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Eric Kluitenberg (Eric Peter Kluitenberg, born 1965, the Netherlands) is a theorist, writer, educator, and organizer who is involved in critical development and research of the new methods and concepts of aesthetic, social, cultural and political engagement with technology and new media since the late 1980s. He organised, edited and co-organised a number of projects and intiatieves associated with new media (digital) culture. Kluitenberg is responsible for introduction of the concept of "imaginary media" and is involved in theoretical and practical


 * 1) Biography
 * 2) Projects
 * 3) Selected bibliography
 * 4) References
 * 5) External links


 * 1) Biography

Eric Kluitenberg was born on July 2, 1965, in Denekamp, the Netherlands. He is gradutated from the Univercity of Groningen where he studied Art History, Cultural Policy, Management, and Sociology of the Arts.

He worked as the head of the media and technology program of De Balie in Amsterdam (1999 - 2011). He taught theory of interactive media and technological culture for a variety of academic institutions, including the University of Amsterdam, the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences of Amsterdam, Academy Minerva Postgraduate Studies in Groningen, and he was a scientific staff member of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne.

Kluitenberg is known for his contribution to the development of new media (digital, electronic) arts and critical new media culture at the early stage through (co)organizing such events as ISEA -International Symposium of Electronic Arts (Groningen), Next 5 Minutes Festival of Tactical Media (1996-2004, Amsterdam, co-organizer), Interstanding.

He teaches media and cultural theory at the ArtScience Interfaculty in The Hague, and the Interactive / Media / Design program of the Royal Aacademy of Arts, The Hague.

2. Research and theories

Selected bibliography

Recent publications include The Book of Imaginary Media (2006), Delusive Spaces (2008) and the theme issues of Open, Journal for Art and the Public Domain, "Hybrid Space" (2006), and "(Im)Mobility" (2011), The legacies of Tactical Media (2011), Techno Ecologies (2012).

Next to an extensive series of festivals and public events he was project leader for the practice based research trajectory "The Living Archive" at De Balie (2004 - 2010). In 2013 he was a research fellow at the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. Currently he is Editor in Chief of the Tactical Media Files, an on-line documentation resource for Tactical Media, and is co-editing together with David Garcia a substantive anthology of Tactical Media to be published by MIT Press. *