Florian Cramer
Born 1969. Studied comparative literature, art history and german philology at FU Berlin, Universität Konstanz and University of Massachusetts at Amherst. MA in comparative literature from Freie Universität Berlin (1998). Has published in the area of code poetry, comparative studies in the literature and the arts, modernism, text theory, literature and computing. Collaborated on the Runme.org software art repository. Edited Unstable Digest of code poetry. Coder of the combinatory poetry site Permutations http://permutations.home.ml.org, formerly busy in Neoism as fictioneered on http://www.neoism.org. In 2004 he visited Piet Zwart Institute as a Media Design research fellow, wrote the essay Words Made Flesh, code, culture imagination and worked with students in workshops and tutorials. In summer 2006, he returned as the new course director of the Media Design MA programme. Lives in Berlin.
- Publications
- Words Made Flesh. Code, Culture, Imagination. Media Design Research, Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy Hogeschool Rotterdam, 2005, 140 pg http://cramer.plaintext.cc/all/words_made_flesh/html/words_made_flesh.html
- Articles