Pit Schultz

Pit Schultz (born November 15, 1965 in Heidelberg ) is a German computer scientist , internet activist, author , media artist and founder of several network-based radio stations. Pit Schultz, along with Geert Lovink, is considered to be the founder of network criticism .

Life

Pit Schultz grew up with his younger brother Gerriet Schultz , organizer and later founder of the Berlin club WMF in Heidelberg . After graduating from high school in 1986, he studied computer science at the TU Berlin from 1987 . From 1990 he co-founded the Association for Interdisciplinary Arts Embassy . In 1992 he organized the Berlin hub of the Piazzetta Virtuale ( Van Gogh TV , documenta IX ). 1995–97 he built up the Nettime network and organized workshops and symposia in Frankfurt, Budapest, Vienna, Ljubljana, London and New York. In 1998 he was part of the Hybrid WorkSpace at documenta X in Kassel. In 2000 he became the founder and partner of Klubradio GmbH , under whose roof various experimental radios found their place, in the same year he also founded Mikro, an association for the maintenance of media cultures in Berlin. In 2001, as part of his activities, he founded Bootlab with artist and author Diana McCarty , a non-profit organization for the coordination of independent interdisciplinary cultural projects. 2003–2004 he initiated various radio projects such as Juniradio.net , Radioriff and Reboot.fm on UKW 88.4 MHz in Berlin, which has won several awards and is one of the most important cultural radio stations in Germany. In 2005, Schultz was a guest lecturer at the Merz Academy in Stuttgart. In 2007 he founded Backyardradio.de, in 2009 autumn radio on UKW 99.1 MHz in Berlin. In 2012 he and Artur Żmijewski developed Artwiki , a wiki as a digital exhibition space for contemporary art, as part of the seventh Berlin Biennale .

Writings and publications

• with Geert Lovink: No.02: Jugendjahre der Netzkritik, essays on Web 1.0 (1995–1997). Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2010, ISBN 978-90-816021-4-3 .
• with Geert Lovink (Ed.): Netzkritik: materials for the Internet debate. ID-Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-89408-060-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ heise.de
2. ↑ kunstradio.at
3. ↑ tip-berlin.de
4. ↑ blog.goethe.de
5. ↑ medienkunstnetz.de
6. ↑ medienkunstnetz.de
7. ↑ future-nonstop.org
8. ↑ bootlab.org
9. ↑ reboot.fm
10. ↑ arte.tv ( Memento of the original from November 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
11. ↑ herbstradio.org ( Memento of the original from November 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
12. ↑ artwiki.org
13. ↑ berlinbiennale.de ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

• Anne Lena Mösken: You are Berlin: Pit Schultz - the radio tamer. City life and kids in Berlin. In: TIP Berlin. October 25, 2010, accessed on February 12, 2019 : “A free cultural broadcaster beyond the mainstream on the ether: That's what Pit Schultz is working on with Reboot.FM. But the prospects remain vague. " 
• Pit Schultz. Articles in the Berlin Gazette. In: Berlin Gazette. Retrieved July 28, 2017 . 
• Interview with Pit Schultz. In: Future Now. 2012, accessed July 28, 2017 . 
• Article by Pit Schultz Telepolis ( Memento of 25 April 2011 at the Internet Archive )