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'''Florian Cramer''' is a writer, photographer, filmmaker and theorist. He is a Research Professor in New Media at Hogeschool Rotterdam, where he serves as the Director of Creating 010, a centre focusing on two areas of research: Communication in the Digital Age and Cultural Diversity. He is also a part-time programmer at [[WORM]], the Rotterdam-based Institute of Avantgardistic Recreation.
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'''Florian Cramer''' (1969) is a writer, photographer, filmmaker and theorist. He is a reader in 21st Century Visual Culture at Willem de Kooning Academy, [[Rotterdam]], an art and design school which is part of Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences (Hogeschool Rotterdam).  
  
 
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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 [http://permutations.home.ml.org Permutations], formerly busy in Neoism as fictioneered on [http://www.neoism.org 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 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, returned as the new course director of the [[MA Media Design Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam|Media Design MA]] programme. In 2010-11 the director of Piet Zwart Institute. Since 2011 a researcher at the Institute for Research and Innovation, Rotterdam University. Lives in [[Rotterdam]].
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Florian Cramer studied literature and art history at FU Berlin, Universität Konstanz and University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He received an MA in comparative literature, art history and modern German philology from Freie Universität Berlin (1998), and PhD in comparative literature from the same university (2006). Afterwards, he worked as lecturer in Comparative Literature, FU Berlin (1999-2004). He administrated ''[[rohrpost]]'' mailing list (with [[Tilman Baumgärtel]], 2002-2004), and co-edited ''[https://www.netzliteratur.net/cramer/unstable_html/ Unstable Digest]'' of code poetry on ''[[nettime]]'' list (with [[Alan Sondheim]], 2002-2003). He also created the combinatory poetry site [http://permutations.home.ml.org Permutations], was involved in [[Neoism]] as fictioneered on [http://www.neoism.org Neoism.org], and collaborated on the [[Runme.org]] software art repository (2002-2003). He has published on arts, modernism, literature, information technology and (sub)culture.  
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In 2004, Cramer visited [[Piet Zwart Institute]], Rotterdam, 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 [[MA Media Design Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam|Media Design]] master program, and later served as the director of the Institute (2010-2011). Since 2008 he has been a reader at the Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, an art and design school which is part of Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences (Hogeschool Rotterdam). He teaches, on a project basis, in different departments of his school, both on the B.A. level and in the different Masters programs of the Piet Zwart Institute (which is part of Willem de Kooning Academy). From 2011-2015 he also served as director of Creating 010, Hogeschool Rotterdam, a centre focusing on two areas of research: Communication in the Digital Age and Cultural Diversity.
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Cramer is a board member of De Player, a space for sound/performance art, [http://www.printroom.org/ PrintRoom], a space for artists’ books and DIY publishing and [http://www.hermanrotterdam.nl/ Herman], a venue for experimental pop music. He is a member/tenant of the self-organized artists' studio building [http://www.kunstencomplex.nl/ Kunst en Complex], and a member of the artist-run analog filmmaking lab [[filmwerkplaats]]. He is an activist in the political party [http://www.bij1.org/ BIJ1] and a member of its Rotterdam core team. He was also a part-time program developer at [[WORM]], the Rotterdam-based Institute of Avantgardistic Recreation (2011-2015).
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He is on the academic advisory board for the arts magazine ''[[Neural]]'' and of ''[http://www.aprja.net/ APRJA]'', a peer-reviewed Open Access journal published by the media studies department of Aarhus University, Denmark.
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Since 2006, he lives in [[Rotterdam]].
  
 
[[Image:Cramer_Florian_Words_Made_Flesh.jpg|thumb|200px|''Words Made Flesh'', 2005, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=99 Log], [[Media:Cramer_Florian_Words_Made_Flesh_Code_Culture_Imagination.pdf|PDF]], [http://cramer.pleintekst.nl/00-recent/words_made_flesh/html/words_made_flesh.html HTML].]]
 
