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Mario Schulze (*1986) is an historian of science and media, specializing in the history and theory of scientific films and exhibitions from the 1920s to the present. He is the author of „Wie die Dinge sprechen lernten. Eine Geschichte des Museumsobjektes 1968–2000“ (transcript, 2017). This book grapples with the relationships between display design, object ontologies and consumer culture in museums of cultural history in Germany. His current book project „Fließend. Die Geschichte eines wissenschaftlichen Films“, which he is writing together with Sarine Waltenspül, follows the movement of an almost unknown scientific film from fluid dynamics throughout the 20th century. It interrogates the epistemic, aesthetic, and political role of film in the sciences.

Schulze’s writing has appeared in journals such as Isis, Representations, Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte and various anthologies. For him, films and exhibitions are also formats for research and publishing. His essay film „unlearning flow“ (2019, dir. by Christoph Oeschger, Mario Schulze, Sarine Waltenspül) has received invitations to a few international festivals. He has curated the exhibition „Filme des Windes“ (2019) at the Kunstraum Lüneburg. The exhibition „Fadenspiele / String Figures. A research exhibition“, which he is curating together with Sarine Waltenspül, will open at the Museum Tinguely in November 2024.

Mario holds a PhD in Cultural Analysis from the University of Zurich and an MA from the University of Leipzig. Post-doctoral appointments took him to the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Zurich University of the Arts. Schulze’s research has been recognized by many prestigious fellowships including a Nomis fellowship at eikones - Center for the History and Theory of the Image at the University of Basel, a junior fellowship of the Collegium Helveticum Zurich, a postdoctoral fellowship at the MECS Lüneburg, a research fellowship at the Museumsakademie Graz, and PhD scholarships by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, the Axel Springer Foundation and the DAAD. He recently received a Spark grant from the SNSF for a provenance research project on the 16mm film collection of the former Swiss Tropical Institute.