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Areas of Interest
Primary Topics: networked sociality, media art education, sociable web media, activism
Additional Topics: creative conferencing, social interactions, web-based behavior
Geographical Areas: North America, Europe, Asia
Trebor Scholz is an artist, media theorist, and activist who divides his time between New York City, Buffalo and travel. He is the founder of the Institute for Distributed Creativity (iDC). In 2005 he organized Share, Share Widely and in 2006 Architecture and Situated Technologies (with Omar Khan, Mark Shepard). He is the founder and facilitator of the iDC mailing list.
biography
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contact: trebor at thing.net
Trebor Scholz grew up in East Berlin and is currently based in New York where he works both collaboratively and individually as an artist, media theorist, activist, and organizer. His interests focus on media theory, art and education.
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 essays to several books and co-edited "Free Cooperation: The Art of (Online) Collaboration" forthcoming with Autonomedia. Scholz has taught media art, history, and theory at Pacific NW College of Art (Portland), The University of Arizona (Tucson), and Bauhaus University (Weimar) and is currently professor and researcher in the Department of Media Study at the State University of New York at Buffalo.