- René Berger
René Berger (1915- ) is a
Swiss writer ,philosopher and ahistorian of art .His Titles
"
Docteur ès lettres " of theUniversity of Paris (Sorbonne)Honorary professor at the
University of Lausanne and theEcole des Beaux Arts .Former Director-Curator of the
Musée des Beaux Arts .Honorary President of the
International Association of Art Critics (AICA) and the International Association for Video in the Arts and Culture (AIVAC).Founder of the cultural movement Pour l'Art. Originator-producer of the Colloquia of the International Video Festival of
Locarno .Consulting expert to
UNESCO and theCouncil of Europe .Member of the Kuratorium of the
Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM Karlsruhe).Member of the Academy of the International Centre of Contemporary Art, Chateau de Beychevelle (GMF Group, France, Suntory Group, Japan).
Principal Publications
Découverte de la peinture (1958, reedited in 1969)
Connaissance de la peinture (1963)
Art et communication (1972)
La mutation des signes (1972)
La téléfission, alerte à la télévision (1976)
L'effet des changements technologiques (1983)
Jusqu'où ira votre ordinateur? L'imaginaire programmé (1987)
Téléovision, le nouveau Golem (1991)
L'origine du futur (1996)
Several of those have been translated into English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Hungarian, Romanian, Arabic and Japanese.
Berger has made numerous contributions to magazines and reviews.He has also produced radio and television programs. He participates regularly in many international conferences, congresses. juries, seminars and
colloquia . Berger pursues research in new technologies as they relate to our emerging technoculture.He has won numerous international awards, among them the Golden Laser (Locarno, 1987) and the Picasso Medal (UNESCO, 1989).
René Berger is the father of
Jacques-Edouard Berger and the president of the foundation Jacques-Edouard Berger.External links
* [http://www.bergerfoundation.ch/index.html His first site for his son]
* [http://oeuf.epfl.ch/ His contribution to the science]
* [http://serendip.epfl.ch/Chevilly1/ His blog to the future]
* [http://college-de-vevey.vd.ch/auteur/rene_berger.htm His cyber-biography (personal website)]
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