Senior researcher at Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures of  the Academy of Art and Design, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland.

..born 1980 in then West-Berlin from Japanese classical music percussionists; raised in Basel, a town in Switzerland. Socialized during the 1990s in the same city famous for its art museums, modern music (Paul Sacher) and where Terry Riley visits high-schools, I studied media theory, musicology and philosophy at the University of Basel, with an one year intermezzo in Berlin (2004/5), where I assisted Heimo Lattner, started exploring artistic practice and was responsible for the visual appearance of "Uraniwa – Magazin für japanisch-berlinerische Lebensaspekte" a short-lived  magazine for the Japanese art, music and design community in Berlin. Back in Basel I finished my studies with a lic.phil in spring 2007.

My interests while studying were highly influced by Georg Christoph Tholen, an early friend of Friedrich Kittler. I then wrote a dissertation in media theory (Medienwissenschaft) at Humboldt University Berlin under Wolfgang Ernst (interview) and defended it 2012 (Dr. phil., summa cum laude). During this time (2007–2013) I mainly lived in Berlin and –besides working on my PhD– curated exhibitions, organized concerts, played at concerts and showed artworks. Back in Basel since 2013 I first worked as a postdoc fellow both at the University of Basel’s Media Studies (Ute Holl) and at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Academy of Art and Design, Institute Experimental Design and Media Cultures (IXDM). Since 2014 I work fulltime at the IXDM as a senior researcher, lecture and increasingly as a principle investigator.  Since 2017 I am also the programme curator of the IXDM's Critical Media Lab.

Currently, I am working on how to design worlds, frameworks or things, which offer NOT finished solutions, but are troubling in a meaningful and helpful way? How is (media)* design and its capitalist mode, its techno-scientific, discursive, archaeological (Foucault), imaginary contexts – how are these entangled with fields such as cybernetics, capitalistic rationality, optimization and commodification, and how could we meaningfully transform it by creating resonances with fields and topics such as ecosystem thinking, counterculture, commoning, self-design, self-organization, alternative worldbuilding and activism? And how could critical contextualization of “innovations”  such as IoT, smartness (AI), futuring, design thinking, transistion design etc. enrich, confuse and diffract these in order to start fruitful conversations? How could we do this in a practically, technologically and media archaeologically informed way, thus ideally on an equal footing with upcoming techno-scientific naturecultures and techno-environments others (more powerful) have created to lure us.

* media design = interaction/ experience, interface, algorithmic, computational design, design of learning environments, designing the storing, transmitting and processing of data and information

Curriculum vitae as a list

[Education]
→ M.A. in Media Studies, Musicology, Philosophy, University of Basel, 2007, summa cum laude.
→ Ph.D in Media Studies, Humboldt University Berlin, 2012, summa cum laude.

[Research grants/funding]
→ 2016-2018 SNF Project 159849, The Sensorium of Animals. Electroreception in Experimental and Historical Media and Design Research, 336’140 CHF (principal investigator)
→ 2014-2016 SNF Projekt 150232, Experimental Data Aesthetics – Multi-sensory exploration of high-dimensional data sets as an issue in design research, 150‘000 CHF (project leader, principal investigator: Claudia Mareis)

[Prizes/ Fellowships/Residencies]
→ 2013-2014 Post-Doctoral Fellowship funded by „cogito foundation (Wollerau, Switzerland)“ for cultivating the dialog between the hard and soft sciences.
→ 3.9-30.9 2012 Residency Scholarship of National University of Singapore.
→ 2011-2012 Fellowship of „Akademie Schloss Solitude“, Stuttgart.
→ 2008-2011 PhD-Fellowship funded by „cogito foundation (Wollerau, Switzerland)“ for cultivating the dialog between the hard and soft sciences.
→ 1999 Student prize from „Verein der Ehemaligen und Freunde des Gymnasiums Münchenstein“ (VEGYM)“ for getting two higher school certificates, one specialized in Latin and the other in music.

