Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

Armin hired me as a staff writer for Telepolis in 1997. In those days, being a staff writer meant that I was required to write a certain number of words each month for a fixed and fairly generous sum. This kind of arrangement has become quite rare these days, where most magazines

Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

I am not eloquent at writing obituaries because they always seem inadequate to me but what you outlined seems familiar. It was fantastic to get Armin to speak at our OpentechSummit '15. For me he represented an age of digital reconnaissance, and his presence pointed at the "Leerstelle" that

Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

As a former journalistic colleague of Armin with Telepolis from 1996 to 2002 I would like to add that without Armin we would not have been able to define what reporting about net politics was all about. It was not the then usual neutral reporting about the newest technological developments, but

Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

On 2017-02-24 23:40, Michael Goldhaber wrote: >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. What sadness should I express than the same

Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

Thank you to everyone who has shared their words about Armin on this thread... I half expect that he might chime in. I posted the below on Rhizome.org yesterday, and Felix suggested that I share it here as well: We at Rhizome were deeply saddened to learn of the passing of artist, writer, and

Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

Armin was one of those people you meet in one place and then you realize he was everywhere. Like for most, we crossed paths in fleeting circuit of the early 90s - in one city after another (we met in Munich), in one debate after another, in one publication, in one café after another ... a kind of

Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

Many thanks Felix. I my mind' eye I recall all those occasions when we talked, laughed, argued Armin is already missed nina czegledy # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural

Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

Le 25/02/2017 à 08:30, Andreas Broeckmann a écrit : > This thread on nettime has become, with its autobiographical > reminiscences, somewhat of a collaborative portrait to which I also > want to add. In learned one week ago that that type of collective writing in memoriam to somebody is

Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

Since asking him about his "Shopping Windows" exhibition in the early 2000s, I've enjoyed over the years different long, inspiring and passionate conversations with Armin in Amsterdam, Linz, Berlin, Novi Sad, Vienna, and surely somewhere else. They always involved the terrific combination of

Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

Armin Medosch left and i feel sad. For me he was an embodiment of an era where we thought we could have it all. The body, the globe, the machines, free thinking, worldwide communication and love. He left us in a dark moment. America is shifting into a cruel comic world. Europe struggles. Africa

Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

copying Jaromil's " Please someone do something about his VHS collection of the Stubnitz times, he really wanted to have itdigitised and archived better..." today, Franz Xaver of stadwerkstatt and i will go to Stubnitz in Hamburg. this trip was planned earlier to make radio installation at

Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

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)

Subject: Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017) 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

Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

> 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)

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)

> > 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)

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)

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)

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