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• Born in 1969 in Berlin (West), studied Comparative Literature and Art History in Berlin, Konstanz and Amherst/Massachusetts
• M.A. in Comparative Literature and History, 1998, Freie Universität Berlin
• doctoral promotion in Comparative Literature 2006 (Freie Universität Berlin)
• junior faculty researcher/teacher at Peter Szondi Institute for Comparative Literature, 1999-2004
• research fellow Piet Zwart Institute 2004
• course director Master Media Design/Networked Media Piet Zwart Institute WdKA, 2006-2010
• lector (lecturer/HBO research professor) for the research project Communication in a Digital Age since 2008
• Other work: transmediale software jury 2001, read_me jury, Moscow 2002, jury member NetzNetz for media art subsidies, Vienna, 2007-2009, advisory board member ISEA Ruhr 2010, regular international lecturing on the arts, literature and media.

My background is comparative literature and art history with a focus on experimental arts, media, poetics and aesthetics. From 2006 to 2010, I was responsible for the Networked Media Master programme of the Piet Zwart Institute. Since 2008, I work as an applied research professor (Dutch: “lector”) supervising the research programme Communication in a Digital Age of the Piet Zwart Institute.

papers published in journals and
anthologies

1. About the Art Strike, in: Stewart Home (ed.), The Art Strike
   Papers, Stirling: A.K. Press, 1991, p. 34f.
2. Der Glaube, Dein Feind und Helfer, in: Sklaven, Nr. 48, Berlin
   1996 and in: Mario Mentrup (ed.): Printidentitäten, Berlin:
   Maas Verlag, 2000, p. 118-126
3. Lustarbeiter [review of Luther Blissett and Sonja Brünzels
   (eds.), ,,Handbuch der Kommunikationsguerilla``], in: Sklaven, Nr.
   52, Berlin 1997, reprinted in: Mario Mentrup (ed.):
   Printidentitäten. Berlin: Maas Verlag, 2000, p. 127-133
4. Kerker und Drachen, Das Netz als Literatur, die Literatur im
   Netz, in: Norbert Wehr (ed.), Schreibheft, 48, 1997, p.
   197-199
5. From Fama to Information Society, in: README! Filtered by
   Nettime. ASCII Culture and the Revenge of Knowledge. Herausgegeben
   von Josephine Bosma, Pauline van Mourik Broekman, Ted Byfield
   et.al. New York: Autonomedia, 1999, p. 516-518
6. Literatur im Internet, in: ALG Umschau. ed. by
   Arbeitsgemeinschaft Literarischer Gesellschaften e.V.. Sonderheft
   (1999), p. 11-17
7. sub merge my senses: ASCII Art, Rekursion und Lyrik in
   Programmiersprachen, in: Text und Kritik, Heft 152, Oktober
   2001
8. Warum es zuwenig interessante Computernetzdichtung gibt, 9
   Thesen, in: Hansgeorg Schmidt-Bergmann, Torsten Liesegang (ed.),
   Liter@tur, Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2001
9. Combinatory poetry and literature on the Internet, in:
   Kodikas/Code, Ars Semeiotica, Jg. 24 (2001), Nr. 3-4, p.
   243-247
10. Free Software as Collaborative Text, in: Sarai Reader 01, The
    Public Domain, New Delhi/Amsterdam 2001, p. 199-206, and in: Klaus
    Peter Dencker (ed.), Die Politik der Maschine, Hamburg:
    Hans-Bredow-Institut 2002, reprinted as: “Des logiciels libres
    comme text collectif” in: Annick Bureaud, Nathalie Magnan
    (ed.), Connexions, Paris: École Nationale Supérieure
    des Beaux-Arts, 2002, p. 265-377
11. (With Ulrike Gabriel:) Software Art and Writing, in: American
    Book Review, vol. 22, no. 6, 2001, reprinted in: Andreas
    Broeckmann, Susanne Jaschko (ed.), DIY Media – Kunst und digitale
    Medien: Software, Partizipation, Distribution (transmediale.01),
    Berlin 2001, p. 29-30
12. Für eine Textwissenschaft der Digitalen, in: Hartmut
