Biography

Thomas Zummer is an independent scholar, writer, artist and curator. His drawings, media, and sculptural works have been exhibited worldwide, and he is the author of various essays on philosophy and media. He is currently completing a book-length study, Intercessionary Technologies: Database, Archive, Interface, on the early history of reference systems, and a small book on photography. Mr. Zummer has curated exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts, CinéClub/Anthology Film Archives, Thread Waxing Space, the Katonah Museum of Art and the Palais des Beaux-arts/Brussels. In 1994 he curated CRASH: Nostalgia for the Absence of Cyberspace, with Robert Reynolds, one of the first major exhibitions to have a significant portion of works as digital/online or other forms of transmission. He and Mr. Reynolds also edited the book accompanying the exhibition. In 1995 he won 5th Prize in the ACA/CODA Architectural Design Competition for the City of Atlanta for the 1996 Olympics.

Thomas Zummer is a frequent lecturer on philosophy, aesthetics and the history of technology, and has taught at Brown University, New York University, The New School, the Transart Institute/Linz and Tyler School of Art/Temple University. He is currently a Regular Visiting Professor in the Transmedia programme/post-graduate at the Hogeschool Sint-Lukas/Universite Leuven in Brussels, and Faculty in Philosophy at the Europäische Universität für Interdisziplinare Studien/European Graduate School (EUFIS/EGS), Saas-Fee, Switzerland. In the US he is Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Graphic and Information Design at Central Connecticut State University. Thomas Zummer holds a PhD in Philosophy and Media/Communications Studies, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Thomas Zummer

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tzummer@risd.edu

• BFA, University of Hartford

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