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Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Elke Gaugele

Education in the Arts
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Elke Gaugele is a cultural anthropologist and professor for Fashion and Styles/Contextual Design at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She specializes in postcolonial and feminist intersectional fashion theory and practice with a focus on the politics, global/social justice, ethics, and aesthetics of fashion. Her cultural analysis further focuses the role of fashion, design and art in the context of global flight and migration, and times of far-right extremism. She directed the Austrian Center for Fashion Research ACfFR (2017-2021), was a researcher in the DFG Scientific Network Entangled Histories of Art and Migration: Forms, Visibilities, Agents (2018-2022), and research fellow at Goldsmiths College, University of London, Department for Visual Arts, UK (2004-2005), among others. Her internationally renowned publications and (co-)editorships include Fashion and Postcolonial Critique (2019), Fashion as Politics: Dressing Dissent (special issue Fashion Theory. Vol. 23, 2019), Aesthetic Politics in Fashion (2014), and Fashion Knowledge, Theories, Methods, Practices and Politics (2022). Her work has been awarded the Lise Meitner Habilitation Grant of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia/Germany (2005) and the Maria Goeppert-Mayer Guest Professorship at the University of Vechta (2004).

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Dissertations

  • Dress and Subversion in Digital Age: "Digital Skin" - Territory of Action


    Candidate: Slavna Martinovic

    study_program: Dr.-Studium der Philosophie; Kunst u. kulturwiss. Studien (Stzw)

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    abstract: This Ph.D. proposal addresses the practice of ‘dress' among sub-cultural and counterculturalgroups and its relation to digital wearable technologies. It considers ‘dress' as an extension of thebody, medium for projecting a view or symbolizing a discourse, instead of approaching it as aform of a fashion trend. By studying performances of embodiment in the digital sphere, I willanalyze the shift from the corporeal representation of the physical world into the virtual realmand Social medias. This Ph.D. questions how the new wearable technologies - especially the useof Augmented reality - may bring back the immediacy of the body as a ‘territory' of action by‘materializing' digital realm's ‘visibility' on and around our bodies. Specifically, how the use ofwearable technology may then reflect social performing of identities and sociality in the broadersense. The proposed doctoral project evaluates some of the social and ethical consequences of theuse of Augmented reality, while it dominantly contributes to the field of studying new ways ofthe performance of the body and human embodiment within the digital materiality.Slavna Martinovic has graduated from the London College of Fashion in 1998 starting an international career as a stylist for fashion magazines, later pursuing costume and fashion design. She has lived and worked in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, London and Frankfurt creating in the field of visual art, fashion, film and theatre.In 2009, she has completed MA in Multimedia Arts at the University of Arts in Belgrade and was a guest student through 2015 and 2016 at the Department of New Media at the Goethe University in Frankfurt.Her research interests are a continuation of her decades long interests in dress, fashion and subculture.Currently she divides her time between her career in costume/fashion design and writing her PhD thesis, taking part in symposiums, conferences and workshops within her field of study. The working title of her thesis is Dress and Subversion in the Digital Age: ‘Digital Skin’ -Territory of Action. She lives between Frankfurt, Vienna and Los Angeles and wherever her work may take her.

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  • Die Kawaii-Kultur in Tokio an der Schnittstelle von Kunst, Design und Alltagskultur: Mikro- und Makroebenen visueller Kommunikation und Produktion


    Candidate: Mag.art. Astrid Engl

    study_program: Dr.-Studium der Philosophie; Kunst u. kulturwiss. Studien (Stzw)

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  • Oil Fashion and Modernization: A History of Fashion and Dress in Iran, 1941-1979


    Candidate: Mag.art. Nargess Khodabakhshi

    study_program: Dr.-Studium der Philosophie; Kunst u. kulturwiss. Studien (Stzw)

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    abstract: This dissertation examines the history of Iranian fashion and dress concerning the modernization policies between 1941-1979 in Iran. I argue that in this period, which I call the era of “Oil-Fashion and Modernization,” the modernization agenda, pushed by the state’s policies and increasing oil revenues, boosted fashion development in Iran. Each chapter examines aspects of these developments with a different approach to fashion definition. Besides the significance of this history for fashion students, practitioners, and researchers, it exemplifies how non-binary readings of pre-revolutionary fashion enable transdisciplinary studies to expand on studies of modern Iran, considering “subaltern” voices like youth, middle-class men and women, and cultural and creative actors. In addition, this project shows that narratives of non-Western dress and fashion, based on local perspectives of history, culture, identity, and development, can empower decolonial reading of fashions in the Middle East region, revolting against Western fashion’s “Orientalism.”Bio:Born in Tehran, Nargess Khodabakhshi is a university lecturer, design researcher, and an instructor in Fine Arts. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Communication Design from the University of Tehran and a Master’s degree in Fine and Studio Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Her main research areas are non-Western fashions, design theories and digital media, focusing on questions about the history and theory of fashion in Iran and its connections to postcolonial debates in fashion studies. Since 2016, she has been an adjunct lecturer in History and Theory of Fashion, History and Theory of Design, and BA Supervision in Scientific Work in higher education institutions, including Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, University of Applied Arts Vienna, University of Arts and Industrial Design Linz and, University of the Arts Bremen. Beyond teaching, she has presented papers and talks at several international, interdisciplinary conferences, and has published articles on fashion in the Middle East.

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  • Queer Fashion and Identity - Stories from India


    Candidate: Prabodh Mishra

    study_program: Dr.-Studium der Philosophie; Kunst u. kulturwiss. Studien (Stzw)

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  • Veränderte Designprozesse, -ansätze, -konzepte und Medien im zeitgenössischen Modedesign


    Candidate: Bianca Koczan

    study_program: Dr.-Studium der Philosophie; Kunst u. kulturwiss. Studien (Stzw)

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