Florian Cramer
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Born | Berlin, West Germany (now Germany) |
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Lives in | Rotterdam, Netherlands |
Website | Website, Mastodon, Diaspora, Vimeo, Zotero, Pixelfed |
Florian Cramer [Taiwanese name 官無名] (1969), reader/practice-oriented research professor in Autonomous Art and Design Practices at Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, Netherlands. (2025)
Florian Cramer is a reader (in Dutch: lector, in Canadian English: research chair in Research-Creation, in non-UK English: practice-oriented research professor) in 21st Century Visual Culture at Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, Netherlands, an art and design school which is part of Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences (Hogeschool Rotterdam).
Within the research department of the Willem de Kooning Academy, he is specialized in Autonomous Practices, one of its three B.A. graduation profiles. The Autonomous Practices curriculum and projects are looking into new ways of defining, creating and experimenting with autonomy in the arts and elsewhere, as opposed to traditional, and now often problematic, Western paradigms of aesthetic and artistic autonomy.
Currently, he is a supervisor in the Dutch Professional Doctorate Arts + Creative pilot program as well as a co-supervisor of PhD candidates at Leiden University and University of Amsterdam.
He has co-supervised two research projects funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), respectively its applied-science branch SIA:
- Making Matters: Bridging art, design and technology through Material Practices. This project investigated new, collective material practices that break with the split of mind and matter, thinking and making.
- Autonomy Lab; this project investigates how artist/research/activist/multidisciplinary collectives give new meaning to autonomy, and how and for whom autonomy is practiced and created in their work.
Outside his school, he is an associate member of the Pearl River Delta-based 展銷場 Display Distribute collective, operating as the Rotterdam Relay Center of its 後勤慢遞 LIGHT LOGISTICS courier service. He also runs the weekly radio program Mixed Business on Radio WORM, am a student/tutor in the BananSkole and board member of Stichting Lezeren, an artist-run non-profit organization for free Dutch language and literacy courses.
He is on the academic advisory board for the arts magazine Neural and of APRJA, a peer-reviewed Open Access journal published by the media studies department of Aarhus University, Denmark, and on the advisory board of PASS, the Center for Practice-Based Art Studies of University of Copenhagen, Denmark. (2025)
Publications[edit]
Books[edit]
- The House of Nine Squares: Letters on Neoism, Psychogeography and Epistemological Trepidation (with Stewart Home), 1997.
- Words Made Flesh: Code, Culture, Imagination, Rotterdam: Media Design Research, Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy Hogeschool Rotterdam, 2005, 140 pp. [1]
- Exe.cut(up)able statements: Poetische Kalküle und Phantasmen des selbstausführenden Texts, Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2011. (German)
- Anti-Media: Ephemera on Speculative Arts, Rotterdam: nai010 publishers, and Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2013, 260 pp.
- Pattern Discrimination (with Clemens Apprich, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Hito Steyerl), Lüneburg: meson press & University of Minnesota Press, 2018, xii+123 pp.
- Making Matters. A Vocabulary for Collective Arts (editor, with Janneke Wesseling), Amsterdam: Valiz, 2022, 336 pp, ARG. Publisher. [2]
- Het Andrea Behr Pamflet 41: "BFFS", Rotterdam, 2023, [32] pp, ARG. Artist book. Toot.
- Lumbung, Commons and Community Art: A Conversation on the Behind-the-Scenes of documenta fifteen (with Simon Kentgens), Rotterdam: HumDrumPress, 2023, 136 pp. Toot. Toot. Publisher.
Book chapters, papers, articles[edit]
- "Gegen Medientheorie", Rohrpost, 7 Feb 2001. [3] (German)
- "Software Art" (with Ulrike Gabriel), 15 Aug 2001, PDF; repr. in DIY Media: Kunst und digitale Medien: Software, Partizipation, Distribution. Transmediale.01, eds. Andreas Broeckmann and Susanne Jaschko, Berlin: Berliner Kulturveranstaltungs, 2001, pp 29-33 [4], repr. as "Software Art and Writing", American Book Review 22:6, Sep-Oct 2001 [5]; repr. as "On Software Art", in Rhizome, 20 Sep 2001. Written 15 Aug 2001.
- "Der selbstausführende Entwurf: Software und Softwarekunst", 24 Jan 2002. (German)
- "Concepts, Notations, Software, Art", 23 Mar 2002, PDF.
- "Contextualizing Software Art", [18 May] 2002.
- "Zehn Thesen zur Softwarekunst", 23 Sep 2003, PDF; repr. in SoftwareArt: eine Reportage über den Code, ed. Gerrit Gohlke, Berlin, 2003, pp 6-14. (German)
- "Ten Theses about Software Art", 23 Sep 2003, PDF.
- "Dix hypothèses au sujet de l'art logiciel", in Art ++, ed. David-Olivier Lartigaud, Orléans: HYX, 2011, pp 102-111. (French)
- "Post-Digital Writing", Electronic Book Review, 12 Dec 2012. Originally given as the keynote lecture at the Electronic Literature Organization conference, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, 22 Jun 2012.
- "Postdigitales Schreiben", in Code und Koncept. Literatur und das Digitale, ed. Hannes Bajohr, Berlin: Frohmann, 2016, pp 27-43. [6] (German)
- "Post-Digital Aesthetics", Jeu de Paume, May 2013.
- "Interventions, Experimentation, Markets: Art Education and Cross-Disciplinary Creative Practice", in Reinventing the Art School, 21st Century, Rotterdam: Willem de Kooning Academy & Creating 010/Hogeschool Rotterdam, 2013, pp 27-44.
