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'''Armin Medosch''' (1962, Graz - 2017, Vienna) was a writer, artist and curator. His work dealt with media culture, wireless networks, online communities, and the history of art and ''technopolitics''. He
published
a book on the international art and technology movement [[New Tendencies]] (2016). Medosch received his PhD degree in arts and computational technology from the Goldsmiths London (2012).
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'''Armin Medosch''' (1962, Graz - 2017, Vienna) was a writer, artist and curator. His work dealt with media culture, wireless networks, online communities, and the history of art and ''technopolitics''. He
wrote
a book on the international art and technology movement [[New Tendencies]] (2016). Medosch received his PhD degree in arts and computational technology from the Goldsmiths London (2012).
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He studied German literature and philosophy at Graz University (1982-85) and theatre direction at the Academy for Music and Drama, Graz (1982-85). In 1985 moved to [[Vienna]]. 1986 founded Radio Subcom art group and 1989-92 participated at art festivals ([[Ars Electronica]]), warehouse-parties, VJing. Worked as a journalist for ORF, Radio Ö1.
He studied German literature and philosophy at Graz University (1982-85) and theatre direction at the Academy for Music and Drama, Graz (1982-85). In 1985 moved to [[Vienna]]. 1986 founded Radio Subcom art group and 1989-92 participated at art festivals ([[Ars Electronica]]), warehouse-parties, VJing. Worked as a journalist for ORF, Radio Ö1.
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1992-94 co-founded STUBNITZ Kunst-Raum-Schiff, Rostock, and curated and organised exhibitions and symposia in Rostock, Hamburg, Malmö and St.Petersburg (Jul-Sep 1994). With Stefan Iglhaut and Florian
Rotzer
, he curated ''Telepolis'' (Luxembourg, 1995), an exhibition and symposium about the interactive and networked city.
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1992-94 co-founded STUBNITZ Kunst-Raum-Schiff, Rostock, and curated and organised exhibitions and symposia in Rostock, Hamburg, Malmö and St.Petersburg (Jul-Sep 1994). With Stefan Iglhaut and Florian
Rötzer
, he curated ''Telepolis'' (Luxembourg, 1995), an exhibition and symposium about the interactive and networked city.
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From 1996-2002 he was co-editor of ''[[Telepolis|Telepolis: The Magazine of Netculture]]''. With ''Telepolis'' he won the European Online Journalism Award 2000 for investigative reporting and the Grimme Online Award 2002 for media journalism.
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From 1996-2002 he was co-editor of ''[[Telepolis|Telepolis: The Magazine of Netculture]]''
(founded together with Florian Rötzer)
. With ''Telepolis'' he won the European Online Journalism Award 2000 for investigative reporting and the Grimme Online Award 2002 for media journalism.
From 1997 he was based in [[London]]. There he co-initiated the monthly [[Cybersalon]] events, joint the [http://web.archive.org/web/20110611040148/http://uo.twenteenthcentury.com/index.php?title=Main_Page University of Openess], a self-learning institution, and organised ''[[Art Servers Unlimited]]'' conference (with [[Manu Luksch]], 1998). He was associate senior lecturer at [[MA Ravensbourne|the MA course on Interactive Digital Media at Ravensbourne College]], London (2002-07).
From 1997 he was based in [[London]]. There he co-initiated the monthly [[Cybersalon]] events, joint the [http://web.archive.org/web/20110611040148/http://uo.twenteenthcentury.com/index.php?title=Main_Page University of Openess], a self-learning institution, and organised ''[[Art Servers Unlimited]]'' conference (with [[Manu Luksch]], 1998). He was associate senior lecturer at [[MA Ravensbourne|the MA course on Interactive Digital Media at Ravensbourne College]], London (2002-07).
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Medosch curated the exhibitions ''[[Art and Communication|Waves]]'' (Riga, 2006; Dortmund, 2008) and ''[[Art and Communication|Fields]]'' (Riga, 2014), and convened the conferences ''Goodbye Privacy'' (Ars Electronica, 2007) and ''Creative Cities'' (Vienna, 2009).
Medosch curated the exhibitions ''[[Art and Communication|Waves]]'' (Riga, 2006; Dortmund, 2008) and ''[[Art and Communication|Fields]]'' (Riga, 2014), and convened the conferences ''Goodbye Privacy'' (Ars Electronica, 2007) and ''Creative Cities'' (Vienna, 2009).
