Siegfried Zielinski is co-inventor of the research and teaching field Media Archaeology, Professor Emeritus of Media Theory at Berlin University of the Arts, Michel Foucault Professor of Media Archaeology & Techno-Culture at the European Graduate School (EGS), visiting Professor at Tongji University Shanghai and honorary Professor at the Budapest University of the Arts. He was founding rector (1994–2000) of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, director of the Vilém Flusser Archive (1998–2016), and rector of the Karlsruhe University of Arts & Design (2016–2018). Zielinski has published extensively on the archaeology and variantology of the arts and media, including Audiovisions (1989/99), Deep Time of the Media (2002/2006), Variations on Media Thinking (2019). In cooperation with Peter Weibel, he also worked as a curator for exhibitions at the ZKM Karlsruhe on "Vilém Flusser and the Arts", "Allah's Automata" or Ramon Llull and his early thinking machines. Together with musician and composer FM Einheit, founding member of the band Einstuerzende Neubauten, he produced critical-poetical sound pieces for Teodor Currentzi's platform MusicAeterna and diverse German radio stations. With musician and composer Anthony Moore he developed a format of "Expanded Lecture", integrating sound and sciences. Zielinski is elected member of the Berlin Academy of Arts, the Northrhine-Westfalian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the Magic Lantern Society of Great Britain.
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