Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

2017-02-24 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
This is very sad news. The worrying started when Armin could not come to set up the Technopolitics Timeline exhibition at NGBK in Berlin last month - and it is now a shock to hear that he passed away so soon... This thread on nettime has become, with its autobiographical reminiscences,

Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

2017-02-24 Thread Lunenfeld, Peter B.
I too was saddened to hear of Armin's death. It's been many years since I've seen him, but I appreciated his invitations to publish in Telepolis and participate in his Cybersalon in London, and remember well reading his work here on and in so many other venues over the years. His voice and

Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

2017-02-24 Thread Mathilde muPe
Thanks Felix for the obituary and condolences to all he left behind and friends. I only worked with him briefly in the nineties were he invited me to several exhibitions on site as well on line (Te/epolis). It was the bubble era were almost everything was possible, but even I

Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

2017-02-24 Thread Michael Goldhaber
I'm so sorry to hear of Armin's premature death. As far as I know, I never had the pleasure of meeting him, nor did I know was one of the founders of Telepolis where I had a column years ago. But his remarks on nettime were very often of great interest. To al those who knew him

Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

2017-02-24 Thread Pit Schultz
actually i avoid obituaries and funerals. they are more about the people who stay than the people who go. and they are about status and memory. how many people will show up, how many people will give a speech. damn it. in this case, i have to write, expecting that Armin Medosch would have done the

Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

2017-02-24 Thread bronac ferran
In London yesterday there was a heavy storm - the gate into my house flew completely off its hinges. I felt distturbed listening to the howling wind. Now I am seeing it as Armin's force of nature somehow ripping itself from the earth. He will be much missed by so many. I thought I'd share

Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

2017-02-24 Thread Saul Albert
I'm feeling very sad today knowing that I won't see Armin again. I was one of the teenagers who turned up at Cybersalon and then other gatherings organized by Armin, nervous and excited to be included in what always felt like a journey through the looking glass: Armin sometimes playing the

Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

2017-02-24 Thread jamie king
Very sad to learn about this. I wrote for Armin (Telepolis paid well and was a boon; Armin was very encouraging), edited Armin and shared desk space with him (Mute Magazine - 'Armin is here!'), clocked on with Armin (at Ravensbourne College's truly zany MA in Digital Theory), partied with Armin at

Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

2017-02-24 Thread Jaromil
I think it was Manu, when I visited her and Mukul recently in London, that told me Armin was not so well. I thought it would pass, hoped, wished but I was wrong. Hope is the last to die, but when it did made me cry all night. Armin was a brother. Despite being older, he never ever felt like

Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

2017-02-24 Thread Josephine Berry
Dear nettimers, How can I add to all your touching, perceptive and informative tributes to our dear Armin except to remember that, on moving to London, he never lost the custom of answering the phone in the German way, where one says "Armin ist Hier', but translated into English it came out:

Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

2017-02-24 Thread David Garcia
Sadly not in Berlin.. But also the same HUG! --- d a v i d g a r c i a On 24 Feb 2017, at 12:15, Shulea wrote: # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net

Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

2017-02-24 Thread Rasa Smite
> All of these projects, and many more that I cannot > account for personally – and need your help to fill in – where > transdisciplinary, collaborative and exploratory, often ahead of their > times. This is, however, something that the art and the academic > system rarely appreciates. Thanks,

Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

2017-02-24 Thread Geert Lovink
How sad. Not that long after tactical media comrade Nathalie Magnan passed away. Armin was very much of my generation, post-punk, squatters DIY activism that presented itself so self-evidently as an art form. Armin was a hussler, an organiser, a dreamer that always proposed, critcized,

Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

2017-02-24 Thread Shulea
> > With Franz Xaver from stwst, Linz who collaborated with Armin since 1987. > Here at silent green in berlin, to launch Mycelium Network society. Together > with kapelica in lublijana. We launch spores to outer space chasing armin. If > you here in berlin, please come join us, starting 3pm.

Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

2017-02-24 Thread Ignacio Nieto Larrain
What a sad new. We made some work for free mesh networks, and it seems he made a piece for mbcbftw from Olia Lialina. If someone attend to the funeral, please let it know that from Santiago Chile a person is thinking about him in his 44 birhtday. # distributed via : no commercial use without

Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

2017-02-24 Thread lizvlx
Hello. Thanks Felix for writing such a beautiful note. Me and Hans just learned about his severe cancer diagnosis yesterday from a mutual friend. We had been friends and sometimes partners in work (Kingdom of Piracy) in the 90ies and early 2000s. Later on, we ended up not getting along so

Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

2017-02-24 Thread Cornelia Sollfrank
This is so very sad! A guy who was so full of live and argumentativeness! It's hard to imagine that his roaring voice will no longer interfere… One thing that distinguished him from many other academics was his passion! He cared about more than his own career and he did not mind giving more