curriculum vitae for Hans-Christoph Steiner

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Hans-Christoph Steiner spends his time making private communications software usable by everyone, 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 free software for mobile and embedded devices, responsive sound environments, free wireless networks that help build community, musical robots that listen, programming environments 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 building encrypted, anonymous communications devices as part of the Guardian Project as well as teaching courses in interaction design and media programming NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program and workshops around the world.

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 the Guggenheim New York, SFMOMA, Cartier Foundation, Lille2004 European Cultural Capitol Festival, Robodock, Wood Street Gallery, and strip malls around the New York City area. He has given talks at SRI, Eyebeam, Hangar/Barcelona, LocationOne, Zurich University of the Arts, and Geidai Tokyo National University, presenting a range of topics from art projects to music programming to intellectual property. His work has been covered by the BBC, New York Times, Wired News, Popular Science. 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

2004 M.P.S., New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program
1996 B.A., Bard College, Annandale, NY, specializing in computer music.
1995 Algorithmic Composition Workshops at Stanford´s CCRMA

publications

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Hans-Christoph Steiner. Let's Make Libraries! Forging a common path through the glorious forkiness of Pd. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Pd Convention, São Paulo, Brazil, 2009. [ pdf ]

Hans-Christoph Steiner. FLOSS+Art, chapter Copyright Is For Copying. Openmute, 2008 [ pdf ]

Solitude score included in Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips. Graphic Design: The New Basics, Princeton Architectural Press, 2008

Edgar Berdahl, Hans-Christoph Steiner and Collin Oldham. A Practical Hardware and Algorithms for Creating Haptic Musical Instruments. In Proc. of the Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME08), Genova, Italy, 2008. [ pdf ]

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, David Merrill and Olaf Matthes. A Unified Toolkit for Accessing Human Interface Devices in Pure Data and Max/MSP. In Proc. of the Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME07), New York City, 2007. [ pdf ]

Hans-Christoph Steiner. bang | pure data, chapter Building your own instrument with Pd, Wolke Verlag, 2006. [ pdf | bib | Bücher zur Musik | amazon.de]

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 | bib | ACM ]

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 | bib | citeseer ]

Hans-Christoph Steiner. Building your own instrument with Pd. In Proceedings of the 1st International Pd Conference, Graz, Austria, 2004.[ pdf | html | bib ]

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. [ bib | citeseer | ACM ]

New Media

annoying technical details (blog) - rants on fixing technical problems 2007→present
@||@ (blog) - rabble rousing, current events, research ideas, politics, geekery 2004→present
MediaArtsDeadlines (shared iCal calender) - deadlines for grants, festivals, etc. 2004→present
playtherecords (blog) - music reviews, technology, history, and related topics 2005→2009

talks

2010-11-06 Making Music with Pure Data, at SIUIS, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
2010-10-18 Sensors and Interaction, ACADIA 2010 conference, Cooper Union
2010-10-03 Enabling Play in Musical Instrument Building, EarZoom Festival, IRZU, Ljubljana
2010-08-01 opening talk for DebConf 2010 NYC, the international Debian developers' conference (with Gabriella Coleman)
2010-01-30 Solitude, at Iannis Xenakis Symposium, BxMC/NYU Poly, Brooklyn
2009-03-19 Enabling Play in Musical Instrument Building, CultureLab, Newcastle University
2009-02-04 reware at Dorkbot New York
2008-10-24 Performing Machines, Eyebeam, New York City
2008-09-22 Enabling the Spirit of Play in Building Performative Interfaces, AVLAB, Medialab Prado
2008-06-04 labortalk at Zürcher Hochschule der Künste
2008-05-20 Instrument Building at Hangar, Barcelona
2007-08-02 Enabling the Spirit of Play in Musical Instrument Building, SRI, Menlo Park, CA
2007-05-06 LED Case Study (p33), Lightfair International, with W. Smith, B. Stacy, and S. Fitzgerald
2006-10-05 Guest speaker to Video for New Media class at ITP/NYU, with G.H. Hovagimyam
2006-09-03 Instrument Building and Mapping at Electrolobby/Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
2006-09-01 Overview of Works at Electrolobby/Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
2006-04-27 share at ¿Interactivos?, Media Lab Madrid
2006-04-22 Read/Write Tools at ¿Interactivos?, Media Lab Madrid
2006-04-21 Developing Interaction with Sound at Dorkbot Madrid
2005-06-22 Pure Data: Open Source Counterpart to Max at Location One, New York City
2005-05-28 [hid] toolkit at NIME 05, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
2004-09-27 Invited Presenter for Pd~convention, at IEM, Graz, Austria
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
2004-05-17 Old Projects New Places at Independence High School in New York
2004-05-04 Jihui Salon at the Parsons Design Lab (with Amorphic Robot Works)
2004-04-09 Intellectual Property and You panel at ITP/NYU
2002-02-06 Palm Pilot Performance at dorkbot-nyc