[[Image:Cramer_Florian_Words_Made_Flesh.jpg|thumb|200px|''Words Made Flesh'', 2005, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=99 Log], [[Media:Cramer_Florian_Words_Made_Flesh_Code_Culture_Imagination.pdf|PDF]], [http://cramer.pleintekst.nl/00-recent/words_made_flesh/html/words_made_flesh.html HTML].]]
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* [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=99 ''Words Made Flesh: Code, Culture, Imagination''], Rotterdam: Media Design Research, Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy Hogeschool Rotterdam, 2005, 140 pp. [http://cramer.plaintext.cc/all/words_made_flesh/html/words_made_flesh.html] {{en}}
 
* [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=99 ''Words Made Flesh: Code, Culture, Imagination''], Rotterdam: Media Design Research, Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy Hogeschool Rotterdam, 2005, 140 pp. [http://cramer.plaintext.cc/all/words_made_flesh/html/words_made_flesh.html] {{en}}
 
* [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=5936 ''Exe.cut(up)able statements: Poetische Kalküle und Phantasmen des selbstausführenden Texts''], Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2011. {{de}}
 
* [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=5936 ''Exe.cut(up)able statements: Poetische Kalküle und Phantasmen des selbstausführenden Texts''], Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2011. {{de}}
* ''Anti-Media: Ephemera on Speculative Arts'', Rotterdam: NAi, 2013, 240 pp. [http://www.010.nl/catalogue/book.php?id=838] {{en}}
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* ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=20259 Anti-Media: Ephemera on Speculative Arts]'', Rotterdam: nai010 publishers, and Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2013, 260 pp. {{en}}
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* with Clemens Apprich, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, and Hito Steyerl, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=20571 Pattern Discrimination]'', Lüneburg: meson press & University of Minnesota Press, 2018, xii+123 pp. {{en}}
  
 
===Selected texts===
 
===Selected texts===
 
* [http://cramer.pleintekst.nl/essays/gegen_medientheorie/ "Gegen Medientheorie"], ''Rohrpost'', 7 Feb 2001. [http://www.mikro-berlin.org/Events/20010207/3mot.html] {{de}}
 
* [http://cramer.pleintekst.nl/essays/gegen_medientheorie/ "Gegen Medientheorie"], ''Rohrpost'', 7 Feb 2001. [http://www.mikro-berlin.org/Events/20010207/3mot.html] {{de}}
* [http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/electropoetics/postal "Post-Digital Writing"], ''Electronic Book Review'', Dec 2012. Originally given as the keynote lecture at the Electronic Literature Organization conference, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, 22 Jun 2012. {{en}}
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* with Ulrike Gabriel, [http://cramer.pleintekst.nl/all/software_art_and_writing/software_art_and_writing.html "Software Art"], 15 Aug 2001, [[Media:Cramer_Florian_Gabriel_Ulrike_2001_Software_Art.pdf|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 [https://transmediale.de/de/do-it-yourself-publ], repr. as "Software Art and Writing", ''American Book Review'' 22:6, Sep-Oct 2001 [http://americanbookreview.org/issueContent.asp?id=37]; repr. as [https://web.archive.org/web/20020622191420/http://www.rhizome.org:80/object.rhiz?2848 "On Software Art"], in ''Rhizome'', 20 Sep 2001. Written 15 Aug 2001. {{en}}
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* [http://cramer.pleintekst.nl/all/concept_notations_software_art/selbstausfuehrender_entwurf.html "Der selbstausführende Entwurf: Software und Softwarekunst"], 24 Jan 2002. {{de}}
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** [http://cramer.pleintekst.nl/all/concept_notations_software_art/concepts_notations_software_art.html "Concepts, Notations, Software, Art"], 23 Mar 2002, [[Media:Cramer_Florian_2002_Concepts_Notations_Software_Art.pdf|PDF]]. {{en}}
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* [http://cramer.pleintekst.nl/all/concept_notations_software_art/software_decontextualizaton.pdf "Contextualizing Software Art"], [18 May] 2002. {{en}}
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* [http://cramer.pleintekst.nl/all/10_thesen_zur_softwarekunst/10_thesen_zur_softwarekunst.html "Zehn Thesen zur Softwarekunst"], 23 Sep 2003, [[Media:Cramer_Florian_2003_Zehn_Thesen_zur_Softwarekunst.pdf|PDF]]; repr. in ''SoftwareArt: eine Reportage über den Code'', ed. Gerrit Gohlke, Berlin, 2003, pp 6-14. {{de}}
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** [http://cramer.pleintekst.nl/all/10_thesen_zur_softwarekunst/10_theses_about_software_art.html "Ten Theses about Software Art"], 23 Sep 2003, [[Media:Cramer_Florian_2003_Ten_Theses_about_Software_Art.pdf|PDF]].  {{en}}
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** [[Media:Florian_Cramer_2003_2011_Dix_hypotheses_au_sujet_de_l_art_logiciel.pdf|"Dix hypothèses au sujet de l'art logiciel"]], in ''Art ++'', ed. David-Olivier Lartigaud, Orléans: HYX, 2011, pp 102-111. {{fr}}
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* [http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/post-digital-writing/ "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. {{en}}
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** [[Media:Cramer_Florian_2016_Postdigitales_Schreiben.pdf|"Postdigitales Schreiben"]], in ''Code und Koncept. Literatur und das Digitale'', ed. Hannes Bajohr, Berlin: Frohmann, 2016, pp 27-43. [https://orbanism.com/produkt/hardcover-code-und-konzept-hannes-bajohr-hg-berlin-frohmann-2016/] {{de}}
 
