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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.
  
==Selected books ==
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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).
* Veit Harlan (1981) [http://books.google.com/books?id=CTgaAAAAMAAJ]
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* >Holocaust< zur Unterhaltung Anatomie eines internationalen Bestsellers (mit F. Knilli 1982) [http://books.google.com/books?id=M-KxAAAAIAAJ]
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==Works==
* >Jud Süß< (mit F. Knilli, T. Maurer und T. Radevagen 1983)
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(in German unless noted otherwise)
* Tele-Visionen Medien-Zeiten (1983) [http://books.google.com/books?id=niNrAAAACAAJ]
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===Books===
* Zur Geschichte des Videorecorders (1986) [http://books.google.com/books?id=BJ2eAAAACAAJ]
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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]
* 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)
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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]
* Grenzüberschreitungen (mit E. Reiss 1992)
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* with Friedrich Knilli, T. Maurer and T. Radevagen, ''Jud Süß'', 1983.
* Video Apparat/Medium, Kunst, Kultur (1992) [http://books.google.com/books?id=3n2gAAAACAAJ]
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* ''Tele-Visionen. Medien-Zeiten'', 1983. [http://books.google.com/books?id=niNrAAAACAAJ]
* Keith Griffiths The Presence (1993)
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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]
* 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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* Audiovisions - Cinema and Television as Entr'actes in History (Amsterdam University Press, 1999) [http://books.google.com/books?id=Rw5FzPcwaPkC]
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* {{a|1989}} ''Audiovisionen: Kino und Fernsehen als Zwischenspiele in der Geschichte'', Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1989.
* Deep Time of the Media (MIT Press Cambridge, 2005) [http://books.google.com/books?id=KHtiAAAAMAAJ]
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** [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=663 ''Audiovisions: Cinema and Television as Entr’actes in History''], Amsterdam University Press, 1999. {{en}}
* Siegfried Zielinski, Silvia Wagnermaier (eds.), ''Variantology 1: On Deep Time Relations of Arts, Sciences and Technologies''. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, 2005. [http://flusserstream.khm.de/variantology/publications/] [http://books.google.com/books?id=upM2AgAACAAJ]
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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}}
* Siegfried Zielinski, David Link, Eckhard Fuerlus (eds.), ''Variantology 2: On Deep Time Relations of Arts, Sciences and Technologies''. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, 2006. [http://books.google.com/books?id=hFPENAAACAAJ]
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* Siegfried Zielinski, Arianna Borrelli, Eckhard Fürlus (eds.), ''Variantology 3: On Deep Time Relations of Arts, Sciences and Technologies in China and Elsewhere''. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, 2009. [http://books.google.com/books?id=hTy8OQAACAAJ]
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* with E. Reiss, ''Grenzüberschreitungen'', 1992.
* Siegfried Zielinski, ''[... nach den Medien]: Nachrichten vom ausgehenden zwanzigsten Jahrhundert'', Berlin: Merve, 2010. (in German) [http://www.merve.de/index.php/book/show/426]
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* ''Video. Apparat/Medium, Kunst, Kultur'', 1992. [http://books.google.com/books?id=3n2gAAAACAAJ]
** ''[After the Media]: News from the Slow-Fading Twentieth Century'', Minneapolis, MN: Univocal, August 2013. [http://univocalpublishing.com/books/116-after-the-media-by-siegfried-zielinski]
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* ''Keith Griffiths: The Presence'', 1993.
* co-editor of various series like >Preprints zur Medienwissenschaft< und >Germanistische Medienwissenschaft<
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* with Knowbotic Research, William Mitchell, Stephen Perrella and Stacey Spiegel, ''Interfacing Realities. Buchprojekt zur Schnittstelle'', Rotterdam: V2_, 1997. {{en}}
* consultant editor of >Balkan Media< (Sofia, 1991-1999), Ctheory (Montreal, Canada).
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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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*{{a|Zielinski2002}}''Archäologie der Medien: zur Tiefenzeit des technischen Hörens und Sehens'', Reinbek: Rowohlt Taschenbuch, 2002. [http://d-nb.info/965253627/04 TOC], [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, [https://archive.org/details/deeptimeofmediat0000ziel 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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* ''[[Media:Zielinski Siegfried Genealogias vision escucha y comunicacion 2006.pdf|Genealogías, visión, escucha y comunicación]]'', ed. & intro. Andrés Burbano Valdés, Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes (Uniandes), 2007, 140 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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** ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=3F70AD9F84A6FDF2DD0872B890E5AEC2 ... After the Media: News from the Slow-Fading Twentieth Century]'', trans. Gloria Custance, Minneapolis, MN: Univocal, 2013, [https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/544fdd49334fe009d9ba01c8 ARG], [https://archive.org/details/aftermedianewsfr0000ziel IA]. [http://univocalpublishing.com/books/116-after-the-media-by-siegfried-zielinski] {{en}}
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* ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=21823 Variations on Media Thinking]'', University of Minnesota Press, 2019, xxv+426 pp. {{en}}
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===Edited books (selection)===
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* with Silvia M. Wagnermaier (eds.), ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/606ebd059ff37c4eec2e81e5 Variantology 1: On Deep Time Relations Of Arts, Sciences and Technologies]'', Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung König, 2005, [https://archive.org/details/variantologyonde0000unse IA]. [http://flusserstream.khm.de/variantology/publications/] [http://variantology.com/] {{en}}
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* with David Link (eds.), ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/606e17799ff37c7ad32e81d5 Variantology 2: On Deep Time Relations Of Arts, Sciences and Technologies]'', Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung König, 2006, [https://archive.org/details/variantologyonde0000unse_q8n9 IA]. [http://variantology.com/] [http://books.google.com/books?id=hFPENAAACAAJ] {{en}}
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* with Eckhard Fürus (eds.), ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=DA188EE3926BB74E899490E9DE6C9177 Variantology 3: On Deep Time Relations Of Arts, Sciences and Technologies in China and Elsewhere]'', Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung König, 2008, [https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/606ebca09ff37c4eec2e81e2 ARG], [https://archive.org/details/variantologyonde0003unse IA]. [http://variantology.com/] {{en}}
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* with Eckhard Fürus (eds.), ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/606eb4db9ff37c280a2e81c8 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. [http://variantology.com/] {{en}}
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* with Eckhard Fürus (eds.), ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/606eb4d69ff37c4eec2e81dc Variantology 5: Neapolitan Affairs]'', Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung König, 2011. [http://variantology.com/] {{en}}
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* with Peter Weibel (eds.), ''Allah's Automata: Artifacts of the Arabic-Islamic Renaissance (800-1200)'', Hatje Cantz, 2016. Catalogue. [https://zkm.de/en/publication/allahs-automata Exhibition]. [https://www.hatjecantz.com/products/17849-allahs-automata Publisher].
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* with Amador Vega and Peter Weibel (eds.), ''DIA-LOGOS: Ramon Llull's Method of Thought and Artistic Practice'', University of Minnesota Press, 2018, 300 pp. [https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/dia-logos]  
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* with Charles Merewether (eds.), ''Art in the 21st Century: Reflections & Provocations'', Hong Kong: Osage, 2020. [https://www.osagepublications.com/product/art-in-the-21st-century-reflections-provocations/] [https://www.hkact.hk/act6] {{en}}
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* with Hans Ulrich Reck (eds.), ''Künste und Apparate – Berichte aus einem Labor (1995-2005)'', Herbert von Halem (KHM #6), 2022, 360 pp. [https://www.halem-verlag.de/produkt/kuenste-und-apparate/ Publisher], [https://www.khm.de/termine/news.5353.publikation-kunste-und-apparate-berichte-aus-einem-labor-1995-2005/]. {{de}}
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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)==
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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}}
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==Literature==
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* David Link, Nils Röller (eds.), ''Objects of Knowledge, of Art and of Friendship: A Small Technical Encyclopaedia, for Siegfried Zielinski'', Leipzig: Institut für Buchkunst, 2011, 192 pp.[https://www.institutbuchkunst.hgb-leipzig.de/en/series/13]. Review: [http://www.jitter-magazin.de/objects-of-knowledge.php Rauth]. {{en}}
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* Daniel Irrgang, Florian Hadler (eds.), ''Zur Genealogie des MedienDenkens'', Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2017.
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* [http://openthresholds.org/2/introduction ''Thresholds'' 2: "Traces"], eds. Frances McDonald and Whitney Trettien, 2018. {{en}}
  
