... [thoughts & projects]



    "In a way, art is a theory about the way the world looks to human beings.
    It's abundantly obvious that one doesn't know the world around us in detail.
    What artists have accomplished is realizing that there's only a small amount
    of stuff that's important, and then seeing what it was." (Mitchell Feigenbaum)



A cordial welcome. I decided to welcome you with a quote from Mitchell Feigenbaum1) (who is a physicist - not an artist, well, maybe also, but not as a profession) because I think to effectively convey information we need to design, embody and contextualise the information.



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My own projects:

ます is a composition that explores the rhythmic potential of cellular automata which are fed by movement data of a non-seeing person that moves in an acoustic space.


Social Radar is an interactive multi-participant environment that sonifies personal distance of participants referring to distancing and interaction behaviour.


mi manca tanto - part II is a visual sound design project that I have done in winter 2005/2006 here at Graz. The pictures and movie clips are all taken with my quite aged digital camera, sound was recorded or synthesized.



Projects with partners:

Evolving Oblique is a project from Joanna's PhD research at the University of Cambridge, UK. We met at IAMAS, Japan and teamed up to realise this work. Evolving Oblique is an approach to interactive media-enhanced architecture and was presented at different exhibitions and conferences over the last years. In 2004 it was awarded as best piece in its category at the acm MultiMedia 2004, New York.


flash_flag/pink_noise flash_flag is a project from the Italian artist Philipp Messner. He asked me if I would like to do the sound for this film/video-project .... well, I thought that was a nice idea. :)





Photography:

A collection of photos : this is my official collection of photos - the main criterium was to put together an interesting, small (at that time my iDisk only had 100 MB) and diversified collection.
[it is flash, so it might take some time ....]


The Bilderbuch-series are small collections of pictures. This initially started when I put some pictures online for my family, friends and relatives during the time I was in Japan. I called that collection Bilderbuch JAPAN. I thought that was a nice idea so I decided to put small collections online.

    Bilderbuch ゆき : some winter shots - in the morning just before the sun :)

    Bilderbuch PARIS : some photos I took during my last stays at Paris.

    Bilderbuch MÜNCHEN : some impressions of the 'secret capital' of Germany :) (actually, this was a remark from the candidate of the conservative party for the mayor's office at Berlin - in the German capital during the election campaign he stated that Munich was the secret capital of Germany anyways. Quite funny. No need to mention that he never was elected ....)

    Bilderbuch AUSTRIA : some impressions of the last years.

    Bilderbuch Ruine Homburg : This one is taken with a mobile phone camera - the quality is not that great but the atmosphere is rather intriguing.





Projects I took part in:

GRAZ MOCKBA GRAZ a concert which took place at Graz and at Moscow. Audio and video were streamed between the two locations.


Klangdusche [sound shower] was part of an installation in public space in the spa "Bad zu Sonne" at Graz. Together with a few other sound designers and artists, we did this installation. Our contribution consisted of the sound shower and an acoustic atmosphere mirror that transmitted the sound from inside the spa to the pavement in front of the spa.


μPhonie was a little workshop in the spirit of Stockhausen's Mikrophonie or the works of Mesias Maiguashca. Done in the IEMCube with Pd live performance.





About me:
I am an international interaction designer, media designer and media artist. My approach to media is strictly multi-modal - movement, sound and visuals (or: sight, sound and motion - the title of a famous book by Herbert Zettl, SFSU). I studied and lived in different countries in Europe and in Japan and am always eager to bring these influences and inspirations into my projects to produce something new and unique.

contact information:
Please feel free to contact me if you have any comments or questions.
Seems like I am the responsible person for this website :)




1) as published by James Gleick, 1987, Chaos, Abacus, London, p. 186



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