Alwin J. Cubasch
At the Cluster, Alwin J. Cubasch's research oscillates between the history of flavors, infrastructures and space satellite cultures with the aim to better understand how socio-technical materialities and body practices select, filter, and preconfigure pathways of agency in the digital age.
In his ongoing PhD, he studies NASA’s food-experiments during the early days of spaceflight focusing on the interconnections of food, science, and medicine.
In the last years, Alwin Cubasch worked as university assistant at the Department of History, University of Innsbruck and he holds a master’s degree from the TU Berlin, where he studied History of Science and Technology.
He was Managing Editor of NTM: Journal of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine.
Cluster of Excellence
»Matters of Activity«
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Sophienstr. 22a
10178 Berlin
Articles
Cubasch, A. J., Engelmann, V., Kassung, C. 2021. »Theorie des Filterns. Zur Programmatik eines Experimentalsystems.« preprint.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4731045
Talks & Presentations
Beyer, B., Cubasch, A., Fratzl, P., Hengge, R., Mareis, C., Perraudin, L., Sauer, C., Schäffner, W., for the Cluster »Matters of Activity«. Can Bacteria Spin a Yarn? We Need a New Culture of Materials. Panel Presentation at the »Can Bacteria Spin a Yarn? We Need a New Culture of Materials«, Humboldt Forum, Berlin. Hybrid. 29 April 2021.
https://www.humboldtforum.org/en/programm/termin/science-humanities/do-bacteria-spin-a-yarn-20472/
Cubasch, A. J., Perraudin, L. Filtering. Talk at the »MitWissenschaft - Spinnen die, die Bakterien?«, Humboldt Forum, Berlin. Virtual. 29 April 2021.
https://www.humboldtforum.org/de/programm/termin/wissenschaft/spinnen-die-bakterien-14206/
Cubasch, A. J. Freeze Dried Futures: NASA's Quest for Edible Spin Offs in Rural Texas. Panel Presentation at the 6th International Conference on Food History and Food Studies, Food Futures: Histories of Anticipation, Technology, and Culinary Imaginaries of Future Foodstuffs. Univesité de Tours & Institut Européen d’Histoire et des Cultures de l’Alimentation, Tours. Virtual. 2 June 2021.
https://iehca-internationalconference.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/26.pdf
Cubasch, A. J. From Space to Home: NASA's spin-off projects to establish space food on American dining tables in the 1970s. Talk at the Dissertant/innen-Tagung für Wirtschafts-, Sozial- und Umweltgeschichte 2021, Universität Salzburg & ASEH Environmental History Week 2021. Virtual. 20 April 2021.
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-96233
Cubasch, A. Of Bacon Squares and Spoon-Bowl-Packs – Or How to Dine in Zero-g. Talk at the Brown Bag Brunch, Cluster »Matters of Activity«. Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Virtual. 1 December 2020.
Le Calvé, M., Cubasch, A. J., Heitger, A. Space Food: Dreams of Eternal Shelf Life in Artificial Environments. Talk at the Workhsop: Shelf Life. Ferment Activity and Nurturing Materials, Transubstantiation (Tales). ExC MOA. Virtual. 10 December 2020.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/2915/shelf-life-ferment-activity-and-nurturing-materials
Events & Workshops
Cubasch, A. J., Perraudin, L., Cojal Gonzalez, J., Razghandi, K. How to environ? Epistemic & design perspectives on environments, cultural techniques, and structures. Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Virtual. 13 November 2020.
Le Calvé, M., Cubasch, A. J., Heitger, A. Shelf Life. Ferment-Activity and Nurturing Materials. ExC MOA. Virtual. 10 December 2020.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/2915/shelf-life-ferment-activity-and-nurturing-materials
Teaching & Courses
Cubasch, A. J. Archeologies of the Future. Workshop, Kunsthochschule Weißensee, Berlin. 26 April 2021.
https://kh-berlin.incom.org/workspace/1467/about
Hosting of Guest Researchers at the Cluster
Cubasch, A., Kassung, C., Birn-Müller, C., Filtering: Digital Cluster Fellowship. Hosting Amira Möding. from Cambridge University. 1 September 2021 - 28 February 2022.
Memberships
Cubasch, A. J. 2021 - 2024. DFG-Network: Modern Expeditions: Politics, actors and epistemologies of scientific travel since the nineteenth century. Member.
https://expeditions.hypotheses.org/