Aurora Hoel
About
Aurora Hoel (aka Aud Sissel Hoel) is Professor of Media Studies and Visual Culture at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). She received her PhD from the Faculty of Humanities at NTNU in 2005 for her dissertation on the formative powers of pictures.
Her research interests revolve around science images and technologies of vision, and branch out to topics such as photography, scientific instruments, symbolic mediation, visual thinking, medical imaging, and visualization.
In 2015-2017 she was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Humboldt University of Berlin, undertaking a project called Styles of Objectivity: Agency, Alignment and Automation in Image-Guided Surgery (IMAGUS).
Previously she was the PI of the interdisciplinary research project Picturing the Brain: Perspectives on Neuroimaging (2010-2014), funded by the Research Council of Norway. Some years ago Hoel conducted a project on photography used for identification and control, resulting in an exhibition and an authored book/catalogue.
An overarching aim that cuts across Hoel’s various projects is to develop what she has coined as a “differential” approach to images and mediating apparatuses more generally. Hoel has published several articles and chapters in books. She has co-edited two books on Ernst Cassirer’s philosophy of technology, Ernst Cassirer on Form and Technology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and Form og teknikk (Cappelen, 2006). More recently, she has co-edited a special issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews focusing on computational picturing. She is also co-editor of Visualization in the Age of Computerization (Routledge, 2014).
Publications
2021
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Friedrich, Kathrin;
Hoel, A S Aurora.
(2021)
Operational analysis: A method for observing and analyzing digital media operations.
New Media & Society
Academic article
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Hoel, Aurora.
(2021)
Styles of Objectivity in Scientific Instrumentation.
Oxford University Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Hoel, Aurora.
(2021)
Image Agents.
The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics
Academic article
2020
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Hoel, Aurora.
(2020)
Det ondes emblem: Terroristens ansikt gjennom fem digresjoner.
Universitetsforlaget
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Hoel, Aurora.
(2020)
Images as Active Powers for Reality: A Simondonian Approach to Medical Imaging.
Walter de Gruyter (De Gruyter)
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Hoel, Aurora.
(2020)
Bilde.
Samfundslitteratur
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Gran, Anne-Britt;
Booth, Peter;
Ogundipe, Anne;
Vestberg, Nina Lager;
Røyseng, Sigrid;
Hoel, Aud Sissel.
(2020)
Digitale handlingsmønstre i kunst- og museumssektoren - om forbrukere, museumsledere og kunstnere. DnD-rapport nr. 5.
BI Centre for Creative Industries
Report
2019
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Ogundipe, Anne;
Hoel, Aud Sissel;
Vestberg, Nina Lager.
(2019)
On the Matter of Participation. Examining a Nexus of Agency, Affordance, Atmosphere and Affect in Onsite and Online Art Museum Environments.
Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU (2019/330)
Doctoral dissertation
2018
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Hoel, Aud Sissel.
(2018)
Operative Images: Inroads to a New Paradigm of Media Theory.
Walter de Gruyter (De Gruyter)
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Hoel, Aud Sissel.
(2018)
Metastability.
Bloomsbury Academic
Chapter
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Hoel, Aud Sissel.
(2018)
Technicity.
Bloomsbury Academic
Chapter
2017
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Hoel, Aud Sissel;
Carusi, Annamaria.
(2017)
Merleau-Ponty and the Measuring Body.
Theory, Culture and Society. Explorations in Critical Social Science
Academic article
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Hoel, Aud Sissel.
(2017)
Styles of Seeing and Knowing in the Neurosciences (afterword).
Arkiv Förlag
Chapter
2016
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Puig, Jordi;
Hoel, Aud Sissel;
Carusi, Annamaria;
Pinel, Philippe;
Cassinelli, Alvaro.
(2016)
A-me and BrainCloud: Art-Science Interrogations of Localization in Neuroscience.
Leonardo: Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology
Academic article
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Hoel, Aud Sissel.
