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Born 1951. Studied philosophy, theatre, German philology, media studies, political sciences, and linguistics at Marburg University, Free and Technical University Berlin. His M.A. thesis was on the film director Veit Harlan, who was tried for crimes against humanity because of his film "Jud Süß" (1942). In the 1980s he was assistant lecturer and assistant professor at the Department for Media Studies, Technical University Berlin.
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Siegfried Zielinski (1951) is a German media theorist. Studied philosophy, theatre, German philology, media studies, political sciences, and linguistics at Marburg University, Free and Technical University Berlin. His M.A. thesis was on the film director Veit Harlan, who was tried for crimes against humanity because of his film "Jud Süß" (1942). In the 1980s he was assistant lecturer and assistant professor at the Department for Media Studies, Technical University Berlin.
  
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==Biography==
 
1990-1993 Professor for audiovisual studies at the University of Salzburg, Austria, founded the department of >Audiovisions<. As of 1993, Chair of Communication and Audiovisual Studies at the [[Academy of Media Arts Cologne]]; from 1994-2000 Founding Director and Rector of this Academy.
 
1990-1993 Professor for audiovisual studies at the University of Salzburg, Austria, founded the department of >Audiovisions<. As of 1993, Chair of Communication and Audiovisual Studies at the [[Academy of Media Arts Cologne]]; from 1994-2000 Founding Director and Rector of this Academy.
  
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Member of the European Film Academy (EFA), the Academy of Arts Berlin, the Faculty of the European Graduate School, Saas Fee, the Budapest Center for Culture and Communication (C3) and the Magic Lantern Society of Great Britain.
 
Member of the European Film Academy (EFA), the Academy of Arts Berlin, the Faculty of the European Graduate School, Saas Fee, the Budapest Center for Culture and Communication (C3) and the Magic Lantern Society of Great Britain.
  
