Addie Wagenknecht

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birthname = Addie Wagenknecht
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location = New York City
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nationality = American, Austrian
field = interactive art, programming, digital art
training = MPS Interactive Telecommunications, New York University
movement = Open Source
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Addie Wagenknecht (born Portland, Oregon) is an American artist living in New York City. Her work deals primarily with generative art, architecture, industrial design, sustainable design, new media and open source software and hardware [ Citation
last = Economist
first = The
publication-date = 2008-05-01
title = Home invention
publisher = The Economist Newspaper Limited
url = http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11288385
accessdate = 2008-05-03] .

History

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 Computers, 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 and Tom Igoe. Wagenknecht co-created BikeJus, a bike which generates power with the goal of allowing the user to live 'off the grid'. [Citation
last = CNN
publisher = CNN
title = Cutting Edge Designs
url =http://itp.nyu.edu/~mc2734/cnn1.mov
accessdate = 2007-10-05]

She currently is a full time artist and fellow at Eyebeam Atelier [Citation
last = Greene
first = Kate
publication-date = 2008-05-01
title = Open-Source, Multitouch Display
publisher = MIT Technology Review
url = http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/20703/page1/
accessdate = 2008-05-03] . Wagenknecht founded with her partner Stefan Hechenberger, the New York City and Vienna based research and development lab, NOR_/D, which developed the open source system called CUBIT (multi-touch) [ Citation
last = Gizmodo
publication-date = 2008-05-04
title = Build Your Own Multitouch Table With The Cubit
url = http://gizmodo.com/386942/build-your-own-multitouch-table-with-the-cubit
accessdate = 2008-05-04 ] and the more recent iteration [http://touchkit.nortd.com TouchKit] ..

External links

* [http://placesiveneverbeen.com Addie Wagenknecht's personal website]
* [http://www.nortd.com NOR_/D RD Lab]
* [http://www.stepinsidedesign.com/STEPMagazine/Article/28438/0/page/3 Step Design Magazine "Hot Designer 100"]
* [http://www.nortd.com/cubit CUBIT website]
* [http://itp.nyu.edu/~mc2734/cnn1.mov CNN Interview]

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