bio

Professional Fields

• planning and organisation of events
• video-animation, video-production, post-production, video-art, live-video performance
• screen-design, GUI-design
• cultural management
• project management
• development of custom multimedia applications and installations
• software development in cinder / openFrameworks / max/msp / python
• teaching of IT related topics
• bartending

Artistic Research

• photography
• live cinema
• audiovisual dance performance
• video-animation, video-production, post-production, video-art, live-video
• creative coding
• node based graphical programming
• hardware controllers
• development of custom multimedia applications and installations

Professional Career

• since 2006 working as a freelance media artist, developer and consultant
• 2013 - 2015 manager of kopiloten coworking space
• 2011 - 2013 coop culture & media office with Silke Müller as “kopiloten”
• 2010 - 2012 bartender at café & bar “Salon Schmück”
• 2005 - 2012 founding member of the management board of VC VisualBerlin e.V.
• 2009 - 2010 Lessing Gymnasium Berlin supervision of a group of students who form a „student company“ specialized on IT support
• 2007 - 2008 freelancer at GP. Gemeinschaftspraxis für Gestaltung
• 2007 multimedia programming for DEON GbR
• 2006 - 2007 freelance Flash work for Ableton AG
• 2004 - 2006 Ableton AG, Berlin, web-administration, graphic-design, Flash animations
• 2005 freelance web development work for Educational Design GmbH
• 2005 lectures and workshops for students on VJing, JuKuFa Brandenburg
• 2005 Fachhochschule Brandenburg Max/Jitter workshop for students
• 2005 Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe Max/Jitter workshop for students
• 2003-2004 eedo GmbH, Potsdam, content-management, Flash animations
• 2003 Labor Limbach, Heidelberg, inventory & logistics management
• 2003 freelance web developer for ‘freedom2speak’ film project, Berlinale Film Fest.
• 2002-2003 garderobe23, Berlin, internship web-development, Max/MSP programming and live-video
• 2000-2001 Viviance GmbH, Potsdam, content-management, LaTeX scripting, graphic-design, Flash animations
• 2000 AV Media GmbH, Heidelberg, internship video-production, post-production, multimedia-design
• 1999-2000 geriatric hospital Bethanien, Heidelberg, social service as nurse in rehabilitation ward, temporary work in accounting department

Artistic Career

• since 2011 co-curator of the Scope Sessions
• since 2003 actively working as VJ / live video performer
• since 2002 programming and researching Max/MSP/Jitter/NATO software
• since 1998 video artist
• 2009 - 2014 technical consultant and assistant of audiovisual events at Collegium Hungaricum
• 2011 - 2012 assistant of the management of the video-arts association VisualBerlin e.V.
• 2005 – 2011 member of the management board of VisualBerlin e.V.
• 2010 head coordinator of the visualberlinFestival 2010
• 2010 - 2011 member of the interdisciplinary art collective Fax Nylon Opium Radikalisten
• 2010 member of the live cinema and arts collective übermutanty
• 2009 member of the audiovisual dance performance collective Instant Delay
• 2008 co-organiser of the µ:avit VJ festival
• 2006 co-organiser of the AVIT>C23 VJ festival
• 2005 co-founder of VisualBerlin e.V.
• 2005 - 2008 member of the VJ and Live Cinema collective =ff=

Education

• 2000-2009 studies of computer sciences with focus on digital media, Fachhochschule Brandenburg, Brandenburg an der Havel
• 1990-1999 private Gymnasium Englisches Institut Heidelberg, A-Levels (Abitur): 2,3
• 1996-1997 Northwest High School, Justin, TX, USA
• 1994-1996 Jugendkunstschule Heidelberg
• 1986-1990 Eichendorff Grundschule, Heidelberg

Language Skills

• German (native speaker)
• English (fluent)
• French (basic)