Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

[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, somewhat of a collaborative portrait to which I also want 
to add. Armin will forgive me if, in the best, most friendly possible 
way, I start by saying that he was a charming pain in the ass. We first 
met in 1993 or early 1994 on the MS Stubnitz in Rostock and our 
acquaintance of over two decades has seen us quarrel more often than 
agree. When we were younger, we took ourselves very seriously and 
quarrelled in earnest, but later (particularly memorable was a dusk till 
dawn discussion we had at one of the RIXC festivals in Riga, maybe ten 
years ago) we understood that we had one of those very productive 
dissenting relationships that one should not take too emotionally. We 
first started arguing when in 1994 the report that I wrote for my future 
colleagues at V2 in Rotterdam, evaluating the possibilities and 
difficulties of potential collaborations with the Stubnitz project, 
turned out more critical (I thought: more realistic) than Armin could 
stomach at that moment. The ship went on its first big tour for the 
white nights of 1994 to St. Petersburg, a trip that Armin invited me to 
join and that I missed because I had a PhD thesis to finish at that 
moment. (A year or so later, the Stubnitz project was bankrupt and left 
the members of the group in debt, a burden that haunted Armin and his 
colleagues for many years afterwards; most of them, including Armin, 
left Rostock and the ship to do other things, while Urs Blaser and 
others stayed and still keep the ship afloat, currently in Hamburg.)


Armin's projects since, some of which have already been mentioned here, 
bridged in a unique way media activism and art, and for those of us who 
followed his work, the trajectory from his early TV activism days in 
Vienna with his own project Radio Subcom, through Stubnitz and the 
visionary art, science and technology exhibitions he curated with RIXC, 
to his book on the European 1960s New Tendencies movement - this 
trajectory is consistent and makes perfect sense, down to the fact that 
the latter book was also sort of a home-coming, dealing with an artist 
movement whose Croatian base in Zagreb was a mere three-hour drive from 
Armin's home town of Graz.


Our first direct contact that I remember after the 1994 conflict was 
when he invited me to contribute a text about Daniela Plewe's internet 
art project Muser's Service for an exhibition in the North East of 
Germany, very appropriately titled "Geben und Nehmen" (giving and 
taking). Collaboration, sharing and generosity are three of the big 
themes that I associate with Armin's professional practice. The earliest 
source that I can find at the moment is a booklet that was produced by 
Hans Ulrich Reck and others at the Angewandte in Vienna in 1994, 
entitled "Fernsehen der 3. Art" (television of the third kind). Armin's 
contribution argues for strategies for the integration of art into the 
mass media - with a focus on TV at the time, though he does say (without 
mentioning the word "Internet") that soon TV "will be transformed into 
an interactive meta-medium and a multi-facetted interface that will 
enable anything from private video-conferencing to video-shopping."


Coming from a provincial, punk and activist background, Armin was always 
very upfront and unafraid to pick an argument if there was one to pick. 
So in this forum of media activists meeting in Vienna in the aftermath 
of the first Next 5 Minutes conference, Armin said stuff like: "The 
so-called critics of the mass media, like the particularly fervent TV 
tribe of camcorder activists, the 3D-rendering species and other 
techno-heads, these are really the last true fans of TV."


He'd say things like this, partly because he knew that they would 
irritate people, and partly because he knew that they were true and 
needed saying. This is one of the character traits that made Armin 
special, and we can only hope that there will be more and other angry 
young people from the Central European borderlands, ready to throw a 
spanner in the works when a spanner needs to be thrown.


Farewell, Armin, and thanks.

-ab



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Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

[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 passion will be missed, I wish I'd known him better.

Peter Lunenfeld


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   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
   better, and to those who will miss his writing here, my condolences.
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Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

[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
   was surprised when he told me that he was also involved in the Stubnitz
   ship. He had an extreme interesting life and will be missed.

   Mathilde muPe

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Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

[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
   better, and to those who will miss his writing here, my condolences.

   Best,

   Michael

   On Feb 24, 2017, at 12:12 AM, Felix Stalder <[1]fe...@openflows.com>
   wrote:

   Armin Medosch died yesterday, on the day two months after being
   diagnosed with cancer. I'm sure many people on nettime knew him very
   well. He was a long-time mover and shaker in the media arts and
   network culture scene in Europe. Indeed for much longer than even
   nettime exists.

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Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

[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 same. get his grips together and go back
in time. traverse the network of people, places, events. help to edit
the pages on monoskop and maybe wikipedia. we never have been friends
on facebook. i know that for the ones beeing very near it will be
almost impossible to write more. recently i read the obituary of a
comrade by another comrade and actually it was all about comradery as
a self reflection of purpose, which can quite easily become a
monologue in front of a mirror. when looking back and forth again, you
acknowledge that time is linear, so i think what Armin did was looking
around, quite early, have a lookout, and be there eagerly waiting,
grudgingly dismissing those who were not ready yet. luckily we shared
this perspective. it is a rather circular view in all directions, and
a combination of all senses, which is needed, which opens up a plane
of intrinsic qualities, which can only be experienced, and are
therefore a product of social labor, as something which has to be
realized together. with such opportunities, other forces and explorers
are working hard to gain and claim ground. other seasons begin and
other qualities are needed. remember the smile. you need a big heart,
some humour, and a lot of anger to keep going. as travelling warriors
it is not so much about the fight, or even the enemy, than the
territory itself which determines the struggle. the potential is not
the one of a native who claims spiritual ownership, but of a futurity
as a multidimensional topology which must remain open in a good way,
which keeps a flow going, and keeps coming back to pose new
opportunities of struggle. retiring from resistance is impossible. the
moment you ask what was in it for you, you're just hurting yourself.
in so far it is like a song, which you and anyone can sing again, a
pattern of a track which repeats itself, a faint radio frequency to
tune into. have a good flight.

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Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

[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 something one of his
PhD examiners said to me (in confidence then but who cares now?) that
Armin's doctoral thesis was passed without any changes being asked for
(something that had never happened in this academic's long experience
before). It is a brilliant work of scholarship (you can find it online and
read it openly.  I remember a meeting with Armin to discuss whether or not
there might be a way to bring the brilliantly researched exhibition WAVES
to London - and we had a glass of chilled Riesling together. I'd like to
raise a glass of this tonight to Armin and to all his achievements, most of
which he got to before many of his peers and contemporaries. Unfortunately
that was also the pattern yesterday.  He leaves an enormous gap in his own
wake.

B



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Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

[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 Cheshire Cat, sometimes the Hatter, sometimes the Queen of
Hearts, where everything was intensified and the stakes were always raised
by his critical voice.

It was people like Armin and the events and international networks he
helped establish that made London such an exciting place to grow up in.
After intense meet-ups in London or Berlin or Copenhagen, it was often
Armin who would amplify the discussions that might otherwise have burbled
along within the East London Network scene into some kind of public
statement or provocation. Whereas most faculties of the University of
Openess would be content with the internal richness of our peer education
projects, Armin would turn up, take notes, add momentum and involve us all
in some polemical position that everyone would then have to respond to
seriously.

I had feuds with Armin, and all the best cultural networks I've
participated in have needed people like Armin to keep going and keep honest
about what's important to them. Our feuds always crystallized around the
political and psychological issues of participation in networks. I often
feel really grateful when I realize how much my teenage self learned from
Armin (by example and counter-example) whenever I get involved in new
networks where someone has to be critical about the network's activities
while taking responsibility for their own actions.

The last few times I saw Armin I'm glad I got to give him a big hug and
recognize how much calmer and happier he seemed after leaving London - and
he left it a much richer and more culturally tuned-in city than he found
it.

I'll try to cheer myself up today by making an Armin-like ridiculously
strong cup of burned espresso and see if I can find someone to go have an
important argument with in his honor.

Saul.




