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'''Birgit Bachler''' is an Austrian new media artist, designer and researcher based in [[Wellington]]/The Whanganui-a-Tara (NZ). She holds a BA in Information Design/Media & Interaction Design and MA from the [[Networked Media Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam|Piet Zwart Institute, Master Media Design and Communication: Networked Media]] (Rotterdam). She has a background in interactive, audiovisual art, design and programming. Her past research has focused on the influence of emergent media on our everyday lives and how technology influences and manipulates social behavior. By dismantling and manipulating code and mechanisms of seemingly social technologies she creates critical, sometimes playful contemplations of new media. Birgit’s recent autonomous work features a dating-like website built upon grocery shopping data, an online social gardening network and wallpaper samples based on open data.
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'''Birgit Bachler''' is an Austrian artist, designer and researcher based in [[Wellington|Wellington/The Whanganui-a-Tara]], currently working as a lecturer in Creative Technologies at the College of Creative Arts, Massey University. She holds a BA in Information Design/Media & Interaction Design and a MA from the [[Networked Media Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam|Piet Zwart Institute, Master Media Design and Communication: Networked Media]] (Rotterdam).  
  
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For her first solo show ''Copy Wildly'' she invited all visitors to freely copy all code and instructions on how to rebuild her artworks on a USB stick. Birgit has worked with the artist collective Telcosystems since 2008, has been involved in the production of Sonic Acts Festival in Amsterdam and is member of medialab [[moddr]] since 2011. She has been teaching “Interaction Design” and “Creative Coding” at the School of Design at Victoria University of Wellington and is co-chair of the Aotearoa Digital Arts Network since 2013. She is a PhD student under the supervision of Dr Anne Galloway in the More than Human Lab at the School of Design.
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Birgit has a background in interactive, audiovisual art, critical media design and hard- and software art. Her past research has focused on the influence of emergent media on our everyday lives and how technologies create and shape social networks. By dismantling and manipulating code and mechanisms of seemingly social technologies, she develops critical, sometimes playful contemplations of new media. In her current PhD research supervised by Dr Anne Galloway at the more-than-human lab of Victoria University Wellington, she investigates Internet of Things technology as a means to give voice to the more-than-human world in networked environments.
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Birgit has exhibited and presented at art institutions such as [[V2_|V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media]] (Rotterdam, NL), [[NIMk|The Netherlands Media Art Institute]] (Amsterdam, NL), Museumsquartier (Vienna, AT) and media arts festivals such as [[Transmediale]] (Berlin, GER), [[ISEA]] (Istanbul, TR & Manizales, CO), [[Piksel|Piksel Festival]] (Bergen, NO) and [[Sonic Acts|Sonic Acts Academy]] (Amsterdam, NL).
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Her research interests are (a-)social technologies and networks; privacy issues and participatory surveillance through online sharing; DIY and open source practices in the arts; gamification, IoT and other new media related marketing hypes; and open data and big data as concrete poetry. [http://www.birgitbachler.com/portfolio/about/ (c.2018)]
  
 
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* http://www.birgitbachler.com/
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* [http://www.birgitbachler.com/ Personal website]
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* http://www.wildthings.io/
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* [http://www.wildthings.io/ Wilthings.io], a research project

Revision as of 09:36, 9 February 2021

Birgit Bachler is an Austrian artist, designer and researcher based in Wellington/The Whanganui-a-Tara, currently working as a lecturer in Creative Technologies at the College of Creative Arts, Massey University. She holds a BA in Information Design/Media & Interaction Design and a MA from the Piet Zwart Institute, Master Media Design and Communication: Networked Media (Rotterdam).

Birgit has a background in interactive, audiovisual art, critical media design and hard- and software art. Her past research has focused on the influence of emergent media on our everyday lives and how technologies create and shape social networks. By dismantling and manipulating code and mechanisms of seemingly social technologies, she develops critical, sometimes playful contemplations of new media. In her current PhD research supervised by Dr Anne Galloway at the more-than-human lab of Victoria University Wellington, she investigates Internet of Things technology as a means to give voice to the more-than-human world in networked environments.

Birgit has exhibited and presented at art institutions such as V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media (Rotterdam, NL), The Netherlands Media Art Institute (Amsterdam, NL), Museumsquartier (Vienna, AT) and media arts festivals such as Transmediale (Berlin, GER), ISEA (Istanbul, TR & Manizales, CO), Piksel Festival (Bergen, NO) and Sonic Acts Academy (Amsterdam, NL).

Her research interests are (a-)social technologies and networks; privacy issues and participatory surveillance through online sharing; DIY and open source practices in the arts; gamification, IoT and other new media related marketing hypes; and open data and big data as concrete poetry. (c.2018)

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