Florian Schneider
Filmmaker, writer, and developer in the fields of new media, networking and open source technologies. In his work he focusses on bordercrossings between mainstream and independent media, art and activism, theory and technology.
As a filmmaker he directed several award-winning documentaries and designed and realized two theme-evenings for the german-french tv station arte on the topics of migration and activism. As a writer he has worked for major german newspapers and magazines such as Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
He is one of the initiators of the KEIN MENSCH IST ILLEGAL (no one is illegal) campaign at documentaX and subsequent projects such as the "noborder network". He founded, designed and supported countless online-projects, such as the european internet platform D-A-S-H and the online-network KEIN.ORG. He is the director of the new media festivals Makeworld (2001), Neuro (2004) and one of the co-organizers of the FADAIAT//Borderline ACADEMY event in June 2005 in Tarifa/Tangiers. He has lectured at universities, museums, and conferences worldwide.
