about
Areas of Interest
Internet Studies
social media- media art, education, and activism (especially outside the US and Europe)
creative conferencing
Trebor Scholz is a writer, media activist, and educator who lives and works in New York City. He is the founder of the Institute for Distributed Creativity (iDC mailing list). In 2004 he organized Free Cooperation: The Art of Online Collaboration (w Geert Lovink). In 2005 he facilitated Share, Share Widely and in 2006 Architecture and Situated Technologies (with Omar Khan, Mark Shepard). In 2007 Autonomedia published The Art of Free Cooperation of which he is the co-editor.
biography
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contact: trebor at thing.net
Trebor Scholz grew up in East Berlin, studied in London, and is currently based in New York where he works both collaboratively and individually as a writer, artist, media activist, and conference organizer. His interests include the virtual economy.
In 2004 Scholz founded the Institute for Distributed Creativity, iDC (www.distributedcreativity.org) which is an independent research network that concentrates on (online) collaboration. In 2005 the Institute organized "Share, Share Widely," the first large conference about media art education (www.newmediaeducation.org) at the CUNY Graduate Center. In April 2004, together with Geert Lovink, he organized the conference Free Cooperation on the art of (online) collaboration, held at SUNY Buffalo (www.freecooperation.org). In 2000 he facilitated the only large scale program immediately responding to the Kosovo War-- "Kosov@: Carnival in the Eye of the Storm." (www.intheeyeofthestorm.info/)
Scholz' work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennial (with Martha Rosler/ The Fleas), the Sao Paulo Biennial, FILE (Sao Paolo) and many other venues. He has lectured in the U.S. and internationally at dozens of festivals and conferences including Transmediale (Berlin), ISEA (Helsinki, Tallin), Multimedia Art Asia Pacific Conference (Singapore), Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art (Helsinki, NIFCA), Stanford University, NewMediaNation (Bratislava, Slovakia), Version3 (N5M, Chicago), Tactical Media Lab at New York University, PS1 (Contemporary Art Center New York City), Haute Ecole d'Art (Geneva, Switzerland), University of California Los Angeles, Dartmouth College, Academy of Visual Arts (Leipzig, Germany), San Francisco State University, University of California San Diego, and The School of the Art Institute in Chicago.
Scholz has written on media art, networks, education and participatory cultures for many periodicals such as Art Journal, FibreCulture Journal, Afterimage, and C-Theory. He has contributed cahpters to several books including Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times (MIT, 2008). Currently, Scholz is assistant professor in the department of Culture and Media Study at Eugene Lang College, The New School University.