–09.2014)

  Budget: CHF 450,000, CHF 225,000 financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Budget: CHF 225,000, financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Leading house: Zurich University of the Arts, Prof. Christian Iseli.

• Research project AFRESA – Automatic Film Restoration for Archives (10.2008–05.2011) Budget: CHF 1,850,000, 50% from industry, 50% Commission for Techncology and Innovation. Leading house: University of Basel, Dr. Peter Fornaro.

• Research project Sound Design (05.1997–06.1999). Budget: CHF 70'110, funded by a merit-based grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation. University of Zurich.

• Research project Digital Cinema (05.2000–09.2002). Budget: CHF 800'000. Leading house: Zurich University of the Arts

• Society for Cinema and Media Studies SCMS

• Founding member of the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies NECS

• Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image SCSMI

• Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft GfM

• Mitglied des Forschungsrats des Fachbereichs Darstellende Künste und Film, 
Zürcher Hochschule der Künste ZHdK

• Member of the Schweizer Filmakademie

• Member of the Digital Society Initiative of the University of Zurich

• International career in professional film production, 1980 – 1992

• Engineering

• Web programming

• Professional career as a journalist in Switzerland and Germany, 1979 – 1983

Additional interests

• Consulting

Other activities and achievements/family

• Daughter Silvana Konermann

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