Biography
Andreas Treske is a filmmaker, media artist, and author writing about online video aesthetics and culture. He graduated from the University of Television and Film, Munich, where he also taught film and video post-production.
His international exhibitions of interactive media works and short films have screened at festivals worldwide. His co-directed feature documentary Takım Böyle Tutulur screened in over 50 Turkish cinemas in 2005. He served as picture editor on the cinema documentary Mustafa (2008) and co-produced Black, Not Gray: Ankara Rocks! (2016).
He is the author of “Video Theory” (2015) and “Heaven’s Delight: On The Pleasures of Audiovisual Practices” (2025). His current artistic practice explores “Cinematic Minimalism” through sound art and installation.
Andreas Treske is the Chair of the Department of Communication and Design at I.D. Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, member of the Video Vortex Network since 2008, and a frequent contributor to international discourses on media archaeology, digital culture, and the post-cinematic image.
Research Interests: Interactive Media Works, Filmmaking, Video Production, New Media Theory, Online Video, Media Archaeology, Post-cinematic Image.
Courses Taught
- COMD 207 // History of Film and Media
- COMD 281 // Media and Design Studio I
- COMD 282 // Media and Design Studio II
- COMD 305 // Intermediate Filmproduction I
- COMD 308 // Multicamera Production and Live Recording
- COMD 356 // Digital Culture
- COMD 381 // Media and Design Studio III
- COMD 382 // Media and Design Studio IV
- COMD 437 // Post-Production Techniques
- COMD 481 // Visual Communication Project I
- COMD 482 // Visual Communication Project II
- CS 155 // Interactive Media Design and Development
- GRA 501 // Graduate Studio I
- GRA 502 // Graduate Studio II
- GRA 517 // Image, Time, and Motion I
- GRA 590 // Seminar in Research Topics
- GRA 599 // Master’s Thesis
Selected Publications & Works
- Andreas Treske, Girl in the Water, Video Installation, Exhibition “For want to (not) measuring”, Spazju Kreattif, Valetta, Malta, 2026.
- Andreas Treske, FMB20, Video Installation, Exhibition “For want to (not) measuring”, Spazju Kreattif, Valetta, Malta, 2026.
- Andreas Treske, 39,07467° N, 33,41088° E (Salt Lake Studies 2022-2024-2026), Video Installation, Exhibition “For want to (not) measuring”, Spazju Kreattif, Valetta, Malta, 2026.
- Andreas Treske, Heaven’s Delight: On the Pleasures of Audiovisual Practices, Institute of Networkcultures, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2025.
- A. Treske, G. Lovink, Video Vortex Reader #3: Inside the YouTube Decade, 299 pp., Amsterdam, Institute of Networkcultures. (2020)
- A. Treske, Video Theory. Online Video Aesthetics or The Afterlife of Video, Transcript Verlag, 2015, Reprinted in 2017.
- Aras Ozgun, Andreas Treske, “Streaming Media Platforms and Film/Video Arts Distribution,” Markets, Globalization and Development Review, vol. 9, pp. 3 – , 2024.
- A. Ozgun, A. Treske, “On Streaming Media Platforms, Their Audiences, and Public Life,” Rethinking Marxism-A Journal of Economics, Culture and Society, vol. 33, pp. 304-323, 2021. PDF
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