I am currently a Ph.D. candidate at NYU's German department studying mainly with Avital Ronell whose work is literature and philosophy-based and open to interdisciplinary and unorthodox approaches. My own interest in interdisciplinarity, in crossing borders, has had a fairly long history. After growing up in East Germany with a seemingly insurmountable wall around that I finally conquered I knew that limits were there to be put to the test. I attended universities in Berlin/Germany between 1992 and 2000 and worked in the fields of Comparative Literature, and Studies in Culture, Media and Technology. For more than four years I was a research assistant to Professor Friedrich Kittler, originally a literary scholar who established a very distinct German media theory. Professor Kittler also became the advisor for my Master's thesis wherein I explored interactions of science, technology, literature and art around 1900. I studied the avant-garde art movement of Vorticism, and how Ezra Pound, one of its main protagonists, derived the name for it from popularized scientific theories. Apart from theoretical transgressions I have also explored the more practical side of media and technology. I worked in radio, TV and Internet companies. When I received a scholarship from the German government for postgraduate studies in the U.S. I decided to combine as many of my interests as possible and explore something new by attending a unique media arts program at NYU with a very interdisciplinary focus (ITP) that I graduated from in 2002. I am interested in the conditions of the production of knowledge, on a theoretical as well as a very material level.