curriculum vitae for Hans-Christoph Steiner
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Hans-Christoph Steiner spends his time designing interactive software
with a focus on human perceptual capabilities, building networks with
free software, and composing music with computers. With an emphasis on
collaboration, he has worked in many forms, including responsive sound
environments, free wireless networks that help build community, musical
robots that listen, software environments that allow people to play with
math, and a jet-powered fish that you can ride. To further his
research, he teaches and works at various media art centers and
organizes open, collaborative hacklabs and barcamp conferences. He is
currently teaching courses in physical interaction design at Polytechnic
University's Integrated Digital Media Institute and NYU's Interactive
Telecommunications Program.
His solo work has been performed at Tonic New York, inside the Croton
Aqueduct, and inside the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel. Group projects that he
has collaborated on have been exhibited at Lille2004 European Cultural
Capitol Festival, Robodock, Wood Street Gallery, Joyce SOHO, and Scope
Art Fair. He has given talks at ITP/NYU, LocationOne, Tama Art
University, Geidai Tokyo National University, and dorkbot-nyc,
presenting a range of topics from art projects to music programming to
intellectual property. His work has been covered by the New York Times,
Wired News, New York Press. Steiner received his Masters from NYU's
Interactive Telecommunications Program.
He is currently working on developing full-fledged visual
programming platform and free, open-source media arts curricula and
teachers' guides.
education
1996
B.A., Bard College, Annandale, NY,
specializing in computer music.
publications
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Hans-Christoph Steiner. FLOSS+Art, chapter Copyright Is
For Copying. Openmute, 2008
Mark Hansen, Ben Rubin, Hans-Christoph Steiner, and Tyler
Walker. Words to look at, words to listen to: Designing a
proliphonic display for the lobby of the New York Times
Building In Proceedings of the 6th Linux Audio Conference, Cologne, Germany, 2008
Shawn Van Every and Hans-Christoph Steiner. Robert Whitman Local Report, chapter
How to Make Your Own Local Report, Experiments in Art and Technology and Lafayette College Williams Center Art Gallery, 2007.
Hans-Christoph Steiner. Supporting modular performance technique In Proceedings of the 2nd International Pd
Convention, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2007. [ pdf ]
Hans-Christoph Steiner and Cyrille Henry. Progress report on the Mapping Library for Pd In Proceedings of the 2nd International Pd
Convention, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2007. [ pdf ]
Hans-Christoph Steiner. Towards a catalog and software library of
mapping methods. In Proc. of the
Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME06),
Paris, France, 2006. [ pdf
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Hans-Christoph Steiner. [hid] toolkit: a unified framework for
instrument design. ACM Multimedia 2005,
Singapore. [ ACM]
Hans-Christoph Steiner. [hid] toolkit: a unified framework
for instrument design. In Proc. of the Conference on
New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME05), Vancouver,
BC, Canada, 2005. [ pdf
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Hans-Christoph Steiner. Building your own instrument with
Pd. In Proceedings of the 1st International Pd
Conference, Graz, Austria, 2004.[ pdf
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Hans-Christoph Steiner. StickMusic: Using haptic feedback
with a phase vocoder. In Proc. of the Conference on New
Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME04), Hamamatsu, Japan,
2004. [
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New Media
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playtherecords (blog) - music reviews, technology, history, and related topics
2005→present
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MediaArtsDeadlines (shared iCal calender) -
deadlines for grants, festivals, etc.
