Birgit Bachler
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)
- Links
- Personal website
- Profile on U Applied Sciences Graz
- Wilthings.io, a research project
