Boris Groys is professor of Aesthetics and Media Theory at the ZKM/Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (Center for Art and Media Technology), Karsruhe. The author of many books, including The Total Art of Stalinism (1988), On the New: Essay on Cultural Economy (1992), and Logic of the Collection (1997), he is a frequent contributor to Parkett, Artforum, Art in America. He has also published widely on modernism and the avant-garde and such contemporary artists as Ilya Kabakov, Fischil and Weiss, Douglas Gordon, Rodney Graham, and Richard Prince.