The talk will take place on 14th of February at 14:30 at Akbank Sanat

Armin Medosch is an artist, curator and author in media art and network culture. His work as curator includes large exhibitions such as Telepolis, Luxemburg 1995; Waves (Riga, 2006; Dortmund, 2008); and Fields (Riga Culture Capital 2014); as well as work on the border between research and activism, such as Kingdom of Piracy (2001-1006), together with Shu Lea Cheang and Yukiko Shikata. He has been awarded the degree of Ph.D. in Arts and Computational Technology (ACT) at Goldsmiths, University of London, in 2012 for his practice-based research on exhibitions as sites of research and the early history of media art, based on a case study of the New Tendencies movement. He is initiator of the Technopolitics working group in Vienna and initiator and maintainer of the cooperative web-space thenextlayer.org.