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Yvonne Volkart

is head of research and lecturer in art theory and cultural media studies at the Institute Art Gender Nature, Academy of Art and Design FHNW Basel. There, she directs the SNSF research project Plants_Intelligence. Learning like a Plant (2022–2025). She also holds a teaching position in the Master of Arts in Art Education, Zurich University of the Arts. She works as freelance curator and project leader for art and architecture, Amt für Hochbauten (Department for Art and Architecture), City of Zurich Public Works Office, and writes regularly for the art magazine Springerin and others. In collaboration with Sabine Himmelsbach and Karin Ohlenschläger she curated the exhibition and book project Eco-Visionaries. Art, Architecture and New Media After the Anthropocene (Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2018, ed. Pedro Gadanho), and Ecomedia. Ecological Practices in Today’s Art (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007).
Other texts by Yvonne Volkart for DIAPHANES
Bibliography
  • capitalism
  • art
  • cultural critic
  • digital media
  • ecology
  • economics
  • digital culture