Siegfried Zielinski
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Siegfried Zielinski is a German media theorist. He holds the chair for Media Theory: Archaeology and Variantology
of the Media at Berlin University of the Arts
http://entropie.digital.udk-berlin.de/wiki/Siegfried_Zielinski, he is Michel Foucault
Professor for Techno-Culture and Media Archaeology at the European Graduate School
in Saas Fee, and he is director of the International Vilém-Flusser-Archive at the Berlin University of the Arts
.
, semiotics
, sociology
, philosophy
, and political theory in Marburg and Berlin, at the Free University
and the Technical University. The major focus of his studies were on the field of advanced technical media, with Friedrich Knilli, whose institute had developed out of Walter Höllerer’s Institute of Language in the Age of Technology.
In 1979 he wrote and directed the documentary film 'Responses to HOLOCAUST in Western Germany' which is collected at Paley Center for Media in New York. He graduated in the same year with a thesis on Veit Harlan
, which was also his first monograph published in 1981. His Ph.D. dissertation in 1985 on the History and Cultural Technique of the Video Recorder became the book "Zur Geschichte des Videorecorders ". His habilitation, in 1989, was on high-definition television.
In 1989 he took up his first full professorship in audiovisual studies at the University of Salzburg
in Austria, where he set up a department for teaching, research, and production of “Audiovisions”. "Audiovisions" was also the title of his first book translated into English.
In 1993, Zielinski was appointed Professor of Communication and Audiovisual Studies at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne; where, in 1994, he became its Founding Director. In mid-2001, he returned to teaching and research, concentrating on history and theory, developing his multi-dimensional (or non-linear) approach to diverse genealogies of media he would call an-archaeology or variantology
of media.
In 2007, Zielinski took the chair in media theory at Berlin University of the Arts
. He also teaches techno-aesthetics and media archaeology at the European Graduate School (EGS)
in Saas Fee, Switzerland, where he holds the Michel Foucault
professorship.
(EFA) http://www.europeanfilmacademy.org/htm/4Impressum.html, the Berlin Academy of Arts (Akademie der Künste
) http://www.adk.de/, the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste Nordrhein-Westfalen http://www.akdw.nrw.de/ and the Magic Lantern Society of Great Britain http://www.magiclantern.org.uk/.
Variantology
Variantology has been conceived as an international research project with the aim of developing a critical appraisal of the established concepts of “media”...
of the Media at Berlin University of the Arts
Berlin University of the Arts
The Universität der Künste Berlin, UdK is a public art school in Berlin, Germany, one of the four universities in the city...
http://entropie.digital.udk-berlin.de/wiki/Siegfried_Zielinski, he is Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault , born Paul-Michel Foucault , was a French philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas...
Professor for Techno-Culture and Media Archaeology at the European Graduate School
European Graduate School
The European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland is a privately funded graduate school founded by the non-profit European Foundation of Interdisciplinary Studies. Its German name is Europäische Universität für Interdisziplinäre Studien...
in Saas Fee, and he is director of the International Vilém-Flusser-Archive at the Berlin University of the Arts
Berlin University of the Arts
The Universität der Künste Berlin, UdK is a public art school in Berlin, Germany, one of the four universities in the city...
.
Biography
Siegfried Zielinski studied theatre, modern German literature, linguisticsLinguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
, semiotics
Semiotics
Semiotics, also called semiotic studies or semiology, is the study of signs and sign processes , indication, designation, likeness, analogy, metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication...
, sociology
Sociology
Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...
, philosophy
Philosophy
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...
, and political theory in Marburg and Berlin, at the Free University
Free University of Berlin
Freie Universität Berlin is one of the leading and most prestigious research universities in Germany and continental Europe. It distinguishes itself through its modern and international character. It is the largest of the four universities in Berlin. Research at the university is focused on the...
and the Technical University. The major focus of his studies were on the field of advanced technical media, with Friedrich Knilli, whose institute had developed out of Walter Höllerer’s Institute of Language in the Age of Technology.
In 1979 he wrote and directed the documentary film 'Responses to HOLOCAUST in Western Germany' which is collected at Paley Center for Media in New York. He graduated in the same year with a thesis on Veit Harlan
Veit Harlan
Veit Harlan was a German film director and actor.-Life and career:Harlan was born in Berlin. After studying under Max Reinhardt, he first appeared on the stage in 1915 and, after World War I, worked in the Berlin stage. In 1922 he married Jewish actress and cabaret singer Dora Gerson; the couple...
, which was also his first monograph published in 1981. His Ph.D. dissertation in 1985 on the History and Cultural Technique of the Video Recorder became the book "Zur Geschichte des Videorecorders ". His habilitation, in 1989, was on high-definition television.
