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
1996
B.A., Bard College, Annandale, NY,
specializing in computer music.
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 ]
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. 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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annoying technical details (blog) - rants
on fixing technical problems
2007→present
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@||@ (blog) - rabble rousing, current events, research ideas, politics, geekery
2004→present
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MediaArtsDeadlines (shared iCal calender) -
deadlines for grants, festivals, etc.
2004→present
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playtherecords (blog) - music reviews, technology, history, and related topics
2005→2009
talks
2010-08-01
opening talk for DebConf
2010 NYC, the international Debian developers'
conference (with Gabriella Coleman)
2008-05-20
Instrument Building at Hangar, Barcelona
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
2003-03-02
Pure Data Workshop at ITP/NYU, New York City
2002-10-01
UNIX Tutorial at ITP/NYU, 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
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Funded work to support ongoing development of Pd-extended.
- 2008-07→2008-12Residency at Eyebeam, New York City
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Began Reware project for recycling iPods and PDAs into new creations.
- 2008-05→2008-06Residency at Hangar, Barcelona, Spain
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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 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
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Worked with staff on developing software for musical instrument design.
- 2005-10Support for Pd-extended development,
School of Art,
Media and Design, UWE, Bristol
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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
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Funded work 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
2009-02
Paper Committee, NIME09, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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
free software
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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
• currently rewriting the GUI from scratch
•
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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Firmata -
software for controlling microcontrollers as software objects
2007→present
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• wrote Firmata library and standard firmwares
• designed protocol with contributions from others
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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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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
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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
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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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