Curriculum
Oliver Elbs
5.9.1972 According to the birth certificate and (Austrian) ‘parents‘ ‘born‘ (together with a twin sister) in Lucerne (Switzerland)
1985-92 Attending the Grammar School of Lucerne (Alpenquai-Tribschen), and Abitur (first prize)
1992-94 Studying Physics and Mathematics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (both pre-degrees)
1995-96 Working at a farm and at a benedictine monastery in the Southwest of France
1997-2002 Studying Religious Studies, History of art, and Philosophy at the University of Tübingen, and working at the Print Collection of the Institute for Art History, University of Tübingen
2001 M.A. in Religious Studies and Art History
1981-2003 Educating my Self by myself (i.e., NOT ONLY by "conspecifics": cf. also EPLEY et al. 2008!) with the ultimate goal of developing a total ("smooth", "hypersensitive") spatio-temporal map (or potential landscape) without any cracks and gaps between maps... (while not only blindly using "my inherited" maps, but also while "self-consciously" trying to map my own maps and "biases" in turn...)
2004 Doctorate (ph. D.) in Art History
2005 Giving a Seminar on “Neuro-Esthetics” at the University of Tübingen (non-paid)
2005/2006 Giving a Seminar on “Neuro-Esthetics” at the Free University of Berlin (paid)
2006, Feb-May Organization, redaction, and catalogue texts for a multidisciplinary exhibition at Tübingen University (Exhibition catalogue: “38 Dinge – Schätze aus den natur- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Sammlungen”, Tübingen) in only three months
2006, Oct Organization, poster, and brochure for a small exhibition on 100 years of Alzheimer Research at the University Clinic for Psychiatry Tübingen, November 2-4, with Prof. Mathias Jucker, Hertie-Institute for Clinical Brain Research, Tübingen in only three weeks
2007, May-August Collaboration in creating the multidisciplinary Museum of the University of Tübingen (MUT - covering nearly all scientific subjects and disciplines) in only four months
2008, Feb 21 Giving a non-paid (!) lecture (*) at the first CAA conference on "Neuroarthistory" in Dallas (USA) following a personal request by Prof. John Onians (see [1])
2008, July Moving back to Switzerland (at last!)
1997- Giving (until 2008: under-paid!) private lessons (*) (especially in Mathematics [2], which may be the only non-arbitrary [i.e., non-natural and hence well-defined and stable] "science"...) to about three hundred pupils or map-makers (including groups) of age 10 to 50 (Mathematics, Physics, French, German, History, Geography, etc.). (And thanks to all these poor pupils, I have been ABLE to become aware of nearly all primal biases, errors, mistakes and shortcomings of "our" quite primitive "societies"...).
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Books and Publications (non-trivial ones) >> [3]
(“Non-trivial papers” means papers funded and written by myself as a first author only (*)).
Language skills: German, French, English, Italian (reading), Spanish (reading), Latin (reading), Greek (1 year only), Hebrew (1 year only)
Computer skills: Adobe InDesign, Adobe-Illustrator, Adobe-Photoshop, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Wiki, Flash…
Websites: this (including the short – and Oliver’s most important – text: “[4]”) and Shiftology
Address: e-mail: oliver@elbs.org
Map-makers I am connected with (mostly rather loosely, i.e., in a non-corrupt manner (*)...):
Prof. John Onians, Art history, Norwich UK, J.Onians@uea.ac.uk
Dr. Anette Michels, Art history, Print collection of the University of Tübingen, anette.michels@uni-tuebingen.de
Prof. David Freedberg, Art history, Columbia University NY, daf5@columbia.edu
Prof. Olaf Blanke, Neuropsychology, EPFL Lausanne CH, olaf.blanke@epfl.ch
PD Dr. Hansjörg Baezner, Neurobiology and Clinical Art History, University Clinic Mannheim, baezner@neuro.ma.uni-heidelberg.de
Prof. Semir Zeki, Neurobiology, University College London, zeki.pa@ucl.ac.uk
Prof. Rafi Malach, Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute, Israel, bnmalach@wisemail.weizmann.ac.il
Martin R. Boyer, Neurobiology and Art history, martinrboyer@gmail.com
Armin Elbs, Mechatronics (and my webmaster >> Impressum), Bregenz (Austria), armin.elbs@eec.at
What is life? – (My last joke as usual!) – Here some definitions:
Exporting (and publishing?) ever more waste ___ Schrödinger, Thermodynamics
A free electron looking for a quiet place ___ Szent-Györgyi, Biochemistry
Two-legged featherless existence ___ Plato, Philosophy
A permanent flight from cars, noise, pain, and i... ___ OE, Mapology
(*) Please note:
Most things that are payABLE (i.e., that CAN be paid) are extremely arbitrary and non-stable and (hence) may have no value and no sense, and therefore there may be at least two ABILITIES which you MIGHT never be ABLE to pay (pace some primitive "neuro-economists"!):
1. A perfectly educated map-maker ("brain", "teacher", etc.).
2. Unconditioned (i.e., "erotic"? "esthetic"?) "love" (which automatically excludes some quite primitive-primal "parental love", "marital love", "romantic love", "bindings", "bondings", etc. etc. etc.).
Unfortunately enough, both these "personality traits" (i.e., ABILITies of a map-maker or "brain") seem to be EXTREMELY RARE, and nor have "we" been ABLE to map (pace some primitive "neuro-economists"!) the neurobiological underpinnings of both these RICHEST ABILIties and capacities...
And: in contrast to today's media and the internet, face-to-face communications (e.g., when giving private lessons) CAN NOT be faked (yet)... Hence the extreme value and preciousness of real-presence dialogues between four eyes...