ArtSchoolVets! is a German platform for design, music, art and fashion. Besides the continuously updated News and Features the website offers blogs for designers and artists as well as an online store where designers can sell their fashion products.

The recently introduced sections “Faces & Spaces” and “Portfolio Show” contain interviews with people from the design and music industry and the “Portfolio Show” section displays portfolios of designers and studios.

A highly customised content management system including an online shop for fashion articles was created in PHP/MySQL.

Work
Web design in collaboration with Floor5, Programming in PHP, MySQL, JavaScript

ArtSchoolVets.com

A new display for OSRAM Seven Screens in Munich was created on behalf of ART+COM, Berlin. OSRAM Seven Screens is an installation of seven double-sided vertical screens in front of the OSRAM main office in Munich, next to the highway “Mittlerer Ring”, one of the most congested roads in Munich and Germany.

For the display Reactive Sparks, the traffic on the street is tracked in real-time; each vehicle creates a spark which moves across the screens. The Waves in the lower part of the display represent the amount of traffic in the past few minutes. More traffic results in higher waves with faster movement. The installation conveys the idea of energy and movement translated it into a visual representation. The warm colours create a warm spot in the gray winter landscape. The display will run until April 2008.

Work
Idea, concept, design, Java and OpenGL programming

Technology

• 7 vertical screens with more than 750,000 RGB high-capacity LEDs
• tracking computer with firewire camera
• graphics computer for the real time rendering of the display

This experiment starts with a static looking square. As you approach it with the mouse cursor, its flexibility is revealed. Several parameters that affect the behaviour can be adjusted.

Work
Idea, Coding in Flash 8 Pro, Actionscript 2.0

Interactive application

This is an typographical experiment on direct text wrapping. The text always maintains the shape of a block whereas the line breaks ignore single words and letters.

Work
Idea, Coding in Flash 8 Pro, Actionscript 2.0

Interactive application

The Norwich Textiles website documents and the rich textile culture of the City of Norwich in the East of England.
The project was commissioned by Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service and the Norfolk School of Art and Design. It was created in collaboration with Gero Grundmann from studiobec, who also executed the Corporate Design for Norwich Textiles.

The site offers comprehensive historical content, visitor information, interactive Textile Trails and a large image database of textile pattern books, shawls, etc, which is currently being expanded.

The site is based on an individually written content management system, based on PHP/MYSQL. It includes editing of each page, user administration as well as an image and file database. The interative sections were created in a combination of Flash and AJAX.

Work
Concept, web design, Programming in PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash

Norwich Textiles website

In collabration with Andre Stubbe a new generative animation for the 100 m² Vattenfall media facade in Chausseestr. 23, Berlin-Mitte, was created. The piece was developed on behalf of ART+COM.

Small glowing particles are moving in the field of big, slowly gliding spheres. The accelerated objects emit light when they hit big masses of matter. A visualized dream of energy.

The animation was generated by delegated behavior systems that are part of a selfmade simulation package. The rendering software was written in Java. The rendering time took approximately 8 hours for 3000 movie frames of 7939 x 4340 pixels resolution.

The opening took place during the Lange Nacht der Museen on 27 August 2005. The piece was screened for several months in turn with screenings by Marius Watz and Lia. The screening was repeated from March until August 2006.

Work
Idea, concept, design, Java programming, rendering

Technology

• 18 back-projections on Priva-Lite® screens
• projectors with built-in mpeg2-video memory

Three concepts for the generative display on a bar counter surface were developed in collaboration with Nadine Thieme.

Attraction
A bar is a meeting point. People meet, get closer and build personal relationships. The intensity of a contact is visualized by dynamic shapes surrounding the glasses on the bar.

Spiegelwelten
Real mirror images of people are modified in generative manner. People and their movements are shifted in space and time.

Strich & Faden
A black & white texture which reminds you of manually produced tablecloths, reacts to external impulses like movements or touch.

Work
Idea, concept, sketches in Flash and Processing, video simulations

Assignment
Pressure project: Bar! Design a dynamic surface for a bar counter or a bar table.

This generative swarm of mouse cursors was a result of chance during coding. Each cursor has its own target. While it keeps trying to reach it, it overshoots the target a few times befor it finally gets it.

For some time this animation was the start page of this website.

Work
Idea, Coding in Flash 6, Actionscript 1.0

Interactive application

The flash website for the music artist Terranova was designed in collaboration with Jakob Schillinger and Floor5.

The site has an unusual concept. Three popup windows are opened simulatinuously in the layout of the Terranova logo. The user navigates from the top to the bottom. Content like news, photos, tracklists, etc. will be displayed in the lower window. Music samples and videos can be played with the integrated media player.

The site is fully based on a content management system, developed by Floor5.

Work
Concept, web design, Flash programming

Brief
Rich content website for the music artist Terranova

Terranova website

Outerspace is a reactive robotic creature with animal-like behaviour. It was developed in collaboration with Andre Stubbe. Outerspace's fundamental motivation for any behaviour is based on curiosity, the desire to explore the surrounding space looking for contact. Touch it, play with it and watch its behaviour.

The project is at the edge of art and design involving various aspects of industrial design, physical computing & artificial intelligence. It was developed on the brief “Lustobjekt”, object of pleasure & desire, in the Digital Media Class at the Berlin University of the Arts.

Awards

Outerspace received an Honorary Mention Interactive Art at the Prix Ars Electronica 2006 and is the winner of the Europrix Top Talent Award 2006.

Work
Idea, concept, design, prototyping, building, Java software development, BX-24 microcontroller programming, video editing, web design

Assignment
The given task was to create a “Lustobjekt”, a reactive physical object by means of microcontrollers and sensors.

Selected Exhibitions

– 2007 WIRED Nextfest, Los Angeles
– 2007 Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria
– 2006 STRP, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
– 2005 Artbots, Dublin, Ireland
– 2005 Designmai, Berlin, Germany

Project website