René Berger (April 29, 1915,
Brussels
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– January 29, 2009,
Lausanne
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) was a Swiss writer, philosopher and a historian of art.
Titles
*"
Docteur ès lettres
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" of the
University of Paris
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, latin_name = Universitas magistrorum et scholarium Parisiensis
, motto = ''Hic et ubique terrarum'' (Latin)
, mottoeng = Here and a ...
(Sorbonne)
*Honorary professor at the
University of Lausanne
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and the
École des Beaux-Arts
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.
*Former Director-Curator of the
Musée des Beaux-Arts.
*Honorary President of the
International Association of Art Critics
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(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
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, twintowns =* Gagra, Georgia
* Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic
...
.
*Consulting expert to
UNESCO
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and the
Council of Europe
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.
*Member of the Kuratorium of the
Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie
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(ZKM Karlsruhe).
*Member of the Academy of the International Centre of Contemporary Art, Chateau de Beychevelle (GMF Group, France, Suntory Group, Japan).
Select 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)
*''René Berger. L'art vidéo'', François Bovier, Adeena Mey (eds.) (2014)
Several of those have been translated into English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Hungarian, Romanian, Arabic and Japanese.
Berger made numerous contributions to magazines and reviews. He also produced radio and television programs. He participated regularly in many international conferences, congresses. juries, seminars and
colloquia. Berger pursued research in new technologies as they relate to our emerging technoculture.
He won numerous international awards, among them the Golden Laser (Locarno, 1987) and the Picasso Medal (UNESCO, 1989).
Berger was the father of
Jacques-Édouard Berger, who predeceased him in 1993 and in whose memory he established the Jacques-Édouard Berger Foundation.
External links
* (fr
His first site, or a contribution to his son* (en
His contribution to the science
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1915 births
2009 deaths
University of Paris alumni
Academic staff of the University of Lausanne