Siegfried Zielinski

Siegfried Zielinski (1951), rector of the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, is one of the founders of Media Archaeology, a discipline studying the interaction between present-day mass media and earlier communicative expressions arising from art and philosophy. He has written and edited several books, among them Allah’s Automata, co-edited with Peter Weibel, in which they analyse the influence of medieval Arab mechanics in contemporary computer engineering. He is presently director of the International Vilém-Flusser-Archive at the Berlin University of the Arts where he also teaches Media Theory.