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He also worked as co-editor of various series like ''Preprints zur Medienwissenschaft'' and ''Germanistische Medienwissenschaft''; and consultant editor of ''Balkan Media'' (Sofia, 1991-1999) and ''Ctheory'' (Montreal, Canada).
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==Works==
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(in German unless noted otherwise)
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===Books===
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* ''Veit Harlan. Analysen und Materialien zur Auseinandersetzung mit einem Filmregisseur des deutschen Faschismus'', Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 1981. [http://books.google.com/books?id=CTgaAAAAMAAJ]
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* with Friedrich Knilli, ''Holocaust zur Unterhaltung. Anatomie eines internationalen Bestsellers'', Berlin: Espresso/Elef.Press, 1982, 515 pp. [http://books.google.com/books?id=M-KxAAAAIAAJ]
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* with Friedrich Knilli, T. Maurer and T. Radevagen, ''Jud Süß'', 1983.
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* ''Tele-Visionen. Medien-Zeiten'', 1983. [http://books.google.com/books?id=niNrAAAACAAJ]
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* {{a|1986}} ''[[Media:Zielinski_Siegfried_Zur_Geschichte_des_Videorecorders_1986.pdf|Zur Geschichte des Videorecorders]]'', Berlin: Wissenschaftsverlag Spiess, 1986, 408 pp; new ed., Potsdam: Polzer Media Group, 2010. [http://books.google.com/books?id=BJ2eAAAACAAJ]
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* {{a|1989}} ''Audiovisionen: Kino und Fernsehen als Zwischenspiele in der Geschichte'', Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1989.
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** [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=663 ''Audiovisions: Cinema and Television as Entr’actes in History''], Amsterdam University Press, 1999. {{en}}
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** ''Audiovíziók: a mozi és a televízió mint a történelem közjátékai'', trans. Katalin Schulz and Andrea Kurucz, Budapest: C3 Alapítvány: Gondolat: Ráció, 2009, 382 pp. {{hu}}
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* with E. Reiss, ''Grenzüberschreitungen'', 1992.
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* ''Video. Apparat/Medium, Kunst, Kultur'', 1992. [http://books.google.com/books?id=3n2gAAAACAAJ]
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* ''Keith Griffiths: The Presence'', 1993.
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* with Knowbotic Research, William Mitchell, Stephen Perrella and Stacey Spiegel, ''Interfacing Realities. Buchprojekt zur Schnittstelle'', Rotterdam: V2_, 1997. {{en}}
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* with H. U. Reck, W. Ernst, T. Hensel and N. Röller, ''Lab. Jahrbuch für Künste und Apparate'', 1995/96, 1996/97, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2002.
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* ''Archäologie der Medien: zur Tiefenzeit des technischen Hörens und Sehens'', Reinbek: Rowohlt Taschenbuch, 2002. [http://www.medientheorie.com/doc/archaeologie/zielinski_archaeologie.pdf Introduction].
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** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=13148 Deep Time of the Media: Toward an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means]'', trans. Gloria Custance, MIT Press, 2006, [http://archive.org/details/SiegfriedZielinskiDeepTimeOfTheMediaTowardAnArchaeologyOfHearingAndSeeingByTechn IA]. {{en}}
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** ''Arqueologia da mídia: em busca do tempo remoto das técnicas do ver e do ouvir'', trans. Carlos Szlak, São Paulo: Annablume, 2006, 335 pp. {{br-pt}}
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** ''Mei ti kao gu xue'' [媒体考古学], trans. Zhenhua Rong, Beijing: Shang wu yin shu guan, 2006, 344 pp. {{cn}}
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** ''Archeologia mediów o głębokim czasie technicznie zapośredniczonego słuchania i widzenia'', trans. Krystyna Krzemieniowa, Warsaw: Oficyna Naukowa, 2010, xviii+428 pp. {{pl}}
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** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=13148 Arqueología de los medios: hacia el tiempo profundo de la visión y la audición técnica]'', trans. Alvaro Moreno-Hoffmann, Bogota: Uniandes, 2011, 432 pp. {{es}}
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* ''Entwerfen und Entbergen. Aspekte einer Genealogie der Projektion. 10 Jahre International Flusser Lectures'', Cologne: König, 2010.
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* ''[... nach den Medien]: Nachrichten vom ausgehenden zwanzigsten Jahrhundert'', Berlin: Merve, 2010.  [http://www.merve.de/index.php/book/show/426]
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** ''[... After the Media]: News from the Slow-Fading Twentieth Century'', trans. Gloria Custance, Minneapolis, MN: Univocal, August 2013, [http://archive.org/details/193756116X..After IA]. [http://univocalpublishing.com/books/116-after-the-media-by-siegfried-zielinski] {{en}}
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===Edited books (selection)===
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* with Silvia M. Wagnermaier (eds.), ''Variantology – On Deep Time Relations Of Arts, Sciences and Technologies'', Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung König, 2005. [http://flusserstream.khm.de/variantology/publications/] [http://books.google.com/books?id=upM2AgAACAAJ] {{en}}
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* with David Link (eds.), ''Variantology 2 – On Deep Time Relations Of Arts, Sciences and Technologies'', Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung König, 2006. [http://books.google.com/books?id=hFPENAAACAAJ] {{en}}
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* with Eckhard Fürus (eds.), ''Variantology 3 – On Deep Time Relations Of Arts, Sciences and Technologies in China and Elsewhere'', Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung König, 2008. [http://books.google.com/books?id=hTy8OQAACAAJ] {{en}}
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* with Eckhard Fürus (eds.), ''Variantology 4 – On Deep Time Relations of Arts, Sciences and Technologies in the Arabic-Islamic World and Beyond'', Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2010. {{en}}
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* with Eckhard Fürus (eds.), ''Variantology 5: Neapolitan Affairs'', Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung König, 2011. {{en}}
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===Book chapters, papers, articles (selection)===
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* "[http://genealogy-of-media-thinking.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/SZ0008.pdf Studiengang Kultur- und Technikvermittlung"], ''medienmagazin'', Berlin (Oktober 1978), pp 4–7.
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* with Gabriele Bock, "[http://genealogy-of-media-thinking.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/SZ0012.pdf Britain’s Channel 4: A TV provider caught between private sector funding and its cultural mission]", trans. Corina Holzherr, ''Media Perspektiven'' (1/1987), pp 38–54. {{en}}
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* "[http://genealogy-of-media-thinking.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/SZ0013.pdf Holocaust. Auschwitz als Fernsehfiktion in deutschen Wohnzimmern]", ''Unsere Medien – Unsere Republik. No. 7, Mediengeschichte als Geschichte der Bundesrepublik'', ed. Adolf-Grimme-Institut des Deutschen Volkshochschul-Verbandes e. V., Marl (November 1990), p 33ff.
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* "[http://genealogy-of-media-thinking.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/SZ0011.pdf Nomadentum und Disziplinlosigkeit. Zur Identität von Medien-Wissenschaftlern im Transit], ''agenda. Zeitschrift für Medien, Bildung, Kultur'', Bonn (July/August 1993), pp 44–46.
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* "[http://mediathinking.instant.de1.cc/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/SZ0007.pdf For a Praxis of Kairos Poetry]", in ''Kunst.nrw.nl. New Media Logbook'', 1999, pp 34-35. {{en}}
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* "[http://www.imagearts.ryerson.ca/michalak/html/CD8320/Zielinski,%20S.%20(2000)%20Time%20Machines.pdf Time Machines]", in ''Screen-Based Art'', eds. Annette Balkema and Henk Slager, Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 2000. {{en}}
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* [http://berlinergazette.de/you-tube-therefore-you-are/ "Gegenwartseffekte: Nach 'Ich denke, also bin ich' kommt 'You tube – therefore you are'"], ''Berliner Gazette'', 29 Oct 2012.
  
