Reverse Engineering Modernism with the Last Avant-garde

Dieter Daniels is Professor for Art History and Media Theory at the Academy of Visual Arts (HGB) in Leipzig, since 1993. In 1984, he co-founded “Videonale Bonn” and has contributed to numerous projects, exhibitions, and symposia in the field of media art. From 1991–93, he headed the Mediatheque at Z KM Karlsruhe. He has extensively published on twentieth-century art, including Marcel Duchamp, Fluxus, and Media Art. He is co-editor of MediaArtAction and MediaArtInteraction (with Rudolf Frieling). Recent book publications include Kunst als Sendung (Munich 2002) and Vom Ready-Made zum Cyberspace (Ostfildern 2003). From 2001–05, he was co-editor of MediaArtNet (www.mediaartnet.org). From 2005 to 2009, he served as director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research. in Linz.

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