Prof. Dr. Siegfried Zielinski

Siegfried Zielinski - Founding Rector of the Academy of Arts and the Media in Cologne; chair for media theory/archaeology and variantology of the media at Berlin University of the Arts; Michel-Foucault-professor for techno-aesthetics and media archaeology at the European Graduate School Saas Fee; director of the Vilém-Flusser-Archiv in Berlin. He published numerous books and essays with focus on theory and archaeology of the arts & the media. Most recent books in English: Deep Time of the Media (2006), and the book series Variantology – On Deep Time Relations between the Arts, Sciences and Technologies, so far 4 volumes (2005-2010). Z. is member of the Academy of Sciences and the Arts in NRW, the Academy of Arts Berlin and the Magic Lantern Society of Great Britain.