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not with us any more. I started to share their believe that you stay
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st.

yours
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Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

[Brian Holmes]

This hard to believe. Armin with his big, booming voice, his incredible
curiosity and enthusiasm, will be sorely missed. I remember going out with
him and his wife Ina to their vegetable patch outside Vienna, one sunny day
when he told me about his ideas for the exhibition Fields. I remember doing
radio interviews with him - the real thing, he made highly composed
thematic programs for Austrian national radio. I remember provoking him for
stories about the Stubnitz and all the wild things they did on that
media-ship. I remember his great lecture at Van Abbemuseum when one of my
books came out. I remember walking with him through the city to Gerald
Nestler's place where we had a kind of salon-style discussion, which I
gather happened quite a bit after that. I remember visiting the Technisches
Museum in Vienna with him and Darko Fritz. I remember an endless
correspondence. I remember sitting around in the living room of his old
place for three days, inventing the core concepts of what became
Technopolitics.

Armin and I did something very unusual, which I would love to do more often
but it's not so frequent: we worked together in a sustained way on a set of
concepts that embraced a vast chunk of history and were totally relevant to
the present. Crucial to the beginnings of this endeavor were a set of radio
interviews which he had done with people like the economist Carlota Perez.
At that time Armin was still partially living in London and he could easily
approach whomever seemed most relevant for his own ideas, which were at
once deeply Marxist and disciplined, yet also radically up to date and
experimental. After corresponding for months on email lists (mostly but not
only nettime) I came to Vienna and was warmly received in the great
tradition of artists and activists who think the unknown other can surprise
them. Armin acted on this inspiration and started many different threads in
a structured section of his website, http://thenextlayer.org. Wonderfully
he practiced what he preached and used free software. We explored a million
things through shared readings, collaborative threads and epic debates on
that website for years. Armin also came for one of my Three Crises seminars
in Berlin, organized in by a Free University project that had emerged from
the Occupy movement. He recorded everything carefully and I remember doing
one more interview with him in a friend's Berlin apartment, the night
before he had to catch an early train back to Vienna.

Armin and I drifted apart a bit in recent years, as conditions in Europe
and the USA began to diverge so sharply. He was focused on turning
Technopolitics into a new kind of materialist art history that mattered to
the many experimental projects he had launched and participated in as an
artist. In the summertimes he would send an image and a note from Korcula
where he went with Ina and hung out with Darko, and I must say I regret
never joining him for these ritual summer stays on the Croatian island,
although I dreamed of doing it. I think for him that was a place of heart.
Looking around on the net for some traces of those moments, I found a
description of a series of performative lectures that he apparently gave in
commemoration of the former Yugoslav Praxis Group of Marxist thinkers,
which used to meet in the summers on Korcula. There is no video, no
recording, no transcription, and so you can just imagine what Armin said on
that day and how he evoked a radical culture that he loved:

http://www.korculainfo.com/armin-medosch-what-is-history-homage-to-praxis-praxis-group-and-korcula-summer-school/

in memoriam, Brian


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Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

[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 numerous East London squats and dives,
cadged Armin's cigarettes, and finally more-or-less lost touch with
Armin, as London no longer became tenable for either of us. (Also:
complained with Armin, across the years, about all reality's failures
to conform with our expectations!)

I think the last time I saw Armin was at Shared Digital Futures in
Vienna a couple of years back. Truth is I don't remember perfectly
- you don't get the opportunity to mark that last time and say:
'Remember this. Make it count.'

This seems the right place, full of Armin's friends, to say how dearly
I miss him now, and wish that last lost moment would come clear.

xj


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Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

[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
patronising. We knew each other through contacts with some reggae
soundsystem in Brixton, he hosted the first dyne:bolic development
team around 2002 or 3, we were 20 years old stinking of roman teargas
and slept like punk puppies on the moquet. I think it had red moquet,
the place in HAckney where he lived with Shu Lea.

