Thomas Zummer

Thomas Zummer lectures on philosophy and the history of technology, and currently is an Assistant Professor in Critical Studies at Tyler School of Art and a regular Visiting Professor in the Transmedia Programme/post-graduate at the Hogeschool Sint Lukas,Brussels. Among his recent publications are “Projection and Dis/embodiment: Genealogies of the Virtual,” in Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art 1964-1977, Chrissie Iles (Whitney Museum), "What the Hell is That?" Induced Aberration in Cinematic Taxa, a digital book on cinema and the taxonomy of monsters, (Beehive Microtitles #1). He is currently completing a book on the early history of reference systems entitled Intercessionary Technologies: Archive/Database/Interface. He is also a practicing artist, and exhibits his drawings, sculptural and media works.