Siegfried Zielinski
Professor emerit. for Archaeology & Variantology of the Arts & Media at Berlin University of Arts;
Michel-Foucault-Professor for Techno-Aesthetics and Media Archaeology at EGS Saas Fee (CH);
Guest Professor at Tongji University in Shanghai;
Prof. h.c., Dr. h.c. Budapest University of Arts.
contact: majaneu@gmx.de
Not a Wikipedia CV
Dates
April 13, 2024 Karlsruhe ZKM (Centre for Art and Media)
Radio Free Modulations / Was kostet den Kopf?
Performance and discussion of new radio pieces by FM Einheit and Siegfried Zielinski
April 28, 2024, Schloss (Castle) Wahn, Cologne
Opening speach for a symposium in honour of Werner Nekes’ 80th birthday
Foloowe by a two day symposium organized by the department for theatre at Cologne University
May 30, 2024 IVAM Valencia (Spain)
Lecture/symposium on the art of Llorenç Barber
November 7-8, 2023 Shanghai, ZhangJiang High-tech Park
Keynote for the conference
Counter-Culture? Resetting all (im)possibilities of Technology
organised by the Institute of Network Society School of Inter-Media Art
(China Academy of Art, Hangzhou)
November 9-10, 2023 Tongji University Shanghai
Worshop with professors and researchers,
presentation of my new book on Mandarin
“Travelling in a Time Machine”, published by
Tongji University Press, Shanghai
October 2023, Tongji University
MATERIOLOGY & VARIANTOLOGY
Principles of thinking media and arts
in times of crises and radical upheavals
Video Lecture at the
Academic Forum Media Culture 2023
1 July, 2023 E-Werk Luckenwalde
Art station in Brandenburg
BURN OUT – Concert with FM Einheit & Band, with Rica Blunck
(Performance of songs SZ has written for FME)
May 31, 2023, Istanbul
Variantology & Travelling in a Time Machine –
The Work of Art in the Age of its Infinite
(Re)Producibility and Perceivability
Lecture at the Sabanci Museum
May 25, 2023, Dortmund
Presentation of the youngest radio pieces by FME & SZ
in the cinema U, invited by Marcel Marburger & Oliver Schwabe
March 26, 2023 ZKM Karlsruhe
Automata and Experimental Culture in the Early, Arabic-Islamic, Renaissance
Lecture for the Symposium on the Third Renaissance, organized by Peter Weibel
and the ZKM, Karlsruhe March 24-26
17.02.23 at 7:30 p.m. Berlin
An evening of sonic interception with FM Einheit & Siegfried Zielinski
im Club der Polnischen Versager, Ackerstrasse 169 10115 Berlin
Hosted by Aneta Panek
An artistic exchange between musician F.M. Einheit and media archaeologist Siegfried Zielinski span- ned two years, resulting in a critical and sonorous jumble of ideas – sometimes topical, sometimes
phantasmagorical, sometimes sound poetry.
“Art is resistance. There is no art without waste,” says Siegfried Zielinski. The researcher has been
studying media archaeologies and the function of archives for years. “Matter is active. It is subject, not object.”
Zielinski and the sound explorer F.M. Einheit accessed their “an archives” for Free Modulations Radio. The sounds they found inside were left to run rampant. A mental drift of quotations from Vilém Flusser to Genesis P-Orridge. Poetry of an artificial intelligence. The virus. The time. The apparatus. A montage of attractions.
With text fragments and voices from Antonin Artaud, Meret Becker, Walter Benjamin, Benjamin Bratton, William S. Burroughs, John Cage, Teodor Currentzis, F.M. Einheit, Vilém Flusser, Alexander Galloway, Alexander Hacke, Volker Kamp, Saskia von Klitzing, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, David Link, Jennifer Minetti, Phil Minton, Alexander Moissi, Heiner Müller, Genesis P-Orridge, John Peel, Michael Saup, Henning Schmidgen, Werner Schwab and Siegfried Zielinski.
Production: Deutschlandfunk Kultur, “Klangkunst” (Marcus Gammel).
