Pia Patrick Raddatz

Dipl.-Des. (no pronouns)

Researcher

 

E: patrick.raddatz@students.mdw.ac.at

    https://stack.ion.li/@pi

 

 

Pia Patrick Raddatz is a PhD student at the Department of Music Sociology, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Pia's studies of Visual Communication/Arts at the University of Art and Design Offenbach were completed with distinction, specialising in media sociology, art history, experimental spatial design and photography. The diploma project House Nation BRD. Regionale Netzwerke in House und Techno von den Anfängen in den 1980ern bis zur Definition eines städtetypischen Sounds in den 1990ern consisted of qualitative research based on nineteen interviews with first and second generation of German house and techno cultural workers, a database scraping available online data, and a graphical front-end displaying relational links between three types of entities, inspired by genome research visual algorithms and actor-network-theory.

 

Research Interests

Music Sociology

Qualitative Social Research

Queer, Trans, Gender Studies

Electronic Dance Music/Electronic Music

Club Culture (heritagisation, narrativisation of popular music history, socioeconomic dimensions, politics of class and gender, city-specific identities of sound cultures)

Nighttime Economy

 

Publications

FUTURE ARCHIVE DIARY — Historie und Hysterie: Cultural Private Partnerships And Commodification In The Context Of Club Cultures. 2023. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7841070

Patrick Raddatz: SINCE FICTION. Frankfurt am Main: KANN-Verlag, 2013. ISBN 978-3-00-034637-8

Patrick Raddatz: At The Control Room. Ausstellungskatalog, hg. vom 1822-Forum der Frankfurter Sparkasse, Frankfurt am Main, 2008.

 

Contributions

BLACKOUT/WHITEOUT. Driftende Ir/realitäten, repetitive Pattern und Erfahrungen des Split im Raving. ( ) s-p-a-c-e (Hg.), 2025. ISBN 978-3-96042-199-3

Ästhetik & Kommunikation: Kittler. Hg. von Herbert M. Hurka, Dierk Spreen. Berlin 2013, 43. Jg. Heft 158/159. ISBN 978-3-00-041053-6

 

Academic Experience

10/2025 Presentation: "Towards Unlearning cis-het Narratives in Popular Music History Discourse. Queer Theoretical Perspectives on Two Club Culture TV Documentaries." Performativity(ies) of Memory(ies) Interdisciplinary Conference, Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo, Portugal.

02/2024 Presentation: "Kulturell-private Partnerschaften und Kommodifizierung in Clubkulturen." Musik aus Strom. Ausstellung und Veranstaltungsreihe im Volkskundemuseum Wien.

2015 – 2020 Teaching assignment, University of Art and Design Offenbach, Germany.

2013 – 2017 Research and coordination assignment, Institut für Klangforschung, University of Art and Design Offenbach, Germany.

2012 – 2024 Research, curation, moderation: Lecture series "Robert Johnson Theorie", in cooperation with Robert Johnson Club, Offenbach and University of Art and Design Offenbach, Germany.

 

Education

2024 – PhD studies: "Kulturelle Konsekration im Club. Legitimationsdiskurse und Narrative einer Kultur- erbe-Konstruktion der Clubkultur von House und Techno in Deutschland." mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

2020 – 2024 PhD studies. University of Art and Design Offenbach, Germany.

2015 Diploma Visual Communication (with distinction), University of Art and Design Offenbach, Germany, faculty of Arts.

1998 – 2001 Media Designer Digital- and Print, specialty Media Design, Berufliche Schule für Druck- und Medientechnik, Farbtechnik und Raumgestaltung, Frankfurt am Main.