Mercedes Bunz is a Dr. phil. and lives and works in London
• Energetic, experienced and optimistic New Media Strategist for Journalism
• Visionary writer and speaker on new technology, creative industries & society
• Motivating managing editor experienced in print and online journalism
• Lively international conference speaker and lecturer
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Work Experience
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September 2009 Reporter for Technology and Media, The Guardian
March 2007 – August 2009 Editor-in-Chief Online Der Tagesspiegel, Holtzbrinck Verlag
Leading a team up to 20 editors. Developing new forms of interactive journalism. Supervising relaunch of website and fine-tuning. Integration and motivation of print editors. Representation of the brand. Defending good-humored online journalism. Consultation for hybrid-content, spreadability and future development.
May 2009 Guest Lecturer “Online Journalism”, University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany
February 2009 Guest Lecturer “Make Me Visible, Context-driven design process in Print and Online Journalism“, ZHDK, Zurich, Switzerland
March 2006 Editor-in-chief zitty, Das Hauptstadtmagazin, Holtzbrinck Verlag
zitty, the oldest and best-known Berlin city-guide magazine, published fortnightly. Led a team of 15 editors, developing new formats within the magazine. Wrote and commented urban life, pop and social issues. Relaunch of the website and data-base.
September 2005 Scholar Fulbright American Studies Institute, Washington, New York
“The Role of Media in American Society”
January 2004 Post Graduate Program “Transnational Media Events”, Justus-Liebig-University, Gießen, Germany
April 2003 Lectureship at the Bauhaus University Weimar, ”On authorship, repeatability, and the dangerous moment of the copy.”
July 1997-January 2001 Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief de:bug, Magazine for Electronic Culture
Conception of a monthly magazine about electronic music and digital culture. Co-led a team of 7 editors. Managed chaos successfully and with some humor. Representation of the brand.
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Education
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2001 PhD. “From Storage to Distribution. On the history of the Internet”
Faculty of Media Studies, Bauhaus University Weimar. Heinrich-Böll-Foundation Scholarship.
1991 Academic Studies of Philosophy and Art-History
Freie Universität Berlin
1991 A-level, Celtis-Gymnasium
Schweinfurt, Bavaria, Germany
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Published Work – Books
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Vom Speichern zum Verteilen. Die Geschichte des Internet. [From Storage to Distribution: The History of the Internet] Monographie. Berlin, Kadmos Verlag 2008. (At amazon.de)
La utopía de la copia. El pop como irritació
[The Utopia of the copy. Pop and Irritation. Essays] Ensayos. Buenos Aires, Interzona 2008
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Essays – On journalism
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“TV vs. Generation Internet” (G)
Der Tagesspiegel, 29. März 2009, Berlin, Germany
“Journalism Today? On the Fragmentation of the Media Landscape” (E)
4th Asia-Europe Editors’ Roundtable in Conjunction with the 7th ASEM Summit, 22-23 October 2008, Beijing, China
“About a new Poetic of curiosity or How the Web is changing journalism – and not only online” (G)
Konrad Scherfer: Webwissenschaft – Eine Einführung. Lit Verlag 2008, 170-180
“Social 2.0: Master, Servant, Friend, Foe- On Networks on the new design of friendship” (G)
de:bug – Magazin für elektronische Lebensaspekte, Ausgabe 120, März 2008, 53-55
“Digital Campaigning: Obama is taking politics into the digital future”
Tagesspiegel 29.10.2008 (G)
“Save the Internet! With a bit of help of Marx against the german angst of technology” (G)
de:bug – Magazin für elektronische Lebensaspekte, Ausgabe 115, September 2007
“Are we paranoid enough? On Digital surveillance” (G)
zitty – Das Haupstadtmagazin, Heft 2, Januar 2007, 13-14
“There is a new buzzword on the internet, web 2.0. this means that your customer starts to act. I am sorry” (G)
