Dr. Erwin Feyersinger

Erwin Feyersinger is a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Susanne Marschall's team (Chair of Film, Television and Audiovisual Media), co-director of the Research Center for Animation and Emerging Media, and a PI of the Center for Rhetorical Science Communication Research on Artificial Intelligence (RHET AI).

Erwin Feyersinger’s research focuses on audiovisual media, especially on animation, on live-action film, on artificial intelligence, on data visualization, and on science communication.

Current projects:
RHET AI – Center for Rhetorical Science Communication Research on Artificial Intelligence
AniVision: Animation in Ephemeral Films from Austria, East & West Germany between 1945 and 1989: A Combined Film Analysis and Computer Vision Approach
 

Erwin Feyersinger studied Applied Linguistics and Media Studies at the University of Innsbruck. He has received two awards for his dissertation Metalepsis in Animation: Paradoxical Transgressions of Ontological Levels: the Award of Excellence from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research and the Roland Faelske-Preis from the University of Hamburg and the Roland Faelske Foundation. From 2008 to 2015, he served as a researcher and postdoctoral researcher in the Department of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck. In 2011, he was a Distinguished Guest Fellow at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (NDIAS), University of Notre Dame. He is founder and co-coordinator of AG Animation (Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft).   

He has contributed to film projects, including the children’s film Es ist ein Elch entsprungen. He has produced in-game cutscenes for the computer game Avencast – Rise of the Mage. He was a film journalist for ORF.at (Österreichischer Rundfunk). He was editor of the film journal FLIM – Zeitschrift für Filmkultur.

His texts have been published in English, German, Hungarian, and Korean.

• Apellaniz Portos, M., Labadie-Tamayo, R., Stemmler, C., Feyersinger, E., Babic, A., Bruckner, F., ... & Zeppelzauer, M. (2024). Analysis of Hybrid Compositions in Animation Film with Weakly Supervised Learning. ECCV 2024. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2410.04789
• Feyersinger, E., Kohmann L., & Pelzer, M. (2023). Fuzzy ingenuity: Creative potentials and mechanics of fuzziness in processes of image creation with AI-based text-to-image Generators. IMAGE: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Image Sciences, 37(1), 135–149. https://doi.org/10.1453/1614-0885-1-2023-15464
• Bieberstein, R., & Feyersinger, E. (Eds.). (2022). New perspectives on animation historiography [Special issue]. animation: an interdisciplinary journal, 17(1).
• Bieberstein, R., & Feyersinger, E. (2022). Introduction to the special issue: New perspectives on animation historiography. animation: an interdisciplinary journal, 17(1), 5–9. https://doi.org/10.1177/17468477221085619
• Bieberstein, R., & Feyersinger, E. (2022). The ever-expanding scope of animation historiography: A discussion of interdisciplinary approaches and methods. animation: an interdisciplinary journal, 17(1), 10–25. https://doi.org/10.1177/17468477221080108
• Bruckner, F., Eckel, J., Feyersinger, E., Freisleben-Teutscher, C. F., & Ohnmacht, T. (2021). Bilden mit/zu Animation. Ergebnisse des Vernetzungsworkshops Animation in Lehre, Wissenschaft and more …. In F. Bruckner, J. Hagler, H. Lang, & M. S. Reinerth (Eds.), In Wirklichkeit Animation... Beiträge zur deutschsprachigen Animationsforschung (pp. 197–217). Wiesbaden: Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-33287-7_13
• Feyersinger, E., & Bruckner, F. (2020). Animationstheorien. In B. Groß & T. Morsch (Eds.), Handbuch Filmtheorie (pp. 243–261). Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
• Backe, H.-J., Eckel, J., Feyersinger, E., Sina, V., & Thon, J.-N. (Eds.). (2018). Ästhetik des Gemachten: Interdisziplinäre Beiträge zur Animations-und Comicforschung. Berlin: de Gruyter.
• Eckel, J., Feyersinger, E., & Uhrig, M. (Eds.). (2018). Im Wandel... Metamorphosen der Animation. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
• Feyersinger, E. (2018). Animierte Bilder im Kontext von Live-Veranstaltungen. In J. Schmid, A. Veits, & W. Vorrath (Eds.), Praktiken medialer Transformationen: Übersetzungen in und aus dem digitalen Raum (pp. 15–40). Bielefeld: transcript.
• Feyersinger, E. (2017). Metalepsis in Animation: Paradoxical Transgressions of Ontological Levels. Heidelberg: Winter.
• Bruckner, F., Feyersinger, E., Kuhn, M., & Reinerth, M. S. (Eds.). (2017). In Bewegung setzen... Beiträge zur deutschsprachigen Animationsforschung. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
• Feyersinger, E. (2017). Visuelle Abstraktion in narrativen Filmen und Serien, wissenschaftlichen Visualisierungen und experimenteller Animation. In F. Bruckner, E. Feyersinger, M. Kuhn, & M. S. Reinerth (Eds.), In Bewegung setzen … Beiträge zur deutschsprachigen Animationsforschung (pp. 169–188). Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
• Feyersinger, E. (2017). Sensory representation, perceptual spaces, and perturbatory distribution of information in Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color. In S. Schlickers & V. Toro (Eds.), Perturbatory narration in film: Narratological studies on deception, paradox and empuzzlement (Narratologia 59, pp. 121–133). Berlin: de Gruyter.
• Feyersinger, E., & Reinerth, M. (Eds.). (2013). Animationsfilm [Special issue]. Montage AV – Zeitschrift für Theorie und Geschichte audiovisueller Kommunikation, 22(2). Marburg: Schüren.
• Feyersinger, E. (2013). Von sich streckenden Strichen und hüpfenden Hühnern: Erkundungen des Kontinuums zwischen Abstraktion und Realismus. Montage AV, 22(2), 33–44.
• Feyersinger, E. (2012). The conceptual integration network of metalepsis. In R. Schneider & M. Hartner (Eds.), Blending and the study of narrative (Narratologia 34, pp. 173–198). Berlin: de Gruyter.
• Feyersinger, E. (2011). The (meta-)metareferential turn in animation. In W. Wolf, K. Bantleon & J. Thoss (Eds.), The metareferential turn in contemporary arts and media: Forms, functions, attempts at explanation (pp. 445–462). Amsterdam: Rodopi.
• Feyersinger, E. (2011). Metaleptic TV crossovers. In K. Kukkonen & S. Klimek (Eds.), Metalepsis in popular culture (Narratologia 28, pp. 127–157). Berlin: de Gruyter.
• Feyersinger, E. (2010). Diegetic short circuits: Metalepsis in animation. animation: an interdisciplinary journal, 5(3), 279–294.
• Feyersinger, E. (2009). Bringing Life to Everyday Objects: Ambige Zeichengeflechte in Jan Švankmajers Objektanimation. Poetica, 41(3-4), 427–454.