Why print out the Internet?

07.08.2015

Why print the Internet? Whether Cory Achangel’s “Working on my Novel”, Paul Soulellis’ “Library of the Printed Web”, “Networked Optimization” by Sebastian Schmieg and the Kindle project by Silvio Lorusso “56 Broken Kindle Screens”, Wikipedia as a seven-thousand-volume book edition or hundreds of thousands of pages of JSTOR articles – there are many examples. Prorector Maren Schmohl talks to Olia Lialina, Professor of New Media at the Merz Akademie, about the hot love between paper and the Internet, its fatal roots in the early days of the personal computer, and the hope that one day they’ll get away from each other.

03.09.2025

UX Design Award for zigzag

A UX Design Award for “Smila Gen 2” in the Product 2025 category goes to zigzag. Congratulations to Florian Dusch, Merz Academy graduate, and his agency zizag! zigzag received the...

26.06.2025

German Brand Award 2025 for zigzag

Congratulations to New Media graduate Florian Dusch and his agency zigzag on winning the German Brand Award 2025! Smila Gen 2, a digital medication dispenser, was honored by the German...

26.02.2024

Prof. Mario Doulis research stay in Japan

February 21-22 2024, I stayed at RIEC to test the shared VR application MeetSpace (working title), that was partially carried out under the RIEC International Cooperative Research Project (ITL) “Physical...

20.06.2023

ADC Talent Award 2023 in Gold und Silber

Herzliche Glückwünsche an unsere Absolventin Felina Russ und unsere Studentin Christina Rollny zu einem ADC Award in Gold und Silber! Felina erhielt für ihr Semesterprojekt “Internet, here is a musical...