DI Dietmar Offenhuber

Key Researcher (10/2008-09/2009)

Forschungsprojekte am Institut

Curriculum Vitae

  • 1994 Gründungsmitglied der Gruppe Relais (mit Schilcher, Palmetshofer, Ruttgerson)
  • 1995 Freiberufliche Arbeit für Ars Electronica Center
  • 1996–2004 Gründungsmitglied, Ars Electronica Futurelab
  • 2000 Feldforschung für Diplomarbeit in Los Angeles
  • 2002–2004 Key Researcher und Abteilungsleiter des Interactive Space Departements, Ars Electronica Futurelab
  • 2002 Graduation in Architecture TU Vienna (Dipl. Ing.), Diplomarbeit zum Thema time-space representations
  • 2003 Artist in Residence, Werkleitz Gesellschaft e.V., Germany
  • 2004 Japan Foundation Fellowship, IAMAS Institute, Gifu, Japan
  • 2004–2006 Professor für Animation und Interaktive Medien, University of Applied Sciences in Hagenberg.
  • 2006–2008 Researcher in der Sociable Media Group / MIT Media Lab, prof. Judith Donath

Kuratorische Arbeit (Auswahl)

  • 2007 Festival of Video and New Media, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Digital Animation Program
  • 2005 Ars Electronica Animation Festival 2005 (gemeinsam mit Christine Schöpf)
  • 2005 Language of Networks – Symposium & Ausstellung social network analysis (gemeinsam mit FAS research)
  • 2005 Interactions Art / Technology – Ausstellung im American Museum of the Moving Image, NY (gmeinsam w. Carl Goodman)
  • 2002 Pixelspaces 02 – Symposium über Spiel und Architektur – Ars Electronica 2002

Preise (Auswahl)

  • Melbourne International Animation Festival 2007, Jury Award für »paths of g«
  • 12th International Media Art Biennale WRO 07, Special Mention für »mauerpark«
  • ZKM international media art award 2003, Nomination für »besenbahn«
  • Art Directors Club Silver Award 2003 für den Beitrag zur Ausstellung »imagining the city« , URBIS Museum, Manchester
  • Honorable mention in the category image, transmediale Award 02 für »besenbahn«
  • Honorable Mention Prix Ars Electronica 99, Computeranimation für »bike«

Publikationen (Auswahl)

  • Wegzeit – die Geometrie der relativen Distanz, Master Thesis, TU Vienna, Advised by Dr. Bob Martens.
  • Vande Moere, A., & Offenhuber, D. (2008). Beyond Ambient Display: A Contextual Taxonomy of Alternative Information Display, in International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence.
  • Offenhuber, D. (2008). The Invisible Display – Design Strategies for Ambient Media in the Urban Context, in Ambient Information Systems. Seoul, Korea.
  • Blome, G., & Offenhuber, D. (2008). Zugangsstrategien für Online-Archive zur Medienkunst, in Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts. Berlin.
  • Offenhuber, D. & Donath, J. (2008) Comment Flow - Visualizing  Communication Along Network Path, in Sommerer, C., Mignonneau, L., & ing, D. (2008). Interface Cultures: Artistic Aspects of Interaction (1st ed.). Transcript.
  • Harry, D., Offenhuber, D., Donath, J. (2008) Function Follows Form -  The social Role of Virtual Architecture, in: Doesinger, S., 2008. Space, Between People: How the Virtual Changes Physical Architecture, Prestel, USA.
  • Harry D., Offenhuber D., 2007, The social roles of virtual Architecture, in Archietcure´s Second Life, Prestel 2008.
  • Offenhuber D., Donath J., 2007, Comment Flow, Poster in IEEE InfoVis symposium 2007, Sacramento, CA, 2007.
  • Harry D., Offenhuber D., 2007, The Projects – Towards a Sociable Architecture for Virtual Worlds, in Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Designing for User eXperience DUX ’07.
  • Offenhuber D., 2006, moviemaps re:visited, in ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Sketches SIGGRAPH ’06, Boston, MA, 2006.
  • Offenhuber D., 2002, wegzeit – the geometry of relative distance, in Developing Digital Architecture -2002 FEIDAD Award, Yu-Tung Liu (Hrsg.) Birkhäuser.

Relevante Projekte (Auswahl)

  • Comment Flow, 2007 – Analysis of communication within the online space of a social networking platform.
  • SemaSpace, 2006 – a general purpose network visualization and analysis tool (with G. Dirmoser).
  • Gedankenraum, 2005. An analysis of answers to a questionnaire regarding opportunities and dangers of the European community, presented as an interactive representation of a semantic network.
  • Installation for the Sound of Europe conference during the Austrian presidency of the European Community.
  • Archiquarium, 2004, Installation in the Ars Electronica Center. A tangible interface for the Ars Electronica archive.
  • Wegzeit, 2002, a proposal for representation techniques for time distances and subjective spaces, an exploration of Los Angeles through the lens of information visualization.

Konferenzen

  • »The Invisible Display – Design Strategies for Ambient Media in the Urban Context« Ambient Information Systems, Ubicomp 2008, Seoul, 21. September 2008
  • »kowledge representation for shared media art archives«, Open Archives Conference, Jihlava, 25. Oktober 2008
  • »The Invisible Display«, Visualizar 2008, Medialab Prado, Madrid,  4. November 2008