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Hans Dieter Huber was born in 1953 and currently lives in Stuttgart, Germany. After studying painting and graphic arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and art history, philosophy and psychology in Heidelberg, in 1986 he earned his Ph.D. with a dissertation on art history. He received his habilitation degree in 1994. From 1997 to 1999, he taught art history at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig, and since October 1999, he has been a professor of contemporary art history, aesthetics and art theory at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. From April 2000 to March 2004, he acted as project manager for “Visual competence in the medium age,” an initiative within the framework of the “Cultural education in the medium age,” program sponsored by the Bund-Laender Commission. From November 2001 to July 2003, he was scientific advisor for the European Union project “404 Object Not Found. What remains of media art?” which examined issues surrounding the production, presentation and preservation of media art. Since June 2003, he has been a board member of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Image Research in Magdeburg. Since May 2005, he has headed the study program “Conservation of New Media and Digital Information” at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart (http://www.mediaconservation.org/). Among his most important publications are System und Wirkung. Interpretation und Bedeutung zeitgenoessischer Kunst, 1989; Dan Graham. Interviews. 1997; Kunst des Ausstellens, 2002; Bild Medien Wissen, 2002; Bild, Beobachter, Milieu. Entwurf einer allgemeinen Bildwissenschaft, 2004; and Paolo Veronese. Kunst als soziales System, 2005.