Friedrich A. Kittler. The Relation of Art and Techne. 2005 2/6

http://www.egs.edu/ Friedrich A. Kittler lecturing at European Graduate school. The relation of Art and Techne, covering historic events from the ancient Greek world to todays new media art forms, computer, genesis, mythology, history. European Graduate School, Media Studies Department Program, EGS, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, 2005.

Friedrich A. Kittler, born 1943 in Rochlitz, Saxony, is a literary scientist and a media theorist. His research and work is focusing on media, history, communications, technology, and the military. He worked as visiting assistant professor at several universities in the United States, including the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California, Santa Barbara and Stanford University. From 1986 to 1990, he headed the DFG's Literature and Media Analysis project in Kassel and in 1987 he was appointed Professor of Modern German Studies at the Ruhr University. In 1993 he was appointed to the chair for Media Aesthetics and History at the Humboldt University of Berlin. In 1993, Kittler was awarded the "Siemens Media Arts Prize" (Siemens-Medienkunstpreis) by ZKM Karlsruhe (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, or "Centre for Art and Media Technology") for his research in the field of media theory. He was recognized in 1996 as a Distinguished Scholar at Yale University and in 1997 as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Columbia University in New York. Kittler is a member of the Hermann von Helmholtz Centre for Culture and the research group "Bild Schrift Zahl" ("Picture Writing Number") (DFG).

Kittler sees an autonomy in technology and therefore disagrees with Marshall McLuhan's reading of the media as "extensions of man": "Media are not pseudopods for extending the human body. They follow the logic of escalation that leaves us and written history behind it. He is the author of 2006: Musik und Mathematik. Band 1: Hellas, Teil 1: Aphrodite. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Paderborn; 2004: Unsterbliche. Nachrufe, Erinnerungen, Geistergespräche. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Paderborn; 2002: Zwischen Rauschen und Offenbarung. Zur Kultur- und Mediengeschichte der Stimme (as publisher). Akademie Verlag, Berlin; 2002: Optische Medien. Merve: Berlin; 2001: Vom Griechenland (with Cornelia Vismann; Internationaler Merve Diskurs Bd.240). Merve: Berlin; 2000: Nietzsche -- Politik des Eigennamens: wie man abschafft, wovon man spricht (with Jacques Derrida). Berlin; 2000: Eine Kulturgeschichte der Kulturwissenschaft. München; 1999: Hebbels Einbildungskraft -- die dunkle Natur. Frankfurt, New York, Vienna; 1998: Zur Theoriegeschichte von Information Warfare; 1998: Hardware das unbekannte Wesen; 1997: Literature, Media, Information Systems: Essays (published by John Johnston). Amsterdam; 1993: Draculas Vermächtnis: Technische Schriften. Leipzig: Reclam; Essays zu den "Effekten der Sprengung des Schriftmonopols", zu den Analogmedien Schallplatte, Film und Radio sowie "technische Schriften, die numerisch oder algebraisch verfasst sind"; 1991: Dichter -- Mutter -- Kind. Munich; 1990: Die Nacht der Substanz. Bern; 1986: Grammophon Film Typewriter. Berlin: Brinkmann & Bose; (English edition: Gramophone Film Typewriter, Stanford 1999); 1985: Aufschreibesysteme 1800/1900. Fink: Munich; (English edition: Discourse Networks 1800 / 1900, with a foreword by David E. Wellbery. Stanford 1990); 1979: Dichtung als Sozialisationsspiel. Studien zu Goethe und Gottfried Keller (with Gerhard Kaiser). Göttingen; and 1977: Der Traum und die Rede. Eine Analyse der Kommunikationssituation Conrad Ferdinand Meyers. Bern-Munich

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