* [http://lemagazine.jeudepaume.org/2013/05/florian-cramer-post-digital-aesthetics/ "Post-Digital Aesthetics"], ''Jeu de Paume'', May 2013. {{en}}
 
* [http://lemagazine.jeudepaume.org/2013/05/florian-cramer-post-digital-aesthetics/ "Post-Digital Aesthetics"], ''Jeu de Paume'', May 2013. {{en}}
* [http://data.pleintekst.nl/post-digital_literary_studies.txt "Post-Digital Literary Studies"], 16 Jul 2015. {{en}}
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* [https://www.wdka.nl/storage/2017/05/WdKA_Re-inventing-the-art-school.pdf#page=15 "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. {{en}}
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* [http://www.aprja.net/what-is-post-digital/ "What is 'Post-digital'?"], ''A Peer-Reviewed Journal About "Post-Digital Research"'' 3:1, Aarhus: Digital Aesthetics Research Center, with Berlin: transmediale, 2014.
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* [http://iduc.uc.pt/index.php/matlit/article/view/2384/1986 "Post-Digital Literary Studies"], ''Materialities of Literature'' 4:1 (2016), [http://data.pleintekst.nl/post-digital_literary_studies.txt TXT]. {{en}}
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* [http://monoskop.org/images/0/00/Tonuta_Maya_ed_A_Solid_Injury_to_the_Knees.pdf#page=32 "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. {{en}}
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* [http://cramer.pleintekst.nl/essays/crapularity_hermeneutics/ "Crapularity Hermeneutics"], 2016. {{en}}
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* with Alissa Dinallo, [https://cordite.org.au/guncotton/cramer-breeze/ "Introduction to Mez Breeze’s ''Attn: Solitude''"], ''Cordite Poetry Review'', 3 Jan 2017. {{en}}
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* "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. {{en}}
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* [http://cramer.pleintekst.nl/essays/crapularity_design/ "GAS and the Crapularity of Things: Notes on Crapularity Design"], Jul 2017. {{en}}
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* [https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-1707/msg00004.html "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, [http://cramer.pleintekst.nl/essays/tragedy_of_the_commons/tragedy_of_the_commons.html HTML]. {{en}}
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* with Clara Lobregat Balaguer, ''The Moral of The Xerox: Missalette'', Cologne, 2017. Zine. [http://data.pleintekst.nl/Clara_Lobregat_Balaguer+Florian_Cramer_-_Misalette-preview_edition.pdf Excerpt], [http://82.199.133.204/files/The%20Moral%20Of%20The%20Xerox.pdf Excerpt]. {{en}}
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* [https://monoskop.org/images/2/20/ODD_1_Privately_2017.pdf#page=14 "Open Source as a Test Case for a Post-Humanist Commons"], in ''ODD 1 Privately'', ed. Cristina Bogdan, Bucharest: ODD, 2017, pp 27-62. {{en}}
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* [http://cramer.pleintekst.nl/essays/haeuser_aus_staub/ "Häuser aus Staub. Das Unfertige und seine Entromantisierung in Projektkunst und Digitalwirtschaft, von Fluxus bis ''Liquidity Inc.''"], 2018. {{de}}
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* [http://cramer.pleintekst.nl/essays/crapularity_aesthetics/ "Crapularity Aesthetics"], Feb 2018; [https://makingandbreaking.org/article/crapularity-aesthetics/ repr. in] ''Making & Breaking'' 1, 2019, [https://makingandbreaking.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Cramer_Crapularity_Aesthetics-Making_and_Breaking-1.pdf PDF]. {{en}}
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* [http://cramer.pleintekst.nl/essays/rosa_einhoerner/ "Rosa Einhörner"], 2018. {{de}}
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* [http://autonomousfabric.org/text/what-is-autonomy "What Is Autonomy?"], ''The Autonomous Fabric'', Rotterdam: Willem de Kooning Academy, 11 Apr 2018, [http://cramer.pleintekst.nl/essays/autonomy/ HTML]. {{en}}
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* [http://cramer.pleintekst.nl/essays/does_diy_mean_anything/ "Does DIY Mean Anything? - a DIY Attempt (= Essay)"], ''Anrikningsverket Journal'' 1: "Convulsion", Jul 2019, pp 52-72, [https://files.cargocollective.com/667217/Anrikningsverket_Journal_1_2019.pdf#page=52 PDF]. {{en}}
  
