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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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[[Image:Birgit_Bachler 2022.jpg|thumb|350px|Birgit Bachler, 2022. Photo: Bettina Gjecaj.]]
  
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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 Bachler''' is an Austrian artist, designer and researcher previously based in [[Rotterdam]] and [[Wellington|Wellington/The Whanganui-a-Tara]] recently settled again back home in Styria ([[Graz]]). Birgit has a background in interactive, audiovisual art, critical media design and hard- and software art. Curious how contemporary technology manipulates human and non-human connections she crafts experimental networks, often combining new and obsolete media with custom-built hardware and software. By dismantling and manipulating code and mechanisms of seemingly social technologies, she designs critical, sometimes playful contemplations of new media. In her most recent research she investigates Internet of Things and radio technologies as a means to give voice to the more-than-human world in networked environments.
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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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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), xCoAx (Graz/online), ISEA (Istanbul, TR & Manizales, CO), Piksel Festival (Bergen, NO) and Sonic Acts Academy (Amsterdam, NL).
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Her current research interests are (a-)social technologies and networks, lo-fi handmade electronics, reappropriation of obsolete media, DIY and open source practices in the arts, and hand-harvested, open and big data as concrete poetry. [https://www.fh-joanneum.at/en/university/person/birgit-bachler/ (2022)]
  
 
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* http://www.birgitbachler.com/
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* [http://www.birgitbachler.com/ Website]
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* [https://www.fh-joanneum.at/en/university/person/birgit-bachler/ Profile on U Applied Sciences Graz]
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* http://www.wildthings.io/
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* [http://www.wildthings.io/ Wilthings.io], research project

Latest revision as of 08:42, 15 December 2022

Birgit Bachler, 2022. Photo: Bettina Gjecaj.

Birgit Bachler is an Austrian artist, designer and researcher previously based in Rotterdam and Wellington/The Whanganui-a-Tara recently settled again back home in Styria (Graz). Birgit has a background in interactive, audiovisual art, critical media design and hard- and software art. Curious how contemporary technology manipulates human and non-human connections she crafts experimental networks, often combining new and obsolete media with custom-built hardware and software. By dismantling and manipulating code and mechanisms of seemingly social technologies, she designs critical, sometimes playful contemplations of new media. In her most recent research she investigates Internet of Things and radio technologies as a means to give voice to the more-than-human world in networked environments.

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 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), xCoAx (Graz/online), ISEA (Istanbul, TR & Manizales, CO), Piksel Festival (Bergen, NO) and Sonic Acts Academy (Amsterdam, NL).

Her current research interests are (a-)social technologies and networks, lo-fi handmade electronics, reappropriation of obsolete media, DIY and open source practices in the arts, and hand-harvested, open and big data as concrete poetry. (2022)

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