teaching

2010-10 Starting with Sensors and Interaction, ACADIA 2010 conference [materials]
2010-10 Pd+Arduino=Music, EarZoom Festival, IRZU, Ljubljana, Slovenia [materials]
2010 Spring Dataflow Programming, ITP/New York University [syllabus]
2009 Fall Solar Design for Development, ITP/New York University (with Jacob Winiecki)
2009 Fall New Interfaces for Musical Expression, ITP/New York University (with Greg Shakar)
2009 Spring Dataflow Programming, ITP/New York University [syllabus]
2008-10-14 UNTETHERED workshop advanced production workshop at Eyebeam, New York City
2008-09 AVLAB advanced production workshop at Media Lab Prado, Madrid
2008 Fall New Interfaces for Musical Expression, ITP/New York University [syllabus]
2008-06 New Interfaces for Musical Expression workshop, Hangar, Barcelona
2007 Fall Intro. to Physical Computing, ITP/New York University
2007-09 physical computing portion of Interaction Seminar I, IDMI/Polytechnic University
2007-08 Free Tools for Creators workshop, Laboral, Gijón, Spain
2007-06 Gohan Development Workshop, Zaragoza, Spain
2007 Spring co-taught Sound Studio II, IDMI/Polytechnic University
2006-10-12 Intro to Electronics with Arduino, workshop at IDMI/Polytechnic University, Brooklyn
2006-08-30 Pd minishop, workshop at Electrolobby @ Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, [materials]
2006-07 Introduction to Pd, workshop at Harvestworks, New York City
2006-05 Pd in Five Days, workshop at Kunstraum Walcheturm Zürich, Switzerland, [materials]
2006-04 ¿Interactivos? advanced production workshop at Media Lab Madrid, Spain
2005-11-07 Pd Overview at Harvestworks, New York City
2005-11-03 Pd Overview at IDMI/Polytechnic University (with Anton Marini), New York City
2005-04-03 share pure data workshop at Harvestworks (with Anton Marini) [video1] [video2]
2005-02-21 Robots! at the American Museum of Natural History (with Amorphic Robot Works)
2005-01-15 Basic Machining Class at Madagascar Institute, New York City
2004-06-24 DriveByGeek Workshop (Intro to UNIX) at ITP/NYU, New York City
2004-06-19 MIG Welding Class at Madagascar Institute, New York City
2003-08-28 Basic Machining Class at Madagascar Institute, New York City
2003-03-02 Pure Data Workshop at ITP/NYU, New York City
2002-10-01 UNIX Tutorial at ITP/NYU, New York City
2000-07 Digital Day Camp at Eyebeam Atelier, New York City

Syllabi

grants/fellowships/residencies

2010-10→2011-01X-Lab Residency at Eyebeam, New York City
Ran public events related to developing, teaching and learning media software
2010-07→2011-07Artist-in-Transit Fellowship at New Blankets
Worked with team to develop free tools for programming literacy. Developed and taught workshops for children and adolescents.
2008-09Support for Pd-extended development, Creative Music Technology, Bath Spa University
Funded work to support ongoing development of Pd-extended.
2008-07→2008-12Residency at Eyebeam, New York City
Began Reware project for recycling iPods and PDAs into new creations.
2008-05→2008-06Residency at Hangar, Barcelona, Spain
Software for game controllers, Arduino, and mapping data to synthesis and control of media.
2008-04Residency at STEIM, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Worked with Dan Overholt, Olaf Matthes, and STEIM on using USB HID for 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
Worked with staff on developing software for musical instrument design.
2005-10Support for Pd-extended development, School of Art, Media and Design, UWE, Bristol
Funded work to start the development of Pd-extended, a unified distro for Pure Data.
2005-09Support for Pd-extended development, Music Acoustics Group, KTH, Stockholm
Funded work to start the development of Pd-extended, a unified distro for Pure Data.
2005-06New York University Travel Grant
Grant to cover travel expenses to present my thesis at NIME 05 in Vancouver, Canada.
2004-06New York University Travel Grant
Grant to cover travel expenses to present at NIME 04 in Hammamatsu, Japan.
2002→2004New York University Tisch Departmental Fellowship
Two year, full-tuition fellowship to study at Tisch's Interactive Telecommunications Program.

