Armin Medosch (1962 – 2017) was an Austrian artist, curator, theorist and critic working in the fields of

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new media art New media art includes artworks designed and produced by means of new media, electronic media technology, technologies, comprising virtual art, computer graphics, computer animation, digital art, interactive art, sound art, Internet art, video g ...

and DiY networking.

Biography

Medosch was born in Graz. He received his PhD from the

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with research on the

New Tendencies Croatian art of the 20th century, that is visual arts within the boundaries of today's Croatia, can be divided into modern art up to the Second World War, and contemporary art afterwards. Modern art in Croatia began with the Secession (art), Sece ...

movement. As a journalist he wrote extensively on

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and

technology Technology is the application of knowledge to reach practical goals in a specifiable and reproducible way. The word ''technology'' may also mean the product of such an endeavor. The use of technology is widely prevalent in medicine, science, ...

for publications in German and English, and on lists such as

Nettime Nettime is an internet mailing list proposed in 1995 by Geert Lovink and Pit Schultz (then half-jokingly called "the nettime brothers") at the second meeting of the " Medien Zentral Kommittee" during the Venice Biennale. Since 1998, Ted Byf ...

. From 1996 to 2002 he was co-editor of

Telepolis ''Telepolis'' is a German Internet magazine, published by the Heinz Heise Verlag since the beginning of 1996. It was founded by journalists Armin Medosch and Florian Rötzer and deals with privacy, science, culture, internet-related and gen ...

: The Magazine of Netculture. For many years he collaborated with media art organisation

RIXC The Centre for new media culture in Riga (RIXC) is the joint effort of a number of independent local Latvian cultural groups working in the fields of new media, art, film, music, youth culture and the social projects. The founders of RIXC are ...

co-editing issues of their Acoustic Space Journal and co-curating exhibitions, and collaborated with artist

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on the Kingdom of Piracy project. Medosch previously taught on the MA course on Interactive Digital Media at

Ravensbourne (college) Ravensbourne University London (formerly Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication) is a digital media and design university, with vocational courses in fashion, television and broadcasting, interactive product design, architecture an ...

, London (2002–07). Medosch died of cancer in 2017, in Vienna.

Publications

"Shockwaves in the New World Order of Information and Communication", in A Companion to Digital Art, ed. Christiane Paul, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014, pp 355–383.

New Tendencies: Art at the Threshold of The Information Revolution 1961-1978, MIT Press, 2016

References

External links

New Tendencies Research site

Armin Medosch Bibliography on Monoskop
1962 births 2017 deaths Academics of Ravensbourne University London 20th-century Austrian male writers 20th-century Austrian writers 21st-century Austrian male writers 21st-century Austrian writers Male journalists 20th-century Austrian journalists 21st-century Austrian journalists {{Austria-journalist-stub