Variantology ââ“ on Deep Time Relations of Arts Sciences and Technologies
A research projection by Siegfried Zielinski – generated in shut cooperation with Eckhard Fürlus, Daniel Irrgang, Franziska Latell, David Link, Philip Tögel, Silvia Wagnermaier, and our publisher, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln (Christian Posthofen)
Since 2018 Variantology is an independent research projection by Berlin based media archaeologist Siegfried Zielinski. From 2016-2018 it was hosted by the Karlsruhe University of Arts & Design (strongly supported past Daniel Irrgang), and has been developed further in various exhibitions in cooperation with the Karlsruhe Centre for Art and Media (ZKM). 2007-2016 the project was located at the Berlin Universty of Arts under the title Variantology / Archaeology of Arts & Media. Initiated by Siegfried Zielinski, from 2004 til 2006 it was established generously supported past the Due north-Rhine-Westfalian Ministry for Science and Enquiry every bit a special research project at the Cologne University of Media Arts.
Right from the first the projection Variantology / Archaeology of Arts & Media has been conceptualized every bit an international research projection. A disquisitional analysis and reflection of the existing heterogenous concepts of Media in different cultures of knowledge and the arts plays an important part in this project. The concept of Medium is opened for regions disciplines and ideas, which so far had been held mainly outside of the media soapbox. Vice versa these disciplines open up for a knowledge civilization in categories of medialities and communication. The invention of a mundial network of researchers, artists and writers focusing on Deep Time relations of arts, sciences, and technologies is a crucial part of the project. Themes and problems we are confonted with have get so complex that we cannot sit them out anymore on one Chair. So far there have been successful cooperations with researchers and artists from Australia, Austria, The Peoples Republic of China, England, France, Frg, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Israel, Italia, Columbia, Lebanon, Mexico, Russia, Slovania, Kingdom of spain, Switzerland, Türkey, and the The statesA.
Results of our enquiry are regularly presented at international conferences, symposia, seminars, lectures, and they are published in books. So far 5 volumes in English linguistic communication (Walther König, Cologne) and one in German (Kadmos, Berlin) accept been published. The latest book by Siegfried Zielinski, Variations on Media Thinking (University of Minnesota Press, 2019) connects for the first time investigations into Variantology with the research On Genealogy of MediaThinking.
Until 2016 the project was located at the Berlin University of Arts (UdK) Institute for Time Based Media / Chair
for Media Theory/Archaology und Variantology of Arts and Media / Prof. Dr. Siegfried Zielinski
Actual contact:
Maja <majaneu@gmx.de>
Image of the centre model at the top of the page taken from Danielle Jacquart: Fifty'épopée de la science arabe, Paris 2005, p. 37
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Siegfried Zielinski
Variations on Media Thinking
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019)
Expanding on Siegfried Zielinski's groundbreaking research into "deep fourth dimension" of the media, these essays foster the eminent media theorist'due south unique method ofexpanded hermeneutics, which ways for him interpreting technical artifacts as essential parts of our cultural lives. Including many previously untranslated and scarce essays, these "written time machines" farther diversify Zielinski'southward insight into the hidden layers of media evolution.
Historians of technology know that whatsoever tool is also an instrument of exploration, experiment, and simulation. Siegfried Zielinski reminds us that any applied science is as well a generator of wonder. In fact, Zielinski does not write media history, he writes world history through the generative lens of media every bit machines of speculation and imagination. This is a textile history of dissent, heretical hermeneutics, and electrified alchemic curiosity. – Matteo Pasquinelli
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Book Launch – Variantologie
Friday, January 24, 2014, seven:30 pm
Buchhandlung Walther König, Burgstraße 27, 10178 Berlin
We are glad to take physicist and chaos theoretician Otto E. Rössler as our guest. He will speak about his approach towards variantology, followed by a talk with him and the editors, Eckhard Fürlus and Siegfried Zielinski. Daniel Irrgang and Clemens Jahn will present their diagrammatic work, which is included in the volume.
Variantologie
Zur Tiefenzeit der Beziehungen von Kunst, Wissenschaft und Technik
Edited by Siegfried Zielinski and Eckhard Fürlus
in collaboration with Daniel Irrgang and Clemens Jahn
For the first German-linguistic communication volume in the Variantology serial a selection of texts from the previous English-language volumes has been translated. The volume contains, amidst others, essays on Athanasius Kircher, Giordano Bruno and Ramon Llull, on the meaning of vowels in Standard arabic music, on Alan Turing'south and Christopher Stratchey'due south love letter program, on the variant in mathematics, on acoustics in ancient China, on gender politics in the late Chinese empire, on the automaton theater in Arabia, on the compass, on mathematical thinking in Prc and Europe, on John Cage's mycology as well every bit on the blueprint of an Institute of Southern Modernities (ISMs).