Wirtschaftsmagazin brand eins, Heft 04, April 2006, 96-102
“Walter Benjamin and the Haunting of the Digital Copy” (E)
Conference on Piracy and Intellectual Property: Intellectual Property II: Sociological Perspectives and Alternatives, Goethe-Institut Hongkong, March 2005
“Towards An Economical Correctness (The Digital Copy)” (E)
Casco, Multiplicity #1: Models of Authorship, Magazin for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht, October 2002
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Essays – Creative Industries
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“Manchester. Original. Modern. Peter Saville was once a Graphic designer, today he is Creative Director of a whole city” (G)
de:bug 122, Mai 2008, 14-16
“CopyPasteProfile: what happens to creativity in the digital age”
Inka Thunecke und Arvid Boellert (Hg.): Kultur und Wirtschaft: Eine lukrative Verbindung. Thalheim Verlag, Thalheim 2008,
184-195 (G)
“Teenage Fanclub? How youthfulness has turned from a promise into a threat” (E)
“The Youth of Today”, Catalogue Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 7. April-25. Juni 2006, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter Koenig,
179-183
“About Juergen Tellers Photography. Or on design, art and work and a new typology of power” (G)
Frauke Boggasch, Dominik Sittig (Hg.): Jahrbuch des Instituts für moderne Kunst, Nürnberg 2006, 312-331
“Be for it and not against it. On Tokio Hotel and the new symbols of popular cutlure” (G)
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 24. November 2005, Feuilleton
“Clashing genres. Visualisation and sound in the art of Carsten Nicolai” (G)
Texte zur Kunst, Heft 60, Dezember 2005, 186-188
“Remember: Mimesis is a Form of Creativity” (E)
World-Information, World Summit on the Information Society, 10-12 December 2003, 8
“On Webdesign. An interview with the graphic designers David Linderman/Fork Unstable Media and Jan Rikus Hillmann” (G)
Texte zur Kunst, Heft 36, Dezember 1999, 86-98
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Essays – Cultural & Media Studies
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“Elite for all! Managing counter culture in a time of informational abundance” (G)
Plinio Bachmann, Martin Heller: Agent Provocateur. Was uns ärgert und warum nicht. Zürich, Scheidegger & Spiess 2008, 182-187
“Liberated from what? Within Flexible Capitalism, Excessive Demands are the New Oppression” (E)
Katalog Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst Zürich: It’s Time for Action (There Is No Option), Zürich, Ringier 2007, 209-227
“Being an urban bum. The creative class in berlin has no money, but 1000 ideas” (G)
zitty – Das Hauptstadtmagazin, Heft 04, Februar 2006, 16-19
“The economy of the archive. Or dealing with the history of Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault” (G)
Lorenz Engell, Joseph Vogl, Bernhard Siegert (Hg.): Archiv für Mediengeschichte, Universitätsverlag Weimar 2006, 33-42
“Instable. What music and the digital have in common triggered by thought of Jean jacques rousseau” (G)
Siegfried Jost Schmidt, Christoph Jacke (Hg.), Kulturschutt, Frankfurt am Main, Transcript Verlag 2005, 271-280
“The Utopia of Copying” (G)
Florian Rötzer, Rudolf Maresch (Hg.): Renaissance der Utopie – Zukunftsfiguren des 21. Jahrhunderts, Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp Verlag 2004, 156-171
“On Economical Correctness. About copyright in an digital age” (G)
Gisela Fehrmann, Erika Linz, Eckhard Schumacher, Brigitte Weingart (Hg.), OriginalKopie – Praktiken des Sekundären, Köln, DuMont Verlag 2004, 304-309
“Human and technology with the french sociologist Bruno Latour” (G)
Ästhetik und Kommunikation, September 2002
“Extensions, Boundaries & Double Crossings. Shadowing Theory and Technology Constructing Subjects” (E)
Mediamatic – Magazine on Art and New Media, Amsterdam 2002
“Humans and machines. The media theory of Kraftwerk, Underground Resistance and Missy Elliott” (G)
Jochen Bonz (Hg.), Sound-Signaturen, Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp Verlag 2001, 272-290
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