I was so attracted by him. He could always make me feel comfortable
and at home, like it can only happen with a brother or sister you
are happy to share a life, or a tiny room, or a piece of stale bread
together. When he was back to Vienna he didn't wanted to meet everyone
at once and needed an hideout to write, he told me. So for a period we
lived together at Fugbach, an appt. I was sharing with August Black
and many others. Sharing a living space with Armin was fantastic, our
rythms just clicked in, we spent 12 or more hours a day writing and
the rest cooking and smoking big fat joints and laughing and talking
and dreaming.. JAH bless Armin and his spirit of liberation, he was
inspired by the best reggae roots music straight for Jamaica, I still
have his golden mp3 collection and is an absolute gem. He was my
Solomon Gundie and my Sugar Daddy and my beloved brother Armin.

I am destroyed by his death. Please someone do something about his
VHS collection of the Stubnitz times, he really wanted to have it
digitised and archived better...I can't do anything but cry now. I
miss Armin like I miss my brother.



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Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

[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: "Armin is 
Here'. A joke we'd often giggle about in the Mute office. Only the 
tragedy is that it's no longer true. But I will always hear him saying 
this in my mind.

RIP Armin, you were a total original.

x In solidarity, love, loss and admiration, Josie




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[David Garcia]

Sadly not in Berlin.. But also the same HUG!


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[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, Felix! I have a lot to say about Armin's projects “ahead of
their times”, as Armin for long time has worked with us - me and
Raitis, he was invaluable contributor to most of the largest RIXC's
projects. I know him from the 90s, we participated in one of the
conceptually most powerful 90s net.culture events - Art Servers
Unlimited (1998), co-organized by Armin. But more close collaboration
came later, when Armin, me and Raitis, together developed a large
scale curatorial project – WAVES – Electromagnetic Waves as Material
and Medium for Arts (2006), taking place in National Arts Museum in
Riga. Waves was not only challenging the ways how and which kind of
art has to be shown in museums, but it suggested new approach in
developing media art theory – namely, through curating practices. This
exhibition consisted of 40 artworks from all over the world, and was
also later shown in Dortmund (2008). http://rixc.lv/waves

In 2014, when Riga was European Cultural Capital, we again invited
Armin to co-curate an other large scale exhibition – FIELDS, which
now manifested new situation in arts - post-media conditions. We
selected works that were considered to be “contextual seedbeds for
social change,” arguing that “the changing role of art in society
is one where it does not just create a new aesthetics but gets
involved in patterns of social, scientific, and technological
transformations”. Fields (2014) exhibition also shaped strong artistic
and theoretical background for Renewable Futures, new travelling
art&science conference series, launched by RIXC.

http://rixc.org/fields/en/exhibition/3/ (concept by Armin & RIXC)
http://rixc.org/fields/en/exhibition/4/ (artists)

In-between WAVES and FIELDS, he also was contributing to RIXC’s
conferences, and he was co-editor of Acoustic Space, peer-reviewed
book & journal series, for editions: Waves (Vol.6, 2006), Spectropia
(Vol. 7, 2007), Art As Research (Vol.9, 2010), Networks and
Sustainability (Vol.10, 2010), Techno-Ecologies II (Vol. 12, 2014),
Open Fields (Vol. 15, 2016).

http://acousticspacejournal.com

Needless to say, that both these projects are ahead of its time.
Especially the Fields project was not approbate yet, time was too
short…

I met him recently, last November in a cafe, in Vienna, discussing our
forthcoming FIELDS / Renewable Futures volume, which will come out
soon, in April 2017... just this time without the last touch, last
improvements by Armin, which will be missing a lot, as Fields was the
concept which still needs a lot of time to be shaped... So the Fields
book will come out now in memoriam to you, Armin.

But particularly I will be missing our quite frequent, often hard
(that's what “critical culture” is about), but always in-depth,
fruitful and inspiring discussions with Armin. Or saying it in a more
simple words, we feel very sad, as we have lost our friend of RIXC.

Rasa and Raitis


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Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

[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, questioned, complained, connected--and acted.

