Tim Pritlove

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Pritlove at Re: publica 2011

Tim Francis [George] Pritlove (born November 25, 1967 in Gehrden ) is a German-British event manager, podcaster and media artist . He lives and works in Berlin .

Life

Pritlove with the Golden Nica of the Prix ​​Ars Electronica 2010 for the Chaos Computer Club

Pritlove studied computer science , but dropped out. From 1998 to 2005 he was the main organizer of the Chaos Communication Congress and the Chaos Communication Camp , and until 2006 he was also the managing director of Chaos Computer Club Veranstaltungs GmbH. He is a member of the Chaos Computer Club and played a central role in it. On September 4, 2010, Tim Pritlove accepted the Golden Nica on behalf of the Chaos Computer Club as part of the Ars Electronica Festival for Art , Technology and Society . In the 1990s he founded the MacHackers initiative , a mailing list and a wiki for the German-speaking hacker community around the Apple Macintosh .

As a Discordian , Pritlove appears under the stage name Theodor Prince the Brave (Guardian of the Flame of the Heart, House of the Apostles of Eris). Pritlove also blogged under this name on the Spreeblick MobileMacs blog until the end of March 2008 , since then under his real name.

Tim Pritlove has two children. He has British citizenship and, due to Brexit, also applied for German citizenship , which was granted to him on October 17, 2018.

Media art

In the early 1990s, Pritlove was one of the developers of the first telephone-based, interactive communication platform Villa . He was the coordinator and co-developer of the Blinkenlights project . From 2000 to 2006 he worked as an artistic and scientific assistant at the Institute for Time-Based Media at the Berlin University of the Arts . In 1996 he founded the first t-shirt label of the hacker culture with interhemd fashion consciousness expansion .

Podcast and radio

Lecture by Tim Pritlove at re: publica 2013: "Radio Universal"

Pritlove was one of the project managers of Chaos Radio of the Chaos Computer Club and coordinated its web and wiki pages with the associated podcast feeds.

Under the company name Meta Ebene Personal Media , Tim Pritlove supervises, moderates and produces the following podcasts:

  • Own projects
    • CRE on the subject of technology, society and culture, with changing guests (since November 2005, until mid-2011 called Chaosradio Express)
    • Freak Show (called mobileMacs until July 2013) on the subject of Apple and computers, with Max Winde (until December 2012), Denis Ahrens, John-Paul Bader alias "hukl", Ruotger Deecke alias "Roddi", Clemens Schrimpe (since April 2008) and Katja Dittrich alias "Letty" (since April 2016)
    • Not Safe For Work (short: NSFW) Self-designation: The international entertainment gala , together with Holger Klein (since June 2009)
    • The speaker on the topic of podcasting (since February 2011)
    • The Lunatic Fringe (in Pritlove's private weblog podcasts have also been published irregularly since January 2006)
    • Our little world (short: VHF) since January 2019
  • Collaborations
    • Federal radio on the subject of German politics, together with Philip Banse (three pilot episodes and a special broadcast in September 2009, two further episodes in March and April 2010)
    • Newz of the World together with Mark Fonseca Rendeiro, known under the pseudonym Bicyclemark (since January 2012)
    • Logbook: Network policy on the subject of network policy and data protection, together with Linus Neumann (since October 2011)
  • Commissioned productions
    • Space-time on the subject of space travel, by ESA and DLR (since November 2010 until the end of 2013; revived since 2015 with the support of the Zeiss Planetarium in Berlin.)
    • 01 podcast for CeBIT together with Max Winde (limited to four episodes in spring 2009; new episodes between January and March 2011)
    • Colophon on book publications from O'Reilly Verlag, by O'Reilly Germany (June to August 2010, new episodes since May 2011)
    • dieGesellschafter.de from Aktion Mensch (December 2008 to December 2009)
    • Greenpeace PolitCast (May and June 2010)
    • Focus on Europe from the Heinrich Böll Foundation (since April 2014)
    • Inquisitive spirit from the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft (since October 2014)

programming

Pritlove developed the DISC MON 1541 program for the C64 computer, which was named "Program of the Month" by Input 64 magazine (issue 08/1985).

literature

  • Falk Lüke: The advocate. In: Welt Online. May 1, 2008, archived from the original on March 2, 2010 ; accessed on June 1, 2014 (short portrait of Pritlove in the series “Netzköpfe” published by Falk Lüke).
  • Anand Sankar: Across two ends. In: The Hindu . November 29, 2006, accessed November 13, 2009 (article on Tim Pritlove).

Web links

Commons : Tim Pritlove  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Freak Show episode FS235 from 3:26. meta level, accessed May 11, 2019 .
  2. Consciousness of mission, episode 7, at 2:57
  3. Chaosradio Express 62 at 6:00
  4. ^ Ars Electronica Gala 2010
  5. Chaosradio Express 161 at the beginning
  6. Chaos Radio 23 Chaos, Discord and Confusion
  7. The Lunatic Fringe, Open Letter, November 7, 2007
  8. ^ Johnny Haeusler : Imprint of MobileMacs . MobileMacs. August 11, 2006. Archived from the original on May 28, 2009. Retrieved on February 15, 2012.
  9. Tim Pritlove: Something new in the east . MobileMacs. March 30, 2008. Archived from the original on June 9, 2009. Retrieved on February 15, 2012.
  10. Birth of Merlin . Tim Pritlove. July 15, 2014. Retrieved July 16, 2014.
  11. Birth of Kira . Tim Pritlove. July 15, 2014. Retrieved July 16, 2014.
  12. Chaos Radio 117 at 2:51:50
  13. ^ Post on Twitter from June 24, 2016
  14. Commentary on Logbook Netzpolitik 272
  15. Claudia Wahjudi: T-shirts with a power supply . Berliner Zeitung of October 5, 1999, p. 16.
  16. ^ Tim Pritlove: Meta level Personal Media. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 29, 2010 ; Retrieved February 6, 2011 .
  17. ukw.fm
  18. Tim Pritlove: The Future of Spacetime. Retrieved June 16, 2014 .
  19. https://tim.pritlove.org/2003/06/17/input-64-archives/