TEXTBIOGRAPHY

Thomas Zummer



BIOBIBLIOGRAPHY
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New York/ *USA 1954

Thomas Zummer is an artist, scholar, writer and curator. He is a frequent lecturer on philosophy and the history of technology. Currently, he teaches in the Critical Studies Department at New York University. In 2002-2003, he will be visiting professor in the Transmedia Programme at Sint Lukas in Brussels.

PUBLICATIONS
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"
Projection and Dis/embodiment: Genealogies of the Virtual" (a catalogue essay for "Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art 1964-1977", Whitney Museum/Abrams); "Portraits of Robots & Other Recent Works" (a catalogue of drawings, texts, and sculptural works); "CRASH: Nostalgia for the Absence of Cyberspace", with Robert Reynolds; "What the Hell is That?" (Beehive Microtitles #1, a digital e-book on cinema and the taxonomy of monsters).

Currently completing a book on the early history of reference systems, entitled "Intercessionary Technologies: Archive/Database/Interface".

EXHIBITIONS
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Mr. Zummer's artworks have shown worldwide, with recent exhibitions at TENT/Witte de Wit Museum, Rotterdam; Frederieke Taylor Gallery in New York City; Marcel Sitcoske Gallery in San Francisco; and White Box and Angel Orensanz in NYC.

Forthcoming exhibitions in Paris, London, Edinburgh, Brussels, Toronto and Austin/Texas.