(2016)
Measuring the Heavens: Charles S. Peirce and Astronomical Photography.
History of Photography
Academic article
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Hoel, Aud Sissel.
(2016)
Neurochirurgische Bildoperationen.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Hoel, Aud Sissel;
Lindseth, Frank.
(2016)
Differential Interventions: Images as Operative Tools.
Open Humanities Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
2015
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Hoel, Aud Sissel;
Carusi, Annamaria.
(2015)
Thinking Technology with Merleau-Ponty.
Lexington Books
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
2014
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Hoel, Aud Sissel;
Carusi, Annamaria.
(2014)
Brains, Windows and Coordinate Systems.
Routledge
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Hoel, Aud Sissel;
Carusi, Annamaria.
(2014)
Toward a New Ontology of Scientific Vision.
MIT Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Carusi, Annamaria;
Hoel, Aud Sissel;
Webmoor, Timothy;
Woolgar, Steve.
(2014)
Introduction.
Routledge
Introduction
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Carusi, Annamaria;
Hoel, Aud Sissel;
Webmoor, Timothy;
Woolgar, Steve.
(2014)
Visualization in the Age of Computerization.
Routledge
Routledge
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
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Johansen, Anja;
Lie, Merete;
Hoel, Aud Sissel.
(2014)
Det anatomiske teater 2014.
Seminar i samarbeid med Cinemateket i Trondheim og Kosmorama filmfestival
Other presentation
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Hoel, Aud Sissel.
(2014)
Images and Measurements across Arts and Sciences.
Cassirer Studies
Academic article
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Johansen, Anja;
Hoel, Aud Sissel;
Lie, Merete.
(2014)
Operating Fields: Medical Imaging Across Art and Science.
Art exhibition with Christina Lammer (AT), Andrew Carnie (UK) and Jordi Puig (ES/NO)
Art exhibition
Journal publications
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Friedrich, Kathrin;
Hoel, A S Aurora.
(2021)
Operational analysis: A method for observing and analyzing digital media operations.
New Media & Society
Academic article
-
Hoel, Aurora.
(2021)
Image Agents.
The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics
Academic article
-
Hoel, Aud Sissel;
Carusi, Annamaria.
(2017)
Merleau-Ponty and the Measuring Body.
Theory, Culture and Society. Explorations in Critical Social Science
Academic article
-
Puig, Jordi;
Hoel, Aud Sissel;
Carusi, Annamaria;
Pinel, Philippe;
Cassinelli, Alvaro.
(2016)
A-me and BrainCloud: Art-Science Interrogations of Localization in Neuroscience.
Leonardo: Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology
Academic article
-
Hoel, Aud Sissel.
(2016)
Measuring the Heavens: Charles S. Peirce and Astronomical Photography.
History of Photography
Academic article
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Hoel, Aud Sissel.
(2014)
Images and Measurements across Arts and Sciences.
Cassirer Studies
Academic article
Artistic productions
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Johansen, Anja;
Hoel, Aud Sissel;
Lie, Merete.
(2014)
Operating Fields: Medical Imaging Across Art and Science.
Art exhibition with Christina Lammer (AT), Andrew Carnie (UK) and Jordi Puig (ES/NO)
Art exhibition
Books
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Carusi, Annamaria;
Hoel, Aud Sissel;
Webmoor, Timothy;
Woolgar, Steve.
(2014)
Visualization in the Age of Computerization.
Routledge
Routledge
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
Part of book/report
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Hoel, Aurora.
(2021)
Styles of Objectivity in Scientific Instrumentation.
Oxford University Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Hoel, Aurora.
(2020)
Det ondes emblem: Terroristens ansikt gjennom fem digresjoner.
Universitetsforlaget
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Hoel, Aurora.
(2020)
Images as Active Powers for Reality: A Simondonian Approach to Medical Imaging.
Walter de Gruyter (De Gruyter)
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Hoel, Aurora.