2004→present
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@||@ (blog) - rabble rousing, current events, research ideas, politics, geekery
2004→present
talks
2007-08-02
Enabling the Spirit of Play in Musical Instrument Building, SRI,
Menlo Park, CA
2005-05-28
[hid] toolkit at NIME 05, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
2004-07-13
Making Your Own Computer Music Instruments at SOBRO, New York
2004-06-09
Design Process at Geidai Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and
Music
2004-06-08
hAck++ at Tama Art University, Japan
2004-06-03
StickMusic Demos at NIME 04, Shizuoka University of Art and Culture, Japan
2002-02-06
Palm Pilot Performance at dorkbot-nyc
teaching
2008-06
New Interfaces for Musical Expression workshop, Hangar, Barcelona
2003-03-02
Pure Data Workshop at ITP/NYU, New York City
2002-10-01
UNIX Tutorial at ITP/NYU, New York City
Syllabii
grants/fellowships/residencies
- 2008-05→2008-06Residency at Hangar, Barcelona, Spain
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Worked software for game controllers, Arduino, and mapping data to synthesis and control of media.
- 2008-04Residency at STEIM, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Worked with Dan Overholt, Olaf Matthes, and the STEIM people on
using USB HID in the context of musical instruments.
- 2007-07Visiting Scholar at CCRMA/Stanford,
Palo Alto, California
- Worked on interactive software and aided the inclusion of Pd-extended to PlanetCCRMA
- 2006-05Residency at STEIM, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Worked with staff on developing software for musical instrument design.
- 2005-10Grant for Pd-extended development,
School of Art,
Media and Design, UWE, Bristol
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Grant to start the development of Pd-extended, a unified distro for
Pure Data.
- 2005-09Grant for Pd-extended development,
Music
Acoustics Group, KTH, Stockholm
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Grant to start the development of Pd-extended, a unified distro for
Pure Data.
- 2005-06New York University Travel Grant
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Grant to cover travel expenses to present my thesis at NIME 05 in
Vancouver, Canada.
- 2004-06New York University Travel Grant
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Grant to cover travel expenses to present at NIME 04 in
Hammamatsu, Japan.
- 2002→2004New York University Tisch Departmental Fellowship
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Two year, full-tuition fellowship to study at Tisch's Interactive
Telecommunications Program.
press
conference/event organizing
ongoing
instigator and main organizer for Arduino
Hacklab, a meeting for social hacking
2008-02
Paper Committee, NIME08, Genova, Italy
2007-10-21
co-organizer, BlenderCamp, Polytechnic University, New York City
2007-06
Paper and Demo Committees, and Installations Producer, NIME07, New York City
2006-02
Paper Committee, NIME06, Paris, France
2006-11-18
coordination for RootsCamp NYC, a one day conference on politics
and media
2006-11-17
Technical coordination for ReMUX, a one day media art exhibit
2006-10-19
Technical coordination for Hyperpolis, a two day conference on media
selected free software
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Arduino - free hardware platform to make custom electronics
widely accessible
2006→present
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• wrote standard firmware to control Arduino from the host computer
• contributing to the evolving design
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Pd (aka Pure Data) - graphical dataflow programming
for media
2002→present
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• lead interface designer on namespace support
•
HID and mapping libraries for instrument building
• Documentation and tutorial writing and organization.
• Created numerous objects covering various topics, bug fixes, enhancements.
• Mac OS X, Windows, and
Debian packaging.
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Neighbornode -
free wifi access points for building community
2005→2006
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• created wireless router firmware based on
ewrt
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Cecilia - computer music software
2000→2004
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• Ported to Mac OS X.
• Numerous bug fixes, minor code clean-up, and releases.
art groups
- at.or.at
2002→present
- Founding Member, Sound and Interaction Designer,
Programmer
- Improbable Orchestra
2002→present
- Technology Advisor
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Madagascar Institute
1999→present
- Fabricator, Mechanism Designer, Pyro, Machinist
- Ars
Subterranea, The Society for Creative Preservation
2002→2005
- Founding Member, Sound and Interaction Designer
- Amorphic Robot
Works
2001→2005
- Fabricator, Programmer, Interaction Designer, Machinist
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Dark
Passage
2000→2005
- Collaborator, Sound Designer
- LEMUR
2001
- Fabricator, Machinist
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ACME Corporation
1999
- Fabricator, Mechanism Designer, Pyro
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