    Kugler (ed.), www.germanistik2001.de, Vorträge des Erlanger
    Germanistentages, Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2002, p. 479-484
13. Concepts, Notations, Software, Art, in: Olga Goriunova, Alexei
    Shulgin (ed.), readme 1.2, Moskau 2002, o.S., reprinted in German
    as: Der selbstausführende Entwurf, Software und Softwarekunst,
    in: Gundel Mattenklott und Friedrich Weltzien (ed.), Entwerfen und
    Entwurf, Praxis und Theorie des künstlerischen
    Schaffensprozesses, Berlin: Reimer, 2003, p. 285-297
14. Kombinatorische Weisheitskunst: Quirinus Kuhlmanns XLI.
    Libes-kuß, in: Renate Lachmann und Stefan Rieger (ed.): Text
    und Wissen, Technologische und anthropologische Aspekte,
    Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2003, p. 214-226
15. Digital Code and Literary Text, in: Alan Sondheim, Talan
    Memmott (ed.), BeeHive, Vol. 4, No.3, http://beehive.temporalimage.com/content_apps43/cramer/oop.html,
    reprinted in: Friedrich W. Block, Christiane Heibach, Karin Wenz
    (ed.), p0es1s, Ästhetik digitaler Poesie / The Aesthetics of
    Digital Poetry, Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje-Cantz, 2004, p. 263-276 (and
    in German as: Über Literatur und Digitalcode), reprinted in
    Hebrew in: [h]earat shulaym 8-9, poetry [new technologies]
    [urbanism] [video / poetry], 2004, p. 51-55
16. Das Betriebssystem Kunst hacken, interview with Cornelia
    Sollfrank, German and French in: Schweizer Kunst, vol. 1-02, ed.
    Visarte, Zurich, CH, p. 19-23, reprinted as: Hacking the Art
    Operating System, in: Simon Yuill und Kerstin Mey (ed.),
    Cross-Wired, Communication – Interface – Locality, University of
    Dundee und Manchester University Press, 2004, p. 57-68
17. Die Sprache, ein Virus? / Language, a virus?, in Franziska Nori
    (ed): I love you, computer viren hacker kultur, Frankfurt, Museum
    für Angewandte Kunst, 2002, p. 76-84
18. Discordia concors: www.jodi.org, in: Jodi, install.exe, Basel:
    Christoph Merian Verlag, 2002, p. 16-31 (German) / 68-79
    (Englisch)
19. Peer-to-Peer-Services: Transgressing the Archive (and its
    Maladies?) / Peer-to-Peer-Dienste: Entgrenzungen des Archivs (und
    seiner Übel?), in Franziska Nori (ed): adonnnaM.mp3,
    Frankfurt, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, 2003, p. 26-33 /
    98-104
20. Exe.cut[up]able Statements: The Insistence of Code / Das
    Drängen des Codes an die Nutzeroberflächen, in: Gerfried
    Stocker and Christine Schöpf (ed.): Ars electronica 2003, Code
    - The Language of Our Time, Ostfildern-Ruite: Hatje Cantz, 2003, p.
    98-103 / 104-109
21. Social Hacking, Revisited, in: Cornelia Sollfrank, net.art
    generator, Programmierte Verführung / Programmed Seduction,
    Nürnberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2004, p. 22-29
    (German) / 138-145 (Englisch)
22. ,,Auff manche Art verkehrt“: Georg Philipp Harsdörffers
    Frauenzimmer Gesprächsspiele, in: figurationen, Gender -
    Literatur – Kultur, 1/2004, Köln, Weimar, Wien: Böhlau,
    p. 41-46
23. With perhaps the exception of rhythm: Sprechen, Stottern und
    Schleifen in Alvin Luciers ,,I am sitting in a room“, in: Barbara
    Naumann (ed.), Rhythmus – Spuren eines Wechselspiels,
    Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2005, p. 205-216
24. Vom freien Gebrauch von Nullen und Einsen – ,,Open Content“
    und Freie Software (lecture, Stadtbibliothek Stuttgart/Goethe
    Institut Barcelona 2002/3), reprinted in: Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz
    (ed.), Just Do It!, Die Subversion der Zeichen von Marcel Duchamp
