Siegfried Zielinski

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 [1], he is Michel Foucault Professor for Techno-Culture and Media Archaeology at the European Graduate School in Saas Fee,[1] and he is director of the International Vilém-Flusser-Archive at the Berlin University of the Arts.[2]

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Biography

Siegfried Zielinski studied theatre, modern German literature, linguistics, 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.[3] 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 ". [4] 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.[5]

In 2007, Zielinski took the chair in media theory at Berlin University of the Arts.[6] 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.[1]

Publications (selection)

TRANSLATIONS OF Archäologie der Medien:
  • 2010: Zielinski, Siegfried: "Archeologia mediów" ( Warszawa, sierpień: Wydawnictwo Oficyna Naukowa). ISBN 9788374591089
  • 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[8]
  • 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
TRANSLATIONS OF Audiovisionen:
  • 1999: Zielinski, Siegfried and Gloria Custance (Translator). Audiovisions: Cinema and Television as Entr'actes in History (Amsterdam University Press) ISBN 9053563032

  • 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).


Lectures

Memberships

Siegfried Zielinski is elected member of, amongst others, the European Film Academy (EFA) [2], the Berlin Academy of Arts (Akademie der Künste) [3], the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste Nordrhein-Westfalen [4] and the Magic Lantern Society of Great Britain [5].

References

  1. ^ a b Siegfried Zielinski Faculty page at European Graduate School. Biography, bibliography, articles and lectures. (Accessed May 13, 2010)
  2. ^ Flusser Archive.
  3. ^ http://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=holocaust&p=1&item=T80:0319
  4. ^ History and Cultural Technique of the Video Recorder. Ph.D. dissertation (in German)
  5. ^ Information about the Variantology research project: http://variantology.com/
  6. ^ Department website: http://www.gwk.udk-berlin.de/fachgebiete/audiovisuelle-kommunikation/personen/zielinski/
  7. ^ Variantology 4, published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König: http://www.buchhandlung-walther-koenig.de/cat/kwb_45_variantology_4/pid_170000000000790428.aspx
  8. ^ http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10601

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