Wolfgang Bongers

Wolfgang Bongers is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Literature and Linguistics, Catholic University of Chile. He holds a PhD in Literature and Intermediality from the University of Siegen, Germany, and a Master of Arts in Romance Philology from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. As a film and literary critic, he specializes in the intersections between literature and audiovisual media (film, television, installations, digital art), as well as the construction of cultural memories in analog and digital archives, their technologies and materialities throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. “Literature and Publicity” are prominent themes in this context. He has led several national and international research projects and is the author of numerous articles and the books “Writing/Figures: Julio Cortázar’s Transtextual Aesthetics” and “Interferences from the Archive: Aesthetic and Political Cuts in Film and Literature. Argentina and Chile.” Currently, he is the Co-Director of the Millennium Nucleus project “The Futures of Artificial Intelligence” (nucleofair.org).