Johannes P Osterhoff

Why you should hire me:

• I have been working as designer, artist, scientist and developer
• as a designer, I have been working for big design agencies in Moscow (from 2004 to 2005) and self-employed (since 2007 in Berlin)
• from an artistic point of view, I have been dealing with Google several times: for example, I distilled the famous “Google Juice” and sold it. Recently I have been searching with Google publicly for one year (and won a renown German art prize for it in 2012)
• as a scientist, I wrote a book about visual image search in 2006 and have been researching in the field of user interfaces for semantic search since 2010
• as a developer, I made my first personal website in 1996, my first commercial website in 1998 and recently I have been developing RIAs with Java and GWT
• I visited Mountain View and the campus when I attended the conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2011) in Palo Alto last year
• I am willing to give up the laid-back atmosphere of Berlin for a new perspective :)

Note: this is the printed version of my CV. A live version with all the links can be found here: m.johannes-p-osterhoff.com

Looking forward to your answer,
Johannes P Osterhoff

Johannes P Osterhoff

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Mobile: +49 151 54675635
Gotlandstraße 3
10439 Berlin, Germany

Hello.

I am not a media but an interface artist.
My middle initial stands for pixel porn performance.

Wearing various hats of creativity, I deal with user interfaces mainly from an artistic perspective. Depending on a project's requirements, I change to a designer's or scientist's point of view. And sometimes I implement interface-related projects for food.

This is my CV, my life in a table, and it is the mobile version of my homepage New mobile version soon.

Born on September 8, 1980 in Reutlingen, Germany.

Education

Master of Arts, European Media

Merz Akademie Stuttgart, Germany and University of Portsmouth, UK
Thesis: “IMG SRC ORG” (graduation with honors)
Thesis Advisor: Olia Lialina

Diploma of Applied Science, Designer (FH)

Pathway: Interactive Media, Merz Akademie Stuttgart
Thesis: “IMG SRC”
Thesis Advisor: Olia Lialina

Professional Experience

Research Associate at Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Potsdam

User Interface Design, Information Retrieval, Semantic Web

Lecturer at Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule

Mostly User Interface Design, some Text and Interaction

Freelancing Interface Pro, Berlin

Interface-, Corporate- and Web-Design
Customers: barcoo UG Berlin, Deuxième Degree Gbr Berlin, Movilitas Consulting AG and Movilitas Solutions GmbH Mannheim, Young & Rubicam GmbH Frankfurt and others

Lecturer at Merz Akademie, Stuttgart

Contemporary User Interface Design

Web Developer at Teletype Studios, Moscow

Projects: LG Russia, Renault Russia and others

Intern Web Developer at Art. Lebedev Studios, Moscow

Projects: Russian Aluminium, Nokia NGage, Microsoft Russia

Freelance Web Designer

Customers: infos GmbH, relaxed high GbR, Wöhr Parksysteme GmbH and others

Publications

Selected Refereed Publications

Jan Nandzik, Berenike Litz, Nicolas Flores-Herr, Aenne Löhden, Iuliu Konya, Doris Baum, André Bergholz, Dirk Schönfuß, Christian Fey, Johannes Osterhoff, Jörg Waitelonis, Harald Sack, Ralf Köhler, Patrick Ndjiki-Nya: CONTENTUS—Technologies for Next Generation Multimedia Libraries, Automatic multimedia processing for semantic search. In: Journal for Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer Netherlands, 2012, pp. 1-41. ISSN 1380-7501

Johannes Osterhoff, Jörg Waitelonis, Joscha Jäger, Harald Sack: Sneak Preview? Instantly Know What To Expect In Faceted Video Browsing, Workshop Interaktion und Visualisierung im Daten-Web (IVDW 2011), Co-located with INFORMATIK 2011, Oct 6, 2011, Berlin (PDF 1.1 MB and slides)

Jörg Waitelonis, Johannes Osterhoff, Harald Sack: More than the Sum of its Parts: CONTENTUS—A Semantic Multimodal Search User Interface, Workshop on Visual Interfaces to the Social and Semantic Web (VISSW 2011), Co-located with ACM IUI 2011, Feb 13, 2011, Palo Alto, US, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073 (PDF 1.2 MB and slides)

Poster Presentation

Interface Art vs. Interface Trivialization @ Hyperkult XX, Workshop at Leuphana University, Lüneburg

Book Chapter

Desktop Island, in: Olia Lialina und Dragan Espenschied (Eds.): Digital Folklore Reader, published by merz & solitude, Stuttgart 2009,
ISBN 978-3937982250 (PDF 2.3 MB)

