Giaco Schiesser (born 1953)[1] is a Zurich-based theorist of cultural and media studies.
From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s he mainly worked as a publicist and a scientific editor: For ten years he was co-publisher of the scientific-political-cultural journal Widerspruch, for five years in charge of the department Science & Humanities of the weekly WOZ Die Wochenzeitung, both published in Zurich.
Since then the focus of his work has been centering on the far-reaching economical, political and cultural impact of the digitalisation of today's post-Fordist society and on the conception of the Eigensinn of media,[3][4][5] an attempt to analyze more precisely the «mediality of media» and its impact and effects.
[8] The purpose of the award (2019 was its first-time edition), awarded by the “Global Forum for Education & Learning (GFEL) is «to honor the relentless efforts and zeal of individuals, who have played a prominent role in changing the face of education at the global as well as the local level.”[9] In addition, since 2009 he holds a permanent visiting professorship for artistic and scientific Ph.D. at University of Art and Design Linz (Austria).
[10] From 2009 to its closing down in 2017 by ETH Zurich he also was a member of the board of interdisciplinary Cortona-Week,[11][12] organized by ETH Zurich and ZHdK, from 2013 to 2020 a member (from 2015 to 2020: vice-president) of the Executive Board of the international Society for Artistic Research (SAR).