Volker Grassmuck
Grassmuck started his academic career in 1987 with contributions to a research project and also graduated his study and started studying Japanese at the FU Berlin as well.
From 1989 he did research at the Socio-technological Research Department of Tokyo University. From 1991 he worked as a video-editor for ABC News. 1992 found him as a newscaster at Radio Japan, NHK and worked as a freelancer for InterCommunication Magazine, NTT Shuppansha. At the university he researched networks with Dr. Kubota Akihiro.
Grassmuck returned to Berlin in 1995, starting, together with others, “mikro e. V.” in 1998, a project for connecting Berlin’s media cultures.
He earned a doctorate at the FU Berlin on Japanese media history with the topic “Closed Society. Media and discursive aspects of Japan’s ‘three openings’”. In 2000/2001 he became a replacement professor for media art at the Universität Graphik und Buchkunst in Leipzig.