Book

IMG SRC – Anmerkungen und Lösungen zum Problem digitaler Bildersuche im Netz (Remarks and Solutions on the Issue of Image-based Information Retrieval on the Web, in German), published by merz & solitude, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-937982-16-8

Web-based publications

“Defence Project” and “Drop Shadow Blog”

Posts (in German) at Berliner Gazette

Hausbau, world's first dynamically illustrated PDF magazine (PDF, 0.3 MB)

Major Art Works

• Mobile (One-Year Performance Piece, soon) 2012
• Google™ (One-Week Performance Piece)
  for transmediale 2012
• Google (One-Year Performance Piece) 2011
• Home, Sweet Home 2010
• Tell 2.0
• Google Juice
• Freedom from Porn
• Black Square 2.0 2009
• Defence 2008
• Aero (series)2007
• Aqua (series)
• Submit Button 2003

Exhibitions and Shows

Solo Exhibitions

Home, Sweet Home @ Sankt Oberholz, Berlin

Defence @ Galereya ABC, Artstrelka Moscow

Aqua & Aero @ Galerie 35, Berlin

Aqua Anthology @ c-base, Berlin

Aqua @ Galereya ABC, Artstrelka Moscow

Group Exhibitions and Participations

Google (One-Week Performance Piece) @ transmediale 2012 in/compatible, reSource, Berlin

Google (One-Year Performance Piece) @ 25. Stuttgarter Filmwinter

Google (One-Year Performance Piece, Poster Edition) @ Transprivacy, public space, Düsseldorf

Submit Button, Tell 2.0, Home, Sweet Home, Google (One-Year Performance Piece) @ Hyperkult XX, Leuphana University Lüneburg

Google (One-Year Performance Piece) @ Speedshow #13: Fun is back, Stuttgart

Firewall Ball, Tell 2.0 @ TELE-INTERNET, Ars Electronica, Linz

Fakebook @ Speedshow #1: TELE-INTERNET, Berlin

7 Windows @ Showcase Reboot, Platoon Kunsthalle, Seoul

Defence @ UNIVERSAM Art Fair, Moscow (with ABC Group)

Aero: Home Security @ Tacheles Werkschau, Berlin

Defence @ Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm (with ABC Group)

Prints on Canvas @ Gallery Show #1, Gallery Art Since the Summer of 69, New York

Aqua II @ Art Moscow (with ABC Group)

Submit-Button, Aqua I @ European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück

Aqua I @ Midlife Crisis of Computer Graphics, Merz Akademie Stuttgart

Submit Button @ First 10 Years of WWW, Merz Akademie Stuttgart

Invited Talks and Presentations

Isolation and Empowerment after Web 2.0 (panel) @ transmediale 2012 (slides and images)

reSource Launch—Zombie Play in the Ludic Salon @ transmediale 2012

Pecha Kucha Talk (about Google) @ Festsaal XBerg, Berlin

Google, One-Year Performance Piece @ Museum of American Art, Berlin

Artist Talk (feat. Google) @ HPI HCI Lab, Potsdam

Interface Kunst zwischen Schiller und Porno (feat. Google) @ Tschk! Talks, La Lupita Berlin

Pecha Kucha Talk (feat. Google) @ 1. Erlanger Pecha Kucha Nacht

Quit my Google Juice Addiction @ Public Interfacial Gesture Salon, O Tannenbaum, Berlin

Artist Talk @ TELE-INTERNET, Ars Electronica, Linz

Pecha Kucha Talk @ Festsaal XBerg, Berlin

Traveling Desktop Country @ Museum of American Art, Berlin

Pecha Kucha Talk @ Webciety CeBIT Hannover

Pecha Kucha Talk @ Tape Club, Berlin

On Interface Art @ Galereya ABC, Artstrelka, Moscow

Teaching

At Merz Akademie (block seminars)

• New Minimalism in UI Design winter 2011
• In the Uncanny Valley of UI Design summer 2011
• Firewall Ball (guest lecture) winter 2010
• Drop Shadow Workshop winter 2009
• Windows 68 summer 2009
• Interface Design Introduction winter 2008
• Interface... The Final Frontiersummer 2008
• Isle of Paradise winter 2007
• Models make Reality — Windows Real summer 2007
• What You see is... Not true. winter 2006

At Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule (full seminars)

• Future Interfaces summer 2011
• Another App Store winter 2010/11
• Tell 2.0 App summer 2010
• Drop Shadow Seminar winter 2009/10
• WTF? Wikipedia in Your Pocket
  (Text & Interaction)summer 2009
• Interface Art & Discourse winter 2008/09

Other

• Google, One-week Performance Workshop, transmediale, Berlin 2012

Curating

The Drop Shadow Talks

Lecture series that brings together interface-based artists, theorists and designers in the digital drop shadow.
Speakers: Prof. Owen Mundy, JODI, Prof. Dr. Hans Dieter Hellige, Prof. Dr. Marc Hassenzahl, Gordan Savicic, Constant Dullaart, Prof. Jay David Bolter, Jan Robert Leegte, Prof. Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied, Michelle Teran, Aram Bartholl and Lars Harmsen.