15 October 2022
Opening keynote for the 2022 Chinese Applied Journalism and Communication Forum
College of Arts and Media Tongji University of Shanghai
21 September, 2022
Jury International Film Festival Hong Kong
for best experimental films by students
Zuerich 8 June, 2022
becoming disposable -
towards an open operational concept of media.
Opening keynote speech for the conference
format : dispositif
format dispositif symposium program
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Copenhagen 6-8 April, 2022
“From the Unconditional ME to the Unconditioned WE”
conference Connect/Cut. Infrastructures and Collective Activity
Final_Program_Cut_Connect_2022
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Shanghai Oct 30, 2021
Lecture: Some Short Reflections on
the City as a Space-Time-Machine
Conference New city:
Cultural Communication and Soft Power
Forum Tongji University
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/jMrZPxHfkEZJH20O9CW9Pw
Oct 29, 2021, ZKM Karlsruhe
Art Institutions in the Age of Existential Risks –
International Conference on the Future of Museums
Vortrag über Kunst-Institutionen
der Zukunft als “Surprise Generators”
https://zkm.de/de/veranstaltung/2021/10/art-institutions-in-the-age-of-existential-risks-what-to-do
October 28, 2021, Shanghai
(virtual lecture):
New Perspectives in Genealogy of Media Thinking Variantology & Prospective Archaeology
Annual Meeting of the Academy on the History of Communication Thoughts
Tongji University, Shanghai October 28/29, 2021
October 29, 2021, ZKM Karlsruhe
Art Institutions in the Age of Existential Risks –
International Conference on the Future of Museums
Lecture on “Surprise Generators”
https://zkm.de/de/veranstaltung/2021/10/art-institutions-in-the-age-of-existential-risks-what-to-do
October 17, 2021, Hamburg/Kunsthalle
Laudatio for Agnes Meyer-Brandis
Winner of the Kairos Award /Alfred Toepfer Foundation
August 8, 2021, Berlin
Siegfried Zielinski, Franziska Latell, Aneta Panek, Margit Rosen
Prospektive Archäologie vs. Globale Synchronisierung/Prospective Archaeology vs. Global Synchronisation
Podium at the Berlin Academy of Arts, Pariser Platz
Museums and archives are essentially time machines. Media thinker and archaeologist Siegfried Zielinski discusses the dystopia of a globally synchronised present and explores with his guests how (an)archives, collections and expositions can be related to each other as generators of surprise.
July 8/9 2021, Hamburg (no-place Zoom)
Die Kraft der Einbildung: Physiologie, Ästhetik, Medien
Workshop der Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe »Imaginarien der Kraft«
Lecture and dialogue – with Daniel Irrgang
May 5, 2021 – Kunsthochschule Dresden
in coop. with the Dresden Art Academy
Lecture “Operative Kanonisierung”
in den Künsten der Gegenwart (in German)
(verschoben)
March 9 – June 15, 2021, Istanbul
Exhibiting “Voices” from 22 episodes
of Radio FM – with FM Einheit
Dec 12, 2020, Shanghai
Forum at West Bund Art Centre Shanghai
Theme: Freedom & Control in Arts & Design (Education)
Place: West Bund Art Center Hall A (No. 2555 Longteng Avenue)
Online forum via Zoom and onsite
Chaired by Professor Xing Ruan and S. Zielinski
talks by Kristoffer Gansing, Andrès Burbano, Matteo Pasquinelli and David Link
Comments and Questions:
Prof. Xing Ruan and Dean Ilaria Valente (Turino)
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December 12, 2020, Shanghai
Tongji University – International Forum on Urban Communication
Video-Lecture:
Heterotopic Places – The City as a Stage
or: Materialism of Encounters
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Nov 15, 2020, Beijing
OCAT-Festival Beijing
Broadcasting of VIRUS – episode #2 of the acoustic series on MusicAeterna,
St. Petersburg. Additionally FME and SZ are present in Video & Audio:
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/bMznea9kA5nN019KHu9V5Q
Nov 6-7, 2020 – Nam June Paik Art Center Seoul
Living in the Postdigital, Reliving the Museum
Keynote Lecture on Paik and the museum of the future
(text contribution) and audiovisual statement
(offline lecture postponed to 2021)
Nov 4-6, 2020 – International Film School Hong Kong
Global Film Award for Film Schools
Jury for experimental film, Award presenter
Master Class for Students of the IFS Hong Kong
on Expanded Animation postponed to spring 2021
October 02-04, 2020 – Lviv, Ukraine
“The Shy Machines” – The Futurological Congresswhich
Keynote (postponed)
September 4, 2020, Berlin
Opening of the exhibition IN ABSENTIA at
KUNSTHALLE KOIDL Berlin-Charlottenburg
cur. by Walter Lenertz
Dieter Appelt, The Brothers Quay, FM Einheit,
Walter Lenertz, Wolfgang Petrick, Rebecca Raue,
Peter Weibel, Siegfried Zielinski, Thomas Zipp
July 25 – 31, 2020 – Bergamo Art University
Summer classes for the European Graduate School
on Variations on Media Thinking
(Together with Slavoj Zizek)
Will take place as a telematic seminar!
