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Siegfried Zielinski is Michel Foucault Professor of Media Archaeology and Techno-Culture at the European Graduate School (EGS), honorary doctor and professor at the Budapest University of Arts and visiting professor at Tongji University in Shanghai. He was chair of media theory at Berlin University of the Arts, and director of the Vilém Flusser Archive (till 2016), founding rector of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (1994–2000) and rector of the Karlsruhe University of Arts & Design (2016–18). Zielinski has published numerous books and essays mainly focusing on the archaeology and variantology of the relations between the arts and media. Archäologie der Medien/Deep Time of the Media (2002/2006) has been translated into many languages. In cooperation with Peter Weibel he curated exhibitions at the ZKM Karlsruhe, such as Vilém Flusser and the Arts, Allah’s Automata (both 2015), DIA-LOGOS – Ramon Llull and the Combinatorial Arts (2018–19), Art in Motion – 100 Masterpieces with and through Media, An Operative Canon (2018–20); the book-catalogue for this exhibition was published by the ZKM and Walther Koenig, Cologne, in 2025. Together with musician and composer FM Einheit (Einstürzende Neubauten) he is developing since 2020 new acoustic formats for the radio "dancing philosophy").  Zielinski is member of the Berlin Academy of Arts and the North-Rhine-Westfalia Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Articles of Siegfried Zielinski