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News • From the 5th to the 14th of August, 2010, the International Flusser-Symposium “A filosofia da fiçção de Vilém Flusser” is taking place in Rio de Janeiro and on Isla Grande. •
A Portuguese and an Italian translation of Flusser´s Ins Universum der technischen Bilder have recently been published: O universo das imagens técnicas, Annablume, São Paulo, 2008 and Immagini. Come la tecnologia ha cambiato la nostra percezione del mondo, Fazi, Rome 2009. • Two books of essays on Vilém Flusser have recently been published: Susanne Klengel / Holger Siever (ed.), Das dritte Ufer. Vilém Flusser und Brasilien, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2009 (proceedings of the first international Symposium on Flusser and Brazil „A terceira margem: Vilém Flusser und Brasilien. Kontexte - Migration – Übersetzung” held at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz in Germersheim from the 12th to the 14th of October 2006) and Oliver Fahle, Michael Hanke, Andreas Ziemann (ed.), Technobilder und Kommunikologie. Die Medientheorie Vilém Flussers, Parerga Verlag, Berlin 2009 (proceedings of the Flusser-Kolloquium entitled "Die Medien- und Bildtheorie Vilém Flussers" held from the 29th to the 31st of March 2007 and organized by the Bauhaus University in Weimar). • Andrea Soto Calderón (andreasotocalderon@gmail.com) translated Rainer Guldin's 'Traducirse y retraducir-se': • On ‘you tube’ are now available two shorter videos on Flusser about nomadism. • On the 27th June 2008 the conference IN-FORM: Vilém Flusser on Design organized by Marcel René Marburger will be held at the Jan van Eyck Academie (Maastricht, Netherlands). • Annablume (São Paulo) has recently published Vilém Flusser: uma introdução by Gustavo Bernardo, Anke Finger and Rainer Guldin (http://www.annablume.com.br/comercio/product_info.php?cPath=14&products_id=1008). The German version of this text was published in early 2009 by Wilhelm Fink in UTB-Profile (http://www.utb.de/profile.html). The English edition, entitled Vilém Flusser: An Introduction will be published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2011. • A new choice of texts in Portuguese translation has been edited by Rafael Cardoso: Vilém Flusser, O mundo codificado: por uma filosofia do design e da comunicação. Organised by Rafael Cardoso and translated by Raquel Abi-Sâmara São Paulo: Cosac Naif, 2007; 224 pp. ISBN: 978-85-7503-593-1 • The _Vilém_Flusser_Archive has recently moved to the Universität der Künste Berlin (Grunewaldstrasse 2-5, 10823 Berlin). flusser@udk-berlin.de • From the 29th to the 31st of March 2007 the Bauhaus University in Weimar (Germany) hosted a Flusser-Kolloquium entitled "Die Medien- und Bildtheorie Vilém Flussers." It is organized by the Fakultät Medien der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and the Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche der Klassik Stiftung Weimar. http://www.uni-weimar.de/cms/mitteilung.455.0.html?mitteilungid=24229&offset=20 • From the 12th to the 14th of October 2006 the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz in Germersheim hosted the first Symposium on Flusser and Brazil: “A terceira margem: Vilém Flusser und Brasilien. Kontexte - Migration – Übersetzung”. Please view the report at • A Spanish translation of Flusser’s Die alphanumerische Gesellschaft (Medienkultur, Frankfurt a. M. 1997, p. 41-60) by Breno Onetto Muñoz is available at • Thomas Karlsohn from the University of Göteborg has published a dissertation on Vilém Flusser's media-theory. (Karlsohn, Thomas, Passage mellan medier. Vilém Flusser, datorn och skriften, Göteborg: Institutionen för idéhistoria och vetenskapsteori 2005). Please view the abstract in English: Karlsohn abstract |
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