Lists of ...

...  [publications]
→ google scholar
→ ixdm
→ academia.net
... [funding/Grants]
→ p3–snfs (click on "show all")

... non-printed activity

[Workshops mostly in English]
→ Re-Creating Apocryphal Technologies (with Jamie Allen), Easterbloc, 7-8 Nov. 2015, Montreal.
→ Media Archaeology as Artistic Practice (with Jamie Allen), CTM Festival Berlin, 1st of Feb. 2015, Berlin.
→ Listening to Singaporean Infoscapes, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore, 7/8th and 22nd of Sept. 2012, Singapore
→ Infoscape Listening, BMW Guggenheim Lab (Berlin), 21st July 2012, Pfefferberg, Berlin
→ detektors. mapping infospheres by listening – “Spectrum” in collaboration with CTVR (Trinity College Dublin) and Darklight (Filmfestival), 30th Oct. 2010, Grand Social, Dublin, Ireland
→ listen to your gadgets! – audifying EM-emissions of electronic devices, 29th Oct. 2010, D.A.T.A. (Science Gallery), Dublin, Ireland
→ get the basics of your gadgets! – introduction to arduino, 4-6th Nov. 2009, Born Digital, Utrecht, Netherlands
→ get the basics of your gadgets! – introduction to arduino with Akitoshi Honda, 17th-19th Sept. 2009, General Public, Berlin.
→ at “contemptronics – 08 Hamburger Klangwerktage – festival für zeitgenössische musik” a Workshop with Kim Cascone & Avatar Orchestra Metaverse (24.–29.11.2008)

[Lectures/presentations]
in English… scroll down for “in German” and “in Japanese”
→ „Ping Echo Request. Some Historical Remarks on Data Analysis”, Data Traces, 4th of July 2015, Academy of Art and Design Basel.
→ „Manifestations of Psyche – Analog Electronic Circuitry and Psychedelia”, CTM Festival Discourse, 29th Jan. 2015, Berlin.
→ (with Jan Thoben) „Hearing Aids. Flusser’s gesture of listening and the aesthetization of signal processes”, MEDIA – PERFORMANCE, 20th of Nov. 2014, Brno, Czech Republic.
→ „The Concept Of “Algorhythmic Agencement”. Media Archaeological Inquiries to Computational Cultures”, Algorithmic Cultures, 25th June 2014, Universität Konstanz.
→ „Aesthetics of Time-Varying Signals in Media Technologies of Science and Engineering”, Participatory IT Center, University of Aarhus, 17th Jan. 2013, Aarhus, Danemark.
→ „Lunch talk: Infoscape Listening”, Future Cities Laboratory, ETH Zurich-NUS Singapore, 21st of Sept., CREATE TOWER University Town, Singapore.
→ „Neighborhood Listening. A Media Archaeology of Packet Switching 1970 | 1990“, Blankensee-Colloquium „Neighborhood Technologies“, 30th of Aug. 2012, Berlin-Kreuzberg.
→ „Algorhythmic Listening 1949-1962. Auditory Practices of Early Mainframe Computing“, AISB/IACAP World Congress, Alan Turing 2012, History and Philosophy of Computing, 6th of July 2012, Birmingham.
→ „Mapping Urban Infoscapes by Listening“, Media of the Metapolis, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, 25th of May 2012, Weimar.
→ „Algorhythmic Catastrophes 1990|2010“, Incompatibilities, Transmediale, 3rd of Feb. 2012, Berlin.
→ „Detektors“, Tracing Mobility: Cartography and Migration in Networked Space, 27th of Nov. 2011, HdkW, Berlin.
→ „AlgoRhythmics. Some Preliminary Thoughts about Micro-temporal Transductions of Information, its Aesthetics, Production of Capital and Affects“, Rhythm and Event, Kingston University, 29th of Oct. 2011, London.
→ „The Ritornelli of Everyday Life. Some Epistemic Experiments with Information Technology”, videostreamed, „Panel: Matter with Media, ISEA 2011 in Istanbul“, 17th of Sept. 2011.
→ „Urban Areas as Trans-sonic Infospheres”, videostreaming, „Mediated Cities, Atmosphere 2011“, 5th Feb. 2011, Winnipeg, Kanada.
→ „Media Music vs. Instrumental Music. Some remarks on a useful distinction”, HAU1 Berlin, „Club Transmediale Conference, What is live?“, 1st of Feb. 2011.
→ „[Trans]-Sonic Archeology of Computational Assemblages”, Oscillation Series. Sonic Theory and Practices No. 2, 5th of Sep. 2010, General Public, Berlin.
→ „Detektors”, ISEA conference Ruhr 2010, Sonic Strategies, 24th Aug. 2010, Dortmund.
→ „Detektors”, Interferenze, 23rd July 2010, Bisaccia (Italy).
→ „Sonic Archeology of Networks”, Thinking Network Politics: Methods, Epistemology, Process; 25th of March 2010, Cambridge (UK).
→ „Sonic Media Archeology and DIY-Practice”, Session DIY, Design, Art and Theory, Creative Digital Media Research Practice, culture lab, 10th of March 2010, Newcastle (UK).

