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). 1999-2004 junior lecturer in Comparative Literature, FU Berlin. Administrated rohrpost list (with Tilman Baumgärtel), and with Alan Sondheim co-edited Unstable Digest of code poetry on nettime list. Coder of the combinatory poetry site Permutations http://permutations.home.ml.org, formerly busy in Neoism as fictioneered on http://www.neoism.org. Collaborated on the Runme.org software art repository. Has published in the area of code poetry, comparative studies in the literature and the arts, modernism, text theory, literature and computing. 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. In 2010-11 he was the director of Piet Zwart Institute. Since 2011 he is a researcher at the Institute for Research and Innovation, Rotterdam University. He lives in Rotterdam.

Publications

Books by Cramer

• with Stewart Home, The House of Nina Squares: Letters on Neoism, Psychogeography´an Epistemological Trepidation, 1997.
• Words Made Flesh. Code, Culture, Imagination, 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, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2011. (in German)
• Anti-Media: Ephemera on Speculative Arts, Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2013, 240 pp. [2]

Selected articles

• "Cornelia Sollfrank in conversation with Florian Cramer", 2001.
• "Script, Code, Literature. Florian Cramer in Conversation with Sabine Breitsameter", October 2003.
• "Post-Digital Writing", Electronic Book Review, December 2012. Originally given as the keynote lecture at the Electronic Literature Organization conference, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, 22 June 2012.
• Interview with Florian Cramer, Neural 44: Special issue on Post-Digital Print (2013), pp 38-42.
• "Post-Digital Aesthetics", Jeu de Paume, May 2013.
• http://cramer.pleintekst.nl/personal/publikationen/publikationen.html
• http://cramer.pleintekst.nl/essays/
• http://www.filmkorn.org/author/fcr/

See also

• WORM
• WORM Parallel University
• Piet Zwart Institute

External links

• Home page
• Twitter
• Vimeo
• Florian Cramer at German Wikipedia (from Archive.org)