Paul Feigelfeld

Paul Feigelfeld

Paul

Feigelfeld

2018

TBA21–Academy

Germany

Data and Research Architect

Paul Feigelfeld is a media theorist and currently holds the position of Data & Research Architect at TBA21–Academy. He is a guest professor at the Art Institute Basel and also teaches at the University of Basel and Strelka Institute Moscow, among others. Feigelfeld studied cultural studies and computer science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Between 2004 and 2011 he worked for the German media theorist Friedrich Kittler and he is one of the editors of Kittler’s collected works. Up until 2016, he was the academic coordinator of the Digital Cultures Research Lab at the Centre for Digital Cultures at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, where he is also finishing his PhD thesis titled The Great Loop Forward: Cybernetic Incompleteness between East and West 1700–2000. Besides his academic career, he works as a writer, translator, and editor, and as a curator and advisor for art institutions and universities.