Professor for Image Science and Head of the Department at Danube University Grau lectured in numerous parts of the world, received various awards and is widely published (12 languages). He received the Honorary Media Award of the Humboldt University Society in 2004.

Grau lectured in numerous parts of the world, received various awards and is widely published (12 languages). Recent works include Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion (MIT-Press 2003), Mediale Emotionen (Fischer, 2005) and MediaArtHistories (MIT-Press 2007). His research focuses on the history of media art, the history of immersion and emotions; and the history, idea, and culture of telepresence, genetic art, and artificial intelligence. He was head of the German Science Foundation project Immersive Art, whose team since 1998 developed the first international Database of Digital Art: www.virtualart.at now based at Danube University. Grau directs as well the development of the Database of the Graphic Collection Goettweig, Austrias largest private graphic collection, which contains 30.000 masterprints from Duerer to Klimt: http://dbw.donau-uni.ac.at/gssg Grau taught at Humboldt University Berlin and served as exchange professor at several international universities. He is an advisory board member of numerous international journals and was elected as member of the Young Academy of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the Leopoldina. Oliver Grau was director of Refresh! First International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science, and Technology, Banff 2005. www.mediaarthistory.org. (200 Wörter)