Bernd Lintermann
Curriculum Vitae

 

Bernd Lintermann
Knielinger Allee 56
76133 Karlsruhe
Germany
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WWW: http://www.bernd-lintermann.de



About

Bernd Lintermann works as artist and scientist in the field of real time computer graphics with a strong focus on interactive and generative systems. The results of his research are applied in the scientific, creative and commercial context.

His body of work spans more than ten years and includes prints, interactive installations, projection environments and stage performances combining generative imagery and sound. His works have been exhibited in museums and festivals all over the world like the ICC InterCommunication Center in Tokyo, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, ZKM | Karlsruhe, ISEA, DEAF and the Ars Electronica Festival. He worked with internationally renowned artists, like Jeffrey Shaw, Bill Viola, Peter Weibel and the Wooster Group, and created works for various display environments like the CAVE™, the EVE Dome and panoramic projection environments.

He has published various scientific papers including SIGGRAPH and is cofounder of the company greenworks which distributes his software development Xfrog, a procedural organic modelling and animation system used in the entertainment industry and by various animation companies including Electronic Arts, Lucas Digital and Digital Domain and has been recently used in movies like Avatar and Alice in Wonderland. Since 2010 he is Visiting Associate Professor at the School of Creative Media at the City University, Hong Kong. Since 2005 he is head of the Institute for Visual media at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe and professor at the State University of Design, Media and Arts in Karlsruhe.

The work is documented at www.bernd-lintermann.de

German Version

Curriculum Vitae

Born at 20. Feb. 1967 in Duesseldorf, Germany

1986 Student of Computer Science at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) with focus on computer graphics.

1996-2001 artist and scientist in residence at the ZKM | Institut for Visual Media.

2002-2005 employee of the ZKM | Institute for Visual Media.

Since 2005 head of the ZKM | Institute for Visual Media.

Activities:

1994-95 ESPRIT project HUMANOID on realtime animation of virtual characters.

1995-99 development of an integrated procedural modelling-, animation- and rendering system called Xfrog with focus on complex organics structures like plants and growth simulation.

1996 founding of the company greenworks GbR with Oliver Deussen

1996-99 scientific publications and invited talks on modelling and growth simulation of plants

1996-97 Development of the interactive installation conFIGURING the CAVE, installed at the ICC Intercommunication Center's permanent collection in collaboration with Jeffrey Shaw, Agnes Hegedues und Leslie Stuck (music)

1997 Animation sequence of a growing tree for the installation "Tree of Knowledge" for Bill Viola, exhibited at the Multimediale 5, 18.Oct-9.Nov 1997 at the ZKM in Karlsruhe, exhibited at the Whitney Museum New York, sept 1999 to jan 2000

1996-97 Development of the interactive mixed reality installation Morphogenesis on the genetic development of organic form.

1998 Collaboration with Torsten Belschner working at the ZKM | Institute for Music and Acoustics on the interactive installation SonoMorphis with genetic graphics and sound.

1999-2000 Working on the interactive installation "Room with a View" with Michael Bielicky, Prague, for the Skoda Pavillon at the VW Autostadt in Wolfsburg. Developement of an interactive modelling and animation system MTK.

2001-2002 Working on the interactive installation "Web of Life" with Michael Gleich, Jeffrey Shaw, Torsten Belschner, Lawrence Wallen and Manfred Wolff-Plotteg.

2002 Working on the interactive opera "Der Jude von Malta" with Büro Staubach and Art+Com.

2002 Visuals for the concert "Utopia Triumphans" of the Huelgas Ensemble, DaimlerChrysler Building, Berlin.

2000-2003 Experiments within the field of dance and media with Nik Haffner and Thomas McManus.

2003 Display software for the installation "TVisionarium I" by Dennis Del Favero, Neil Brown, Jeffrey Shaw, Peter Weibel

2003-2004 Working on the installation "Cupola" with Jeffrey Shaw

2005- Head of the ZKM | Institute for Visual Media

2005- Conception and implementation of the Panorama Display Software

2006-2007 Working on the interactive installation "Globorama " with Joachim Böttger, Werner König, Niko Völzow and Torsten Belschner

2007 Concept and project direction of the ZKM PanoramaFestival

2008-2009 Working on the interactive installation "CloudBrowsing" with Torsten Belschner, Mahsa Jenabi, Markus Nitsche and Werner König

2008-2009 Concept and project direction of the PanoramaLabor, a permanent panoramic projection environment for developing and exhibiting panoramic works, ZKM | Karlsruhe

2009 Co-Curation of the exhibition IMAGINING MEDIA@ZKM, ZKM | Karlsruhe

2009-2010 Working on the stage design for part III of the Amazon Opera

2010 Visiting Associate Professor at the School of Creative Media, City University, Hong Kong

2010-2011 Supervising the development of the ZKM iPhone App and the Visitors Information System on location

2011 Beyond International 3D Festival:Curator of Media Art. Contributing two works derived from "Sketches of Utopia". Concept, project direction and 3D Software for the "Night of 3Dimensions", a 3DVJ Party with stereoscopic imagery

2011 Working on the Augmented Reality Installation "Traffic" for the Car Cultures exhibition

2011 Creating the stereoscopic Installation "Molecules That Changed The World" in collaboration with Ljiljana Fruk from the KIT | Center for Functional Nanostructures

2011 Collaborating with Stewart Smith and Robert Gerard Pietrusko on the Installation "GAM", a Visualization of art market data

2011 Performing "Night of 3Dimensions" at Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre Opening Festival


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