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

new media art New media art includes artworks designed and produced by means of electronic media technologies, comprising virtual art, computer graphics, computer animation, digital art, interactive art, sound art, Internet art, video games, robotics, 3D pri ...

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 movement. As a journalist he wrote extensively on

art Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas. There is no generally agreed definition of wha ...

and

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

for publications in German and English, and on lists such as Nettime. 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 ge ...

: The Magazine of Netculture. For many years he collaborated with media art organisation RIXC co-editing issues of their Acoustic Space Journal and co-curating exhibitions, and collaborated with artist

Shu Lea Cheang Shu Lea Cheang () (born April 13, 1954) is a Taiwanese-American artist and filmmaker who lived and worked in New York City in the 1980s and 90s, until relocating to the EuroZone in 2000. Cheang received a BA in history from the National Taiwan Un ...

on the Kingdom of Piracy project. Medosch previously taught on the MA course on Interactive Digital Media at Ravensbourne (college), 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