LUCAS NIJS

Sint Lucas University College of Art and Design

May 28th – May 30th: workshop
workshop NODEBox – sound and image

Lucas Nijs has been a freelance graphic designer since 1981. He was employed at Apple Computer Europe headquarters in Paris from 1989-1994. He has been teaching new media, graphic design and experimental typography at the Sint Lucas University College of Art and Design (Antwerp, BE), the Plantin Genootschap (BE, until 2005) and the Lahti Institute of Design (FI) since 1983.

In 2004, he founded the Experimental Media Research Group. This group has developed NodeBox. He has coordinated research funded by the Institute for the Promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders.

For a brief overview of workshops taught by Lucas, see the workshops section on the EMRG website.

Jan Kubasiewicz is Professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston and Head of Dynamic Media Institute—the graduate program in communication design wherein students from diverse backgrounds pursue a unique thesis vision through a rigorous practice of research, prototyping, and writing [dynamicmediainstitute.org]. He has served as visiting lecturer and critic at numerous universities in the USA, Australia, China, Japan, Korea, Italy and Poland. He has organized exhibitions, workshops, seminars and conferences on the topic of communication, design and media.

BRIAN LUCID

Massachusetts College of Art and Design

June 1st: lecture

Mapping the Structure(s) of Music: Visualizing Content and Context

Brian Lucid is a designer, educator, speaker and consultant whose personal and professional work ranges from traditional communications in static and temporal media to generative design and physically interactive artifacts and experiences. He holds the rank of Professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design where he serves as one of the faculty members within the Dynamic Media Institute.

MARCIN WICHROWSKI

Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology

May 28th – May 29th: workshop

Augmented Reality and Unity 3D

RALF DRINGENBERG

z zg –Zentrum Zeitbasierte Gestaltung

HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd, University of Design

May 29th – May 30th: workshop

Processing Program in visualization – basic exercises

Ralf Dringenberg studied Visual Communication at the HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd, University of Design between 1984 and 1989. Since that time he has been working mainly on interactive and dynamic media for companies like AEG Lichttechnik, Alcatel, Degussa, LouisLondon, Ehapa Verlag, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Rexroth Bosch Group, Volksbank and many others, sometimes in cooperation with agencies like LöffelWendelstein, Herzog, 21-Torr, Henssler & Schultheiss and others. In 1996 he co-founded and headed the company Streamdesign GmbH, which was dedicated to develop solutions for visual communication systems based on internet technologies. In 2001 he founded the company Visication for the development of methods and systems for real-time visualization of audio events, and holds several patents.

From 1999 until 2003, he was a part-time lecturer for Design Foundations and Interactive Design at the HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd and the Academy of Communication Stuttgart. From 2003 until 2007, he was a Professor for Design Foundations in Media Design at the University of Applied Sciences Mainz, heading the Department for Media-Design from 2004 and co-heading the University’s Institute of Media Design from 2005 onwards.

Since 2007, as an appointed Professor for the Foundations of Two-Dimensional Design at the HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd, University of Design, his research has been focusing on visualization in the dynamic systems of unstable media. Since 2008, he is heading the Department of Communication Design. He has been a referee in several accreditation commissions from 2003 onwards.

With Prof. Anja Stöffler of the University of Applied Sciences Mainz, he founded the z zg –Zentrum Zeitbasierte Gestaltung (Centre for Time Based Design) in 2010. Since 2007, he has been focusing on the conception and realization of the exhibition „Moving Types – Lettern in Bewegung“ www.moving-types.com, together with Anja Stöffler and Harald Pulch, and in cooperation with Dr. Annette Ludwig of the Gutenberg-Museum Mainz.

JACEK ROKOSZ

Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology

Polish Film School

June 1st: lecture

Art of the Title Sequences

Born in 1977. Graduate from Polish Film School in Łódź. He is director of the animation films. He has made special effects for „Peter and the Wolf” (Oscar 2006). He is also a teacher in Polish Film School and in Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology

ELENI MARTINI

Technological Educational Institute of Athens – TEI Athens

May 26th – May 28th: workshop

lecture Multimedia project

Conversation between North and South

Hartmut Bohnacker studied Visual Communication at the HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd,

University of Design between 1998 and 2002. After his studies, he worked as an independent designer for Neustart Corporate Media Lab in Munich, Intuity Media Lab in Stuttgart, Projekttriangle in Stuttgart and others. With those he worked on all kinds of interactive project for companies like Siemens AG, Daimler AG, Porsche AG, Robert Bosch GmbH, E.ON AG, EnBW AG, Fraunhofer Institute – Media Arts and Research Studies, Carl Zeiss AG and many more.

Since 2002 he also worked as a lecturer for interactive media at the HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd and also for a short time in the interface design department at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. Since 2007 he is Professor at the HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd and since 2012 head of the interaction design department.

