Andreas Broeckmann
Born 1964. Lives in Berlin. Studied art history, sociology and media studies in Bochum, Berlin, and Norwich. 1995 PhD from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, with thesis A Visual Economy of Individuals: Portrait Photography in the 19th Century Human Sciences. 1995-2000 worked as a project manager at V2_Organisation Rotterdam, where he co-curated, amongst other things, programmes for the deaf festival and Next 5 Minutes conferences. Founding member of the translocal Syndicate network (1996-2001). From September 2000 to 2007 he was the Artistic Director of Transmediale - international media art festival Berlin. Since 2005 one of artistic directors of Tesla media art lab in Berlin. Indepently curated exhibitions included projects with Kontejner / MaMa in Zagreb ('Runtime Art', 2004), at TENT/Witte de With in Rotterdam ('Tracer / Neuralgic', 2004), and at Skuc Gallery in Ljubljana ('KRcF - Room for Manoeuvre', 2006). Co-chaired Re:place conference (Berlin, 2007). He is a member of the advisory board for Visual Arts of the Goethe Institut, and of the Council for the Arts, Berlin. He co-maintains the Spectre mailing list (*2001) and is a member of the Berlin-based media association mikro (*1998). In university courses, curatorial projects, and lectures he deals with media art, digital culture, and aesthetics of the machinic.
- Articles
- Andreas Broeckmann, David García, Geert Lovink. The GHI of Tactical Media. December 2002. http://www.uoc.edu/artnodes/eng/art/broeckmann0902/broeckmann0902.html
- Andreas Broeckmann. Sociable Machinists of Culture. February 2000. http://isp2.srv.v2.nl/~andreas/texts/2000/networkers.html
- Andreas Broeckmann. Net.Art, Machines, and Parasites. January 1997. http://www.irational.org/cybercafe/backspace/netart.txt
- more: http://isp2.srv.v2.nl/~andreas/texts/