sentences:  In the same year he was appointed to the chair for Theory and History of Cultural Techniques at the department for Media Studies at the Bauhaus University Weimar.Together with Friedrich Kittler, Norbert Bolz, and Wolfgang Coy he is regarded as a pioneer of German media theory.Since 2008 Siegert is one the directors (together with Lorenz Engell) of the International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy (IKKM) in Weimar.