About

Andreas Hirsch, born in 1961 in Vienna, Austria, lives and works there as a curator, consultant and cultural manager. He is an expert in conceiving and engineering cultural systems. 1995 creation of the first Internet café in Austria as part of the „Global Village“-event. 2003 development of the „Digital Communities“-category and 2004-2007 juror for Prix Ars Electronica. 2005 concept and moderation of the event „Cultural Memory and Diversity“ as part of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS II) in Tunis. 2006 curatorial work for the discourse-project „Europe in 50 year‘s time“. Since 2009 curator of KUNST HAUS WIEN – current exhibition “Tina Modotti – Photographer and Revolutionary”. 2010 curator of “Designing the Creative Societies of the Future” in Graz and of the conference “Open Source Life” at Ars Electronica Festival in Linz.

For more than two decades his work for leading cultural organizations in the arts, theatre, music, film, literature and the media includes conceptualizing and curating as well as developing and managing projects. He is interested in the cultural implications of technology and globalization and their effects on cultural memory and diversity, as well as in the creation of common public goods and the development of sustainable solutions for a more just and peaceful world.

Different thoughts have a different pace. For the quick glances follow Andreas on Twitter – http://twitter.com/andreashirsch

The slower and more occasional writing will appear on this blog and the even slower in print. Andreas currently uses these social platforms, but will befriend only people he actually knows:

LinkedIn – http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreashirsch
Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/andreas.hirsch1