In 1989 he took up his first full professorship in audiovisual studies at the University of Salzburg
University of Salzburg
The University of Salzburg, or Paris Lodron University after its founder, the Prince Archbishop Paris Lodron, is located in the Austrian city of Salzburg, Salzburgerland, home of Mozart. It is divided into 4 faculties: catholic theology, law, humanities and natural science.Founded in 1622, it...
in Austria, where he set up a department for teaching, research, and production of “Audiovisions”. "Audiovisions" was also the title of his first book translated into English.
In 1993, Zielinski was appointed Professor of Communication and Audiovisual Studies at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne; where, in 1994, he became its Founding Director. In mid-2001, he returned to teaching and research, concentrating on history and theory, developing his multi-dimensional (or non-linear) approach to diverse genealogies of media he would call an-archaeology or variantology
Variantology
Variantology has been conceived as an international research project with the aim of developing a critical appraisal of the established concepts of “media”...
of media.
In 2007, Zielinski took the chair in media theory at Berlin University of the Arts
Berlin University of the Arts
The Universität der Künste Berlin, UdK is a public art school in Berlin, Germany, one of the four universities in the city...
. He also teaches techno-aesthetics and media archaeology at the European Graduate School (EGS)
European Graduate School
The European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland is a privately funded graduate school founded by the non-profit European Foundation of Interdisciplinary Studies. Its German name is Europäische Universität für Interdisziplinäre Studien...
in Saas Fee, Switzerland, where he holds the Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault , born Paul-Michel Foucault , was a French philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas...
professorship.
Publications (selection)
- 2010: Zielinski, Siegfried and Eckhard Fürus (Editors). Variantology 4 – On Deep Time Relations of Arts, Sciences and Technologies in the Arabic-Islamic World and Beyond (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Koenig). ISBN 3865607324
- 2009: Zielinski, Siegfried and Mono Krom (Photographer). Kaos Pilot Kairos Poet: Peter Weibel zum Fünfundsechzigsten (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung König). ISBN 3865606474
- 2009: Zielinski, Siegfried (Editor), Vilém Flusser (Author) and Silvia Wagnermaier (Editor). Kommunikologie weiter denken: Die Bochumer Vorlesungen (Frankfurt/Main: Fischer). ISBN 3596181453
- 2009: Zielinski, Siegfried and Eckhard Fürlus. "Ah Lord, love me passionately": images of bodies and religion in the Lutz Teutloff collection: exposé for an imaginery exhibition / "Minne Mich Gewaltig!": BildKörper & Religion in der Sammlung Lutz Teutloff: Exposé für eine imaginäre Ausstellung (Teutloff Photo + Video Collection).
- 2008: Zielinski, Siegfried and Eckhard Fürus (Editors). Variantology 3 – On Deep Time Relations Of Arts, Sciences and Technologies in China and Elsewhere (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung König). ISBN 3865603661
- 2007: Zielinski, Siegfried and Andrés Burbano (Editor). Siegfried Zielinski: genealogias, vision, escucha y comunicación (Ediciones Uniandes). ISBN 958695238X
- 2007: Zielinski, Siegfried and David Link (Editors). Variantology 2 – On Deep Time Relations Of Arts, Sciences and Technologies (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung König). ISBN 3865600506.
- 2007: Zielinski, Siegfried and Silvia M. Wagnermaier (Editors). Variantology – On Deep Time Relations Of Arts, Sciences and Technologies (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung König). ISBN 3883759147
- 2002: Zielinski, Siegfried. Archäologie der Medien: Zur Tiefenzeit des technischen Hörens und Sehens (Reinbek: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag). ISBN 3499556499.
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- 2010: Zielinski, Siegfried: "Archeologia mediów" ( Warszawa, sierpień: Wydawnictwo Oficyna Naukowa). ISBN 9788374591089
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- 2006: Zielinski, Siegfried, Gloria Custance (Translator) and Timothy Druckrey (Foreword). Deep Time of the Media: Toward an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means (The MIT Press). ISBN 0262240491
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- 2006: Zielinski, Siegfried, Rong Zhenhua and Xigefulide Qilinsiji (Translators). 媒体考古学 = Archäologie der Medien /Mei ti kao gu xue (Shang wu yin shu guan). ISBN 7100050588
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- 2006: Zielinski, Siegfried and Carlos D. Szlak (Translator). Arqueologia da mídia em busca do tempo remoto das técnicas do ver e do ouvir (Annablume). ISBN 8574196347
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- 2002: Zielinski, Siegfried (Co-Editor). Goodbye, dear pigeons (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung König). ISBN 3883756024
- 2000: Zielinski, Siegfried and Reiner Matzker. Medienwissenschaft: Teil 5: Fiktion als Fakt. "Metaphysik" der neuen Medien (Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang). ISBN 3906758672
- 1997: Zielinski, Siegfried, William Mitchell, Stephen Perrella, and Stacey Spiegel. V2 Interfacing Realities. Together with Knowbotic Research. Initiated by V2 (Andreas Broeckmann) (Uitgeverij De Balie). ISBN 9066171839
- 1994: Zielinski, Siegfried and Angela Huemer (Editors). Keith Griffiths The Presence (Edition Blimp). ISBN 3901272011
- 1992: Zielinski, Siegfried. Video – Apparat, Medium, Kunst, Kultur: Ein internationaler Reader (Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang). ISBN 3631426887
- 1989: Zielinski, Siegfried. Audiovisionen: Kino und Fernsehen als Zwischenspiele (Reinbek: Rowohlts Enzyklopädie). ISBN 3499554895
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- 1999: Zielinski, Siegfried and Gloria Custance (Translator). Audiovisions: Cinema and Television as Entr'actes in History (Amsterdam University Press) ISBN 9053563032
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- 2009: Zielinski, Siegfried. Audiovíziók - A mozi és a televízió mint a törrténelem közjátékai, translated into Hungarian by Schulz Katalin & Kurucz Andrea (Budapest: C³ Alapítvány – Condola).