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==Links==
* [http://gwk.udk-berlin.de/personen/zielinski/ Zielinski at Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftskommunikation, UDK Berlin]
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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]
 
* [http://www.egs.edu/faculty/siegfried-zielinski/biography/ Zielinski's profile at EGS]
 
* [http://www.egs.edu/faculty/siegfried-zielinski/biography/ Zielinski's profile at EGS]
 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Zielinski Zielinski on Wikipedia]
 
* [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[edit]

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[edit]

(in German unless noted otherwise)

Books[edit]

  • 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.

Edited books (selection)[edit]

  • with Peter Weibel (eds.), Allah's Automata: Artifacts of the Arabic-Islamic Renaissance (800-1200), Hatje Cantz, 2016. Catalogue. Exhibition. Publisher.
  • with Amador Vega and Peter Weibel (eds.), DIA-LOGOS: Ramon Llull's Method of Thought and Artistic Practice, University of Minnesota Press, 2018, 300 pp. [15]
  • with Charles Merewether (eds.), Art in the 21st Century: Reflections & Provocations, Hong Kong: Osage, 2020. [16] [17] (English)
  • with Hans Ulrich Reck (eds.), Künste und Apparate – Berichte aus einem Labor (1995-2005), Herbert von Halem (KHM #6), 2022, 360 pp. Publisher, [18]. (German)

Book chapters, papers, articles (selection)[edit]

Interviews (selection)[edit]

Literature[edit]

  • David Link, Nils Röller (eds.), Objects of Knowledge, of Art and of Friendship: A Small Technical Encyclopaedia, for Siegfried Zielinski, Leipzig: Institut für Buchkunst, 2011, 192 pp.[19]. Review: Rauth. (English)
  • Daniel Irrgang, Florian Hadler (eds.), Zur Genealogie des MedienDenkens, Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2017.
  • Thresholds 2: "Traces", eds. Frances McDonald and Whitney Trettien, 2018. (English)

Links[edit]