Professor Emeritus of Media Theory at Berlin University of the Arts, Michel

Foucault Professor of Media Archaeology & Techno-Culture at the European

Graduate School (EGS), and visiting Professor at Tongji University Shanghai.

He was founding rector (1994–2000) of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, director of the Vilém Flusser Archive (1998–2016), and rector of the

Karlsruhe University of Arts & Design (2016–2018). Zielinski has published

extensively on the archaeology & variantology of the arts & media. In cooperation with Peter Weibel, head of the ZKM Karlsruhe, he also worked as a

curator for exhibitions like “Allah’s Automata” or “Ramon Llull”. Together

with musician and composer FM Einheit he recently produced critical-poetical sound pieces for MusicAeterna and German radio stations. Zielinski is

elected member of the Berlin Academy of Arts and the Northrhine-Westfalien

Academy of Sciences and the Arts.