Some selected artworks, projects and ideas that have emerged over the years.

2023

Est

Roll the dice with shapes and capture the moment! Est follows Iacta which follows Alea. So here we are now: alea iacta est.

Published on the tezos based platform fxhash.xyz.

Real-time deterministic webgl2 animation, interactive, fixed size. Source code is available on github.

2022

Iacta

Roll the dice with shapes and capture the moment! Iacta follows Alea.

Published on the tezos based platform fxhash.xyz.

Real-time deterministic webgl2 animation, interactive, fixed size. Source code is available on github.

Alea

Roll the dice with shapes and capture the moment!

Published on the tezos based platform fxhash.xyz.

Real-time deterministic webgl2 animation, interactive, fixed size. Source code is available on github.

Fischbach

The entropy of memories in a vivid photo collage that gives me goosebumps while others might just see moving eye candy. Perspective and perception can be so different.

My forth animated genart published on the tezos based platform fxhash.xyz. This piece is part of the ##fxhashturnsone anniversary mint.

Real-time deterministic webgl2 animation, interactive, image composition, variable size. Source code is available on github.

Driften

This piece evolved from the basic idea of having a simple animated, colorful, circular thing, like a colorful version of Moving Blocks Mono crossed with Zebra. As so often happens, ideas evolve, new ideas emerge, intersect with old ones, and things drift in other directions through beautiful pixel landscapes. And here we are - in Driften - and - once again - it’s all about moving pixels and shifting colors.

Driften, by the way, is German for drifting.

My third animated genart published on the tezos based platform fxhash.xyz.

Real-time deterministic webgl2 animation, variable size. Source code is available on github.

Moving Blocks Mono

Several shapes form boundaries. Within these boundaries, the moving blocks move pixels and rotate their color values from a specific color to black. Each shape has its own direction vector, which affects the feature-based directions and speed of the moving blocks.

My second animated genart published on the tezos based platform fxhash.xyz.

Real-time deterministic webgl2 animation, fixed size. Source code is available on github.

Zebra

My first coded art published on the tezos based platform fxhash.xyz.

Zebra follows a simple idea: shifting pixel blocks up, down, right or left and rotating color values according to different rules.

The animation uses the fast deterministic prng xorshift128. This allows it to be played repeatedly in the same sequence. Width, height and pixel ratio change the sequence of the animation.

Real-time deterministic canvas 2d rendering context animation, variable size. Source code is available on github.

2016

Kaja

A mourning work. Portrait of our deceased dwarf rabbit Kaja, created together with my children.

Portrait, 60 x 80 cm, 9 colors mixed from red, yellow, blue, black and white tempera paint

2010

tschk! talks

Proud supporter of tschk!talks - a forum for talks by friends for friends, often in the form of two short talks, conversations, drinks and music in Berlin Kreuzberg. The talks were initiated by my friends Mac & Tons. The last tschk!talks event was at the end of 2017.

My part: Logo design and running the blog.

wahl11.de

wahl11.de is an art project by Rigoletti aka Marion Pfaus, supported by Martin Wieser.

On wahl11.de you can vote democratically for the German national soccer team. Of course, until further notice, the national coach will name the lineup of the team, but we vote anyway. Finally, all 80 million coaches in Germany get a turn!

My part: coding with yii and having fun with twitter bots.

2008

Frisbee Big Air Helium

Discraft Sky-Styler, Hot Stamp Printing, 2 color variants, limited edition of 100 per variant. It is based on the Big Air design from 2005. Sold via wurfscheibe.de.

2007

Font Parole

The typeface with the stencils of the German cabinet (plus some goodies) was created after a short exchange with Jürgen Siebert from Fontblog / FontShop and with the active support of Axel Mattern (OTF & Cleanup) based on the DIN Schablonierschrift created by Marian Steinbach. I contributed the stencils.

See dataloo blog post for more details and the download.

It was used in 2009 for banners & images with the claim “Zensursula” during protests against a law to block websites.

Aktion Überwach!

The idea behind Aktion Überwach!: use a tracking pixel to collect data and publicly document which federal and state ministries, government and opposition parties have accessed which participating websites.

Almost 1,000 websites had participated in the project by its end in 2018. Around 170,000 hits from federal and state ministries and from government and opposition parties were documented.

Stasi 2.0 Schäublone

A spray stencil. It helped draw more attention to the protests against the planned data retention laws.

With the support of Spreadshirt, T-shirt sales raised more than 10,000 EUR in donations for the Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung, which helped organize the protests.

Nowadays it can also be found in the German wikipedia.

Made with Macromedia Freehand

2006

Frisbee Love

Discraft UltraStar, Hot Stamp Printing, 3 color variants, limited edition of 125 per variant. Sold via wurfscheibe.de.

2005

dataloo.de

Started blogging about stuff in tandem with my old buddy Mac. Sorry: only in German. We stopped blogging regularly around 2012 - with some erratic and not really successful comeback attempts since then.

At some point we were among the top 30 in the German blog scene - at least for a few months.

Frisbee Big Air

Discraft Sky-Styler, Hot Stamp Printing, 4 color variants, limited edition of 75 per variant. Sold via wurfscheibe.de.

2000

Radio Strandgut

Radio Strandgut is the successor of Radio Hijackin’, which I ran regularly with my friends Mike and Mac during our studies at Furtwangen University in 1997. Strandgut was the name of the program part that Mac contributed to the show back then.

Online radio, 2 shows, audio streaming via SHOUTcast server on Linux. It was not recorded only broadcasted.

My part: jingles production, running the website & hosting the show together with my buddy Mac.

We were supported by Martin Wieser with office space & equipment and by 9teen with server hosting.

k&d

Katrin & Dirk, 100x80 cm, 9 colors mixed from red, yellow, blue, black and white tempera paint

1997

Comic Fridolin denkt nach

A comic about a guy named Fridolin, who once again finds himself in the role of Santa Claus and faces the problem of having to think up presents for Christmas. Surprisingly, he finds a simple solution.

A Christmas gift, 11 pages, 240g paper, fineliner, double copy with black and red, 20 pieces, limited edition.

1996

First website

Start page of my first website, at that time hosted in the webspace of Furtwangen University. This is probably a screenshot of the third iteration.

Created with text editor and a lot of patience.

1995

Le Car

Game where you drive around in a car and collect stuff. Created with Marcomedia Director and Autodesk 3D Studio DOS.

Fonts

Surely inspired by Neville Brody

Pixel original & Pixel 4ever

Times New Roman reverse

Line3 original

1994

Font Slack original

Inspired by Neville Brody and Douglas Coupland “Generation X”.

WILD Zeitung

Unashamedly independent city and youth newspaper from my hometown Biberach an der Riß. I was a co-founder and worked as a writer and designer until I started studying computer science at the end of 1994. Published between 1994 and 1998. Mainly created with QuarkXPress.