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Hello.

My name is johannes p osterhoff. Welcome to my official homepage.
I am a media interface artist, mainly concentrating on developments in the field of graphical user interfaces. I also design and lecture on such interfaces. I am happy you stepped by and I hope you enjoy your stay.


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Breaking News.

"The Drop Shadow Talks" @ BTK.

On October 27, 2009 the Drop Shadow Talks at Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule will start. Check the great speakers. (21 10 2009) <- curating

"The Drop Shadow Seminar" @ BTK.

This Semester it is Drop Shadow time in my seminar in 6th semester at Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule Check the seminar blog. (21 10 2009) <- teaching

"Desktop Island" @ Digital Folklore Reader.

My latest interfce art work is a test. It is published in the glittering "Digital Follore Reader" by Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied. (21 10 2009) <-  + texts

"Traveling Desktop Country", Talk @ MoAA Berlin.

On April 8, 2009 I will present slides from my travels to desktop country at Museum of American Art in Berlin. (04 01 2009) <- talks


Once new.

Text & Interaktion II @ BTK.

Together with media artist Brendan Howell I will give a seminar for the 6th semester on text and interaction design at Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule. Starting on April 29th. (2008 01 04) <- teaching

Interface Art @ CeBIT.

Tomorrow I will give a pecha kucha presentation on interface art (including "Defence"!) at "Webcieties" @ CeBit Hannover. Check the stream be ZapLive. Update: and see the presentation on the pecha kucha site. (04 03 2009) <- talks

"Defence" in Stochholm.

From Moscow "Defence" travelled with the great ABC Group to "Supermarket Art Fair Stockholm". You can see two shields of the series on the stand of the group. (01 03 2009) <- art

"Defence" in Moscow.

My latest interface art piece was exhibited in ABC Galleryin Moscow in december 2008. Shields extracted from Windows Vista turned into real code of arms featuring the first medieval system sounds ever. Check the the video at YouTube. (01 12 2008) <- art

Interface Night.

Travelled to space (aka the final frontier). With the hardworking second semester new media students from Merz Akademie, Stuttgart. We returned with great footage. Strangely similar to the screensavers and wallpapers we knew from our own desktops. Luckily we anyway could sell to Bayrischer Rundfunk :) (2008 06 06) <- teaching

Interface Art slipped into Art Review.

"Three-D" is Cory's Arcangels favorite artwork writes Art Review, Issue 3, 2008 (owtte) :) (01 05 2008) <- art

Art Since the Summer of '69.

"Three-D" got part of the project "Art Since the Summer of '69". Gallery Show No. 1 on April 11th was curated by Hanne Mugaas. (23 03 2008) <- art

Interface Art @ Pecha Kucha.

On February 19, 2008 I presented Interface Art at Pecha Kucha in Tape Gallery. This means it started at 20:20, my presentation had 20 slides, for each I had 20 seconds time. Listen. (2008 27 03) <- talks

Kunsthaus Tacheles -- Werkschau.

The Tacheles Werkschau takes place from February 13 till March 16, 2008. "Aero: Home Security" will be shown there. Umongst other artworks from 40 artists coming from 20 countries. (2008 02 03) <- art

Going to bootlab.

Today I will open my work space at bootlab e.V. @ Kunsthaus Tacheles. Unintentionally signing the contract there got monitored by Superbertram from Super Surveillance Spectacle. (2007 11 30) <- art

"Aero" as source of inspiration.

Recently I found out that the Aero series inspired American arist David Krepfle to one of his works of the series "America's fears". As soon as I am rich I will buy it myself. (2007 11 03) <- art

"IMG SRC" goes Frankfurter Buchmesse.

Get to know everything about my book "IMG SRC -- Anmerkungen und Lösungen zum Problem digitaler Bildersuche im Netz" (remarks and solutions to the issue of digital image retrieval on the web) at book fair Frankfurt. My publisher merz&solitude's stand can be found at 4.1 N126. I will be there on October 11 as well. (2007 09 22) <- text

First interface art contest ever!

"Aero" and "Aqua" continue. Though unexpectedly different. Check out "The Aqua Contest", become an interface artist yourself and submit your artworks to the very first interface art contest! Call open until end of November. Soon "The Aqua Contest" will be acompanied by "The Aero Contest", a competition awaiting artworks made of Vista's interface. (2007 09 05) <- curating

Rich Swabian art lovers!

See und buy the last official prints of "Aero: System Holidays" and "Aero: System Crash"! Visit Merz Akademie @ Kulturnacht 2007, Stuttgart on October 13. Update: Read the documentation about it on the blog of the splendid new media pathway at Merz Akademie! (Updated 2007 10 25) <- art

Big Interface Art Report in Mac Life.

In the current issue of the German magazine Mac Life you can find everything you need do know about Interface Art, "Aqua", "Aero" and "Prints on Canvas". This report is the result of an interview I recently gave to Charlotte Stanek, auther of the book "iPod + iTunes". (2007 09 05) <- art

"Aqua & Aero" in Galerie35, Berlin.

My exhibition "Aqua & Aero" featuring the very last works of "Aqua" and the two new projects "Aero" and "Prints on Canvas" was shown at Galerie35 in Simon-Dach-Straße, Berlin last July. See the documentation. (2007 08 18) <- art

"Windows Real"

My great 2nd semester students from Merz Akademie's block week present the user experience of the future. "Windows Real" rocked the blogosphere and YouTube! Fans check the Making of on the Seminar-Wiki. (2007 06 14) <- teaching

"Aqua" goes Art Moscow!

Two works of the Aqua series ("Star Bars" and "Aqua: Net") were shown at "Art Moscow" on the stand of the "ABC Group"! (2007 05 17) <- art