Besides his general interest in the field of interactive media, Hartmut Bohnacker is

particularly interested in mathematics and programming, which led to the publication of the book “Generative Design” that he wrote 2009 with Benedikt Groß, Julia Laub und Claudius Lazzeroni. This book is now translated and published in german, english and french.

Paweł Janicki (1974) is an independent media artist, interactive director and producer working in the field of media art, microsound aesthetics and algorithmic composition, is a creator of audiovisual interactive systems, installations and performances. He creates and continuously develops software tools and interfaces. Special place in his activity takes developing software according to his own projects – and broadly – creating his own media either sabotaging already existing solutions.

Among his realizations there are time-line based and interactive soundtracks commissioned for radio, television, interactive media, visual works (like a fractal for

dimensional animation and and a number of title sequences and motion graphics); interactive works that are uneasy to classify, consisting of improvised sound, live programming, communication protocols, hacking. Janicki's musical projects have been presented in several publications showing the achievements of European experimental and electro-acoustic music scene, in addition he has worked in cooperation with many artists, as well as the IT industry and educational institutions, including the media faculties of the leading Polish art schools, like the Intermedia Faculty of The Art Academy in Poznań (Poland).

Janicki is associated with the WRO Center for Media Art (http://wrocenter.pl), where he currently directs the WRO Laboratory. His activities there are focused primarily on web applications, audio and sensory systems. Among the projects developed and realized at the WRO Laboratory under his direction, it is worth to mention the Interactive Playground exhibition, which was awarded by Poland's biggest daily paper Gazeta Wyborcza. He was also co-founder and longtime member of the well-known, collective Gameboyzz Orchestra Project exploring lo-fi aesthetic.

His musical net-performance Ping Melody was awarded the netarts.org grand prize by the Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts in Tokyo, and was nominated for an award at the Viper International Film, Video and New Media Festival in Basel.. These and other projects by Paweł Janicki were presented at many prestigious festivals and events devoted to contemporary art, including the Ars Electronica, the Transmediale, the Centre Pompidou and the International Media Art Biennale WRO in Wrocław.

The Society of Algorithm lists his net performances among the events crucial to the development of this genre of art.

more on artist’s webpage

http://paweljanicki.jp

Born 1968 in Vienna, Austria.  First piano lessons at an age of four; preparatory courses since 1973 at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna; finishing 1992 with diplomas for piano composition, orchestral and chorus conducting, and singers’ coaching.

Engagements at various theatres in Austria and Germany as a singers’ coach and conductor; almost ten years head of the music department of the municipal theatre in Koblenz, Germany.

Active software development since around 1992; major projects are the CJK package for LaTeX (adding support for various Asian scripts), ttfautohint (an auto-hinter for TrueType fonts), Germa Hyphenation patterns (used e.g. in OpenOffice), also being the

maintainer of FreeType (a font rasterizer) and GNU troff (a text formatting engine).

Today working as a software engineer and teacher for opera repertoire in Vienna.

Professor Ausra LISAUSKIENE is a calligrapher and a professional graphic designer. She graduated from Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts and at present is working as a Head of Graphic Design Department for same school. She is:

- a member of Lithuanian Graphic Designer Association LGDA (LGDA belongs for ICOGRADA) (since 2000);

- a member of Lithuanian society of Designers (since 1986);

- a member of Atypi (since 2008), country delegate of Lithuania.

She involve in a search for her own personal writing style, mainly using non-traditional tools and techniques, use calligraphy elements in graphic design and on the contrary, is interested in Type design and new media. She also takes part in calligraphy exhibitions, graphic design events in Lithuania and abroad, won some awards in Lithuania. As a professor she has had 15 Experimental workshops in different European Design Schools, has participated as a speaker and an exhibitor in some International Conferences on Typography and Design, from 2005 she is organizing international exhibitions on Lettering Art as well as students works exhibitions.

STEVE PILLE

Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp

June 1st: lecture
The "classic"– art education as a solid background for experimentations in motion media

After he’s master-studies in graphic design (1996) at Karel de Grote Hogeschool in Antwerp Steve Pille has been continually experimenting with motion graphics and worked for several design agencies.

He was teaching motion graphics at the communications department of Design Academy Eindhoven from 2000 until 2008. Since 2008 he teaches at the graphic design department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. His work meanly consist of motivating and coaching young creativity and experimentation in the field of motion media.

ADAM COOKE

North Wales School of Art & Design

May 31st: lecture
Design Eduction & the workshop model.

Lo-fi touch technology prototypes in the field.

Adam Cooke was born in 1973 and lives in Liverpool, United Kingdom

Studying Fine Art at UCA, University for the Creative Arts. Completing his Masters in Interactive Multimedia Arts at John Moores University, Liverpool. He is currently Senior Lecturer in Design Communication at North Wales School of Art & Design. His research explores open technologies in a community context.