- "What is 'Post-digital'?", A Peer-Reviewed Journal About "Post-Digital Research" 3:1, Aarhus: Digital Aesthetics Research Center, with Berlin: transmediale, 2014.
- "Post-Digital Literary Studies", Materialities of Literature 4:1 (2016), TXT.
- "Depression: Post-Melancholia, Post-Fluxus, Post-Communist, Post-Capitalist, Post-Digital, Post-Prozac", in A Solid Injury to the Knees, ed. Maya Tonuta, Vilnius: Rupert, 2016, pp 60-107.
- "Crapularity Hermeneutics", 2016.
- "Introduction to Mez Breeze’s Attn: Solitude" (with Alissa Dinallo), Cordite Poetry Review, 3 Jan 2017.
- "When Claire Bishop Woke Up in the Drone Wars: Art and Technology, the Nth Time", in across & beyond: A transmediale Reader on Post-digital Practices, Concepts, and Institutions, eds. Ryan Bishop, Kristoffer Gansing, Jussi Parikka, and Elvia Wilk, Berlin: Sternberg & Transmediale, 2017.
- "Does the Tragedy of the Commons Repeat Itself as a Tragedy of the Public Domain?", in Being Public: How Art Creates the Public Domain, eds. Jeroen Boomgaard and Rogier Brom, Amsterdam: Valiz, with LAPS / Gerrit Rietveld Academie, 2017, HTML.
- The Moral of The Xerox: Missalette (with Clara Lobregat Balaguer), Cologne, 2017. Zine. Excerpt, Excerpt.
- "Open Source as a Test Case for a Post-Humanist Commons", in ODD 1 Privately, ed. Cristina Bogdan, Bucharest: ODD, 2017, pp 27-62.
- "Häuser aus Staub. Das Unfertige und seine Entromantisierung in Projektkunst und Digitalwirtschaft, von Fluxus bis Liquidity Inc.", 2018. (German)
- "Crapularity Aesthetics", Feb 2018; repr. in Making & Breaking 1, 2019, PDF.
- "Rosa Einhörner", Jun 2018. (German)
- "What Is Autonomy?", The Autonomous Fabric, Rotterdam: Willem de Kooning Academy, 11 Apr 2018, HTML.
- "Does DIY Mean Anything? - a DIY Attempt (= Essay)", Anrikningsverket Journal 1: "Convulsion", Jul 2019, pp 52-72, PDF.
- "On Compressions", Erase!, Sep 2021.
- "On Erasure: The Unerasable Series", Erase!, Sep 2021.
- "What Is Urgent Publishing?", APRIA, Arnhem: ARTEZ, Oct 2021.
- "Artistic Research - Dead on Arrival? Research practices of self-organized collectives versus managerial visions of artistic research", in The Postresearch Condition, ed. Henk Slager, Utrecht: Metropolis M Books, 2021, pp 19-25, PDF.
- "A Near-sighted Falling into Technology — Through the Looking Glass of Art Practice as Human Self-Experimentation‚ Accidents and Coincidence" (with Elaine W. Ho), in Technological Accidents, Accidental Technologies, eds. Joke Brouwer and Sjoerd van Tuinen, Rotterdam: V2_ Publishing, 2023, pp 60-80, ARG.
- "speculative photography: an attempt (essay) of making visible (manifesto)", Artnodes: Journal of Art, Science and Technology 34: "Materiology and Variantology: Invitation to Dialogue", eds. Siegfried Zielinski & Daniel Irrgang, Barcelona: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Jul 2024, 9 pp, PDF, HTML. Toot.
More writings[edit]
- Essays archived at pleintekst.nl
- Posts on Nettime.
- Posts on Rohrpost. (German)
- Posts on Filmkorn.
- List of printed publications, 1991-2001
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Interviews[edit]
- "Cornelia Sollfrank in conversation with Florian Cramer", in Cross-wired: Communication, Interface, Locality, eds. Kerstin Mey and Simon Yuill, 2001, pp 58-67. [7] (English)
- Interview with Florian Cramer, Neural 44: Special issue on Post-Digital Print (2013), pp 38-42. (English)
- Chiara Moioli, Cloning Aura: Neoism Now & Then. In Conversation with Florian Cramer, Brescia: Link Editions, 2016, [33] pp. (English)/(Italian)
- Johannes Grenzfurthner, "Affect and Effect: On Eco-Guilt and Systemic Masochism. A conversation with Florian Cramer", Free Lunch Commission, 11 Jan 2021. (English)
- with Petar Jandrić, "Postdigital: A Term That Sucks but Is Useful", Postdigital Science and Education, Mar 2021, PDF. (English)
- Martina Leeker, about Art and Research - Interview with Florian Cramer, Kunst & Kunsttheorie Uni Köln, Sep 2023, 17 min. Video. Transcript. (English)
- Nynke Schaaf, "ISCHNNK Goes Meine Goethe Februari 2024: Florian Cramer", Radio WORM, Feb 2024, 93 min. Audio. (Dutch)
- Bernd Lechler, "DOGE – vom Meme zum Machtfaktor", Deutschlandfunk (Corso – Kunst & Pop), 29 Nov 2024, 11 min. Radio interview. Toot. (German)
- "On Elon Musk, DOGE, memes and extreme-right clown politics", Doorbraak, 17 Jan 2025. Toot. (English)
- "Over Elon Musk, DOGE, memes en extreem-rechtse clownspolitiek", Doorbraak, 17 Jan 2025. Toot. (Dutch)
See also[edit]
Links[edit]
- Wikipedia-DE (archived 2012)