Aqua Contest

Interface Artists (and readers of German MacLife magazine) were asked to submit their GUI-based artworks.

Distinctions

Expanded Media Preis Network Culture, Stuttgarter Filmwinter

Honorary Mention for Google (One-Year Performance Piece)

Publikumspreis Network Culture, gestiftet von ARTE creative

Second place for Google (One-Year Performance Piece)

Students Supervised

Simon Schmidt: Interface Kitsch in the Age of the iPad (in German)

Constantin Kawohl: Bento Magazine, Publications on the iPad

Julia Borchardt: Interventions between Every-day Life and Gamification (in German)

Andreas Sommer: swap—iPhone Remote Control

Linda Horstkotte: Immaterial Software and its Iconic Representation on the Interface, Aesthetical Investigations on the Desktop (in German)

All projects are BAs from Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule.

Selected Press

Standalone Articles

„Portrait des Interface-Künstlers Johannes P Osterhoff“, m – Das Magazin, 02.2011, pages 32—35, by Hendrik Efert, in German, web version

„Aus etwas Schönem Schönes machen, Ausstellung Aqua & Aero von Johannes P Osterhoff“, Mac Life 10.2007, pages 116—120,
by Charlotte Erdmann, in German, PDF 0.7 MB

Interviews

User Preferences: Tech Q&A, The Creators Project (2011)

Google gehört uns. Wir haben es groß gemacht, Für eine Bessere Welt ;) (2011)

Blogs, News and Praise

“I really love what Johannes P Osterhoff does—his Google performance where he made his search requests public. That discomfort means to adjust your life to constant surveillance [...] and now there is a really interesting range in documentation of what he went through in this time.” — Olia Lialina in EXBERLINER, Feb 2012

“IT ROCKS!” — joaflux about “Google”

“It's really wild to see something that's only ever existed in pixels translated into real-life.” — TUAW about “Home, Sweet Home”

“Swiss folk hero William Tell and his apple sharpshooting get a 2.0 update.” — Cult of Mac about “Tell 2.0”

“You want Google Juice? I give you Google Juice!” — Rene Walter, Nerdcore about “Google Juice”

„Humoristische Auseinandersetzung mit den Jugendschutzmaßnahmen von Apple“ — Markus Beckendahl, Netzpolitik.org

„DIESE SEXY IPAD-WERBUNG IST GEFÄLSCHT!“ — Bild

“Billboards announcing the arrival of the iPad on Friday have been going up all over Berlin, but one of them in the subway station of Rosenthaler Platz is quite different to the rest.” — Mike Butcher, TechCrunch

“Hats off to this Robin Hood of mixed media.” — Cult of Mac

“Lousy Way Of Protesting” — Gizmodo

„Destop Country ist ein digitales Musterland aus sauberen Reihenhaussiedlungen und mit vorbildlichen Bewohnern. Doch hinter diesen perfekten Fassaden gärt es genauso wie in der realen Welt.“ — taz

“If I could live with any work of art ever made it would be the print I bought from the artist Johannes P Osterhoff.” — Cory Arcangel in Art World

„Einzigartig!“ — PAGE

Technical Skills

First personal website in 1996.

Regular commercial web projects since 1998. Professional skills in modern HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery gQuery, PHP, MySQL. Recent search interfaces and rich internet applications in Java with the GWT framework.

Artistic projects involving crawlers, scrapers, generative PDF illustration and layout, image processing, misuse of Wordpress and SEO.

Currently interested in projects involving Java and GWT.

Spoken Languages

• English (fluent)
• German (native language)
• Korean (basic)
• Russian (fluent)

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Hasso Plattner Institute

Research Associate, Apr 2010 to present, Potsdam, Germany

Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule

Lecturer, Oct 2008 to present, Berlin, Germany

Johannes P Osterhoff Interface Art

Chief Artistic Officer, Apr 2007 to present, Berlin, Germany

Merz Akademie

Lecturer, Dec 2006 to present, Stuttgart, Germany

University of Portsmouth

European Media, Master of Arts, class of 2006

Merz Akademie

New Media, German diploma in Design, class of 2006

Interface Art

Secure

Numerology

“Freedom from porn. Yep, freedom. The times they are a changin',
and some traditional PC folks feel like their world is slipping away.”
—Steve Jobs

Firewall Ball, Pro-Racing, Swimming, Tell 2.0

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