Florian Brody

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Florian Brody

Florian Brody (born October 31, 1953 in Vienna ) is an Austrian pioneer in the fields of multimedia and electronic publishing .

Life

Brody studied general linguistics and computer science at the University of Vienna . Between 1968 and 1974 he was Henri Langlois' personal assistant at the Cinémathèque Française several times and worked with him to set up the Musée du Cinema. He was Professor of Multimedia at the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences and a member of the Graduate Faculty of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena (California) .

Brody headed the first CD-ROM presentations for academic libraries in 1984 and in 1988 developed the first German-language journal database at the Austrian National Library . Together with Robert Stein , he developed the first electronic books from 1989 at the Voyager Company in Santa Monica (California).

The Expanded Books project was presented in January 1991 with three titles: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy , Jurassic Park and Alice in Wonderland . It was then expanded with the Modern Library from Random House . An Expanded Books Toolkit based on Hypercard made it possible for anyone to create electronic books. With Christian Brandstätter Verlag , he developed the first commercial interactive photo CD on the history of Schönbrunn Palace for Kodak .

Brody lives and works in San Francisco and Vienna . He is a certified life and leadership coach and works with startups and innovative companies as a strategic mentor. As a Managing Partner at Brody & Partners, he supports international startups in establishing a presence in Silicon Valley .

Publications

  • Old and new content - can we understand the web today? Holding on and letting go in the context of the digital. In: Marion Fugléwicz-Bren: The Philosophers Are Coming - The Next Chapter , tredition, Hamburg 2014. Pbd. ISBN 978-3-8495-9758-0 .
  • How Green is the Silicon Valley? In: Economics of Communication. Information Technology for Sustainability. 2014. forthcoming
  • Philosophy lays the stones in the way that make it interesting to walk the way. In: Marion Fugléwicz-Bren: The Philosophers Are Coming - The Next Chapter , tredition, Hamburg 2014. Pbd. ISBN 978-3-8495-9758-0 .
  • Eschatological networking. The World Wide Web as a hope space Paralipomena to the salvation claim of the Internet In: Fugléwicz-Bren et. Al .: ZukunftsWebBuch 2010. Opportunities and Risks of Web 3.0. - above: edition mono / monochrom, 2010. ISBN 978-3-9502372-7-6 .
  • What's next after Web2.0? (And what came before?) Digital media start-ups in Silicon Valley. In: Michael A. Herzog (Ed.) Process design in media production; Gito, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-940019-58-5 .
  • The Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing: Multimedia Publishing. New York: Columbia University Press , 2003.
  • The Medium is the Memory, In: The Digital Dialectic. New Essays on New Media. MIT Press , 1999.
  • Interaction design. State of the Art and Future Developments. An argument for information design. Rockport Publishers , 1998.
  • Books the Next Generation — Reading on the Electronic Frontier. Springer , Heidelberg 1996.
  • Tabula Rasa , in: Cutting Edge Web Design, Rockport Publishers 1998.
  • My home is my memory is my home. Mediamatic, Amsterdam 1995. (Doors of Perception Conference 2)
  • Brody, Florian. Bibliography of Bibliographies of Film Literature. Mask and Kothurn Vol 21. No. 4 (December 1975), ( online )
  • How Virtual is Reality? in: Tony Feldman (ed.) Proceedings of the First Annual Conference on Virtual Reality 91. London: Meckler

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographies Pioneers of Computing
  2. ↑ L. Lang The Development of Evidence for Austrian Periodicals ( Memento from May 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ IT History Hall of Fame
  4. ↑ Design and Psychology of eBooks . Moderator paper for AG 2 of the 22nd MMK 2002 in Münster, as of September 12, 2002 / September 19, 2002 corr., Date added by Bernd Wingert; Kai Skrabe Research Center Karlsruhe / ITAS; University of Applied Sciences Brandenburg
  5. ↑ The Standard The Electronic Bookworm. Uwe Fischer-Wickenburg, Der Standard Jan. 21, 1992
  6. ^ Firms seek to marry books, computers. The Baltimore Sun Feb 24, 1992
  7. ^ The Expanded Books (demonstration). REAL 1992
  8. ↑ ISA members: Does multimedia offer us the «ways out of the crisis?»
personal data
SURNAME Brody, Florian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian pioneer in the fields of multimedia and electronic publishing
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna