[-empyre-] Is Modernity our Antiquity: introducing Eric Kluitenberg

[Christina McPhee <christina112@earthlink.net>]

dear list,

Eric Kluitenberg (NL) is a  theorist, writer, and organiser on  
culture, media and technology. He is head of the media program at De  
Balie - Centre for Culture and Politics in Amsterdam, and is lecturer  
on media theory at various colleges. Currently teaches a.o. at the  
Institute for Interactive Media at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam. He  
lectures and publishes extensively on culture, new media, and  
cultural politics throughout Europe and beyond. Eric has taught  
"Culture and New Media" at the University of Amsterdam, "Media  
Theory" for the post-graduate education programs in art & design and  
new media at Media-GN / Frank Mohr Institute and Academy Minerva in  
Groningen, the Royal Academy of Visual Arts in The Hague, and worked  
on the scientific staff of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. Since  
1988 he has been involved as an organiser in important media culture  
events such as the First and Second International Symposium on  
Electronic Art (SISEA), Interstanding I, II, & III (Tallinn,  
Estonia), The P2P - New Media Culture in Europe conference  
(Amsterdam / Rotterdam), the third Next 5 Minutes festival of  
tactical media, "Tulipomania DotCom - A Critique of the New Economy",  
"net.congestion - International Festival of Streaming Media" (2000),  
and more recently the Dutch / Russian project "Debates & Credits -  
Media Art in the Public Domain" in Moscow, Amsterdam and Ekaterinburg  
(2002), the Amsterdam edition of World-Information.Org (2002), the  
fourth edition of the Next 5 Minutes Festival of Tactical Media  
(2003), and the mini-festival "An Archaeology of Imaginary  
Media" (2004).


Texts:

* Connection Machines(2005)

* Connection in Visibility (2004)

* Web dossier Media Archaeology (2004)

* Constructing the Digital Commons - A venture into Hybridisation (2003)

* Transfiguration of the Avant-Garde / The Negative Dialectics of the  
Net (2001)

* Media without an Audience (2000)

* Smash the Surface / Break Open the Box / Disrupt the Code (2000)

* The Politics of Cultural Memory (1999)

* Frequently Asked Questions about the Public Domain (1998)

* Connectivity, New Freedom, New Marginality (1998)


Projects:

* CultureBase / The Living Archive (2004 - 2007)
Web publishing and streaming media open source /
open content R&D project

* An Archaeology of Imaginary Media (2004)

* Debates and Credits - Media Art in the Public Domain
A Dutch - Russian Media / Art / Project (2002)

* Next 5 Minutes 4 - Int. Festival of Tactical Media (2003)
- Web Journal Tactical Media Labs (2002 - 2003)

* World-Information.Org Amsterdam (2002)

* net.congestion - International Festival of Streaming Media (2000)