Armin Medosch

Born	September 16, 1962(1962-09-16) Graz, Austria
Died	February 23, 2017(2017-02-23) (aged 54) Vienna, Austria
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Armin Medosch (1962, Graz - 2016, Vienna) was a writer, artist and curator.

1980-84 studied germanistik and philosophy at Graz University. 1982-85 theatre direction at Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst. In 1985 moved to Vienna. 1986 founded Subcom art group and 1989-92 participated at art festivals (Ars Electronica), warehouse-parties, VJing. Worked as a journalist for ORF, Radio Ö1.

1992-94 co-founded STUBNITZ Kunst-Raum-Schiff, Rostock. Curated and organised exhibitions and symposia in Rostock, Hamburg, Malmö and St.Petersburg. With Stefan Iglhaut and Florian Rotzer, he curated Telepolis (1995), an exhibition and symposium about interactive city.

From 1996-2002 he was co-editor of the net-culture magazine Telepolis. With Telepolis he won the European Online Journalism Award 2000 for investigative reporting and the Grimme Online Award 2002 for media journalism.

From 1997 he was based in London. There he co-initiated the monthly Cybersalon events, joint the University of Openess, a self-learning institution, and organised Art Servers Unlimited conference (with Manu Luksch, 1998). In 2002 he co-organised "BerLon" - Berlin/London wireless community networking workshop in bootlab, Berlin. In 2004 he held a NinePin research residency by Scan Network in the South West of England, investigating real and virtual ports and their role as cultural socio-economic hubs of transmission, gatekeeping and control with the Ports project. He was associate senior lecturer at Ravensbourne College's postgraduate MA course on Interactive Digital Media.

In 2003 he edited DIVE - collaborative tools for online communities, a printed catalogue and CD with texts, art projects and software. DIVE is a project by Kingdom of Piracy <KOP> which he co-initiated in 2001. DIVE was co-produced by FACT, Liverpool, commissioned by Virtual Media Center and launched at Ars Electronica 2003. <KOP> is jointly curated by Armin Medosch, Yukiko Shikata and Shu Lea Cheang. In 2006, with Kingdom of Piracy and xxxxx he organised Plenum as a novel event format.

In 2006 he curated the Waves exhibition in Riga.

He was a regular speaker at international conferences on digital culture and frequently involved in organising and curating conferences. He contributed articles and essays to many books, catalogues, magazines and newspapers.

Publications

Books, catalogues

• editor, with Janko Röttgers, Netzpiraten. Die Kultur des elektronischen Verbrechens, Hannover: Heinz Heise, 2001, 192 pp. [1] (German)
• editor, DMZ Media Arts Festival, London, 2003. Catalogue.
• editor, DIVE - collaborative tools for online communities, 2003. With CD.
• Freie Netze. Geschichte, Politik und Kultur offener WLAN-Netze, Hannover: Heinz Heise, 2004. On the politics, history and culture of (wireless) community networks. (German)
• New Tendencies: Art at the Threshold of the Information Revolution (1961-1978), MIT Press, 2016, x+395 pp.

Theses

• Technological Determinism in Media Art, Ravensbourne College / Sussex University, 2005, 57 pp. Master's thesis.
• Automation, Cybernation and the Art of New Tendencies, 1961-1973, London: Goldsmiths, 2012, 369 pp. Ph.D. dissertation.

Selected essays

• "Wireless Utopia - developing the social protocols of free networking", 2004.
• "HiveNetworks: Meshing in the Future - The free configuration of everything and everyone with Hive Networks", 2005.
• "On Free Wavelength: wireless networks as techno-social models", 2006.
• "The Next Layer or: The Emergence of Open Source Culture", 2007.
• "45 RPM / Revolutions Per Minute - Radio Art Histories Remixed, Maxi Single Version", 2007. Subjective and abbreviated history of radio told from the angle of radio art as an emancipatory project with a 100 year life-span so far, including remarks covering Brecht, Benjamin, Subcom, Dyne, Pure Data and others.
• more

Interviews

• Geert Lovink, "Interview with Armin Medosch", 1997.

Links

• http://theoriebild.ung.at/view
• TheNextLayer, a research project investigating the culture of open sources.