Trebor Scholz

Bio

Trebor Scholz teaches in the Department of Culture and Media Studies at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts in New York City. He graduated from the Art Academy in Dresden (Germany), University College London (UK), The Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, the  Hochschule für Kunst und Gestaltung in Zürich (Switzerland) and The University of Plymouth (UK).

Over the last two years, Scholz' work was comprised of writing, teaching, and conference organization. Dr. Trebor Scholz' research interests focus on social media, especially in education, art, and media activism outside the United States and Europe. His artwork was shown at several Biennials and he has contributed numerous book chapters and articles in the area of Internet Studies. Scholz presented at many dozen conferences worldwide. In 2004, he founded the Institute for Distributed Creativity (iDC). Its mailing list, which he moderates, is a leading discussion forum in network culture.

Autonomedia published The Art of Free Cooperation of which he is the co-editor in 2007. Scholz convened several major conferences including Kosova: Carnival in the Eye of the Storm, Free Cooperation (with G. Lovink), Share Widely, and Situated Technologies (with M. Shepard and O. Khan) and The Internet as Playground and Factory (2009). He is currently working on a monograph and an anthology about digital labor.

Abstract

Institutionalized Free Labor and the End of Digital Sharecropping