… in German
→ „Ökosysteme als Modelle für postmediale Wissens- und Designkulturen”, Vortragsreihe: Wissenskulturen im digitalen Zeitalter, 16th of June 2015, HBK Braunschweig.
→ „Non-lineare Pfade der Medientechnik. Der Chua-Schaltkreis”, Zeitigungen von Medien, 15th of Oct. 2014, Humboldt-University Berlin.
→ „Wilde Oszillationen. Der Chua-Schaltkreis als operatives Modell für pfadabhängige Prozesse”, Wild Thing – Unordentliche Prozesse in Design und Wissenschaft, 26th of Oct. 2013, Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule.
→ „Daten – Sehen und Hören 1955-1995”, Sammellust – Sammelwut. Big Data und ihrer Auswirkungen in der Kultur, 23rd of Aug. 2013, Colloquium of L’arc Romainmotier, Switzerland.
→ „Nerdismus und Rhythmus”, Berlin, Symposium: “Doing Nerd. Dilettantisch Handeln, virtuos Abweichen, stoisch Heimsuchen!”, Neuen Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst Berlin, 28th of April 2013
→ „Das Rumoren der Bildschirme. Eine Mikroanalyse der Oberfläche im post-digitalen Zeitalter”, University of Basel, eikones, “Oberflächen und Interfaces. Ästhetik und Politik filmischer Bilder”, 23rd of March 2013
→ „Signale, Rhythmen, Zeiteffekte. Eine Medienarchäologie medialer Umwelten im frühen 21. Jahrhundert”, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Symposium: Mediale Umwelten – Vernetzung und Allgegenwart digitaler Technologien, 13rd of Oct. 2012
→ „Zeitkritik und Algo-Trading. Die spekulative Algorithmik der Finanzmärkte 2010-2012″, Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, 4th of Oct. 2012
→ „Epilepsie und ihre Effekte. Eine lückenhafte Studie zu telefonischen Experimentalsystemen der Epilepsieforschung 1870 bis 2000″, Der Wahnsinn der Kultur, University of Giessen, 4th of Nov. 2011
→ „Der Flash-Crash vom 6. Mai 2010. Skizzen zu einer politischen Medienarchäologie des AlgoTrading”, University of Giessen, „Transnationale Medienereignisse von der Frühen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart“, 17th of Dec. 2010
→ „Das Sonische und das Meer. Skizzen zu einer Medienarchäologie von Sonar”, Hochschule der Künste Bern, „Kulturgeschichte der Sonifikation“, 4th of Dec. 2010
→ „Algorhythmik vs Diagrammatik”, „operative diagrammaik“, Medientheater des Seminars für Medienwissenschaft, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 15th October 2009
→ „Algorhythmen überall – Entwurf einer sonischen Medienarchäologie eines ubiquitären Alltagsmediums”, „/dis/connecting/media/“, Basel City Studios, 1st–3rd October 2009
→ „Algorhythmen überall – Zwischenbericht einer Dissertation über eine Archäologie und Philosophie alltäglicher Medientechnologien oder Was bedeutet Algorhythmus? – Ein heuristischer Neologismus um alltägliche Informationstechnologien zu verstehen.” – Colloqium, Medien die wir meinen, Prof. W. Ernst, Sophienstraße, Berlin, 24.06.2026

