| Addie Wagenknecht | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Addie Wagenknecht |
| Born | Portland, Oregon |
| Nationality | American, Austrian |
| Field | interactive art, open source, digital art |
| Training | MPS Interactive Telecommunications, New York University |
| Movement | Open Source |
Addie Wagenknecht (born Portland, Oregon) is an American artist living in New York City and Austria. Her work deals primarily with generative art, architecture, industrial design, sustainable design, new media and open source software and hardware.[1]
After graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Multimedia and Computer Science from University of Oregon in 2002 where she studied under Craig Hickman and Mary Flanagan, Wagenknecht started work as a network administrator and freelance designer. She worked on projects for Apple Inc., the National Science Foundation and University of Oregon.
In 2005, she moved to New York City where she completed her Master's degree in 2007 from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program under Red Burns. Wagenknecht co-created BikeJus, a bike which generates power with the goal of allowing the user to live 'off the grid'.[2]
From 2007 to 2008 she was a fellow at Eyebeam Atelier. In 2011, under NORTD she was a fellow at Culture Lab.[3] Wagenknecht founded with her partner Stefan Hechenberger, the New York City and Vienna based research and development lab, NORTD, which developed the open source system called CUBIT (multi-touch) [4] and the more recent iteration TouchKit. .
Most recently, NORTD developed the open source laser cutter called Lasersaur of which kits began shipping in May 2011.