Research

Main focus:

3D digitization of technical-machine facilities
History of technology: buildings of industry and technology

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 art monuments, Department of Monument Preservation, Regional Council Tübingen
2014 - 2015	Project position: Evaluation and archiving of monument procedures of industrial and technical monument preservation, State Office for Monument Preservation Esslingen
2016 - 2016	Evaluation project: Preservation strategies for technical/machine equipment, State Office for Monument Preservation in Esslingen
2017 - 2017	Research assistant at the Institute of History, KIT
2017 - today	Visiting researcher at the Institute of History, KIT
2018	Teaching at the University of Stuttgart
2018 - today	Research associate at the Leibniz Institute for Knowledge Media, Tübingen

Teaching

SS 2018	Spitting 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 of Object Research."

Young Forum for Collection and Object Research Workshop: object cultures of visualization - tools and practices.

11/2017

"3D Digitization of Cultural Monuments of Technology. New Opportunities for Object Research."

- EVA Berlin Conference: Digitally Remastered - Cultural Heritage and Virtuality.

Publications

2017

Erika Érsek: 3D Digitization of Cultural Monuments of Technology. New Possibilities for Object Research, In: Andreas Bienert, Eva Emenlauer-Blömers, and James R. Hemsley (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. Also available as PDF.

2018

Erika Érsek: Digitale 3D-Modelle als Quellen der Objektforschung, In: Ernst Seidl, Frank Steinheimer und Cornelia Weber (Eds.): Junges Forum für Sammlungs- und Objektforschung - Band II, Published by the Gesellschaft für Universitätssammlungen e. V., pp. 55-60. Also available as PDF.