NOMIS–eikones Fellowship Program
For over a decade, eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image at the University of Basel, Switzerland, has been dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of images as instruments of human knowledge and cultural practice. Eikones has been examining the functions and epistemological value of images in different social, aesthetic and scientific contexts. Images are not merely understood as tools that complete certain tasks, but instead as systems of representation that differ from linguistic or mathematical systems because of their particular structure; they thus produce specific forms of knowledge.
The NOMIS Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at eikones supports groundbreaking research projects related to how images act as models or paradigms in scientific and aesthetic contexts. In both settings, images often assume an exemplary character, aiding epistemic and learning processes. They fulfill evidential, didactic and symbolic functions, and thereby produce different forms of knowledge. Relevant topics of research might consider, for example, the history and theory of imaging techniques in the natural sciences; the ideals and stereotypes that shape social contexts and political discussions; or the formation and dissolution of canons, iconographies, character types and styles in the arts. On the methodological side, the NOMIS Fellows will be selected from different scientific fields, and reflect on the relationship between their individual discipline and image studies.
People
Alena Williams is a NOMIS–eikones Fellow at eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image at the University of Basel (Switzerland) and university professor of Theory and Mediation of Contemporary Art at the Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (Austria).
NOMIS Fellow
eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image
University of Basel
Janina Wellmann is a NOMIS-eikones Fellow at eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image at the University of Basel (Switzerland) and a fellow at the NYU Remarque Institute and Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University, US.
NOMIS Fellow
eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image
University of Basel
Paul Morrow is a NOMIS–eikones Fellow at eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image at the University of Basel (Switzerland) and a visiting research fellow in the School of Philosophy and Humanities Institute at University College Dublin (Ireland).
NOMIS Fellow
eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image
University of Basel
Eduardo Luersen is a NOMIS–eikones Fellow at eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image at the University of Basel (Switzerland).
NOMIS Fellow
eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image
University of Basel
Allison Stielau is a NOMIS–eikones Fellow at eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image at the University of Basel, Switzerland, and lecturer in early modern art at University College London, UK.
NOMIS Fellow
eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image
University of Basel
Matthew H. Birkhold is a NOMIS–eikones Fellow at eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image at the University of Basel (Switzerland) and associate professor at the Ohio State University (Columbus, US).
Former NOMIS Fellow
eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image
University of Basel
Bernard D. Geoghegan is a NOMIS–eikones Fellow at eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image at the University of Basel (Switzerland), a senior lecturer in information studies at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden), and a reader in the history and theory of digital media at King’s College London (UK).
Former NOMIS Fellow
eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image
University of Basel
Katerina Korola is a NOMIS–eikones Fellow at eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image at the University of Basel (Switzerland) and assistant professor of German Media at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities, US).
Former NOMIS Fellow
eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image
University of Basel
About Adrian Anagnost Adrian Anagnost is a NOMIS–eikones Fellow at eikones – Center for the Theory and History of Images at the University of Basel (Switzerland). Anagnost is an art historian specializing in forms of spatiality in the modern Americas, especially Brazil and the US. After earning an MA from Columbia University (New York, US) […]
Former NOMIS Fellow
eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image, University of Basel
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News
August 13, 2024
Anna Skarpelis awarded Gould Prize
Former NOMIS Fellow Anna Skarpelis has been awarded the prestigious Gould Prize of the American Journal of Sociology (AJS) as well as three awards by the American Sociological Association for her AJS article “Horror Vacui: Racial Misalignment, Symbolic Repair, and Imperial Legitimation in German National Socialist Portrait Photography,” which she wrote as a NOMIS–eikones Fellow. The Gould […]
Modern Western reflections on the nature of images have predominantly focused on pictures, that is, images on flat surfaces, as paradigmatic examples of depiction. Discussions of images with three-dimensional supports have thus often been derivative or completely sidestepped. Jakub Stejskal, NOMIS Fellow at eikones – Center for the Theory and History of Images at the […]
October 28, 2018
eikones announces four new NOMIS fellows
eikones has announced four new NOMIS Postdoctoral Fellowship recipients for 2018-2019: Zeynep Gürsel, Sean Silver, Philipp Ekardt and Tobias Wilke. eikones — Center for the Theory and History of the Image at the University of Basel is dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of images as instruments of human knowledge and cultural practice. The fellowships support groundbreaking research in the interdisciplinary […]
The NOMIS Postdoctoral Fellowship Program was launched at eikones — Center for the Theory and History of the Image at the University of Basel in 2017. Sebastian Zeidler and Ingrid Vendrell-Ferran are the first recipients of the fellowships at eikones, a center dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of images as instruments of human knowledge and cultural […]
