Principal Investigator: Dr Florian Cramer

Key areas of expertise/ interest: code poetry; comparative studies in the literature and the arts, modernism, text theory, literature and computing.

Summary: In 2004, Florian Cramer started at the Piet Zwart Institute as a Media Design research fellow, wrote the essay Words Made Flesh, code, culture imagination and worked with students in workshops and tutorials. In summer 2006, he returned as the new course director of the Media Design M.A. programme. Prior to his research at Piet Zwart Institute, Dr Cramer was a junior lecturer in Comparative Literature at Freie Universität Berlin and published papers in the area of code poetry, comparative studies in the literature and the arts, modernism, text theory, literature and computing, collaborated on the http://www.runme.org/ Software Art repository and edited the Unstable Digest of code poetry.