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 a director of Piet Zwart Institute. Since 2011 he is a researcher at the Institute for Research and Innovation, Rotterdam University. Lives in Rotterdam.
Publications
- Books
- Exe.cut(up)able statements: Poetische Kalküle und Phantasmen des selbstausführenden Texts, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2011. (German)
- Words Made Flesh. Code, Culture, Imagination, Media Design Research, Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy Hogeschool Rotterdam, 2005, 140 pp. [1]
- with Stewart Home, The House of Nina Squares. Letters on Neoism, Psychogeography´an Epistemological Trepidation, 1997.
- Selected articles
- "Post-Digital Writing", 2012.
- "Script, Code, Literature. Florian Cramer in Conversation with Sabine Breitsameter", October 2003.
- "Cornelia Sollfrank in conversation with Florian Cramer", 2001.
- http://cramer.plaintext.cc/personal/publikationen/publikationen.html
- http://cramer.plaintext.cc/essays/
