Armin Medosch

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Born 1962 in Graz. London based writer, artist and curator. Currently holding 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.

1980-84 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). 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. 1995 with Stefan Iglhaut and Florian Rotzer co-curated Telepolis, exhibiton and symposium about interactive city.

From 1996 to 2002 he was co-editor of telepolis, the award winning 'magazine of net-culture'. Since 1997 based in London. He is co-initiator of the monthly Cybersalon events, co-organiser of conference Art Servers Unlimited (London, 1998). Member of University of Openess, a self-learning institution, and 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 rom with texts, art projects and software. DIVE is a project by "Kingdom of Piracy" <KOP>; 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.

He is a regular speaker at international conferences on digital culture and frequently involved in organising and curating conferences. He presented a paper at the conference Open Cultures, Vienna (June 03), at Transmediale 04, at 'Crosstalks', Brussels, among many other places. In 2002 he co-organised "BerLon" - Berlin/London wireless community networking workshop, bootlab, Berlin (Oct 02).

He has contributed articles and essays to many books, catalogues, magazines and newspapers. One of his latest pieces is 'Not Just Another Wireless Utopia' for 'THE FUTURE OF COMPUTER ARTS', edited by Marina Grzinic and published by MKC, Maribor and Maska, Ljubljana. He is currently working on a new book on the relationships between science, technology and societal change.


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