Veronika Bernard's academic profile
Veronika
Bernard (PhD) is an Associate
Professor (Privatdozentin) with the Department of German language and
literature at the University of Innsbruck/ Austria and a member of the research
platform CenT (Cultural Encounters and Transfer). She has been the director of
the project Breaking the Stereotype.
Oriental and Occidental Stereotypes in the Course of Time (www.breaking-the-stereotype2009-2010.over-blog.org)
and is one of the two directors of the IMAGES project (conferences,
publications, exhibitions, online contests; www.images-1.over-blog.org).
Veronika Bernard is a member of the advisory board of CINEJ Cinema Journal (http://cinej.pitt.edu).
She has earned her postdoctoral qualification (Habilitation) in German literature by her postdoctoral thesis Das emotionale Moment der Veränderung. Stadt als Dichtung (The Emotional Momentum of Change – The Fictionalized City). Her PhD thesis is about the Orient in 19th century Austrian travel writings.
Her research interests are: cultural encounters in movies; migrant literature (German-Turkish authors); European views and stereotyping of the Orient; the city in literature.
She is one of the editors of the book IMAGES (III) – Images of the City (Münster/ Vienna/ Berlin/ New York: LIT Verlag 2014) IMAGES (II) – Images of the Poor (Münster/ Vienna/ Berlin/ New York: LIT Verlag 2013), the online and print publication IMAGES (I) – Films as Spaces of Cultural Encounters (online: CINEJ Special Issue 1/ 2011, Pittsburgh 2011; print: Innsbruck 2011), and of Breaking the Stereotype. From Orient and Occident to a Mutual Understanding of Images (Innsbruck: iup 2011). For further publications see http://veronika-bernard-books.weebly.com/the-list.html
She has been teaching at the University of Innbruck, at BITS Iserlohn, and at the Kufstein University of Applied Science. Besides, she has been teaching courses (English, Communicational Theory, German) at a vocational High School in Kufstein.
She has earned her postdoctoral qualification (Habilitation) in German literature by her postdoctoral thesis Das emotionale Moment der Veränderung. Stadt als Dichtung (The Emotional Momentum of Change – The Fictionalized City). Her PhD thesis is about the Orient in 19th century Austrian travel writings.
Her research interests are: cultural encounters in movies; migrant literature (German-Turkish authors); European views and stereotyping of the Orient; the city in literature.
She is one of the editors of the book IMAGES (III) – Images of the City (Münster/ Vienna/ Berlin/ New York: LIT Verlag 2014) IMAGES (II) – Images of the Poor (Münster/ Vienna/ Berlin/ New York: LIT Verlag 2013), the online and print publication IMAGES (I) – Films as Spaces of Cultural Encounters (online: CINEJ Special Issue 1/ 2011, Pittsburgh 2011; print: Innsbruck 2011), and of Breaking the Stereotype. From Orient and Occident to a Mutual Understanding of Images (Innsbruck: iup 2011). For further publications see http://veronika-bernard-books.weebly.com/the-list.html
She has been teaching at the University of Innbruck, at BITS Iserlohn, and at the Kufstein University of Applied Science. Besides, she has been teaching courses (English, Communicational Theory, German) at a vocational High School in Kufstein.
Veronika Bernard's artistic profile
Veronika Bernard has been creating pictures and taking photos for about 30 years. She started with painting and classic photography. In 2002 she turned to using electronically supported techniques in creating her works.
To create her images she takes photos with a digital camera. Different filters are used on the photos; occasionally parts of the photos are re-arranged in the process. The central idea of her ORNAMENTAL ABSTRACTIONS project is to lift the colour potential and the ornamental structures present, but hidden, in photos to the surface of the final images.
The works are either finalized by producing a digital colour print on matt white cardboard or on matt white paper (350 gram minimum), ranging from A4 to A3 size, on white cotton (with images size A4 or smaller) or canvas (with images size A3 or larger), or they are used as designs with the ORNAMENTAL ABSTRACTIONS Design Line and are printed on cushions and silk scarves. Recently, the ORNAMENTAL ABSTRACTIONS project has launched its perfume line: ORNAMENTAL ABSTRACTIONS Design Line Perfumes.
You can follow ORNAMENTAL ABSTRACTIONS images creation processes on the ORNAMENTAL ABSTRACTIONS blog (http://ornamentalabstractions.over-blog.com).
The ORNAMENTAL ABSTRACTIONS online gallery you find on the ORNAMENTAL ABSTRACTIONS homepage.
The original photos go to Veronika Bernard's SNAPSHOTS project and are available for exhibitions, print media and online use.
You can follow Veronika Bernard's SNAPSHOT project on the SNAPSHOTS homepage (http://snapshots-1.weebly.com) and on the SNAPSHOTS blog (http://snapshots-1.over-blog.com).
To create her images she takes photos with a digital camera. Different filters are used on the photos; occasionally parts of the photos are re-arranged in the process. The central idea of her ORNAMENTAL ABSTRACTIONS project is to lift the colour potential and the ornamental structures present, but hidden, in photos to the surface of the final images.
The works are either finalized by producing a digital colour print on matt white cardboard or on matt white paper (350 gram minimum), ranging from A4 to A3 size, on white cotton (with images size A4 or smaller) or canvas (with images size A3 or larger), or they are used as designs with the ORNAMENTAL ABSTRACTIONS Design Line and are printed on cushions and silk scarves. Recently, the ORNAMENTAL ABSTRACTIONS project has launched its perfume line: ORNAMENTAL ABSTRACTIONS Design Line Perfumes.
You can follow ORNAMENTAL ABSTRACTIONS images creation processes on the ORNAMENTAL ABSTRACTIONS blog (http://ornamentalabstractions.over-blog.com).
The ORNAMENTAL ABSTRACTIONS online gallery you find on the ORNAMENTAL ABSTRACTIONS homepage.
The original photos go to Veronika Bernard's SNAPSHOTS project and are available for exhibitions, print media and online use.
You can follow Veronika Bernard's SNAPSHOT project on the SNAPSHOTS homepage (http://snapshots-1.weebly.com) and on the SNAPSHOTS blog (http://snapshots-1.over-blog.com).