About

Lisa Stuckey
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Dr. Lisa Stuckey [ˈstʌki] (she/her) is a Cultural Theorist with a focus on contemporary arts and aesthetics. Her research revolves around visual cultures, forensic art practices, media aesthetics, and critical legal studies.

Currently, Stuckey is a Research Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Centre for Advanced Study inherit. heritage in transformation, based at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DE), working on her project TRIBUNALIZATION. Theory and Aesthetics of Tribunals Addressing Legal Value and Para-Judicial Heritage.

Before taking up this position, Stuckey was Senior Lecturer in the program “Applied Human Rights”, responsible for nourishing connective threads between Cultural Studies, Contemporary Art Theory, and Human Rights; furthermore, she was Senior Scientist in the project “Transform” at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (AT, 2023–2024).

In 2022, Stuckey was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies at the University of Lucerne (CH) and a Juliane and Franz Roh Fellow in Modern and Contemporary Art at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich (DE).

From 2020 to 2023 Stuckey held lecturer posts in Cultural Theory at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, in Research Methodologies at the University of Arts Linz, and in Current Art at Webster Vienna University (AT). Additionally, she has been a guest lecturer at several universities and speaker at international conferences since 2017.

Stuckey pursued her doctorate in philosophy as a Junior Fellow of the IFK International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna (AT, 2018–2020) with a research appointment at the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London (GB). Furthermore, she was an Associate Member of the Kolleg “Configurations of Film” at Goethe University in Frankfurt (DE, 2019–2020). The first Appraiser and Supervisor of her doctoral thesis was Prof. Dr. Sabeth Buchmann (Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, AT) and the second Appraiser Prof. Dr. Beatrice von Bismarck (Institute for Theory, HGB Leipzig, DE).

For her dissertation Law on Trial on “Investigative Aesthetics” situated between arts and jurisdiction, Stuckey received the “Prize for Scientific Work 2020” by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Austrian State Prize “Award of Excellence 2021”. Supported by the Post-DocTrack-Program of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) and with a Stand Alone Publication Grant by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) Stuckey’s revised dissertation was published under the title Forensische Verfahren in den zeitgenössischen Künsten: Forensic Architecture und andere Fallanalysen (De Gruyter 2022) in the series “Undisziplinierte Bücher” (eds. Iris Därmann, Andreas Gehrlach, and Thomas Macho).

Stuckey earned her MFA in Art and Digital Media (2020, Supervisor: Prof. Constanze Ruhm) as well as her MA in History and Theory of Art (2015, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Elisabeth von Samsonow) from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT) with distinction.

Stuckey is a member of the Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art (AICA), the Society for Media Studies (GfM), and the German Society of Aesthetics (DGÄ).

RESEARCH IN MEDIA CULTURAL STUDIES, CONTEMPORARY ARTS AND AESTHETICS

PRIZES
2021: Award of Excellence [doctoral thesis], Austrian State Prize, Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research
2020: Prize for Scientific Work [doctoral thesis], Academy of Fine Arts Vienna  
2020: Appreciation Prize [fine arts master], Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

UNIVERSITY LECTURER
2023–2024: Arts and Cultural Studies, Applied Human Rights (Senior Lecturer & Interim Artistic Program Manager), University of Applied Arts Vienna
2021–2023: Cultural Theory, University of Applied Arts Vienna
2020–2023: Art and Cultural Scientific Methodologies, University of Arts Linz 
2020–2021: Current Art, Webster Vienna Private University
2020: Contemporary Art, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn [EE] 
2017–: Guest lecturer, see Public Speaking

FURTHER EMPLOYMENT
2023–2024: Senior Scientist, Project Transform, Zentrum Fokus Forschung, University of Applied Arts Vienna
2021–2022: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Institute of Art Sciences, University of Applied Arts Vienna

GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS AS POSTDOC
2024: Fellowship, Käte Hamburger Centre for Advanced Study inherit. Heritage in Transformation, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research) [DE]
2023: IFK_Akademie Die große Transformation, International Research Center for Cultural Studies
2022: Scholarship Early Post-Doc Applications, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
2022: Visiting Fellowship, Institute for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies (lucernaiuris), University of Lucerne [CH]
2022: Juliane and Franz Roh Fellowship in Modern and Contemporary Art, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte (ZI), Munich [DE]
2021–2022: Post-DocTrack-Program, Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
2020–2021: Mentoring-Program Art, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS AS PRAEDOC
2020: Literar Mechana Dissertation Completion Grant
2019–2020: Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
2018–2020: IFK Junior Fellowship, International Research Center for Cultural Studies / Abroad with research stays at
⇒ House of World Cultures (HKW), Berlin [DE]
⇒ Department of Visual Cultures / Goldsmiths, University of London [GB]
⇒ DFG Reaearch Training Group Configurations of Film, Goethe University Frankfurt [DE]
2018: Emanuel und Sophie Fohn Grant
2017: IFK_Akademie Wiederkehr der Gefühle?, International Research Center for Cultural Studies

OTHER GRANTS
2016: Travel Grant New York [US], Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
2012–2013: Erasmus Scholarship, Austrian Agency for International Cooperation (OeAD)
⇒ Exchange at the Royal Institute of Art Stockholm [SE]
2012: International Summer Academy Salzburg

MEMBERSHIPS
2022–: AICA | International Association of Art Critics
2021–: GfM | Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft
2019–: DGÄ | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ästhetik
2022–2024: AAC | Austrian Association of Curators (founding member)
2019–2020: Associate member, DFG Research Training Group Configurations of Film, Goethe University Frankfurt
2018–: Literar Mechana

UNIVERSITY DEGREES
2020: Dr. phil. [equivalent to PhD], Art and Cultural Studies
⇒ Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, passed with distinction
⇒ Doctoral thesis LAW ON TRIAL: Art and Jurisdiction in Investigations of Forensic Architecture and in Exemplary Contemporary Art
⇒ Fist Appraiser & Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sabeth Buchmann
⇒ Second Appraiser: Prof. Dr. Beatrice von Bismarck [Institute for Theory, Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig]

2020: Mag. [equivalent to MFA], Art and Digital Media
⇒ Institute for Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, passed with distinction
⇒ Artistic-research Master’s project Fama Facing Trial: Words as Currency
⇒ Supervisor: Prof. Constanze Ruhm

2015: Mag. [equivalent to MA], History and Theory of Art
⇒ Institute for Education in the Arts, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, passed with distinction
⇒ Scientific Master’s thesis RITUAL DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE: In Works of Marina Abramović, Andrea Fraser, Gilad Ratman
⇒ Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Elisabeth von Samsonow

See: PUBLICATIONS
See: LECTURES, CONFERENCES
See: ARTISTIC & CURATORIAL RESEARCH PROJECTS
See: TEXTS ON LISA STUCKEY