press

2011-03-29 Condé Nast Closing Cafeteria at 750 Third Ave, Adweek
2010-12-15 December’s salon/party, Leaders in Software and Art
2010-09-24 Where Engineering Prowess Meets Burning Man, NY Times City Room
2010-06-06 Materials for the Arts, WNET Sunday Arts
2010-02-16 The Madagascar Institute, VBS.tv
2009-09-30 Madagascar Institute's jet-powered merry-go-round, boingboing
2009-09-29 Video: Jet-Powered Carousel Makes Fiery Maiden Voyage, Gizmodo
2009-09-25 PM Takes the First Test Ride on a Jet-Powered Carousel (Video!) Popular Mechanics
2009-01-06 New Music from an Old iPod, Popular Science
2008-12-23 You can't teach a dog new tricks, but you can teach a old Pod new tricks, BBC World Service Digital Planet
2008-12-19 ‘Hack Me Elmo’ for the holidays, MSNBC Technology & Science
2008-12-11 Best by day, Saturday 13: Holiday Hackshop at Eyebeam, Time Out New York
2008-10-01 Untethered Appliances Get Their Due, IEEE Spectrum
2008-09-25 Interview with Sarah Cook: Eyebeam's Curatorial Fellow Discusses "Untethered" Exhibition, Rhizome
2008-06-18 Pure Data Software Design
2007-08-07 Talleres para generar arte, El Comercio Gijón
2007-08-07 El centro de arte Laboral se adentra en el software libre, La Nueva España
2007-04-23 Interview With Marcos from MediaLab Madrid, we make money not art
2006-05-05 Esto Es Art, El Pais EP3
2005-10 Faulty Transmission: Michelle Kuo on Robert Whitman, ARTFORUM
2005-09-14 Art and innovation collide, Play
2002-11-20 Art Moles, New York Press
2002-11-11 Art Through A Manhole, The New York Sun
2002-11-07 Ars Subterranea: An Exhibit On Underground New York, The Onion
2001-06-20 S.F. vs. NYC San Francisco Bay Guardian
1999-08-12 Old MacDonald Had a Penthouse, New York Times
1998-08-20 A Different Breed of Freight-Hoppers, New York Times

conference/event organizing

ongoing co-organizer for NYC Patching Circle, a regular Pd/Max hacklab
ongoing instigator and main organizer for Arduino Hacklab, a meeting for social hacking
2010-08 localteam for DebConf 2010 NYC, the international Debian developers' conference
2009-02 Paper Committee, NIME09, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2008-04-19 lead organizer for iPhoneDevCampNYC
2008-03-29 co-organizer for Drupal Camp New York 4, a two day conference on Drupal
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
2007-07-14 co-organizer for Drupal Camp New York 3, a two day conference on Drupal
2007-01-20 co-organizer for Drupal Camp New York 2, a two day conference on Drupal
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
2006-05-13 coordination for Drupal Camp New York, a two day conference on Drupal
2005-07-23 co-organizer of Smokin' Sessions, a night of audio and visual stimulation (with Takuro Mizuta Lippit)

free software

Pd (aka Pure Data) - graphical dataflow programming for media 2002→present
• lead interface designer on namespace support
• currently rewriting the GUI from scratch
HID and mapping libraries for instrument building
SourceForge site administrator
• Documentation and tutorial writing and organization.
• Created numerous objects covering various topics, bug fixes, enhancements.
• Mac OS X, Windows, and Debian packaging.
Firmata - software for controlling microcontrollers as software objects 2007→present
• wrote Firmata library and standard firmwares
• designed protocol with contributions from others
Arduino - free hardware platform to make custom electronics widely accessible 2006→present
• wrote standard firmware to control Arduino from the host computer
• contributing to the evolving design
Neighbornode - free wifi access points for building community 2005→2006
• created wireless router firmware based on ewrt
Cecilia - computer music software 2000→2004
• Ported to Mac OS X.
• Set up SourceForge site and mailing lists.
• Numerous bug fixes, minor code clean-up, and releases.

art groups

at.or.at 2002→present
Founding Member, Sound and Interaction Designer, Programmer
Madagascar Institute 1999→present
Fabricator, Mechanism Designer, Pyro, Machinist
Improbable Orchestra 2002→2006
Technology Advisor
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
Dark Passage 2000→2005
Collaborator, Sound Designer
LEMUR 2001
Fabricator, Machinist
ACME Corporation 1999
Fabricator, Mechanism Designer, Pyro

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