(2020)
Bilde.
Samfundslitteratur
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Hoel, Aud Sissel.
(2018)
Operative Images: Inroads to a New Paradigm of Media Theory.
Walter de Gruyter (De Gruyter)
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Hoel, Aud Sissel.
(2018)
Metastability.
Bloomsbury Academic
Chapter
-
Hoel, Aud Sissel.
(2018)
Technicity.
Bloomsbury Academic
Chapter
-
Hoel, Aud Sissel.
(2017)
Styles of Seeing and Knowing in the Neurosciences (afterword).
Arkiv Förlag
Chapter
-
Hoel, Aud Sissel.
(2016)
Neurochirurgische Bildoperationen.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Hoel, Aud Sissel;
Lindseth, Frank.
(2016)
Differential Interventions: Images as Operative Tools.
Open Humanities Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Hoel, Aud Sissel;
Carusi, Annamaria.
(2015)
Thinking Technology with Merleau-Ponty.
Lexington Books
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Hoel, Aud Sissel;
Carusi, Annamaria.
(2014)
Brains, Windows and Coordinate Systems.
Routledge
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Hoel, Aud Sissel;
Carusi, Annamaria.
(2014)
Toward a New Ontology of Scientific Vision.
MIT Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Carusi, Annamaria;
Hoel, Aud Sissel;
Webmoor, Timothy;
Woolgar, Steve.
(2014)
Introduction.
Routledge
Introduction
Report
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Gran, Anne-Britt;
Booth, Peter;
Ogundipe, Anne;
Vestberg, Nina Lager;
Røyseng, Sigrid;
Hoel, Aud Sissel.
(2020)
Digitale handlingsmønstre i kunst- og museumssektoren - om forbrukere, museumsledere og kunstnere. DnD-rapport nr. 5.
BI Centre for Creative Industries
Report
-
Ogundipe, Anne;
Hoel, Aud Sissel;
Vestberg, Nina Lager.
(2019)
On the Matter of Participation. Examining a Nexus of Agency, Affordance, Atmosphere and Affect in Onsite and Online Art Museum Environments.
Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU (2019/330)
Doctoral dissertation
UTSTILLING
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Johansen, Anja;
Lie, Merete;
Hoel, Aud Sissel.
(2014)
Det anatomiske teater 2014.
Seminar i samarbeid med Cinemateket i Trondheim og Kosmorama filmfestival
Other presentation
Media
2020
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Academic lectureHoel, Aurora. (2020) Images and/as Machines: Adaptive Mediators Beyond the Human/Machine Binary. Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) Images Beyond Control , Prague (online) 2020-11-06 -
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Academic lectureHoel, Aurora. (2020) Human/Nonhuman Images. School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University Aesthetic Seminar , Aarhus 2020-10-29 -
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Academic lectureHoel, Aurora. (2020) Erasing the Face of the Terrorist. Bildung NTNU og Centre Universitaire de Norvège à Paris Shaping Responses to Violence in the Aftermath of Terrorist Attacks , Paris 2020-01-30 - 2020-01-31
2019
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Academic lectureHoel, Aud Sissel; Mortensen, Mette. (2019) New Approaches to Understanding the Complicity of Media in Globalized Terrorism. C-Rex, senter for ekstremismeforskning, Universitetet i Oslo STR 2019: The data revolution in terrorism research: implications for theory and practice, 13th Annual Conference for Society for Terrorism Research , Oslo 2019-06-20 - 2019-06-21
2017
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Academic lectureHoel, Aud Sissel. (2017) Diagrammatic Reasoning in Image-Guided Neurosurgery (keynote lecture). Alfred Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Visual Reasoning - Visual Arguments , Greifswald 2017-06-01 - 2017-06-03
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LectureHoel, Aud Sissel. (2017) Diagrammatic Reasoning in Image-Guided Neurosurgery. FACT The New Observatory , Liverpool 2017-09-23 -
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Academic lectureHoel, Aud Sissel. (2017) Bodies and Technologies as Measures of Being. School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University Invited lecture followed by master class , Aarhus 2017-09-07 -
