Erika Érsek M.A.

M.A. Erika Érsek

  • Neuer Zirkel 3

    D-76131 Karlsruhe

    Germany

Research

Main focus:

  • 3D digitization of technical and mechanical systems
  • History of technology: industrial and technical buildings


Research project:

  • since 2017: 3D digitization of cultural monuments of technology as sources of the history of technology(to the project page)


CV


2015

2009 - 2014

Master's degree in history and art history at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

Assistant for the inventory of architectural and artistic monuments - Department of Monument Preservation, Regional Council of Tübingen

2014 - 2015Project position: Evaluation and archiving of monument procedures of industrial and technical monument preservation - State Office for Monument Preservation Esslingen
2016 - 2016Evaluation project: Conservation strategies for technical/mechanical equipment - State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Esslingen
2017 - 2017Research assistant at the Institute for History, KIT

2017 - today

Visiting researcher at the Institute of History, KIT

2018Guest lecturer at the University of Stuttgart
2018 - 2020

Research associate at the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen

2021 - 2022Research assistant at the German Emigration Center, Bremerhaven
2022 - todayResearch assistant, Historical Museums Reutlingen


Teaching

SS 2018Spitting birds, crushed bones - The Lower Waterworks in Schwetzingen and the traces of its use.

- Practical seminar, Historical Seminar, Dept. History of the Impact of Technology, University of Stuttgart -


Lectures

09/2017

"Digital 3D models as sources for object research."

Workshop 'Young Forum for Collection and Object Research: Object Cultures of Visualization - Instruments and Practices. Central Custody, Georg-August-University Göttingen

11/2017

"3D digitization of cultural monuments of technology. New possibilities for object research." 24th Conference EVA Berlin: Digitally Remastered - Cultural Heritage and Virtuality. Museum of Decorative Arts at the Kulturforum, Berlin

01/2021"Out of order! Virtual reconstruction of historical machine mechanics through simulation" - with Victor Häfner. Gyrolog final conference 'From the cabinet to the net. 3D digitization of scientific collections - knowing how? University of Stuttgart (online)
02/2021"Digitizing the legacy of Matschoß: Technical objects in situ and in the museum." VDI Annual Conference '150 Years of C. Matschoß - History of Technology for the Present'.Technical University of Berlin / German Museum of Technology Berlin (online) - Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czNo_KGgGhI


Publications

2018Érsek, Erika: 3D digitization of cultural monuments of technology. New possibilities for object research, In: Bienert, A. / Emenlauer-Blömers, E. and Hemsley, J. R. (eds.): Conference proceedings EVA Berlin 2017. Electronic Media & Art, Culture and History: 24th Berlin event of the international EVA series Electronic Media and Visual Arts, Heidelberg: arthistoricum.net, 2018 (EVA Berlin, Vol. 24), pp. 96-99. https://doi.org/10.11588/arthistoricum.443.c5691.

2018

Digitale 3D-Modelle als Quellen der Objektforschung, In: Seidl, E. / Steinheimer, F. and Weber, C. (eds.): Junges Forum für Sammlungs- und Objektforschung, Gesellschaft für Universitätssammlungen e.V., Vol. II, pp. 55-60. https://doi.org/10.18452/19739

2024Érsek, Erika / Chizhova, Maria / Hascher, Michael and Kopanitsak, Clarissa: Matschoss 2.0 - Virtual machine collections as the missing link between museums and historic monuments, In: it - Information Technology, vol. 66, no. 6, 2024, pp. 221-231.https://doi.org/10.1515/itit-2023-0113
2025Érsek, Erika / Häfner, Victor / Benedix, Anne-Christine and Hascher, Michael: Out of order! Virtual reconstruction of historical machine mechanics through simulation (in print).