Moritz Neumüller

Moritz Neumüller (born in Linz (Austria), 1972) is a curator, educator and writer in the field of photography and new media.

Curriculum

He holds a master's degree in Art History and a PhD degree in Information Management and has worked for several international art institutions, such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, PHotoEspaña in Madrid and LOOP in Barcelona. Moritz Neumüller is Curatorial Advisor for PhotoIreland in Dublin,^[1] and Director of the Department of Photography at the Istituto di Design (IED), in Madrid.

As a curator, Moritz is interested in contemporary work made by photographers and media artists from around the world, especially documentary, social and conceptual work. His publications include El otro lado del alma, Edition Oehrli, Zurich (2005); Bernd & Hilla Becher speak with Moritz Neumüller, La Fábrica / Fundación Telefónica, Madrid (2005); All Inclusive. New Spanish Photography, Lodz Photography Festival, Polonia (2007); TO HAVE & TO LOSE. Three projects by Mireia Sallarès, Galleri Image, Aarhus (2008), Martin Parr's Best Books of the Decade, PhotoIreland, Dublin (2011) and the catalogue for the Daegu Biennale (Korea, 2014).

Moritz Neumüller is a regular contributor to European Photography Magazine (Berlin) and on the editorial board of the encyclopaedia project The European History of Photography (Bratislava). He is a member of the curatorial associations Oracle and IKT, and runs an online resource for visual artists, called The Curator Ship, since 2010.

Curatorial project on and with

Bernd & Hilla Becher, Ricardo Cases, Yamamoto Masao, Edmund Clark, Cristina de Middel, Martin Parr, Stephen Gill, Chris Jordan, Dinu Li, Gabriel Orozco, Mireia Sallarès, Oliver Sieber & Katja Stuke, Alejandro Castellote, Horacio Fernández, and Rosina Cazali.

Publications

• Mind the Eye! On the Relevance of Composition in Spatial Organization, in: The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 12/2000, pp. 197–202.
• Hypertext Semiotics, in: Razón y Palabra, No. 38 (Abril / mayo), Ciudad de México, 2004.
• Computer-Aided Design of Tactile Models. Taxonomy and Case Studies (con A. Reichinger, F. Rist, S. Maierhofer y W. Purgathofer), in: Computers Helping People with Special Needs, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 7383, Springer, 2012, pp. 497–504.
• From Stereoscopy to Tactile Photography (with A. Reichinger), in: PhotoResearcher 19, April 2013, pp. 59–63
• 3D Printing for Cultural Heritage: Preservation, Accessibility, Research and Education (with A. Reichinger, F. Rist y Ch. Kern), 3D Research Challenges in Cultural Heritage, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014, pp. 119–134.
• A Semiotic Analysis of iMarketing Tools, in: HT'00. Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia. San Antonio, TX 2000, pp. 238–239
• Applying Computer Semiotics to Hypertext Theory and the World Wide Web, in: OHS-6/SC-2, vol. 1903 de Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, 2000
• (Con Linda Serenson Colet). Educational Hypermedia in a Museum Environment, in: Proceedings of the EDICT 2000 Conference. Viena 2000, pp. 323–329
• Because I Seek an Image Not a Book, in: OHS-7/SC-3, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, 2001
• Hypertext Semiotics in the Commercialized Internet. Disertación, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien. Vienna, 2001
• Zeichen und Information, in: e&i, no.7 (julio-agosto), 2003, pp. 9–10
• Aspekte der Ikonizität in den synkretistischen Religionen auf Kuba, in: S-European Journal For Semiotic Studies 15(2-4), Viena, 2003, pp. 529–535
• Hypertext Semiotics, in: Razón y Palabra, No. 38 (Abril / mayo), Ciudad de México, 2004
• Thomas Seelig, Urs Stahel (eds.). The Ecstasy of Things, Fotomus. Winterthur & Steidl, 2004
• El Otro Lado Del Alma. Syncretisms in Contemporary Cuban Photography, Edition Oehrli, Zurich, 2005
• Bernd & Hilla Becher hablan con Moritz Neumüller. Conversaciones con Fotógrafos. La Fábrica Ediciones / Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, 2005
• Import/Export. Un diálogo fotográfico, Centro Cultural de España, Guatemala, 2006
• Chris Jordan. In Katrina’s Wake, in: Naturaleza, Catálogo de PHotoEspaña 2006, La Fábrica Ediciones, Madrid, 2006, pp 134–137.
• All Inclusive. New Spanish Photography, Lodz Photography Festival, Poland, 2007
• Metropolis, con Joan Villaplana y Jacobo Zabalo, Editorial Laboral, Barcelona, 2008
• Festivalzeit – Medienzeit, in: Monat der Fotografie, Festival Catalogue Wien, 2008, 10-14
• To Have & To Lose. Three projects by Mireia Sallarès, Galleri Image, Aarhus, Dinamarca, 2008 (Reeditado como MIEC & STRACIC, Lodz, Poland, 2009)
• Raum_Körper Einsatz, e-book in DAISY Format, Museum auf Abruf and ArteConTacto, Vienna 2010. Available on en www.artecontacto.org
• Kleinbürger. New Photography and Video Art from Austria, in: Festival Catalogue, Pingyao, 2010, 92-93
• Collaborative Changes, PhotoIreland Catalogue, Dublín 2011
• Martin Parr's Best Books of the Decade (con Angel Luis Gonzalez), Dublin 2011
• On Migration, PhotoIreland Catalogue, Dublín 2012
• Private Faces Public, Exhibition Catalogue, IED / PHotoEspaña, Madrid 2013
• Jana Romanova, in: Photonews, No. 5/12, May 2012, 12-13
• Spanish Photography Curating Note, in: Monthly Photography, November 12, Seoul 2012, 135-146
• Migration kuratieren, in: Burcu Dogramaci (Ed.) Migration und künstlerische Produktion, 2013, 219-228
• New Irish Works, PhotoIreland Catalogue, Dublín 2013
• 3D Printing in Museums, in: MuseumNext Conference Proceedings, Amsterdam, 2013
• Unmanned Photography, in: European Photography Magazine, June 2013, pp. 3 – 14
• Conversation with Lukas Wassmann, in: FOAM Magazine, September 2014, pp. 257–296
• Kathy Granan’s The ninety and the nine, in: The Photobook Review, Oct 2014, p. 23
• Roc Herms, YO YO YO (editor), Barcelona 2014
• Ernst Jandl, Contenido / Inhalt. (Interactive book, to be published 2017)
• Marta Mantyka, hashtag (editor), Warsaw, 2015)
• Moritz Neumüller (ed.), The Routledge Guide to Photography and Visual Culture, Taylor & Francis, New York (to be published 2017)

Current projects

Current projects include the Photobook Week Aarhus, a Routledge Companion on Photography and Visual Culture, to be published in 2017 in New York, and the exhibition Reading the Photobook, for the CCCB center in Barcelona.

References

1. Hunter, Dorothy (September 2012). "PhotoIreland 2012 / Interview with curator Moritz Neumüller". PhotoMonitor. Retrieved 14 September 2016.

External links

• "Moritz Neumüller: Lecturer at the University of Vienna Art History Department". University of Vienna. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
• ArteConTacto
• MuseumForAll
• The Curator Ship
• IED Madrid Photography Masters
• IDEP Barcelona PG Fotografía artística