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Addie Wagenknecht

Addie Wagenknecht
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Born Addie Wagenknecht
April 15, 1981
Portland, Oregon
Nationality American, Austrian people
Education MPS Interactive Telecommunications, New York University
Known for interactive art, open source, digital art
Notable work Lasersaur, wifitagger, webcam venus
Movement Open Source

Addie Wagenknecht (born Portland, Oregon) is an American artist and researcher living in New York City and Austria. Her work deals primarily with pop culture, feminist theory, new media and open source software and hardware. She frequently works in collectives, which have included Nortd Labs, F.A.T. lab, and Deep Lab. She has received fellowships and residencies from Eyebeam, Mozilla, and the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry.

Addie Wagenknecht was born in Portland, Oregon in 1981. She received a Bachelor of Science in Multimedia and Computer Science from University of Oregon in 2001, and a MPS from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program in 2007. During her time at NYU, she founded NORTD labs with Stefan Hechenberger, a research and development lab which developed open source multi-touch systems CUBIT and TouchKit, as well Lasersaur, an open source laser cutter.

Her and her projects have been supported by numerous residencies and fellowships. She held Eyebeam fellowships in 2007 – 2008 and in 2013 as Eyebeam and Mozilla's first Open(art) Fellow and NORTD labs was a fellow at Culture Lab in 2011. During 2012 NORTD labs held residencies at Hyperwerk Institute for Postindustrial Design in Basel, Switzerland and Carnegie Mellon University's STUDIO for Creative Inquiry.


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