Field of Activity
Arno Schubbach is in charge of research at the IDCE and strives for a productive interplay between practice-based research and theoretical reflection as well as empirical research from various disciplines. He also incorporates different disciplinary perspectives into his teaching for the MA Digital Communication Environments programme in order to discuss the digital transformation of design practice and society with students in a theoretically, technically, and empirically informed manner.
Biography
Arno Schubbach has been a lecturer in Theory at the HGK Basel FHNW since 2015. In his teaching, he focuses on the digital transformation of the arts and sciences, everyday life and society and attaches great importance to incorporating empirical research from various disciplines and the developments and debates in the technical sciences into the theoretical discussion. In his own research, he himself has dealt in depth with artificial intelligence and machine learning. Since September 2021, he has also been the head of research at IDCE.
In his interdisciplinary and practice-oriented teaching and research, Arno Schubbach continues his engagement with the philosophy that has shaped his academic career: after graduating with a degree in mathematics, he completed his doctorate in philosophy at the Humboldt University of Berlin in 2005. During his many years of being involved with the National Centre of Competence in Research, Iconic Criticism (eikones) at the University of Basel, he learned to combine his philosophical questions with perspectives from the history of art and science. His Basel habilitation thesis Die Genese des Symbolischen (Meiner Verlag, 2016; Engl. 2022) was awarded the special prize of “Geisteswissenschaften international” by the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels. Most recently, Arno Schubbach wrote an introduction to Immanuel Kant's philosophy for the relevant series published by Junius Verlag.