… in Japanese
→ „クリティカル・メディア 歴史を知ることの重大性 (Critical Media. The Importance of History), Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS), 13th of Jan 2015, Ogaki-Shi.
→ „Jouhou Shakai to Oto no fukai kankei (Deep Relations of Sound and our Information Society)”, Tokyo University of the Arts (Art and Media Center), Tokyo (Japan), 15th of October 2010

[Archived Projects]
→ Sonic Theory (Website for berlin based lecture series „Oscillation Series – Sonic Theories and Practices“, 2010–2012, a co-project with Jan Thoben
→ Rhythmanalysis (a transdisciplinary symposium in English langage at „Akademie Schloss Solitude“ in Stuttgart, 22nd–23rd of Nov. 2012)

[Artistic Activity before 2010]
From 2005-2010 I was member of Endliche Automaten – Laptoporchester Berlin.

[Group-exhibitions]
→ “2nd Order Diatom”, 28th Jan. – 7th Febr 2010, ubiquitous oscillations² or about rhythmic structures of media, General Public, Schönhauser Alle 167c, Berlin
→ “2nd Order Diatoms“, 8th of Nov. 2009, at “born digital? – art, life, games and technology” in “Cees Braakman Zaal”, Toonkamer (Rotsoord 3), Utrecht (NL)
→ “Ubiquitous oscillations” or “Fourier changed our world”, 9. – 16. Januar 2009, General Public, Schönhauser Allee 167c, 10435 Berlin

[compositions]
→ 2007 “DISCORDIA or Operation Mind Fuck or The Law of Fives”, for 6 Laptops and 1 Videoartist (Laptoporchester Berlin + Dominik Busch). Co-composition with Stephane Leonard
First played: 22. Sept. 2007 – 5 + 1 Festival (”Elektronisches Studio” of TU Berlin in collaboration of” Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD” and singuhr – hoergalerie), kleiner Wasserspeicher, Prenzlauer Berg Berlin – Germany
→ 2005 “Variations on Fadheit”, for Laptoporchester Berlin, live-sampling (max/msp, supercollider, ableton live, renoise, reaktor).
First played: 10.Sept. 2005 – Japan Now Festival – Tacheles – Berlin, Germany

