Frauke Behrendt
lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Brighton
studierte an der Universität Lüneburg Angewandte Kulturwissenschaften mit dem Schwerpunkt elektronische Kunst und Musik und erhielt für ihre Magisterarbeit zum Thema Handymusik den „Forschungspreis Digitale Medien“ der Kulturinformatik (Universität Lüneburg). Die Arbeit wird im Sommer 2004 unter dem Titel „Handymusik. Klangkunst und ‚mobile devices’“ im Epos-Verlag veröffentlicht. Neben einem Lehrauftrag an der Universität Lüneburg hat sie ihre Arbeit auf internationalen Konferenzen wie der Ciber@rt in Bilbao, Spanien und ISEA2004 in Helsinki, Finnland vorgestellt.
Frauke Behrendt is a lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Brighton and leads the EPSRC-funded research project ‘Smart e-bikes – understanding how commuters and communities engage with electrically-assisted cycling’.
She recently co-curated an exhibition on ‘Sonic Interaction Design’ at the Norwegian Museum of Science, Technology and Medicine in Oslo (29 May 2011 – 21 August 2011) in connection with NIME 2011 and in collaboration with the EU COST IC0601 Action on Sonic Interaction Design (SID). Frauke Behrendt also runs the mobilesound blog.
Previously, she was a Research Fellow at the Cultures of the Digital Economy Research Institute (CoDE) at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge.
Frauke Behrendt’s research interests include the areas of digital cultures, sound studies, mobility, media theory and sustainable/green media. Her research combines empirical and theoretical investigations of the link between mobility, sound and media and how this is articulated both in contemporary art and in everyday live. She is leading the EPSRC-funded research project ‘Smart e-bikes – understanding how commuters and communities engage with electrically-assisted cycling’.
Frauke is on the Steering Committees of the European COST Action on ‚Sonic Interaction Design‘ and the International Workshop of Mobile Music Technology. In addition, she is an alumni of Richard Sennett’s NYLON (international research network in sociology, history and cultural studies) and a member of the ‘Centre for Material Digital Culture’ at Sussex University.
Previously, Frauke has held positions as Research Fellow at the Cultures of the Digital Economy Institute (CoDE), Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, at the University of Sussex and as Visiting Assistant Professor at the Rhode Island School of Design (US). She completed her PhD on ‘Mobile Sound. Media Art in Hybrid Spaces’ at the University of Sussex (supervised by Caroline Bassett and Michael Bull) and holds an MA in Cultural Studies from Leuphana University in Germany.