Léa Perraudin
Léa Perraudin is a Media Theorist and a postdoctoral Research Associate in the project Material Form Function. She also supports Claudia Mareis in her function as Cluster Co-Director.
She has held positions at the University of Cologne and the Münster School of Design and received fellowships from the Berkeley Center for New Media, UC Berkeley and the IKKM Weimar.
After studying Cultural Anthropology, Philosophy and Media Culture Analysis, she defended her PhD at the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne in 2019 with a theoretical framework for the multiple (in-)tangibilities of the Anthropocene.
In her habilitation, Léa brings forward a media theory of phase transitions by investigating the ties of material and metaphor in contemporary technocapitalist media environments through transience, dispersal, abundance and solidification.
Cluster of Excellence
»Matters of Activity«
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Sophienstr. 22a
10178 Berlin
Edited Volumes & Exhibition Catalogues
Perraudin, L. , Otremba, H., Harth, T. eds. 2016. TextGestalten – DesignSchreiben. Münster: Verlag der FH Münster.
Articles in Edited Volumes
Perraudin, L, Rešetar, I, Winkler, C. 2021. »The Body of Breath: Morphologies of Air Movement.« In Atem / Breath: Gestalterische, ökologische und soziale Dimensionen / Morphological, ecological and social dimensions, with contributions presented at Atem (Breath), Conference at the Department of Art & Visual History, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 11.9.2019–13.9.2019, edited by Burchert, L., Rešetar, I. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, in press. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110701876
Perraudin, L. 2020. »Digging Deep—Mud as Medium. Playful Encounters with the Soil.« In Playful Participatory Practices. Perspektiven der Game Studies., edited by Abend P., Beil B., Ossa V. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien, 111-130. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-28619-4_7
Perraudin, L. 2019. »Capturing the Ephemeral. Experimental interfaces and Snapchat as messy modes of interaction in the Technosphere.« In Technobilder: Medialität, Multimodalität und Materialität in der Technosphäre, edited by Grabbe, L., Rupert-Kruse, P., Schmitz, N. M. Marburg: Büchner, 198-217.
Perraudin, L. 2017. »Where have all the cases gone? Die offenen Behausungen des experimentellen Interfacedesigns.« In Gehäuse: Mediale Einkapselungen, edited by Neubert, C., Bartz, C., Miggelbrink, M., Kaerlein, T. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 171-190. https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14822.
Perraudin, L. 2016. »Tales from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.« In Waste – Perspectives for the Remaining, edited by Lewe, C., Othold, T., Oxen, N. Bielefeld: transcript-Verlag, 143-170. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839433270-007
Perraudin, L. 2014. »Zur Medialität der Wolke. Agnes Meyer-Brandis "Im Troposphärenlabor".« In The Invisible Force Behind. Materialität in der Medienkunst. Ausstellungskatalog zur Quadriennale 2014, edited by Buschmann, R., Simunovic, D. Dortmund: Verlag Kettler, 68-75.
Articles
Löffler, P., Perraudin, L., Schneider, B., Yusoff, K., Gabrys, J. 2020. »Dinge anders machen. Ein Gespräch über feministische Anthropozän-Kritik, Dekolonisierung der Geologie und «sensing» in Medien-Umwelten.« Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, 23, (2): Zirkulation, 138-152. https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14822
Löffler, P., Perraudin, L., Schneider, B. 2020. »Making Things otherwise. An Interview with Jennifer Gabrys and Kathryn Yusoff about Feminist Criticism of the Anthropocene, Decolonizing Geology and Sensing Media Environments.« Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft (ZfM), 23, Zirkulationen, 138–151. https://zfmedienwissenschaft.de/online/making-things-otherwise
Perraudin, L. 2020. »Jeder Tropfen zählt. Elementar-mediale Begegnungen im Milieu des Rain Room (rAndom International, 2012).« Special Issue: Spürtechniken. Von der Wahrnehmung der Natur zur Natur als Medium. Medienobservationen, "Spürtechniken. Von der Wahrnehmung der Natur zur Natur als Medium", 1-22. https://www.medienobservationen.de/pdf/20200430Perraudin3.pdf
Perraudin, L., Harth, T., Otremba, H. 2016. »Gedanken gestalten. Integration reflexiven Schreibens in das Studium.« Neues Handbuch Hochschullehre, (75): 109-126.
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 MitWissenschaft - Spinnen die, die Bakterien?. »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 Outreach. »MitWissenschaft - Spinnen die, die Bakterien?«, Humboldt Forum, Berlin. Virtual. 29 April 2021. https://www.humboldtforum.org/de/programm/termin/wissenschaft/spinnen-die-bakterien-14206/
Events & Workshops
Held, M. (conference co-chair), Kimpel, K. (conference co-chair), Mareis, C. (conference co-chair), Perraudin, L. (conference organization), Sauer, C. (conference co-chair), Winkler, C. (conference organization) Material Trajectories. Designing with Care. The 17th Annual Conference of the German Society for Design Theory and Research (DGTF). Conference. Cluster »Matters of Activity«, weißensee school of art and design, Berlin. Virtual. 6 May 2021 - 8 May 2021. https://materialtrajectories.dgtf.de/
Mareis, C. with Büsse, M., Gruendel, A., Perraudin, L. Dis/Entangling Perspectives in Material Research. The lecture series in cooperation between the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity. Image Space Material« and the Department of Cultural History and Theory at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Virtual. 25 October 2021 - 14 February 2022. https://www.matters-of-activity.de/de/activities/6386/dis-entangling-perspectives-in-material-research
Cubasch, A. J., Perraudin, L., Cojal Gonzalez, J., Razghandi, K. How to environ? Epistemic & design perspectives on environments, cultural techniques, and structures. Internal Colloquium. Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Virtual. 13 November 2020.
External Grants, Fellowships, Scholarships & Residencies
Perraudin, L., Brock, O., Coelho Mollo, D., Mareis, C., Müller, M., Nestler, A., Puhlmann, S., Schäffner, W., Steinhardt, S. 2021. »Wenn Materie lebendig wird" Experimentallabore für Wissenschaftskommunikation. Berlin University Alliance, Project funding.