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Oliver Grau

1965 - Today

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Oliver Grau (born 24 October 1965) is a German art historian and media theoretician who focuses on image science, modernity and media art as well as culture of the 19th century and Italian art of the Renaissance. His main areas of research are Digital Art, Media Art History, Immersion (virtual reality), digital humanities, documentation and conservation strategies of born-digital art. Grau is founder and director of the Archive for Digital Art (founded in 1998) and founder and is head of the Society for MediaArtHistories and its biennial conference series, active since 2004. His monograph Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion (MIT Press 2004) is often cited and with translations of his texts in 15 languages to date and over 300 invited lectures in 44 countries, he is one of the most internationally renowned contemporary art and media scholars. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Oliver Grau is the 547th most popular historian (down from 543rd in 2024), the 6,018th most popular biography from Germany (down from 5,899th in 2019) and the 61st most popular German Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Oliver Grau ranks 547 out of 561. Before him are Jonathan Riley-Smith, Elaine Pagels, Gerhard Weinberg, Christopher Clark, Gábor Kósa, and Peter Heather. After him are Andreas Umland, Irfan Habib, Wendy Beckett, Janusz Kurtyka, Stephen Turnbull, and Adam Tooze.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1965, Oliver Grau ranks 696. Before him are Arnd Schmitt, Tank Abbott, Kevin Greutert, Douglas Henshall, Grigory Kiriyenko, and Daina Gudzinevičiūtė. After him are Jale Arıkan, André Kana-Biyik, Munir Said Thalib, Vincent Young, John Murphy, and Anja Niedringhaus.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Oliver Grau ranks 6,021 out of 7,253. Before him are Erhard Wunderlich (1956), Anni Friesinger-Postma (1977), Julia Görges (1988), Meret Becker (1969), Svenja Schulze (1968), and Katarina Waters (1980). After him are Erik Durm (1992), Jeanette Hain (1969), Pascal Wehrlein (1994), Juli Zeh (1974), Robert Förstemann (1986), and Mike Hanke (1983).

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Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Oliver Grau ranks 61. Before him are Nikolaus Pevsner (1902), Martin Noth (1902), Hermann Oldenberg (1854), Walter Jens (1923), Rainer Zitelmann (1957), and Gerhard Weinberg (1928). After him are Andreas Umland (1967).

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