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Barbara Basting

Barbara Basting

studied Romance and German Languages and Literature as well as Philosophy at the University of Constance and at the Sorbonne in Paris. She was editor of the magazine du, Tages-Anzeiger, Zürich, and DRS2/SRF2 Kultur. She now heads the division for visual arts at the Culture Department of the City of Zurich. She has been observing the culture(s) of digitality as a participant since the Net.art of the late 1990s.

Bibliography
  • contemporary art
  • media society
  • digitalization
  • cultural journalism
  • Italy
  • Enlightenment
  • Venice
  • art
  • Cultural sociology
  • reception
  • curatorial practice
  • public sphere
  • criticism