July 10-12, 2020 – Eindhoven, ICOHTEC
International Committee for the History of Technology (UNESCO)
Summer School Seminar
(postponed)
May 11, 2020 – UCLA, Los Angeles
Symposium/book presentation:
Art for the 21st Century – Provocations and Reflections
with Masaki Fujihata, hosted by Erkki Huhtamo and osage Hong Kong)
April 19, 2020 – Schauspielhaus Hamburg
Laudatio auf die Künstlerin Agnes Meyer-Brandis
Europäischer Kulturpreis KAIROS der Toepfer Stiftung
(cancelled/postponed)
April 3 – Baptiste University Hong Kong
Jury and Presenter for the Global Award for Student Films
April 2 – International Film School Hong Kong
Masterclass on Expanded Animation
(postponed to Nov 4-6, 2020)
Feb 20 – March 20, 2020, Beijing
(postponed!)
Art in Motion – 100 Master Pieces With & Through Media – An Operational Canon,
curated by Peter Weibel and Siegfried Zielinski for the ZKM Karlsruhe in 2017/18, will be exhibited in a different format in the framework of CAFAM Techne Triennial, directed by ZHANG GA (张尕) for the CAFA Art Museum in Bejing.
CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China www.cafamuseum.org/en/
Dec 13, 2019 – Istanbul
Keynote on Preservation of Techno-beased Arts
Conference at Sabanci Museum Istanbul (hosted by Sabanci Museum and University, Selcuk Artut, Faculty Arts & Design)
Dec 10, 2019 - Ljubljana
Torek, 10. december 2019, 18.00
Moderna galerija, Cankarjeva 15, Ljubljana
Lecture on PRO-SPECTIVE ARCHAEOLOGIES. Travelling through DEEP TIME OF THE MEDIA – from the Past to the Future.
http://www.scca-ljubljana.si/siegfried-zielinski-prospektivne-arheologije/
Dec 2-3, 2019 – Beijing
Media Archaeologies – A 2 days conference at Peking University (School of Fine Arts) with Thomas Elsaesser and Siegfried Zielinski
The symposium includes the screening of an early project on experimental archaeology of the media, which Siegfried Zielinski had produced in 1992 at the University of Salzburg (with Alois Pluschkowitz):
100 – 20 Short Films Towards an Archaeology of Audiovisions
Nov 29, 2019 – Tongji University of Shanghai
Evening Lecture on Pro-Spective Archaeologies
Poster: Nikita Lin
Nov 26-27, 2019 - Shanghai
Non-trivial Relations Between Arts and Sciences.
A 2-day Forum organised by the Shanghai Art School at Westbund, initiated and directed by Siegfried Zielinski as part of the FutureLab Shaghai – on world wide developments of Academies/Universities for Art and Design
Credit: vog.photo
Anthony Moore (UK/FR), Siegfried Zielinski (DE)
Walking Lectures: Calculated Sensation
Ars Electronica Linz, 2019
Earlier in 2019 Siegfried Zielinski presented his variations on media thinking in lectures, seminars, colloquia in Abu Dhabi, Austin (US), Berlin, Frankfurt/Main, Hong Kong, Houston (US), Karlsruhe, Lausanne (CH), Linz (A), Saas Fee (CH), San Marco (US), Shanghai, Shenzhen, Talahassee (Florida), Teheran, Washington and Zagreb.