[Performances/ Concerts]
→12.10.2010 Test Tone Series, Super Delux, Tokyo (Japan)
→26.09.2010 Studio Kura, Itoshima City, (Fukuoka, Japan)
→25.7.2010 Interferenze, Bisaccia (Italy)
→28.8.2009 HartwareMedienKunstVerein (HMKV), Final Presentation of Southeasteurope Instant Composing Tour of Endliche Automaten, Phoenix Halle, Dortmund
→27.6.2009 General Public, “Oscillations everywhere (performance)” at breakthrough organized by _____micro_research [Berlin]
→Southeasteurope Instant Composing Tour as a member of Endliche Automaten – laptoporchester berlin: 06.4.2026 Ústí nad Labem / Czech Republic: Armaturka, 16.4.2026 Pécs / Hungary: Müvészetek és Irodalom Hásza, 20.4.2026 Osijek / Croatia: Barutana, 23.4.2026 Timisoara / Romania: Simultan Festival 2009, 24.4.2026 Sibiu / Romania: Teatrul GONG, 30.4.2026 Ruse / Bulgaria: Elias Canetti-Haus
→31.01.2009 Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien / presentation of the residents of xxxxx_temporary_structure@Club Transmediale 2009 Dayprogramm – Berlin
→29.11.2008 kampnagel / Hamburger Klangwerktage 2008 – CONTEMPTRONICS – Hamburg
→21.09.2008 loop-line – tokyo
→12.09.2008 bullet’s – tokyo
→09.09.2008 Superdelux / test tone – tokyo
→23.08.2008 Galerie KUB / Electric Garden Festival – Leipzig
→16.08.2008 Electronic Chruch/ where is the edge now, yeah?! – berlin
→13.06.2008 Electronic Church / uraniwa-series no. 2 – berlin
→16.02.2008 Directors Lounge Berlin**
→19.12.2007 Centre de Cultura Sa Nostra, Palma de Mallorca **
→24.11.2007 Wien Modern, Wien – Austria, (with Avatar Orchestra Metaverse)
→22.09.2007 Festival 5+1 (TU Berlin), Wasserspeicher, Berlin**
→25.08.2007 Lange Nacht der Kontrastorchester / Lange Nacht der Museen Berlin**
→10.09.2007 privatelektro Headphone Festival, Leipzig, Sachsen
→13.07.2007 time’s up remixed III, medien/kunst/labor tesla, berlin**
→10.06.2007 Ausland Berlin**
→01.06.2007 Biorama Projekt near Eberswalde in Brandenburg**
→27.05.2007 Schlosstheater Rheinsberg in Brandenburg**
→30.04.2007 Kunsthaus KuLe – Labor Sonor – Berlin, Germany**
→10.04.2007 NBI – Neue Berliner Initiative – Berlin, Germany**
→31.03.2007 privatelektro label night, Electronic Church, Berlin
→29.03.2007 Club der polnischen Versager – Berlin, Germany**
→06.10.2006 theater basel (foyer) with laptoporchestra berlin at sinus-series Basel**
→07.09.2006 walcheturm, zürich
→13.07.2006 Altes anatomisches Theater Charité, Berlin**
→03.06.2006 K6, Basel (Improsession with Random Kings)
→25.05.2006 plug In, Basel
→12.01.2006 unreal, Basel
→08.11.2005 frison, Fribourg (CH)
→23.09.2005 K44, Berlin
→17.09.2005 centrum manggha, Krakow**
→10./11.09.2005 Tacheles/japannow, Berlin**
→26.08.2005 Museumsnacht, Stadtgalerie Kiel
→29.06.2005 “Neue Bohnen”, Berlin
→16.06.2005 “Globus Bar”, Berlin
→02.06.2005 “Ausland”, Berlin
→28.05.2005 “Galerie Zero”, Berlin
→20.03.2005 joint-venture#6 @ zentrale-randlage, berlin
→10.02.2005 club transmediale -headphone concert, berlin
** with laptoporchester berlin

[collab. sound works]
→ april 2007 foundation of avatar orchestra metaverse (http://myspace.com/avatarorchestra) with soundartists and musicians from all the world.
→ 2006 participation at a diplomaproject of Hyperwerk Basel (HgK) called unheard soundscapes .
→ since 2005 laptoporchester berlin (since 2008 Endliche Automaten ): a ensemble with soundartists active mainly in Berlin and Leipzig. laptoporchester (re-)interprets and (de-)constructs elektroacoustic pieces of contemporary audio art. Individual soundartists using laptops as instruments are playing each a substantial part of a bigger sound-environment. The polyphony of this sounding network gives new possibilities for interpretations.
→ 2005 with norman liebich, visual programmer/artist, useing processing and supercollider togheter, which resulted in several live audiovisual performances.
→ 2004/5 haruko maeda made some animated drawings while listening to poröse (adz 004).