With contributions by Nanni Balestrini (Paris / Rom), Hans Belting Karlsruhe / Berlin), Arianna Borrelli (Rom / Berlin), Francesca Bray (Edinburgh), Luciano Canfora (Bari), Chen (Joseph) Cheng-Yih (San Diego), Eckhard Fürlus (Berlin), Claus-Peter Haase (Berlin), Yasmin Haskell (Perth), Daniel Irrgang (Berlin), Clemens Jahn (Berlin), David Link (Köln / Leipzig), Mara Mills (New York), Nils Röller (Zürich), Otto E. Rössler (Tübingen), George Saliba (Beirut / New York), Elisabeth von Samsonow (Wien), Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann (Berlin), Amnon Shiloah (Jerusalem), Amador Vega Esquerra (Barcelona), Xu Fei (Hefei), Siegfried Zielinski (Berlin) and Peter Weibel (Karlsruhe).
Kulturverlag Kadmos
ISBN 978-3-86599-188-ane
Variantology v
Neapolitan Diplomacy
Edited by Siegfried Zielinski and Eckhard Fürlus
in cooperation with Daniel Irrgang
Naples: Although information technology has a long history, many consider the city does non accept a future — its present-24-hour interval state is seen as too ugly. The Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli is one of Europe's virtually beautiful — and corrupt — collections of books and manuscripts. There the Variantologists met for their concluding congress (for the time being) and attempted Vesuvian thinking, initiated by the vulcanologist and Vesuvius adept Giovanni P. Ricciardi'due south introduction. Their discussions traversed the deep fourth dimension of the city and explored its media, philosophers, scientists, and scholars.
Those who engaged with Neapolitan affairs in Naples, and whose contributions are published in this volume, were the art experts Hans Belting and John Berger, the artists Rosa Barba and Peter Blegvad, the papyrologist Luciano Canfora, the mathematician Chen Cheng-Yih, the physicist Otto E. Roessler, and the philosopher and artist Elisabeth von Samsonow. Early machine poetry texts by the experimental poet Nanni Balestrini are published hither for the first fourth dimension. The artistic design of Variantology Volume 5 was created by the legendary Brothers Quay.
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König
ISBN 978-3-86560-887-1
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Variantology iv
On Deep Time Relations of Arts, Sciences and Technologies
In the Arabic-Islamic World and Beyond
Edited by Siegfried Zielinski and Eckhard Fürlus
in cooperation with Daniel Irrgang and Franziska Latell
We orient ourselves hither on the Orient. Oriens ways literally "the rising sun", and another proper noun for the Orient is the Levant. From this perspective we embarked on the fourth variantological expedition to the worlds of arts, sciences, and technologies and the relations between them. Our journeying took u.s. to the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, where in the ninth century programmed music automatons were conceived and congenital and the world was surveyed afresh; to a darkened chamber in Cairo, where in the early on eleventh century the laws of seeing and visual perception were rewritten; to the al-Jazīra region betwixt the two rivers Euphrates and Tigris, where in the eleventh and twelfth centuries fascinating automaton theatres were minutely described and built. Andalusia, Bharat, Iran, Istanbul, and the 3 Moons monastic school in Beirut, Lebanon, were further stations of an expedition on which we never ceased to curiosity and wonder. At the cease of the journeying, like Averroes from Cordoba we had the feeling of writing in Latin, thinking in Greek, and dreaming in Arabic. And of one affair we are absolutely certain: in the future it will not exist possible to write the history (and stories) of the arts and the media without taking a long and difficult wait at the deep time of Arabic-Islamic culture.
With contributions past Ulrich Alertz (Aachen), Hans Belting (Karlsruhe), Arianna Borrelli (Berlin / Rome), Almut Sh. Bruckstein (Berlin), Vilém Flusser, Irit Batsry (New York / Tel Aviv), Eckhard Fürlus (Berlin), Ramon Guardans (Madrid), Claus-Peter Haase (Berlin), Franziska Latell (Berlin), David Link (Leipzig), Laura U. Marks (Vancouver), Anthony Moore (Arles / Cologne), Dhruv Raina (Neu Delhi), Julian Rohrhuber (Cologne), George Saliba (New York) , Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann (Berlin), Fuat Sezgin (Frankfurt am Principal), Amnon Shiloah (Jerusalem), Eilhard Wiedemann, Siegfried Zielinski (Berlin).
