(What We Do) For The Love Of Knowledge And For The Love Of Art

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  • Agata Mergler York University

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Agata Mergler, York University

Agata Mergler is a PhD candidate in humanities at York University with a thesis on Cultural Translation and Latin American Digital Art. She works at an intersection of cultural translation, cultural and media studies, digital art research, and comparative literature.

Currently, she is a lecturer at Magdalena Abakanowicz Art University in Poznan in Philosophy (BA students) and Contemporary Philosophy (MA students). She is a PhD with expertise in 20th-century German philosophy.
She has been part of a collaborative artistic research project Haptic/Visual Identities since 2015 alongside Cristian Villavicencio, which brought exhibitions, articles, and art talks in Europe, South and North America.
She is a co-creator of the CCLA research group Fantastical Constellations after Magical Realism and co-edited a Canadian Review of Comparative Literature issue on post-magical realism.

Her recent articles are “Walter Benjamin's Media Theory in the Times of Platform Nihilism” in Violence and Nihilism book, and Documenta Fifteen and Berlin Biennale 12 - Comparison published in NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies.

In unequal measures she has enjoyed working as a media artist, translator, interpreter, and an academic teacher in recent years.

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2025-03-14

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Mergler, A. (2025). (What We Do) For The Love Of Knowledge And For The Love Of Art. Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, 15(3), 329–350. https://doi.org/10.17742/IMAGE29723

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Vol. 15 No. 3 (2024): A Research-Creation Episteme? Practices, Interventions, Dissensus

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