I have known and worked with him in his Stubnitz years, then Telepolis
(where he enabled me to write), I visited him in this London years
when his PhD there and then Vienna where he worked on radio and the
Croatian art book, in which he put an enormous effort, together with
the http://www.thenextlayer.org/ website.

Armin was aware of the importance of history, and writing one’s
history. And this is now up to us. Efforts are under way. At least it
is good to know that he was aware of this.

Adios, Armin, we keep on kickin’ Best from
VideoVortex XI in Kochi/Kerala, Geert



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Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

[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.

In deep memory of Armin. The network spirit, 
Here at silent green till 22:00
Please come by to give us a deep hug.
Http://transmediale.de
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Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

[olia lialina]

every day I see old web pages where people talk to people who are
not with us any more. I started to share their believe that you stay
online and can be reached online after your IRL death

so

Thank you, Armin
for everything you did and wrote.
For Telepolis   and Kingdom of Piracy
and for  300DM you gave to me back in 1996, my first fee as a net artist.

yours
olia






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Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

[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.


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Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

[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 well anymore, so we only saw each other occasionally.

I am very sorry he passed in such a rush, my thoughts go out to Ina.

Liz et Hans 



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Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

[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 than he had.

Full of respect for his life's work and grateful for his friendship,

Cornelia



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Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

[Felix Stalder]

Armin Medosch died yesterday, on the day two months after being
diagnosed with cancer. I'm sure many people on nettime knew him very
well. He was a long-time mover and shaker in the media arts and
network culture scene in Europe. Indeed for much longer than even
nettime exists.

I first learned of Armin not as a person, but a legend. In the early
1990s, he was one of a band of artists of an unqualifiable streak
who roamed the Baltic sea on the Kunst-Raum-Schiff, MS Stubnitz. An
80m former freeze & transport vessel of the GDR high seas fishing
fleet, they had re-purposed as a moving center for experimental
electronic culture. He curated and organised exhibitions and symposia
in Rostock, Hamburg, Malmö and St.Petersburg. The project was
incredibly evocative, even for someone like me who had never seen the
ship, because it fused many of the ideas that would come to define
network culture, namely nomadism, a total disregard for established
culture institutions, DIY and an exploration of the wild wastelands
opened by the breakdown of the Soviet system, after 1989.

A few years later, when he was the co-founder and editor (1996 to
2002) of the groundbreaking online magazine Telepolis, he gave me
the first change to publish regularly on network culture. Telepolis,
which came out of exhibition on what was then called “interactive
cities”, was the first European (or at least German) online
publication that followed and understood the newly emerging phenomenon
of the network culture. Together with Mute in London and nettime
as list, Telepolis was a key node in establishing something like a
European perspective on Internet culture, in clear opposition to WIRED
and the Californian ideology.

In the early 2000s, Armin and I found ourselves living in Vienna. A
collaborative working relationship turned into friendship. We still
collaborated on a lot of projects, such as a Kingdom of Piracy, an
exhibition project he initiated with Yukiko Shikata and Shu Lea
Cheang, one of the first art projects that focused on the legal and
illegal cultural practices of sharing digital materials. Over the last
few years, we worked together in the framework of technopolitics,
an independent research platform, he founded initially with Brian
Holmes, aiming at developing a more martially grounded cultural
critique, one which could relate cultural practices within deeper,
more structure social transformation. A task we considered urgent
after breakdown of the neo-liberal paradigm following the crisis that
started 2008. 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.

Technopolitics continued this cross-disciplinary and collaborate
work, but also reflected his new focus of work on developing a
deep and sustained cultural theory and art history. His most
recent publication, “New Tendencies: Art at the Threshold of the
Information Revolution (1961-1978)” (MIT Press, 2016) was a first
major achievement of this new direction. So was Technopolitics which
we were able to present to overflow crowds at the transmediale late
last month, an event which he could only witness via stream from his
hospital bed. Quite recently, we even became neighbours and we would
walk over to each other's house for discussions, food a drinks. No
more.



Geert Lovink, "Interview with Armin Medosch", 1997
http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9707/msg00037.html




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