Re-Touching McLuhan chair and curator Dieter Daniels is Professor of Art History and Media Theory at the Academy of Visual Arts (HGB) in Leipzig. In 1984, he co-founded the Videonale Bonn and has contributed to numerous projects, exhibitions, and symposia in the field of media art. He has extensively published on twentieth-century art, a.o. on Marcel Duchamp, Fluxus and media art incl. Duchamp und die anderen. Der Modellfall einer künstlerischen Wirkungsgeschichte in der Moderne, 1992; Media Art Interaction. The 1980s and '90s in Germany, 2000, Kunst als Sendung. Von der Telegrafie zum Internet, C. H. Beck Verlag, Munich 2003, Vom Readymade zum Cyberspace. Kunst / Medien Interferenzen, Hatje-Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2003). He served as  Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research. in Linz, Austria until 2009. He is co-editor of the net project mediaartnet.org.