Barbara Büscher is a professor of Media studies/Intermediality at Leipzig Academy of Music and Theatre. She has published numerous essays on performance theory and media art, art and technology, performance/performing archives and performance art and architecture. She headed the research project “Records and Representations. Media and Constitutive Systems in Archiving Performance-based Arts” from 2012 to 2017. Since 2017 she has been co-directing the research project “Architecture and Space for the Performing Arts – Developments since the 1960” (funded by DFG). She currently conducts the research project “Subverting Archival Practices” together with Franz Anton Cramer (funded by VolkswagenStiftung). She is a co-publisher of the online journal «MAP – media/archive/performance» (www.perfomap.de).