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.

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...

15.05.2023

Students Abroad: Excursion to Basel

In summersemester 2023, New Media professor and net artist Olia Lialina was on a excursion with students from her project course “Dress Code: Fashion an AI” to the HEK (Haus...

02.05.2023

Workshop week in summer semester 2023 – Impressions

The exhibition and presentation at the end of the workshop week in the summer semester 2023 was once again super! Two courses presented themselves in our library, then we went...

19.09.2022

Prof. Mario Doulis visits Japanese universities

During his stay in Japan our New Media Professor Mario Doulis visited Prof. Dr. Yoshifumi Kitamura at his Interactive Content Design Lab at the Research Institute of Electrical Communication (RIEC)...