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Hans Ulrich Reck (b. Nov 30 in 1953) is a philosopher, art historian, curator and lecturer, as well as author. Since 1995 he is Professor of Art History in a Media Context at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne and, since April 2014, Rector of this Academy. He previously held the chair of Communication Theory at the Academy of Applied Art in Vienna. Reck has published a number of essays and books, including 'Kritik der Kreativitaet' (2018), ''Ritualkunst' zwischen Kult und Museum – Dissonante Aesthetiken am Beispiel Afrikas' 2017), an 'Encyclopaedia of Dream' (2010), an Introduction/ philosophical poetical portrait of 'Pier Paolo Pasolini' (2010), 'Spiel Form Kuenste. Zu einer Kunstgeschichte des Improvisierens' (2010), 'Index Kreativitaet' (2007), 'Eigensinn der Bilder' (2007), 'The Myth of Media Art. The Aesthetics of the Techno/ Imaginary and an Art Theory of Virtual Realities' (2007), 'Kunst als Medientheorie' (2003) and, together with Harald Szeemann, 'Junggesellenmaschinen' (1999).

His areas of work include aesthetics, philosophy, art theory and art history, arts of the 20th century, semiotics, media theory, visual settings of modern times, history and theory of the forces of the imagination.