Strassbourg 2018 : Manifesto conference:
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Lecture at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
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For the many activities and events between 2015 and 2018,
please, see the websites f.e. of the Berlin University of Arts
and the Karlsruhe University of Arts & Design (HfG)
Past Events within the forum on genealogy of MediaThinking:
24.10.12
Prof. Dr. Peter Weibel Vienna / Karlsruhe
Media theorist, artist, curator, director of ZKM Karlsruhe
Link to Prof. Dr. Peter Weibel’s Biography
07.11.12
Prof. Dr. Joachim Paech Konstanz / Berlin
Media and film theorist
Website of Prof. Dr. Joachim Paech
21.11.12
Prof. Dr. Thomas Elsaesser Berlin / London / Amsterdam
Film and media critic, historian and theorist, co-founder of the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
Website of Amsterdam University
05.12.12
Florian Rötzer Munich / Telepolis
Art critic, writer, artist, editor
Articles by Florian Rötzer on heise.de
A portrait by »tagesspiegel«
16.01.13
Prof. Dr. Elisabeth von Samsonow Vienna
Philosopher, artist, media researcher
Website of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
30.01.13
Prof. Dr. Hans-Ulrich Reck Basel / Cologne
Art historian, philosopher and media theorist, curator
Website of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne
13.02.13
Prof. Dr. Boris Groys New York
Art and media theorist, curator, cultural philosopher
Website of HFG Karlsruhe
Website of New York University
25.04.13
Prof. Dr. Hans Belting Karlsruhe / Berlin
Art and media theorist, art historian, curator
Bibliography of Hans Belting on the ZKM website
Hans Belting’s biography on GAM – Global Art and the Museum
02.05.13
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Ernst Berlin
Media theorist, archaeologist, archive theorist
Website of Humboldt-University Berlin
16.05.13
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Winkler Paderborn
Media theorist
Website of Paderborn University
30.05.13
Prof. Dr. Henning Schmidgen Regensburg
Historian of science and technology, Professor for media aesthetics; time machine specialist
Website of Regensburg University
13.06.13
Prof. Dr. Claus Pias Lüneburg
Media theorist, philosopher of the digital; cybernetics specialist
Website of Leuphana University
04.07.13
Prof. Dr. Sybille Kraemer Berlin
Philosopher – with focus on phenomena of media and communication
Website of the Free University Berlin
18.12.13
Prof. Dr. Nils Röller Zurich
Professor for Media- and Culture theory at the HGKZ (Academy for Design and Art) Zurich
Website of the Institute for Contemporary Art Research
Website of the Journal für Kunst, Sex und Mathematik
15.01.14
Prof. Dr. Knut Ebeling Berlin
Professor for media theory and aesthetics at the Berlin Weissensee School of Art
Website of Berlin Weissensee School of Art
08.05.14, 6-8 pm
Prof. Dr. h.c. VALIE EXPORT Vienna
Artist
Website of VALIE EXPORT
02.07.14, 7-9 pm
Geert Lovink Amsterdam
Media theorist and activist
institute of network cultures
09.07.14, 7-9 pm
Prof. Dr. Otto Rössler Tübingen
Chaos theorist, biochemist, endophysicist
excerpt from “Variantology: Einstein Bohr Battle Confirms Everett’s Eternal Now”
The Forum on the Genealogy of MedieaThinking essentially lived through the contributions of the many students at the University of the Arts Berlin, who participated in the project.
For their contributions as authors, photographers and designers as well as for the technical support, sound recordings and transcription of the panels, we would like to thank: Anna Beykirch, Noemi Cipollone, Gerald Dissen, Julia Ebert, Marius Förster, Konstantin Daniel Haensch, Maria Meermeier, Inger Neick, Maria-Elisabeth Niebius, Katharina Papke, Mathias Paul, Kristina Paustian, Sebastian Prassek, Robert Preusse, Stefanie Rau, Julia Schmidt and Eva Zahneißen, as well as Anita Ackermann, Steve Bergmann, Philip Bresinsky, Elisa Storelli and Philipp Tögel.