Hans-Christoph Steiner dedicates his time to creating private communications software accessible to everyone, designs interactive software focused on human perceptual abilities, builds networks with free software, and composes music with computers. With an emphasis on collaboration, he has worked in diverse areas, including free software for mobile and embedded devices, responsive sound environments, free wireless networks that help build community, musical robots that listen, programming environments that allow people to play with mathematics, and a rideable jet fish. To further his research, he teaches and works at various media art centers and organizes open and collaborative hacklabs and barcamp conferences. He is currently developing encrypted and anonymous communication devices as part of Project Guardian, in addition to teaching interaction design and multimedia programming courses at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University and workshops worldwide.
His solo work has been featured at Tonic New York, inside the Croton Aqueduct, and inside the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel. Group projects he has collaborated on have been exhibited at the Guggenheim New York, SFMOMA, the Cartier Foundation, the Lille2004 European Cultural Capitol Festival, Robodock, the Wood Street Gallery, and shopping malls around the New York City area. He has given talks at SRI, Eyebeam, Hangar/Barcelona, LocationOne, Zurich University of the Arts, and Geidai Tokyo National University, presenting a range of topics from art projects to music programming and intellectual property. His work has been covered by the BBC, the New York Times, Wired News, and Popular Science. Steiner received his MA from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program.
He is currently working on developing a complete visual programming platform and free and open source multimedia arts curricula and teaching guides.
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