    bis Prada Meinhof, Wien: edition selene, 2005, p. 137-160
25. Mit Stewart Home: Pornographic Coding, in: Martin Howse,
    Jonathan Kemp (ed.), XXXXX, Berlin und London: OpenMute, 2006, p.
    228-239, reprinted in: Katrien Jacobs, Marije Janssen, Matteo
    Pasquinelli (eds.), C’lickme, A Netporn Studies Reader,
    Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2007, p. 159-170
26. Jabberwocky and London.pl, in: Martin Howse, Jonathan Kemp
    (eds.), XXXXX, Berlin und London: OpenMute, 2006, p. 406-411
27. Dentro e fuori la macchina, in: Antonio Caronia, Enrico
    Livraghi, Simona Pezzano (ed.), L’arte nell’era
    producibilità digitale, Milano: Mimesis Edizioni, 2006, p.
    61-80
28. Sodom Blogging: ,,Alternative Porn“ and Aesthetic Sensibility
    / ,,Alternative Porn“ und ästhetische Empfindsamkeit, in:
    Texte zur Kunst, no. 64, 11/2006, p. 66-72, reprinted in: Katrien
    Jacobs, Marije Janssen, Matteo Pasquinelli (eds.), C’lickme, A
    Netporn Studies Reader, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures,
    2007, p. 171-176
29. Letter to the Young Artist, in: Jos Houweling (ed.),
    Eenenveertig Brieven aan de Jonge Kunstenaar,
    Amsterdam/Rotterdam/Arnhem/Breda 2007, p. 31-33/141-142
30. Exe.cut[up]able statements – Poetische Kalküle und
    Phantasmen des selbstausführenden Texts, in: Gerfried Stocker,
    Christine Schöpf (eds.), CyberArts 2007, International
    Compendium Prix Ars Electronica, Stuttgart: Hatje-Cantz, 2007, p.
    248-253
31. For us, it’s not an error, interview with jodi (Joan
    Hermskerk and Dirk Paesmans), in: Neural, no. 28, winter 2007
32. Pataphysische Musikmaschinen, in: IMA Institut für
    Medienarchäologie (ed.), Zauberhafte Klangmaschinen: Von der
    Sprechmaschine bis zur Soundkarte, Mainz: Schott, 2008, p.
    207-218
33. The Foul Promises of `Interactivity’ and `Openness’,
    in: Junk Jet, no. 2, Junkancial Times, Stuttgart, 2008, p. 1
34. Language, in Matthew Fuller (ed.), Software Studies, Cambridge:
    MIT Press, 2008, p. 168-174
35. $(echo echo) echo $(echo): Command Line Poetics, in Aymeric
    Mansoux, Marloes de Valk, Digital Artists Handbook, 2008,
    http://www.digitalartistshandbook.org/node/13
36. Interface (with Matthew Fuller), in Matthew Fuller (ed.),
    Software Studies, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008, p. 143-149
37. Anti-Copyright in Artistic Subcultures/Anticopyright in
    künstlerischen Subkulturen, in: Inke Arns and Francis Hunger
    (eds.), Anna Kournikova Deleted By Memeright Trusted System,
    Dortmund: HMKV/Boenen: Kettler, 2008, p. 64-91
38. The Creative Common Misunderstanding, in: Aymeric Mansoux,
    Marloes de Valk, FLOSS+Art, London: OpenMute, 2008, p. 128-137
39. Snake Rituals and Switching Circuits: The blurring lines
    between mass and personal communication, `old’ and `new’
    media, Rotterdam: Willem de Kooning Academy, 2009
40. Buffer Overflows: Codes, Systems and Subversion in
    Computational Poetics, in Wolfgang Sützl and Geoff Cox (eds.),
    Creating Insecurity (DATA browser 04), New York: Autonomedia, 2009,
    p. 45-52
41. (With Matthias Spielkamp:) Open Access: Die Autoren werden
    gestärkt, in: Frankfurter Rundschau, Feuilleton, Kultur und
    Medien, 21 April 2009 (online at http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/kultur_und_medien/feuilleton/1726814_Open-Access-Die-Autoren-werden-gestaerkt.html)
42. Ubermorgen.com’s Hyperactive Melancholy, in: Alessandro
    Ludovico (ed.), ubermorgen.com Media hacking vs. Conceptual Art,
    Basel: Christoph Merian Verlag, 2009, p. 186-187