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Academic lectureHoel, Aud Sissel. (2017) Media Shift in Surgery. Charité University Hospital ImagINe Surgery , Berlin 2017-04-28 - 2017-04-29
2016
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Academic lectureHoel, Aud Sissel. (2016) Theorizing and analyzing surgical screen operations: The case of preoperative nTMS. Humboldt Univ., Image knowledge Gestaltung Lab Screen Operations: Conditions of Screen-based Interaction , Berlin 2016-06-14 -
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Academic lectureHoel, Aud Sissel. (2016) Styles of Objectivity in Image-Guided Neurosurgery. Theorizing Technological Mediation, Peter-Paul Verbeek Theorizing Technological Mediations , Enschede 2016-11-16 -
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LectureHoel, Aud Sissel; Dolphijn, Rick. (2016) Apparatuses: Reality in Art and Technology. TATE London and COST IS1307 New Materialism New Materialism Training School Research Genealogy and Material Practices , London 2016-05-28 -
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Academic lectureHoel, Aud Sissel. (2016) Styles of Objectivity in Image-Guided Neurosurgery. The Cultural Studies Group of Neuroscience, Lund University Seminar, The Cultural Studies Group of Neuriscience , Lund 2016-11-21 -
2015
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LectureHoel, Aud Sissel. (2015) Media as Differential Apapratuses. Science Studies Program, University of California, San Diego UCSD Science Studies Colloquium Series, Science Studies Program , San Diego 2015-04-20 -
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LectureHoel, Aud Sissel. (2015) Navigating the Brain. Image, Knowledge, Gestaltung, Humboldt University Imaging and Interaction in Medical Practice: An Interdisciplinary Workshop on Image-Guided Clinical Settings , Berlin 2015-02-27 - 2018-02-28
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LectureHoel, Aud Sissel. (2015) Operative Images. Dusan Barok, Bergen senter for elektronisk kunst Extensions of Many: Seminar on Media Aesthetics , Bergen 2015-03-04 -
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LectureHoel, Aud Sissel. (2015) Surgical Image Operations. Tema Technology and Social Change, Linköping University Medical Humanities and Technology Workshop , Linköping 2015-12-07 - 2015-12-08
2014
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Academic lectureHoel, Aud Sissel. (2014) Operative Images. Mark D. Linder, Syracuse University, USA Imaging Images Media Model Diagram, part of the Images?Precisely! event series , London 2014-02-12 -
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Academic lectureHoel, Aud Sissel. (2014) The Image at the Limits of Phenomenology. The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts What Images Do , København 2014-03-19 - 2014-03-21
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Academic lectureHoel, Aud Sissel. (2014) Photography as Measurement Technology. The Charles S. Peirce Society & The Charles S. Peirce Founda The 2014 Charles S. Peirce International Centennial Congress , Lowell, Massachusetts 2014-07-16 - 2014-07-19
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Academic lectureHoel, Aud Sissel. (2014) Rethinking Objectivity by Addressing the Inner Connections between Imaging and Measuring. Humanomics Research Centre, Københavns universitet Form, Concept, and Symbol in the Sciences: The Contribution of Ernst Cassirer to a General Philosophy of Science , København 2014-08-28 -
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Academic lectureHoel, Aud Sissel. (2014) Perspectives on Neuroimaging. Linköping University Higher seminar, Department of Thematic Studies - Technology and Social Change, Linköping University , Linköping 2014-05-21 -
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Academic lectureHoel, Aud Sissel. (2014) Visualization in Arts and Sciences: Images as Differential Apparatuses. Led by Chiara Cappelletto and Emmanuel Alloa Dynamis of the Image: An Archaeology of Potentialities (II) , Basel 2014-12-04 - 2014-12-06