As a writer Michael has published books on filmmakers including Peter Tscherkassky, Gustav Deutsch, Maria Lassnig and Ruth Beckermann.
Notable publications include Film Curatorship: Archives, Museums and the Digital Marketplace (2008),[3] co-authored with David Francis, Alexander Horwath and Paolo Cherchi Usai.
He has been responsible for the production of several DVDs including the award-winning Entuziasm by Dziga Vertov (Edition Filmmuseum),[4] and has collaborated with the celebrated film composer Michael Nyman.
[5] He also conceptualised and co-managed a series of digital humanities projects with the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft, including Film.Stadt.Wien , Ephemeral Films - National Socialism in Austria and Visual History of the Holocaust.
While in Australia he served as a member of the advisory board of the Centre for Media History at Macquarie University (Sydney) and the Wantok Music Foundation (Melbourne).