Stefan Hechenberger

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Stefan Hechenberger
Born
Innsbruck, Austria
NationalityAustrian
Known forinteractive art, programming, open source, industrial design
Notable work
CUBIT (multi-touch),
Movementopen source

Stefan Hechenberger is an Austrian artist and programmer. His works include interactive software, computer vision projects and open-source hardware.[1]

Hechenberger has worked with Zach Lieberman in creating the OpenCV library for openFrameworks, an open source C++ library for creative coding and graphics. (openFrameworks website). In 2006, Hechenberger co-founded the New York City and Vienna based research and development collaborative, NORTD labs, which developed the open source system called CUBIT (multi-touch) in 2007 [2] and the more recent iteration TouchKit in 2008. .

From 2007 to 2008, Hechenberger was an honorary fellow at Eyebeam.[3][4] In 2011, under NORTD labs he was a fellow at Culture Lab UK.[5] During 2012, NORTD labs held residencies at Hyperwerk Institute for Postindustrial Design in Basel, Switzerland and Carnegie Mellon University STUDIO for Creative Inquiry for their most recent project .

Hechenberger holds a Vordiplom in Computer Science and Astronautics from the Technical University Munich Germany and an MFA from CADRE Laboratory for New Media, San Jose State University. He also holds a Master of Professional Studies from New York University.[6]

Selected works[]

  • Lasersaur
  • CUBIT
  • Touchkit
  • JTR
  • Asymmetric Love #2[7]

Awards and Fellowships[]

  • Artist-In-Residence MuseumqsQuartier Vienna 2013/2014[8]
  • Mozilla Open(art) Fellow 2013[9]
  • Carnegie Mellon University STUDIO for Creative Inquiry Resident 2012[10]
  • Hyperwerk Institute for Postindustrial Design Resident 2011/2012
  • CultureLab Fellow 2011[11]
  • Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, Advisory Council 2008 [12]

Exhibitions and Lectures[]

  • Museumsquartier, Vienna, 2013[13]
  • Makerfaire Rome, 2013[14]
  • Mediamatic, Amsterdam, 2014[15]
  • Stalkfest Mediamatic, Amsterdam, 2014[16]

References[]

  1. ^ Lewis, Jacquelyn (15 June 2007). "Creators Series Explores Intersection of Art, Technology". Artinfo. Retrieved 4 August 2009.
  2. ^ Gizmodo (2008-05-04), Build Your Own Multitouch Table With The Cubit, retrieved 2008-05-04
  3. ^ "Stefan Hechenberger | eyebeam.org". eyebeam.org. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
  4. ^ "Art meets the open web". The Mozilla Blog. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
  5. ^ Greene, Kate (2008-05-01), Open-Source, Multitouch Display, MIT Technology Review, retrieved 2008-05-03
  6. ^ http://stefanix.net/resume
  7. ^ Schäfer, Mirko Tobias (2013-07-04), Faceless and the Aesthetics of Surveillance, MuseumsQuartier Wien, retrieved 2013-12-12
  8. ^ FACELESS part I, Der Standard, 2013-06-05, retrieved 2013-12-12
  9. ^ Matt, Thompson (2012-12-05), Announcing the Mozilla Eyebeam Open(Art) Fellows, Mozilla, retrieved 2013-12-12
  10. ^ NORTD Labs at SFCI, STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, CMU, retrieved 2013-12-12
  11. ^ ISIS Residency Announcement, ISIS Arts, retrieved 2013-12-12
  12. ^ http://eyebeam.org/people/browse/all/2008/yearbook
  13. ^ FACELESS part I – Gesichtslosigkeit im MuseumsQuartier Wien, http://derstandard.at, retrieved 2014-01-30 {{citation}}: External link in |publisher= (help)
  14. ^ Lasersaur Talk at Makerfaire Rome, www.youtube.com, retrieved 2014-04-04
  15. ^ FACELESS Exhibition, mediamatic.net, retrieved 2014-01-30
  16. ^ Superheroes, Surveillance & Hacking, mediamatic.net, retrieved 2014-04-04

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