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Armin Medosch  [mail]
Armin Medosch, born 1962, Graz, Austria
Armin Medosch is a London based writer, artist and curator. In 2003 he has written the book "Freie Netze - Free Networks", a non-fiction book about the politics, history and culture of (wireless) community networks; published in German language by Heise Verlag, Oct. 2003.
In 2003 he also edited "DIVE - - collaborative tools for online communities" a printed catalogue and cd rom with texts, art projects and software. DIVE is a project by "Kingdom of Piracy" <KOP>; DIVE was co-produced by FACT, Liverpool, commissioned by Virtual Media Center and launched at Ars Electronica 2003. <KOP> is jointly curated by Armin Medosch, Yukiko Shikata and Shu Lea Cheang.
He is a regular speaker at international conferences on digital culture and frequently involved in organising and curating conferences. He presented a paper at the conference Open Cultures, Vienna (June 03), at Transmediale 04, at 'Crosstalks', Brussels, among many other places. In 2002 he co-organised "BerLon" - Berlin/London wireless community networking workshop, bootlab, Berlin (Oct 02).
He has contributed articles and essays to many books, catalogues, magazines and newspapers. One of his latest pieces is 'Not Just Another Wireless Utopia' for 'THE FUTURE OF COMPUTER ARTS', edited by Marina Grzinic and published by MKC, Maribor and Maska, Ljubljana. In November 2003 he wrote and edited the catalogue for the DMZ Media Arts Festival London. He is currently working on a new book on the relationships between science, technology and societal change.
He is currently holding a NinePin research residency by Scan Network in the South West of England, investigating real and virtual ports and their role as cultural socio-economic hubs of transmission, gatekeeping and control.
From 1996 to 2002 he was co-editor of telepolis, the award winning 'magazine of net-culture'.
Since 1997 based in London, he is co-initiator of the monthly Cybersalon events, co-organiser of conference Art Servers Unlimited, @backspace and ICA 1998; member of University of Openness, a self-learning institution, and associate senior lecturer at Ravensbourne College's postgraduate MA course on Interactive Digital Media.
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