Andreas Broeckmann
Andreas Broeckmann (1964, Kevelaer) is an art historian and curator based in Berlin. He specializes on media art, digital culture, and aesthetics of the machinic. He is director the Leuphana Arts Program at Leuphana University, Lüneburg.
Broeckmann studied art history, sociology and media studies in Bochum, Berlin, and Norwich, and received his PhD with the thesis A Visual Economy of Individuals: Portrait Photography in the 19th Century Human Sciences from the University of East Anglia, Norwich (1995). He worked as a project manager at V2_Organisation Rotterdam (1995-2000), where he co-curated programmes for the deaf festival and Next 5 Minutes conferences. Founding member of the translocal Syndicate network (1996-2001). From September 2000 to 2007 he was the Artistic Director of Transmediale - international media art festival Berlin. From 2005 one of artistic directors of Tesla media art lab in Berlin. Independently curated exhibitions included projects with Kontejner / MaMa in Zagreb (Runtime Art, 2004), at TENT/Witte de With in Rotterdam (Tracer / Neuralgic, 2004), and at Skuc Gallery in Ljubljana (KRcF: Room for Manoeuvre, 2006). Co-chaired Re:place conference (Berlin, 2007). He is a member of the advisory board for Visual Arts of the Goethe Institut, and of the Council for the Arts, Berlin. He co-maintains the Spectre mailing list (*2001) and is a member of the Berlin-based media association mikro (*1998).
Publications
- "A Visual Ecomomy of Individuals. The Use of Portrait Photography in the Human Sciences in the 19th Century", Norwich: University of East Anglia, 1995. PhD dissertation.
- "Net.Art, Machines, and Parasites", Nettime, Jan 1997.
- "Postmedia Discourses. A Working Paper", in Unneeded Conversations 2, Porto: FBAUP, 2014.
- Machine Art in the Twentieth Century, MIT Press, 2016, 392 pp. [1]
- more
Interviews
- Lawrence Bird, "Intimate Politics: An Interview with Andreas Broeckmann", Furtherfield, 10 Aug 2012.
