Surname: Last
Forenames: Tobias Frederik
Date of Birth: March 25th 1980 in Heidelberg, Germany
Nationality: German
Address: Forster Str. 54, 10999 Berlin
Telephone: +49-(0)178-5474826
Email: flux [ätt] kopiloten [dott] com
Professional Fields
- planning and organisation of events
- video-animations, video-production, post-production, video-art, live-video
- screen-design, GUI-design
- cultural management / project management
- planning, design and development of websites
- Flash-animation and programming
- development of custom multimedia applications and installations
- software development in cinder / openFrameworks / max/msp / python
- teaching of IT related topics
- bartending
Artistic Research
- live cinema
- audiovisual dance performances
- video-animations, video-production, post-production, video-art, live-video
- creative coding in c++ / python
- node based graphical programming
- hardware controllers
- development of custom multimedia applications and installations
- photography
Professional Career
- 2013-now manager of kopiloten coworking space
- 2013-now development, tech support, freelancer at Skudi Optics & Eventdesign GmbH
- 2011-2013 coop culture & media office with Silke Müller as “kopiloten”
- 2010-2012 bartender at café & bar “Salon Schmück”
- 2006-now working as a freelancer
- 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-organiser of Scope Sessions
- since 2009 artistic and technical assistant of audiovisual events at .CHB
- since 2003 actively working as VJ
- since 2002 programming and researching Max/MSP/Jitter/NATO software
- since 1998 video arts enthusiast
- 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)
IT Skills
- common office software (MS Office, OpenOffice)
- operating systems (DR-DOS, Windows, MacOS 9, MacOS X, Debian Linux, Ubuntu Linux, FreeBSD, BeOS)
- programming- and script-languages (C, C++, Python, Java, HTML, PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, ActionScript 2, shell-script)
- graphic-design software (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Freehand, GIMP)
- digital-video-software (Premiere, Final Cut Pro, After Effects)
- realtime-video software (Resolume, VDMX, ESX, Resolume, Modul8, Arkaos)
- node-based realtime graphic programming environments (Max/MSP/Jitter, PureData, vvvv)
Other Skills
- Very good interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills.
- Good writing skills
- Team working and leading skills; ability to work with people with different backgrounds and manage cross-disciplinary teams.
- Management skills: able to work under pressure, multitask and to manage large collaboratory projects.
- Teaching: experienced with teaching small to medium large groups of students, supervising workshops.
