Peter Krieg - Biography

Biography

Peter Krieg initiated and co-founded the OEKOMEDIA Institute and Festival for Ecological Media, (Freiburg, 1982–2005) as well as the interActiva Festival for Interactive Media (Cologne/Babelsberg 1991-1995).

He temporarily headed the design team of the HTC digital film production center at Babelsberg Film Studios, and was executive producer for several exhihibion and theme park attraction films (Expo 2000, Space Center Bremen, Nuerburgring Attraction Center).

In the late 1980s, Krieg became interested in second-order cybernetics and radical constructivism and edited a book honouring the 80th birthday of Heinz von Foerster (Das Auge des Betrachters - The Eye of the Viewer).

After 1999 he promoted Pile Systems Inc, a software company developing a new "relationist" approach to data. Krieg, who called himself a "68-leftist-turned-libertarian", had two children and lived in Berlin.

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