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==Interviews (selection)==
Veit Harlan (1981), >Holocaust< zur Unterhaltung — Anatomie eines internationalen Bestsellers (mit F. Knilli 1982), >Jud Süß< (mit F. Knilli, T. Maurer und T. Radevagen 1983), Tele-Visionen — Medien-Zeiten (1983), Zur Geschichte des Videorecorders (1986), Audiovisionen — Kino und Fernsehen als Zwischenspiele in der Geschichte (1989, 1994/2, 1999 in a reworked english edition as Audiovisions — Cinema and Television as Entr'actes in History, bei Amsterdam University Press, 2003 in an Hungarian edition), Grenzüberschreitungen (mit E. Reiss 1992), Video — Apparat/Medium, Kunst, Kultur (1992), Keith Griffiths — The Presence (1993), Lab — Jahrbuch für Künste und Apparate 1995/96, 1996/97, 1998, 1999, 2000 und 2002 (with H. U. Reck, W. Ernst, T. Hensel and N. Röller).
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* Petr Szczepanik, Pavel Skopal, Jakub Kučera, [[Media:Szczepanik_Skopal_Kučera_2002_Za_anarcheologii_medii_Rozhovor_se_Siegfriedem_Zielinskim.pdf|"Za anarcheologii médií. Rozhovor se Siegfriedem Zielinskim"]], ''Kino-ikon'' 6:1 (2002), pp 159-173. {{cz}}
Audiovisions - Cinema and Television as Entr'actes in History (Amsterdam University Press, 1999) — Deep Time of the Media (MIT Press Cambridge, 2005). Co-editor of various series like >Preprints zur Medienwissenschaft< und >Germanistische Medienwissenschaft<; consultant editor of >Balkan Media< (Sofia, 1991-1999), Ctheory (Montreal, Canada).
 
  
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==Links==
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* [http://genealogy-of-media-thinking.net Forum on the Genealogy of MediaThinking], facilitated by Zielinski, University of the Arts Berlin, October 2012-June 2013.
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* [http://gwk.udk-berlin.de/personen/zielinski/ Zielinski's profile at UDK Berlin]
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* [http://www.awk.nrw.de/akademie/klassen/kuenste/ordentliche-mitglieder/zielinski-siegfried.html Zielinski's profile at NRW Düsseldorf]
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* [http://www.egs.edu/faculty/siegfried-zielinski/biography/ Zielinski's profile at EGS]
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Zielinski Zielinski on Wikipedia]
  
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Siegfried Zielinski (1951) is a German media theorist. Studied philosophy, theatre, German philology, media studies, political sciences, and linguistics at Marburg University, Free and Technical University Berlin. His M.A. thesis was on the film director Veit Harlan, who was tried for crimes against humanity because of his film "Jud Süß" (1942). In the 1980s he was assistant lecturer and assistant professor at the Department for Media Studies, Technical University Berlin.

