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Andreas works between two registers: a research-based art and design practice exploring ecological change, digital life, and the entanglements of the human/non-human — and a professional UX & digital practice making the web more accessible, useful and humane. Both inform each other.
He is interested in developing a more accurate understanding of the world and the processes of life, contemplating on the subject of ecological change, climate crisis, digital life and the place of humans within all that. Understanding the human struggle for survival and fulfillment, the destruction it creates.
In his work he challenges dualistic epistemological frameworks by which we still create explanations and separations of the world in means of black and white, 0 and 1, us and them, digital and physical, human and non-human, good and bad. His research efforts go into understanding situations beyond these terms instead capturing the complex entanglements that are present in each situation and which gave rise to it. This research informs his design practice and vice versa.
His design practice often makes use of digital tools to give form to mental images, experiential realities that exist in the non-physical spheres. He uses installations to activate these spatially and create immersions that allow the viewer to experientially understand a research based, (self)critical message.
He holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Design Engineering from The Hague University of Applied Sciences as well as a Master of Arts from the Master of Interior Architecture: Research and Design from the Piet Zwart Institute.
Co-Founder Chimerical Intelligence Lab.
Selected work & collaborations
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien · Arbeiterkammer · metriqa · Diakonie Österreich · BUWOG · fonda.at · Swapfiets · Het Nieuwe Instituut · Baltan Laboratories · ARTeCHO – Investigating Decentralized Action in Art · SERN – Startup Europe Regions Network · Stimuleringsfonds NL · Biosphärenpark Großes Walsertal · Land Art Festival Flevoland · Studio Matt (Christoph)
Exhibitions & Public Presence
2025_ Action Konferenz, Wien — Workshop on AI in web design
2024_ zukunfts.kunst - boda_guat: An Uncanny Valley as part of "Werkstatt fürs Tal" in the Großes Walsertal.
2024_ Digital Culture Stimuleringsfonds.nl Grant (with Chimerical Intelligence Lab)
2023_ Het Nieuwe Instituut: Anything that is alive cannot be in the gallery space
2022_ MIARD: Fire to the fortified backyard
2022_ Land art festival Flevoland: Fire to the fortified backyard
2019_ Graduation show Industrial Design Engineering (THUAS)
2018_ Dutch Design Week
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