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Back to the Future
Written by Egon Zippel
An ancient recipe: Collect/Recycle/Use frugally. Apply to cities and rural areas. These simple guidelines could resolve a lot of water issues in developed and developing countries where water is still an abundant resource. Regions with water scarcity have for years had their own fine-tuned procedures for water management, but it […]
Author Archive
Egon Zippel
1960
Born in Timisoara, Rumania
1964
Family moved to Germany
1981 – 83, 1986 - 88
University of Mannheim, Germany, communication design and advertising, diploma.
1984 – 85
Fulbright scholarship, Georgetown University, Washington D.C. and University of Texas, Austin.
1985
Traveling scholarship to Mexico from the Institute of International Education.
1985 – 86
New York, New York Institute of Technology, computer graphics
1986 – 91
Moves back to Germany, starts to work and show as conceptual artist.
1991 – 93
Moves to Milan, Italy.
1993 – 94
Postgraduate studies at Staedel Frankfurt Art Academy / Institute for New Media with Peter Weibel.
1996 – present
Lives and works in New York.
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The Downside of the Digital Tide
Written by Egon Zippel
According to the article “Africa’s Mobile Future,” the continent’s digital future is bright. New and innovative technologies will have the power to propel a large unemployed and undereducated demographic into accelerated growth. But within this new growth looms a tsunami of Africa’s own e-waste to exacerbate an already challenging issue: […]
