Siegfried Zielinski is Professor Emeritus of Media Theory at Berlin University of the Arts, Michel Foucault Professor of Media Archaeology and Techno-Culture at the European Graduate School (EGS) and Visiting Professor at Tongji University in Shanghai. He was founding Rector (1994–2000) of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KMH), director of the Vilém Flusser Archive (1998–2016), and Rector of the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (2016–2018). Zielinski has published extensively on Archaeology and Variantology of the Arts and Media. In cooperation with the ZKM Karlsruhe, he is also a curator. Together with musician and composer FM Einheit, he has recently produced critical-poetical sound pieces for MusicAeterna and various German radio stations.