journalism

1. Netzbibliotheken und Versmaschinen (three-part series), in: Die
   Welt, 27/7/1996 – 30/7/1996
2. Review of Reinhard Kaiser, Literarische Spaziergänge im
   Internet, in: Die Welt, Frankfurt Book Fair special, spring
   1997
3. Die Spielregeln bestimmen jetzt die Aktionäre:
   Sourceforge.net, in: Berliner Zeitung, 27/3/2000
4. Mehr als Journalismus: Slashdot.org, in: Berliner Zeitung,
   25/4/2000.
5. Sperrige Schönheit, KDE 2.0 und Nautilus versprechen ein
   einfaches Linux, in: Berliner Zeitung, 28/11/2000
6. CODE: Chances and Obstacles in the Digital Ecology (review of
   the conference CODE, Cambridge Univsersity), in: MUTE, Culture and
   Politics after the Net, 2001
7. The opencontent.org Debacle, in: MUTE, Culture and Politics
   after the Net, Nr. 27, 2004, p. 10-11
8. (with Tatiana Bazzichelli:) Berlin Off Sex, in: Blue, Milan,
   8/2006

internet projects and collaborations
with artists

1. Homepage: http://cramer.plaintext.cc, contains most of
   my publications
2. http://plaintext.cc, text generator on the
   basis of Georges Bataille’s “History of the Eye”,
   awarded with the “Junggesellenpreis für
   Netzliteratur” (“Bachelor Prize for Net
   Literature”) by Literaturhaus Stuttgart, 2005
3. Permutations, http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~cantsin/permutations,
   reconstructions of historical algorithmic poems as Perl CGIs,
   awarded with a special Pegasus ‘98 Prize for Internet
   Literature by Die Zeit, Radio Bremen and IBM Germany
4. Co-administrator (with Tilman Baumgärtel) of the
   German-language net cultural mailing list ,,rohrpost“ from 2001 to
   2004, http://post.openoffice.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rohrpost
5. Editor (with Alan Sondheim, New York) of the Nettime Unstable
   Digest, a weekly digest of E-Mail codework on the
   ,,Nettime” mailing list, 2002-2004 http://www.netzliteratur.net/cramer/unstable_html,
   http://noemata.net/nudes/
6. (With Sebastian Lütgert, Berlin:) txtwarez , computer
   programs to circumvent copyright protection of literary texts,
   received a ,,honorary mention“ by the software art jury of
   transmediale.02, 2002
7. (Co-editor:) runme.org, online repository and critical guide to
   software art projects, initiated by Alexei Shulgin and Olga
   Goriunova (Moscow), 2002
8. (with Wilfried Hou Je Bek, Utrecht:) Speculative Programming ,
   workshop at transmediale.03, Berlin, 2003
9. (with mez Breeze, Australia:) iso.pro.txt.vim.tex.swap,
   collaborative Internet text, 2005

books

1. with Stewart Home: The House of Nine Squares, Letters on
   Neoism, Psychogeography and Epistemological Trepidation, London:
   Invisible Books, 1997
2. Words Made Flesh – Code, Culture, Imagination, Media Design
   Research, Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy
   Hogeschool Rotterdam, 2005, 140 p. (published online at
   http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdr/research/fcramer/wordsmadeflesh/wordsmadefleshpdf)
3. (forthcoming in 2010:) Exe.cut[up]able Statements – Poetische
   Kalküle und Phantasmen des selbstausführenden Texts,
   Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 350 p.