Viktoria Tkaczyk is professor of media and knowledge techniques at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
She has published widely on the history of aviation, architecture, acoustics, the neurosciences, experimental aesthetics, and sound media in the early modern and modern periods.
Her first book, Himmels-Falten: Zur Theatralität des Fliegens in der Frühen Neuzeit (Fink, 2011), on flying machines in early modern science and theater, won the Ernst Reuter Dissertation Prize in 2008 and the Book Award of the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis in 2012. Among her most recent publications is Thinking with Sound: A New Program in the Sciences and Humanities around 1900 (University of Chicago Press, 2023). Currently, she is working on a new book project, entitled Technologies of the Humanities, and on a collective project that explores how humanistic and scientific technologies interlink with geopolitics and resource economics.
After receiving her PhD in theater studies from Freie Universität Berlin, Viktoria Tkaczyk was a Feodor Lynen Fellow at the History of Science Lab REHSEIS (CNRS) in Paris. From 2011 to 2014, she was assistant professor of arts and new media at the University of Amsterdam and a Dilthey Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (MPIWG). From 2015 to 2020, she headed the research group “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics” at the MPIWG and the project “Epistemic Dissonances: Objects and Tools of Early Modern Acoustics” at Freie Universität Berlin (German Research Foundation), in addition to initiating the database “Sound & Science: Digital Histories.”
Until August 2023, Viktoria Tkaczyk was one of the IMPRS-KIR’s three Speakers.
Find out more about Viktoria Tkaczyk on the HU website.
