changed: - CV Name: Armin Medosch Address: 52B Andrews Road, London E8 4RL tel: 020 7254 9204 email: armin@easynet.co.uk personal homepage: N/A main activities: writing (fiction and non-fiction), curating/event organising (exhibitions, conferences), art (media/net art) websites: KOP http://kop.fact.co.uk/ Ports http://scansite.org/ports/ MAIDM Wiki http://maidm.com/wiki/ DMZ http://www.dmzlondon.net/ Telepolis http://www.heise.de/tp/ ASU http://asu.sil.at/ Current Work: Ports: Ninepin residency - an investigation into real and virtual ports as local hubs of globalisation Chaos Lab Reader: writer/editor of a post-conference publication on Science, Arts and social change Game Commons: R&D project to develop an interactive live and networked game Education: 1980 - '82 University of Economic Studies, Vienna 1982 - '85 Philosophy, German Literature, University Graz 1982 - '85 Drama/Directing, Academy for Music and Drama, University Graz Teaching: 2002 - 2004 Associate Senior Lecturer in Digital Media, Ravensbourne College 2003 Plymouth University, media arts 2002 Goldsmith College, net art 1997, 2000 Merz Academy, Stuttgart, net art Advisory Board memberships: Ways of Working, Arts Council of England, collaborative and interdisciplinary unit Wireless Festival, Arts Council London, media arts Data Browser, member of Editorial Board Wizards of OS, Berlin, topic maintainer free (wireless) networks Open Spectrum, international policy research group on spectrum management Awards: Austrian National Award for Young Writers (1988) European Online Journalism Award 2000 (with Telepolis) Grimme Online Award 2002 (with Telepolis) Publications Monograph: Freie Netze - Geschichte Kultur und Politik offener WLAN-Netze (Free Networks - the history, culture and politics of open wireless networks), Heise Verlag, Hannover, 2003 Editor: DIVE - collaborative tools for online communities: booklet and cd rom, a project by <kingdom of piracy>, co-produced by FACT, Liverpool, commissioned by Virtual Media Centre, 2003 DMZ Media Arts Festival - a festival catalogue as poster, London 2003 Netzpiraten, Heise Verlag, Hannover 2002 Telepolis Books, co-editor, 7 volumes of anthologies and monographs on cyberculture, 1996 - 2002 Telepolis, City on the Net, Bollman Verlag, Mannheim 1995 Telepolis Online Magazine, co-editor in chief 1996 - 2002 Articles (selection): 2004 Not Just Another Wireless Utopia, in THE FUTURE OF COMPUTER ARTS, edited by Marina Grzinic and published by MKC, Maribor and Maska, Ljubljana Network Commons, in Ars Electronica Catalogue, September 2004 Society in Ad-hoc Mode in ZMI Conference Proceedings - The Future of Interactivity, Campus Verlag, November 2004 Root Culture, in Crosstalks, Free University, Brussels, Nov. 2004 2003 London.ZIP, in DMZ Media Arts Festival catalogue/poster Piratology, in DIVE, Fact/KOP/Virtual Media Center 2002 Pull the Plug, Ars Electronica Review, Mute Magazine, issue 25, November 2002 Demonstrieren in der virtuellen Republik - Politischer Aktivismus im Internet (Demonstrations in the virtual republic - political activism on the net), Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Bonn, 2002 Wireless Gulash, Cream, net art newsletter, Amsterdam 2001 From Pleasure to Policy, European Cultural Backbone website A Very Private Affair, in Mute Magazine, issue 21, September 2001 2000 Native Voices, Sustainable Net Strategies, MCM Forum, conference proceedings 1998 Community - Content - Interface, Publishing on the Internet, in Informationsgesellschaft, Sozialwissenschaftliches Forum (German version of the text originally written for the 1996 talk at Cyberconf, Oslo) 1996 Understanding Man - Extensions of Media, in Kunstforum Bd 133, Die Zukunft des Körpers 2 Talks and Lectures (selection): 2004 Transmediale, Berlin Futuresonica, Manchester Basics, Salzburg RAM5, Rixc, Riga Wizards of OS III, Berlin Cybersalon, Dana Centre at the Science Museum, London ISEA, Helsinki 2003 kuda.org, Novi Sad Open Systems, Rotterdam Open Cultures, Vienna 2002 Electronic Democracy, European Parliament, Brussels Safe Privacy, Berlin, Heinrich-Böll Foundation Media Ethics, Stuttgart University 2001 Wizards of OS 2, Berlin, Panel about Privacy on the Net Privacy or Security, tv discussion on ARD/SWF (german national television) about privacy in a post 9/11 world, Karlsruhe ZKM Make World, Munich, Germany Art Servers Unlimited 2, Labin, Croatia St. Gallen Economic Forum, keynote speaker on "sustainable development in the new economy" 2000 Keynote Speaker, Friends of the Museum of Applied Arts, Frankfurt/M Media City London, Munich 1999 Wizards of OS 1, Open Source, Free Culture, Berlin Next Five Minutes III, Amsterdam 1998 Techno-Cultures 1998, Goethe Institute, Tokyo 1997 2nd Biennale of South Africa, Johannesburg Siggraph Conference, Los Angeles 1996 Dutch Electronic Art Forum, Rotterdam Cyber Conference, Oslo Metaforum, Budapest 1995 Telepolis -City on the Net, Luxembourg Conferences (organiser/producer): 2004 reality check free networks, WOSIII, Berlin 2003 DMZ panels on art and free network 2002 "BerLon" - Berlin/London wireless community networking workshop 2001 <Kingdom of Piracy> Museum of Modern Art, Taipai, Kaoshiung, Taiwan 2000 Media City Munich 1998 Art Servers Unlimited, London 1995 Telepolis, City on the Net, Luxembourg, Cultural Capital 1995 1994 Art in Transit, St.Petersburg 1988 Trash City, Forum Stadtpark, Graz Exhibitions (selection): 2003 Kingdom of Piracy, FACT, Liverpool Ars Electronica, Linz Dutch Electronic Art Forum, Rotterdam 2002 Kingdom of Piracy, Ars Electronica, Linz 1999 Expo Destructo, London 1996 Give and Take, Schloss Plueschow 1993 Antwerpen, Cultural Capital 1992 Art Academy, Vienna 1991 Museum of Modern Art, Vienna 1989 Ars Electronica 1988 MOMA, Los Angeles