Florian Bettel

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About Florian Bettel

Florian Bettel is a senior scientist at the department of Cultural Studies at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (since 2014). His work focuses on aspects of the history of technology, cultures of dwelling, sepulchral culture, as well as artistic and curatorial activities. Currently he is involved in “Locus Ludi: The Cultural Fabric of Play and Games in Classical Antiquity” (in cooperation with the Université de Fribourg, funded by the European Research Council, 2019–2020) and, as project leader, is responsible for “Portfolio/ Showroom—Making Art Research Accessible” (funded by Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research, 2017–2021). Former occupations include: 2017–2019 senior scientist in the research project “The Entanglement between Gesture, Media and Politics”; 2012–2013 senior scientist at the focus area Science and Art, Univ. of Salzburg and Univ. Mozarteum Salzburg; 2010–2012 researcher in the project “Living Rooms: The Art of Mobilizing Belonging(s)”. Forthcoming: Throwing Gestures. Protest, Economy and the Imperceptible (edited by Florian Bettel, Irina Kaldrack, Konrad Strutz), VfmK—Verlag für moderne Kunst, Wien/Vienna 2020.