Armin Medosch talks Technopolitics (2010)
Armin Medosch - Technopolitics Uploaded on Dec 16, 2010 Brian Holmes symposium - The Artistic Device Saturday 27 November 2010" https://youtu.be/H_l9MTd-qMU Armin with us for almost one hour and half Bwo & thanks to Barbara BaselThing Streber Armin For Ever! p+5D! # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)
On 2017-02-24 23:40, Michael Goldhaber wrote: >I'm so sorry to hear of Armin's premature death. As far as I know, I >never had the pleasure of meeting him, nor did I know was one of the >founders of Telepolis where I had a column years ago. What sadness should I express than the same all others have expressed? Armin was my editor when when we broke all those news stories on Wassenaar, Echelon and the "ENFOPOL papers", nucleus to all my investigative Stories on the standardization of surveillance in ETSI to follow. This was in 1998, a decisive year. Out of nowhere an AustroGermanDutchBritish team of in-depth researchers had surfaced at Telepolis. All with their differing skills and sources hitting old school media with these new topics. Armin and Florian coordinated this cross borders effort as if they'd never done anything else before. All of us were awarded a fuqing AOL-Bertelsmann "European new media" prize that came with no money, as the Dot.com Bubble just had imploded. ;) We could not care less, then. Being on our way into new terrains, Armin always gentle, coordinating and caring. We had not even met before, being both Austrinas. Armin kew me from the early 90ies from my columns in Austrian daily Der Standard. I first encountered Armin methinks pretty early on nettime-list, before 1998. First met him much later in Munich round 2000. Amazed that he was even taller than me - I am 1,89 - a true Styrian Oak. Both in body and mind as Armin was a true Renaissance man transcending traditional borders of art, journalism and communications theory. Armin simply did not accept borders and thus ignored them. And this oak was felled so early and randomly by a heinous disease. My thoughts are with his companion Ina, longtime ORF radio colleague of mine and a friend. Just do not know what to tell Ina now. There is no consolation for this loss around. To avoid that we all now sink into desperation beyond tears here is a last one from the after hours during our first meeting in Munich. Nightly Scene in a pub Armin led us afterwards. I had delivered a major talk and document show about then new shit like IMSI-Catchers and GSM surveillance at some conference there. Media interviews, discussions following into the night at the pub, then Armin turning up at my table whispering in my ear in broad Styrian dialect: "Haha, fuq surveillance. You look exhausted mate, therefore I prepared a refreshment line waiting for you at the toilet window. Hurry up, so no one else takes it". Handed me a 10 Euro note tube and I blew my mind off because the line was according to Styrian Oak standards. This all led to adventures unforseen in Munich clubs and definitely not my own hotel room in the early hours. ;) Armin was a true Renaissance man in celebrating, too. This is what we must remember ourselves to keep us strong, as our bodies can burn out and bust into smoke much sooner and more randomly than anybody can imagine. Don't despair. Let us rather think how we might how we might celebrate Armin. Nightly thoughts Erich M. >Best, > >Michael > >On Feb 24, 2017, at 12:12 AM, Felix Stalder <[1]fe...@openflows.com> >wrote: > >Armin Medosch died yesterday, on the day two months after being >diagnosed with cancer. I'm sure many people on nettime knew him very >well. He was a long-time mover and shaker in the media arts and >network culture scene in Europe. Indeed for much longer than even >nettime exists. <...> -- https://moechel.com/kontaktPGP KEY 0x2440DE65 fingerprint A564 1457 71C3 E907 6D78 429E 76F3 C66E 2440 DE65 --... ...-- -.. . . .-. .. -.-. --- . ...-- . -- -... # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
Re: Armin Medosch talks Technopolitics (2010)
On 26/Feb/17 10:13, Patrice Riemens wrote: Armin Medosch - Technopolitics Uploaded on Dec 16, 2010 Brian Holmes symposium - The Artistic Device Saturday 27 November 2010" Sharing the experiences of many of you, I can recall numerous encounters with Armin in Helsink, Riga, Vilnius, Berlin, London, Linz, Hasselt, Amsterdam, and possibly elsewhere, back into the mid-90s. Some good partying, dancing, and dialogue. Yes, a challenging and idiosyncratic personality, but his extremely wry, dry, and funny humor, his presence, his voice (powerful both sonically and intellectually), and his generosity was a beautiful addition to the many conclaves. Indeed, he was everywhere. Thanks to the RIXC crew for being a perfect platform in the series of Acoustic Space / Wave editions and exhibitions/meetings that have Armin's fingerprints all over them. I can't pin-point the last time I spent time with him f2f, I guess in 2008 or so, in Netherlands or maybe in London. A raucous dinner somewhere. He was always to be counted on to turn in a well-considered and passionate commentary when things on brico, spectre, nice, nettime, new-media-curating, idc, and certainly other listservs turned sour or so. In my email archive, I see 495 emails, and smile reading some of them... As a teacher, he had an instinctual gift to understand the degrees of freedom necessary for learning to proceed. We shared our strategies on how to deal with the institutional frameworks that tended to dull true learning. Back in 2013 he sent me a packet of his (formal) class descriptions (unfortunately, no notes, or other items). I'd be very interested to hear any reminiscences from his former students. Clearly we all learned from him. I was looking around at items I have in my archive of correspandence with Armin, links and materials he had sent me, and I am wondering if anyone is attempting to collect any written/media traces that are in danger of being lost -- I was reading his review of Pixelache from 2007 and there were several interviews he did, but those mp3 links were dead... :-( I do hope, along with the Stubnitz tapes that there will fall together some of those network fragments. I'd be happy to collect and host anything that folks find that cannot be preserved on some other server... Echoing Armin speaking about Robert Adrian's passing just 16 months ago: "we will always remember you well" peace, john -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD hanging on to the Laramide Orogeny twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