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- 1989: Zielinski, Siegfried and Friedrich Knilli (Editors). Germanistische Medienwissenschaft. Teil 1: Die Rolle der Medien in der Auslandsgermanistik (Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang). ISBN 3261039558
- 1989: Zielinski, Siegfried. Germanistische Medienwissenschaft. Teil 2: Fernsehspielforschung in der Bundesrepublik und der DDR 1950-1985 (Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang) ISBN 3261039566
- 1989: Zielinski, Siegfried and Friedrich Knilli (Editors). Germanistische Medienwissenschaft. Teil 3: Comicforschung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1945-1984 (Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang). ISBN 3261039558
- 1986: Zielinski, Siegfried. Zur Geschichte des Videorecorders (Berlin: Wissenschaftsverlag Volker Spiess). ISBN 3891660383
- 1983: Zielinski, Siegfried, Erwin Gundelsheimer, Frank Ostermann, Heino Mass, Friedrich Knilli. Betrifft: Holocaust. Zuschauer schreiben an den WDR (Berlin: Wissenschaftsverlag Volker Spiess). ISBN 3891662734
- 1982: Zielinski, Siegfried and Friedrich Knilli. Holocaust zur Unterhaltung. Anatomie eines internationalen Bestsellers (Berlin: Espresso). ISBN 3882900121
- 1983: Zielinski, Siegfried. Televisionen - Medienzeiten. Beiträge zur Diskussion um die Zukunft der Kommunikation (Berlin: Express Edition). ISBN 3885483009
- 1983: Zielinski, Siegfried, Friedrich Knilli, Thomas Maurer and Thomas Radevagen. Jud Süss. Filmprotokoll, Programmheft und Einzelanalysen (Berlin: Wissenschaftsverlag Volker Spiess). ISBN 3891662661
- 1981: Zielinski, Siegfried. Veit Harlan: Analysen und Materialien zur Auseinandersetzung mit einem Film-Regisseur des deutschen Faschismus (Frankfurt/Main: Fischer). ISBN 3883232807
Lectures
- Siegfried Zielinski. A Trilogy of Time. A Keynote at transmediale 2010.
- Siegfried Zielinski. On An-Archaeology. Interview 2007.
- Siegfried Zielinski. Interview for Imagenes del Rojas, UBA TV. Buenos Aires 1999.
- Siegfried Zielinski. Is New Media really new? Interview for The Lounge in 1999.
Memberships
Siegfried Zielinski is elected member of, amongst others, the European Film AcademyEuropean Film Academy
The European Film Academy is an initiative of a group of European filmmakers who came together in Berlin on the occasion of the first presentation of the European Film Awards in November 1988.- European Film Academy :...
(EFA) http://www.europeanfilmacademy.org/htm/4Impressum.html, the Berlin Academy of Arts (Akademie der Künste
Akademie der Künste
The Akademie der Künste, Berlin is an arts institution in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in 1696 by Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg as the Prussian Academy of Arts, an academic institution where members could meet and discuss and share ideas...
) http://www.adk.de/, the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste Nordrhein-Westfalen http://www.akdw.nrw.de/ and the Magic Lantern Society of Great Britain http://www.magiclantern.org.uk/.
External links
- Siegfried Zielinski @ European Graduate SchoolEuropean Graduate SchoolThe European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland is a privately funded graduate school founded by the non-profit European Foundation of Interdisciplinary Studies. Its German name is Europäische Universität für Interdisziplinäre Studien...
. Biography, bibliography, articles and lectures. - Interview with Siegfried Zielinski.
- Variantology website.
- Video: lecture about "Atemporality - A Cultural Speed Control?" at transmediale 2010.