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König
ISBN 978-three-86560-732-4
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Variantology 3
On Deep Time Relations of Arts, Sciences and Technologies
In People's republic of china and Elsewhere
Edited past Siegfried Zielinski and Eckhard Fürlus
in cooperation with Nadine Minkwitz
Our attempt is not to explain the history of the media as a consecutive retrospective, merely to move from refl ections about the deep time history of arts and sciences to speculations that reach into the present. The contributors to the third volume in the Variantology Serial expand our ideas of the interplay between arts, engineering, and science in at least three important means: i. Themes. Fireworks as a time-based praxis of performance, magnetised chess automata, paper-cuts, thermometers, radical interventions in the natural landscape by humans, and the com pass are revealed as areas where discoveries tin can be made that lead to much broader and richer concepts of what art and media are. 2. Regions. As we move with the authors from Europe to the Far East and dorsum once again information technology becomes absolutely clear that the history of the media cannot be written with only the former industrial metropolises of the world in our sights, beginning and ending at that place. 3. Time. The development of the Chinese civilization of science and technology takes us into dimensions that add unsuspected energies and historical possibilities to the concept of deep time. Brecht's verdict from the 1920s that Chinese civilisation has already forgotten about innovations that the Due west proudly celebrates equally innovations of the Modern Age, is given new meaning.
Authors and artists who contributed to this volume: Arianna Borrelli (Rome), Francesca Bray (Edinburgh), Chen Cheng-Yi (San Diego), Dai Nianzu (Beijing), Mareile Flitsch (Berlin), Ramon Guardans (Barcelona), Ingo Günther (New York), Rossen Milev (Sofia), Anthony Moore (Arles / Cologne), Dhruv Raina (New Delhi), Nils Röller (Zurich), Claudia Schink (Cologne), Simon Werrett (Seattle), Xu Fei (Hefei).
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König
ISBN iii-86560-366-1
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Variantology 2
On Deep Time Relations of Arts, Sciences and Technologies
Edited by Siegfried Zielinski and David Link
with Eckhard Fuerlus and Nadine Minkwitz
What does a thirteenth-century Majorcan missionary have to practice with the logic past which machines operate? Were medieval astrolabes solely for calculating the orbits of stars and planets or were they philosophical instruments also? Tin can computers write beloved letters and where do radar angels live? What do the origins of the lottery and musical compositions inspired by arithmetic have in common? Was the first Russian avant-garde more interested in Jesuit theory of affects or in H.One thousand. Wells' time machine? Is failure a category reserved exclusively for the arts? Our ongoing take a chance of excursions into the deep time of relations betwixt the arts, science, and technology engages with such disparate themes as these. The authors of this volume are philosophers, artists, theologians, physicists, historians of film, mathematics, engineering science, and science, biologists, musicologists, and fine art theorists from a diverseness of countries. Their ambition is not to write a new history of art or the media; however, through their broad and generous interpretation of their objects of written report they seriously call into question what nosotros have upwards to at present divers as fine art or understood as media.
With contributions by Siegfried Zielinski (Berlin), Peter Blegvad (London), David Link (Cologne / Karlsruhe), Amador Vega (Barcelona), Sebastian Klotz (Leipzig), Miklós Peternák (Budapest), Amir R. Alexander (Los Angeles), Arianna Borrelli (Berlin), Gábor Á. Zemplén (Budapest), Steven Vanden Broecke (Brussels), Mara Mills (Cambridge, MA), Lioudmila Voropai (Cologne / Moscow), Andrea Hacker (Dublin), Oksana Bulgakowa (Berlin), Koen Vermeir (Leuven), Eckhard Fürlus (Berlin), Alla Mitrofanova (Saint petersburg).
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König
ISBN three-86560-050-vi
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Variantology 1
On Deep Fourth dimension Relations of Arts, Sciences and Technologies
Edited by Siegfried Zielinski and Silvia Thou.Wagnermaier
The work processes for VARIANTOLOGY attempt to react naively to a civilisation of bloc formation and programmatic standardisation. In contrast to the heterogeneous, with its ponderous oscillations in ontology and biological science, we are interested in the variant both methodologically and epistemologically equally a style characterised by lightness and ease. Equally such, the variant is equally at home in experimental art, scientific discipline and media praxes. To vary something that is established is an culling to destroying it — a strategy that played a prominent role and was favoured by many avant-garde movements in the twentieth century.
With contributions past Silvia M. Wagnermeier (Cologne), Werner Nekes (Mülheim), Mara Mills (Cambridge, MA), Paola Bertucci (Bologna), Claudia Schink (Cologne), Siegfried Zielinski (Berlin / Cologne), Elisabeth von Samsonow (Wien), Jochen Büchel (München), Henning Schmidgen (Berlin), Velimir Abramovic (Belgrad), Anthony Moore (London / Cologne), Nils Röller (Zürich), Yasmin Haskell (Perth), Koen Vermeir (Leuven / Berlin), Timothy Druckrey (New York), David Link (Cologne), Arianna Borrelli (Rome / Braunschweig), Amador Vega (Barcelona).
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König
ISBN 3-88375-914-7
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