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In 2009 Medosch founded the [http://web.archive.org/web/20170222192204/http://www.technopolitics.info/ Technopolitics working group] together with [[Brian Holmes]]. Since 2011, the group has been regularly hosting talks and workshops with invited guests in [[Vienna]], growing to comprise about 10 core members and 30 contributors (artists, theoreticians, curators, journalists) as of 2015. They launched the project Tracing Information Society resulting in a Technopolitics Timeline, first displayed in the exhibition ''Social Glitch: Radical Aesthetics and the Consequences of Extreme Events'' at Kunst Raum Niederösterreich (2015)
[https://issuu.com/eckermann/docs/sg/66]
[http://web.archive.org/web/20151008085016/http://www.theoriesinmind.net/socialglitch/] [http://continentcontinent.cc/index.php/continent/article/view/216], later at [http://www.mak.at/jart/prj3/mak-resp/main.jart?rel=de&content-id=1461203004311&article_id=1464313825597&event_id=1464313825603&reserve-mode=active MAK Vienna] (2016), [http://ngbk.de/development/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=510 nGbK Berlin] (2017) and elsewhere.
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In 2009 Medosch founded the [http://web.archive.org/web/20170222192204/http://www.technopolitics.info/ Technopolitics working group] together with [[Brian Holmes]]. Since 2011, the group has been regularly hosting talks and workshops with invited guests in [[Vienna]], growing to comprise about 10 core members and 30 contributors (artists, theoreticians, curators, journalists) as of 2015. They launched the project Tracing Information Society resulting in a Technopolitics Timeline, first displayed in the exhibition ''
[https://issuu.com/eckermann/docs/sg/66
Social Glitch: Radical Aesthetics and the Consequences of Extreme Events
]
'' at Kunst Raum Niederösterreich (2015) [http://web.archive.org/web/20151008085016/http://www.theoriesinmind.net/socialglitch/] [http://continentcontinent.cc/index.php/continent/article/view/216], later at [http://www.mak.at/jart/prj3/mak-resp/main.jart?rel=de&content-id=1461203004311&article_id=1464313825597&event_id=1464313825603&reserve-mode=active MAK Vienna] (2016), [http://ngbk.de/development/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=510 nGbK Berlin] (2017) and elsewhere.
He was a regular speaker at international conferences on digital culture and frequently involved in organising and curating conferences. He contributed articles and essays to many books, catalogues, magazines and newspapers.
He was a regular speaker at international conferences on digital culture and frequently involved in organising and curating conferences. He contributed articles and essays to many books, catalogues, magazines and newspapers.
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[[Image:Medosch_Armin_New_Tendencies_Art_at_the_Threshold_of_the_Information_Revolution.jpg|thumb|200px|''New Tendencies'', 2016, [https://monoskop.org/log/?p=17781 Log], [https://monoskop.org/media/text/medosch_2016_new_tendencies/ HTML].]]
[[Image:Medosch_Armin_New_Tendencies_Art_at_the_Threshold_of_the_Information_Revolution.jpg|thumb|200px|''New Tendencies'', 2016, [https://monoskop.org/log/?p=17781 Log], [https://monoskop.org/media/text/medosch_2016_new_tendencies/ HTML].]]
===Books===
===Books===
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* editor, with Stefan Iglhaut and Florian Rötzer, ''Stadt am Netz. Ansichten von Telepolis'', Mannheim: Bollmann, 1996. {{de}}
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* editor, with Stefan Iglhaut and Florian Rötzer, ''Stadt am Netz. Ansichten von Telepolis'', Mannheim: Bollmann, 1996
, 298 pp
. {{de}}
* editor, with Janko Röttgers, ''[[Media:Medosch_Roettgers_eds_Netzpiraten_Die_Kultur_des_elektronischen_Verbrechens.pdf|Netzpiraten. Die Kultur des elektronischen Verbrechens]]'', Hannover: Heise, 2001, 192 pp. [http://www.heise.de/tp/buch/buch_3.html] {{de}}
* editor, with Janko Röttgers, ''[[Media:Medosch_Roettgers_eds_Netzpiraten_Die_Kultur_des_elektronischen_Verbrechens.pdf|Netzpiraten. Die Kultur des elektronischen Verbrechens]]'', Hannover: Heise, 2001, 192 pp. [http://www.heise.de/tp/buch/buch_3.html] {{de}}
** ''[[Media:Medosch_Armin_Roettgers_Janko_eds_Pirati_na_mrezi_Kultura_elektronskog_kriminala_2008_SR.pdf|Pirati na mreži: kultura elektronskog kriminala]]'', trans. Relja Dražić, Dragan Prole and Rade Pujin, Novi Sad: Futura publikacije, 2008, 133 pp. {{sr}}
** ''[[Media:Medosch_Armin_Roettgers_Janko_eds_Pirati_na_mrezi_Kultura_elektronskog_kriminala_2008_SR.pdf|Pirati na mreži: kultura elektronskog kriminala]]'', trans. Relja Dražić, Dragan Prole and Rade Pujin, Novi Sad: Futura publikacije, 2008, 133 pp. {{sr}}
* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=98 Freie Netze. Geschichte, Politik und Kultur offener WLAN-Netze]'', Hannover: Heise, 2004. On the politics, history and culture of (wireless) community networks. {{de}}
* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=98 Freie Netze. Geschichte, Politik und Kultur offener WLAN-Netze]'', Hannover: Heise, 2004. On the politics, history and culture of (wireless) community networks. {{de}}
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* ''[http://pubshop.bmbf.gv.at/download.aspx?id=423 Lernen in der Netzwerkgesellschaft]'', Vienna: Bundesministerium für Unterricht, Kultur und Kunst, 2011, 95 pp. {{de}}
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20170215170331/http://www.thenextlayer.org/NetworkCommons The Rise of the Network Commons]'', [2014]. Book draft. {{en}}
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20170215170331/http://www.thenextlayer.org/NetworkCommons The Rise of the Network Commons]'', [2014]. Book draft. {{en}}
* ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=17781 New Tendencies: Art at the Threshold of the Information Revolution (1961-1978)]'', MIT Press, 2016, x+395 pp. Reviews: [http://versorgerin.stwst.at/sites/default/files/pdf/Versorgerin_0111_web.pdf#page=16 Schürer] (Versorgerin, DE), [http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/new-tendencies-art-threshold-information-revolution Lukić] (Furtherfield). {{en}}
* ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=17781 New Tendencies: Art at the Threshold of the Information Revolution (1961-1978)]'', MIT Press, 2016, x+395 pp. Reviews: [http://versorgerin.stwst.at/sites/default/files/pdf/Versorgerin_0111_web.pdf#page=16 Schürer] (Versorgerin, DE), [http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/new-tendencies-art-threshold-information-revolution Lukić] (Furtherfield). {{en}}
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===Catalogues, journal issues===
===Catalogues, journal issues===
* editor, ''DMZ Media Arts Festival'', London, 2003. Catalogue. [http://dmz.spc.org/londonzip.html]
* editor, ''DMZ Media Arts Festival'', London, 2003. Catalogue. [http://dmz.spc.org/londonzip.html]
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* editor, ''DIVE - collaborative tools for online communities'', 2003. With CD.
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* editor, ''DIVE - collaborative tools for online communities''
, Liverpool: The Virtualcentre-Media.Net
, 2003
, 51 pp
. With CD.
* editor, with Rasa Šmite and Daina Silina, ''Waves: Electromagnetic Waves as Material and Medium of Art. Acoustic Space #6'', Riga: RIXC, 2006. [http://rixc.org/en/acousticspace/all/waves-electromagnetic-waves-as-material-and-medium-for-arts/]
* editor, with Rasa Šmite and Daina Silina, ''Waves: Electromagnetic Waves as Material and Medium of Art. Acoustic Space #6'', Riga: RIXC, 2006. [http://rixc.org/en/acousticspace/all/waves-electromagnetic-waves-as-material-and-medium-for-arts/]
* editor, with Rasa Šmite, ''Spectropia: Illuminating Investigations into the Electromagnetic Spectrum. Acoustic Space #7'', Riga: RIXC, and Liepaja: MPLab of Liepaja University, 2008. [http://rixc.org/en/acousticspace/all/spectropia-illuminating-investigations-in-the-electromagnetic-spectrum/]
* editor, with Rasa Šmite, ''Spectropia: Illuminating Investigations into the Electromagnetic Spectrum. Acoustic Space #7'', Riga: RIXC, and Liepaja: MPLab of Liepaja University, 2008. [http://rixc.org/en/acousticspace/all/spectropia-illuminating-investigations-in-the-electromagnetic-spectrum/]
* editor, with Inke Arns, Raitis Šmits and Rasa Šmite, ''Waves: The Art of the Electromagnetic Society'', Dortmund: HMKV/Kettler, 2008. Catalogue.
* editor, with Inke Arns, Raitis Šmits and Rasa Šmite, ''Waves: The Art of the Electromagnetic Society'', Dortmund: HMKV/Kettler, 2008. Catalogue.
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* ''Lernen in der Netzwerkgesellschaft'', Vienna: Bundesministerium für Unterricht, Kultur und Kunst, 2011. {{de}}
* editor, with Rasa Šmite and Raitis Šmits, ''Art as Research. Acoustic Space #9'', Riga: RIXC, and Liepaja: MPLab of Liepaja University, 2010. [http://rixc.org/en/acousticspace/all/art-as-research/]
* editor, with Rasa Šmite and Raitis Šmits, ''Art as Research. Acoustic Space #9'', Riga: RIXC, and Liepaja: MPLab of Liepaja University, 2010. [http://rixc.org/en/acousticspace/all/art-as-research/]
* editor, with Rasa Šmite and Raitis Šmits, ''Networks and Sustainability. Acoustic Space #10'', Riga: RIXC, and Liepaja: MPLab of Liepaja University, 2011. [http://rixc.org/en/acousticspace/all/networks-and-sustainability/]
* editor, with Rasa Šmite and Raitis Šmits, ''Networks and Sustainability. Acoustic Space #10'', Riga: RIXC, and Liepaja: MPLab of Liepaja University, 2011. [http://rixc.org/en/acousticspace/all/networks-and-sustainability/]