Florian Cramer

Florian Cramer (*1969) is a professor at the art school of Rotterdam University of Applied Science. Since the 1990s, has been a critical writer on arts, culture and technology.

Florian Cramer studied comparative literature, art history and german philology at FU Berlin, Universität Konstanz and University of Massachusetts at Amherst. MA in comparative literature from Freie Universität Berlin (1998). He received his MA in Comparative Literature from FU Berlin in 1998 and his Dr. phil. in 2006. His dissertation was published as the book "Exe.cut(up)able Statements: Poetic Calculations and Fantasies of the Self-Executing Text", published by Wilhelm Fink/Bril in 2011. For this work, he received the “media.art.research.award” from the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute in Linz and Ars Electronica.

Florian Cramer has worked in between cultural theory and practice since the early 1990s, among others in collective-anonymous multiple name projects, criticism and codework poetry on mailing lists like Nettime, with DIY projects in Rotterdam, and as a member of multidisciplinary collectives (currently as an associate of the Pearl River Delta-based 展銷場 Display Distribute collective). His past and preset collaborators include Stewart Home, tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE, Alan Sondheim, mez breeze, Cornelia Sollfrank, Tatiana Bazzichelli, Katrien Jacobs, filmwerkplaats Rotterdam, Paolo Davanzo & Lisa Marr/Echo Park Film Center, Wilhelm Hein & Annette Frick, Rasheedah Phillips, Goodiepal, Woodstone Kugelblitz, Clara Lobregat Balaguer and Elaine W. Ho.