Biography

1990-1993 Professor for audiovisual studies at the University of Salzburg, Austria, founded the department of >Audiovisions<. As of 1993, Chair of Communication and Audiovisual Studies at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne; from 1994-2000 Founding Director and Rector of this Academy.

Siegfried Zielinski teaches and researches on the history, theory, and praxis of audiovision; his special field of interest is media archaeology. He gave seminars and lectures in around 25 different countries around the world.

Since 1979 he realized numerous Film, Video and exhibition projects, including "Responses to HOLOCAUST in Western Germany", "Channel Four — Fernsehen zwischen Kultur und Kommerz", "Einhundert — Kurzfilme zur Archäologie der Audiovision", "Museum Hermeticum", "Wie man sieht — ". He was director of the Cologne based festival "Digitale" (1995-2000). Together with the musician and composer Anthony Moore he developed a new accoustic format called "expanded lectures". CD-Rom productions amongst others with the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Amsterdam located deBalie ("Permanent Flux") and the Budapest Kunsthalle (Mucsarnok), "The Butterfly Effect".

Member of the European Film Academy (EFA), the Academy of Arts Berlin, the Faculty of the European Graduate School, Saas Fee, the Budapest Center for Culture and Communication (C3) and the Magic Lantern Society of Great Britain.

He also worked as co-editor of various series like Preprints zur Medienwissenschaft and Germanistische Medienwissenschaft; and consultant editor of Balkan Media (Sofia, 1991-1999) and Ctheory (Montreal, Canada).

Works

(in German unless noted otherwise)

Books

  • Veit Harlan. Analysen und Materialien zur Auseinandersetzung mit einem Filmregisseur des deutschen Faschismus, Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 1981. [1]
  • with Friedrich Knilli, Holocaust zur Unterhaltung. Anatomie eines internationalen Bestsellers, Berlin: Espresso/Elef.Press, 1982, 515 pp. [2]
  • with Friedrich Knilli, T. Maurer and T. Radevagen, Jud Süß, 1983.
  • Tele-Visionen. Medien-Zeiten, 1983. [3]
  • Zur Geschichte des Videorecorders, Berlin: Wissenschaftsverlag Spiess, 1986, 408 pp; new ed., Potsdam: Polzer Media Group, 2010. [4]
  • Audiovisionen: Kino und Fernsehen als Zwischenspiele in der Geschichte, Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1989.
  • with E. Reiss, Grenzüberschreitungen, 1992.
  • Video. Apparat/Medium, Kunst, Kultur, 1992. [5]
  • Keith Griffiths: The Presence, 1993.
  • with Knowbotic Research, William Mitchell, Stephen Perrella and Stacey Spiegel, Interfacing Realities. Buchprojekt zur Schnittstelle, Rotterdam: V2_, 1997. (English)
  • with H. U. Reck, W. Ernst, T. Hensel and N. Röller, Lab. Jahrbuch für Künste und Apparate, 1995/96, 1996/97, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2002.
  • Entwerfen und Entbergen. Aspekte einer Genealogie der Projektion. 10 Jahre International Flusser Lectures, Cologne: König, 2010.
  • [... nach den Medien]: Nachrichten vom ausgehenden zwanzigsten Jahrhundert, Berlin: Merve, 2010. [6]
    • [... After the Media]: News from the Slow-Fading Twentieth Century, trans. Gloria Custance, Minneapolis, MN: Univocal, August 2013, IA. [7] (English)

Edited books (selection)

  • with Silvia M. Wagnermaier (eds.), Variantology – On Deep Time Relations Of Arts, Sciences and Technologies, Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung König, 2005. [8] [9] (English)
  • with David Link (eds.), Variantology 2 – On Deep Time Relations Of Arts, Sciences and Technologies, Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung König, 2006. [10] (English)
  • with Eckhard Fürus (eds.), Variantology 3 – On Deep Time Relations Of Arts, Sciences and Technologies in China and Elsewhere, Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung König, 2008. [11] (English)
  • with Eckhard Fürus (eds.), Variantology 4 – On Deep Time Relations of Arts, Sciences and Technologies in the Arabic-Islamic World and Beyond, Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2010. (English)
  • with Eckhard Fürus (eds.), Variantology 5: Neapolitan Affairs, Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung König, 2011. (English)

Book chapters, papers, articles (selection)

Interviews (selection)

Links