The "Embarrassment"

2020-09-26 Thread Timothy Druckrey
The recent ‘embarrassment’ lament has been responded to in many ways, some hazy, some forlorn, some pointed. Reminded me of something a friend said to me a long, long time ago: “Every creation is a future embarrassment.” Always kept this actively in mind while the heady and often wild media sce

Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

2017-02-25 Thread Timothy Druckrey
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 j

Remember Y2K?

2022-07-27 Thread Timothy Druckrey
The first feature documentary to take an in-depth look at Y2K is in production now for and is seeking archival video footage related to Y2K and the technological culture of 1990s America. The film will air on HBO in 2023. The documentary will look at Y2K across all of its scales, ranging fr

Dovzhenko Center is under threat of liquidation

2022-08-18 Thread Timothy Druckrey
The State Film Agency of Ukraine issued an order to reorganize the Dovzhenko Center. This order, de … [ https://email.e-flux-systems.com/campaigns/mj800w1c4a47d/track-url/wj891ly4pebae/c2e2db93fcfad1b94f31c7556a046f1fa2649479 |

Peter Weibel

2023-03-02 Thread Timothy Druckrey
[ https://www.zeit.de/kultur/kunst/2023-03/peter-weibel-medienkuenstler-zkm-karlsruhe-tod | https://www.zeit.de/kultur/kunst/2023-03/peter-weibel-medienkuenstler-zkm-karlsruhe-tod ] https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/peter-weibel-dead-zkm-media-art-1234659384/ # distributed via : no com

Friedrich Kittler

2011-10-27 Thread Timothy Druckrey
No doubt lengthy paeans will be forthcoming from the Kittler scholars. They will be, of course, well deserved for a thinker whose work traversed so many spheres. For us in the media, Kittler's work has been an indispensable source of rigor and insight. Back in 1987, I read the first chapter of

Kittler details

2011-10-29 Thread Timothy Druckrey
Re: <> >From the Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin website: "Kittler hatte den Lehrstuhl f?r ?sthetik und Geschichte der Medien an der Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin inne" # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborati