Tim Pritlove
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tim Pritlove (born 1967-11-25 in Gehrden) is a German Event-Manager, Media-Artist and Discordianist. He lives and works in Berlin. Pritlove is a British citizen.
Pritlove studied computer science but never finished. From 1998 to 2005 he was the main organizer of the Chaos Communication Congress and the Chaos Communication Camps. Also, until 2006 he was in charge as managing director of the "Chaos Computer Club Veranstaltungs GmbH". He also impersonated a central role in the Chaos Computer Club, where he is settled as a member. In the 1990s he founded the MacHackers Initiative. A Mailinglist and a Wiki for the German Hacker-Community based about the Apple Macintosh.
As Discordianist Pritlove appeared under the pseudonym Theodor Prinz. With this name he blogged until March 2008 in commercial MobileMacs- Blogs of the mobile network operator Telefónica O2 Europe. Since the beginning of April 2008 he is blogging at MobileMacs by his civic name.
[edit] Media-art
At the beginning of the 1990's Pritlove belonged to the developers of the first interactive, telephone based communication platform Die Villa. He is coordinator and co-developer of the Project Blinkenlights. In the last years he was a scientific co-worker in the Institut für zeitbasierte Medien at the Berlin University of the Arts. In 1996 he founded the first T-Shirt-Label of the Hacker- Culture named interhemd modebewusstseinserweiterung das erste T-Shirt-Label der Hacker-Kultur.
[edit] Radio
Pritlove is one of the project leader of the Chaosradio. He coordinates their Web- and Wiki-Sites. Also he is produce of the spin-offs Chaosradio Express, Chaosradio Express International and Chaos TV, which Feed are also a member of the Chaosradio-Podcast-Network. Adittionaly he writes his own Weblog called The Lunatic Fringe.
[edit] External Links
- This article was initially translated from the Wikipedia article Tim Pritlove, specifically from this version.
