Theory

René Beekman is a Dutch visual artists who currently lives and works in Sofia, Bulgaria. He is one of the founders of Reaktiv, a group of artists and technicians who create interactive installations...

Albrecht Dürer is the greatest exponent of Northern European Renaissance art. While an important painter, in his own day Dürer was renowned foremost for his graphic works. Artists across Europe...

Jurgen Habermas is widely considered as the most influential thinker in Germany over the past decade [1970-80]. As a philosopher and sociologist he has mastered and creatively articulated an...

Lev Manovich is an Associate Professor at the Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego where he teaches new media art and theory. He is the author of The Language of New Media (The...

Plato, born in Athens around 427 BC, was considered to be one of the earliest philosophers. He lived during the Age of Synthesis.

Jacques Derrida's work originated the school of deconstruction, a strategy of analysis that has been applied to literature, linguistics, philosophy, law and architecture.

Deleuze is a key figure in postmodern French philosophy. Considering himself an empiricist and a vitalist, his body of work, which rests upon concepts such as multiplicity, constructivism, difference...

Bataille is often called the metaphysician of evil because he was interested in sex, death, degradation, and the power and potentialities of obscene.

Member of the Frankfurt School. Adorno argued that popular media are the product of a 'culture industry' which keeps the population passive, preserving dominance of capitalism at the expense of true...

Best known perhaps for his anti-humanist interpretation of Marx, Louis Althusser’s predominant legacy is the critique of Hegelian Marxism, and infamous analysis that the early writings of Marx are...

French social and literary critic, whose writings on semiotics made structuralism one of the leading intellectual movements of the 20th century. In his lifetime Barthes published seventeen books and...

Lacan refashioned Freudian psychiatry, and suggested that the unconscious was structured like a language, thereby giving a key role to semiotics and dissolving the usual boundaries between the...

A famous social philosopher and "hyper realist," he is a leading critic of the postmodern culture, the economy of communication, and the media system.

'There is nothing about being female that naturally binds women. There is not even such a state as "being" female, itself a highly complex category constructed in contested sexual scientific...

Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was a French historian and philosopher, associated with the structuralist and post-structuralist movements. He has had wide influence not only (or even primarily) in...

An artist, curator and theoretician. Peter Weibel’s oeuvre can be described in the following categories: Conceptual Art, Performance, Experimental Film, Video art and Computer art.

Uses popular culture to explain the theory of Jacques Lacan and the theory of Jacques Lacan to explain politics and popular culture.

Remko Scha is a Dutch artist and scientist who is experimenting with speech and computers.

Paul Groot (The Netherlands) joined Mediamatic magazine in 1989. In his writings for Mediamatic he concentrates on the metaphorical exchange between European Analog Culture and American Digital Mass...

Richard Rogers is New Media Professor at the University of Amsterdam, Director of the Govcom.org Foundation, Visiting Professor in Science Studies at the University of Vienna, and founder of the...

Avital Ronell is a professor of philosophy in New York currently chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature and teaches German and comparative literature and theory – in addition to...

Maurice joined Mediamatic in 1987 after his graduation as an architect at TUDelft. We published his graduation project, a villa for Michael Jackson in our magazine . He went on to found NOX...

With their advanced expertise and know-how, engineers are vital to our society and economy. It is they who develop the science-based technological solutions which enhance many people’s lives.