 
===More writings===
 
===More writings===
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==See also==
 
==See also==
* [[WORM]]
 
* [[WORM Parallel University]]
 
 
* [[Piet Zwart Institute]]
 
* [[Piet Zwart Institute]]
 
* [[Postdigital]]
 
* [[Postdigital]]
  
 
==Links==
 
==Links==
* [http://www.cramer.pleintekst.nl/ Home page], [http://cramer.pleintekst.nl:70/]
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* [http://floriancramer.nl/ Bio]
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* [https://pod.thing.org/people/13a6057015b90136f896525400cd8561 Pod on diaspora], [https://social.gibberfish.org/people/a76da580ba9b013533100007cb0b1a05 previous]
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* [http://www.cramer.pleintekst.nl Works and writings], [http://cramer.pleintekst.nl:70/]
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* [http://creating010.com/medewerkers/florian-cramer-en/ Profile on Creating 010]  
 
* [http://vimeo.com/fcr Vimeo]
 
* [http://vimeo.com/fcr Vimeo]
 
* [http://twitter.com/florian_cramer Twitter]
 
* [http://twitter.com/florian_cramer Twitter]
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* [https://www.zotero.org/florian_cramer Zotero]
 
* [http://www.thing.de/projekte/7:9%23/cramer_index.html Florian Cramer, a neoist]
 
* [http://www.thing.de/projekte/7:9%23/cramer_index.html Florian Cramer, a neoist]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20120801044857/http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian_Cramer Cramer at German Wikipedia] (at Archive.org)
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20120801044857/http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian_Cramer Wikipedia-DE] (archived 2012)
  
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Born Berlin, West Germany (now Germany)
Lives in Rotterdam, Netherlands
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Florian Cramer (1969) is a writer, photographer, filmmaker and theorist. He is a reader in 21st Century Visual Culture at Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, an art and design school which is part of Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences (Hogeschool Rotterdam).

Florian Cramer studied literature and art history at FU Berlin, Universität Konstanz and University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He received an MA in comparative literature, art history and modern German philology from Freie Universität Berlin (1998), and PhD in comparative literature from the same university (2006). Afterwards, he worked as lecturer in Comparative Literature, FU Berlin (1999-2004). He administrated rohrpost mailing list (with Tilman Baumgärtel, 2002-2004), and co-edited Unstable Digest of code poetry on nettime list (with Alan Sondheim, 2002-2003). He also created the combinatory poetry site Permutations, was involved in Neoism as fictioneered on Neoism.org, and collaborated on the Runme.org software art repository (2002-2003). He has published on arts, modernism, literature, information technology and (sub)culture.

In 2004, Cramer visited Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, 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 master program, and later served as the director of the Institute (2010-2011). Since 2008 he has been a reader at the Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, an art and design school which is part of Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences (Hogeschool Rotterdam). He teaches, on a project basis, in different departments of his school, both on the B.A. level and in the different Masters programs of the Piet Zwart Institute (which is part of Willem de Kooning Academy). From 2011-2015 he also served as director of Creating 010, Hogeschool Rotterdam, a centre focusing on two areas of research: Communication in the Digital Age and Cultural Diversity.

Cramer is a board member of De Player, a space for sound/performance art, PrintRoom, a space for artists’ books and DIY publishing and Herman, a venue for experimental pop music. He is a member/tenant of the self-organized artists' studio building Kunst en Complex, and a member of the artist-run analog filmmaking lab filmwerkplaats. He is an activist in the political party BIJ1 and a member of its Rotterdam core team. He was also a part-time program developer at WORM, the Rotterdam-based Institute of Avantgardistic Recreation (2011-2015).

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.

Since 2006, he lives in Rotterdam.

Words Made Flesh, 2005, Log, PDF, HTML.
Exe.cut(up)able statements, 2011, Log, PDF, TeX.

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