July 13th – 20th Shanghai (TBC)

July 20th – 27th Beijing(TBC)

Siegfried Zielinski studied theatre, modern German literature, linguistics, semiotics, sociology, philosophy, and political theory in Marburg and Berlin, at the Free University and the Technical University. The major focus of his studies were on the field of advanced technical media, with Friedrich Knilli, whose institute had developed out of Walter Höllerer’s Institute of Language in the Age of Technology.

In 1979 he wrote and directed the documentary film ‘Responses to HOLOCAUST in Western Germany’ which is collected at Paley Center for Media in New York.^[3] He graduated in the same year with a thesis on Veit Harlan, which was also his first monograph published in 1981. His Ph.D. dissertation in 1985 on theHistory and Cultural Technique of the Video Recorder became the book “Zur Geschichte des Videorecorders “.^[4] His habilitation, in 1989, was on high-definition television.

In 1989 he took up his first full professorship in audiovisual studies at the University of Salzburg in Austria, where he set up a department for teaching, research, and production of “Audiovisions”. “Audiovisions” was also the title of his first book translated into English. In 1993, Zielinski was appointed Professor of Communication and Audiovisual Studies at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne; where, in 1994, he became its Founding Director. In mid-2001, he returned to teaching and research, concentrating on history and theory, developing his multi-dimensional (or non-linear) approach to diverse genealogies of media he would call an-archaeology or variantology of media.^[5]

In 2007, Zielinski took the chair in media theory at Berlin University of the Arts.^[6] He also teaches techno-aesthetics and media archaeology at the European Graduate School (EGS) in Saas Fee, Switzerland, where he holds the Michel Foucault professorship.^[1]

More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Zielinski