Martina Leeker

Curriculum

Martina Leeker is lecturer for Theatre- and Media-Studies. She published widely on: Mediatheory and Mediahistory; McLuhan; Art and Technology; 9 Evenings; Theatre, performance, dance and Media; Methods in Digital cultures. 
She studied Theatre-Science and Philosophy in Berlin and Paris. She completed a training for Theatre and Mime in Paris at Etienne Decroux and Jacques Lecoq as well as further education in dance and plays in Berlin. She was assistant professor for Theater and Media (University Bayreuth 2002–2010), guest-professur for Artificial Worlds at Bauhaus University Weimar (2006), research fellow at Morphomata. Genesis, dynamics and mediality of cultural figurations (University of Köln, 2011–2012), guest-professur for theatre-pedagogy (Universität der Künste Berlin, 2012–2013) and researcher at the Innovation Incubator of Leuphana University Lüneburg for labour and communication in digital cultures (2012–2013). Since October 2013 she is senior-researcher at Digital Cultures Research Lab (DCRL) for: Re-thinking Methods, see:

http://projects.digital-cultures.net/dcrl-experiments-interventions/

Research interests

Theatre and Media, Digital Cultures, Critical Mediaanthropology, Methods in digital cultures, Interventions in digital cultures, Art and Technology, Science – Art – Technology, Systems Engineering and Infrastructures.

Teaching

Theater und Medien/Medienkunst, Medientheorie, Mediengeschichte, Digitale Kulturen, Wissenschafts-Performances.