Media Studies | Volume 96Tilman Baumgärtel (Dr.) is a writer and teaches media studies at Hochschule Mainz. Previously he was a professor at the University of the Philippines in Manila (2005Manila ( -2009 and at the Department of Media and Communication at the Royal University of Phnom Penh (2009Penh ( -2012. He has published on media culture, including internet art, computer games, the aesthetics of loops, GIF animation and the director Harun Farocki. Julian Weinert (M.A.) studied Media Studies, German Literature and Media design at University of Trier and Hochschule Mainz. He is a film maker and was a staff member of the research project on Van Gogh TV at the Institut für Mediengestaltung (IMG) of Hochschule Mainz from 2018 to 2021.
Tilman Baumgärtel with Julian Weinert
Van Gogh TV's "Piazza Virtuale"The Invention of Social Media at documenta IX in 1992This publication and the research project "Van Gogh TV. Critical Edition, Multimedia-documentation and analysis of their Estate" (Project 388224396) were funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).
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