Sebastian Oschatz

The main issues that we face are not about technology or design; the main issue is whether the structures in place enable or disable us to make the most of them.

Sebastian Oschatz Partner +49 69 24 000 321 sebastian.oschatz@meso.design sebastian.oschatz@meso.design +49 69 24 000 321

MESO Digital Interiors GmbH
Gutleutstr. 96 . 60329 Frankfurt . Germany

VITA

2018 – present Professor for Interaction Design at HfG Offenbach
2015, 2017 NODE Forum for Digital Arts, Curator of the NODE Symposium
2010 – present Co-Founder and member of advisory board of NODE Verein zur Förderung digitaler Kultur e.V.
1998 – present Associate of the vvvv group, developers of the vvvv programming language
1998 – 2007 Lead software architect of the vvvv programming language
1998 – present Co-Founder and associate of MESO Digital Interiors GmbH
1997 – present Co-Founder and associate of MESO
1995 – 2003 Founding member of interactive audio boygroup Involving Systems
1994 – 1997 Music videos as Ovalima Aero Aero Deco
1994 Diploma in Computer Science, TU Darmstadt
1991 – 1997 Founding member of music group OVAL discogs

SELECTED LECTURES AND TEACHING

2017 Lecture “Beyond User / Beyond Experience – What Brands can learn from Interaction Design”, UX Congress, Frankfurt
2017 Curation and Keynote Lecture, NODE17 Symposium “Designing Hope”, Frankfurt
2016 Lecture “The User Experience of Unsustainability”, World Usability Day, Frankfurt
2015 Curation and Keynote Lecture, NODE15 Symposium “Wrapped in Code - the future of the Informed Body”, Frankfurt
2013 Lecture “Untangling Rectangles”, PUSH Conference, Munich
2013 Lecture “Digital Spaces”, 中央美术学院, Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), Beijing, China
2009 – 2013 Lecture “History of Computing” at HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany
2010 Keynote Lecture NODE10 Symposium “Abstrakt Abstrakt”
2010 Lecture “Content Development Strategies for Architectural Media”, Architecture Media Biennale, Vienna
2009 Lecture “Visualisierung im Raum”, See Conference, Wiesbaden

2008 Lecture “Art and Code with vvvv”, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
2005 Lecture „Designing Generative Design“, Symposium Generator.X, Oslo
2005 – 2007 Courses “Media Systems Design”, Hochschule Darmstadt
2004 Visiting Professor Interaction Design, Hfg Offenbach
2003 Visiting professor, New Media, Kassel University
2003 Lecture “CODE-Symposium: Software & Art“, Ars Electronica, Linz
1998 – 2003 Lecture “Interface Design”, University Ulm

Jury

2016 Head of Jury “Digital“, DDC Wettbewerb Gute Gestaltung
2012, 2014 Jury member, Designpreis Rheinland Pfalz
2010 – 2016 Jury member, Visual Music Award (VMA)
2010 Jury member “Digital“, DDC Wettbewerb Gute Gestaltung

Publications

1993 Oval, “Wohnton”, CD, Ata Tak (with Frank Metzger, Markus Popp)
1994 Oval, “Systemisch”, CD/LP, Mille Plateaux (with Frank Metzger, Markus Popp)
1995 Oval, “94diskont”, CD/LP, Mille Plateaux (with Frank Metzger, Markus Popp)
1995 Ovalima Aero Aero Deco, “Oval – dowhile ⌘x”, Music Video (with Michael Höpfel, Martin Bott)
1996 Ovalima Aero Aero Deco, “Oval – Systemisch”, Music Video
1996 Ovalima Aero Aero Deco, “Oval – SD2”, Music Video (with Markus Popp)
1997 Ovalima Aero Aero Deco, “Microstoria - Sleepy People Network Down“, Music Video (with Frank Dommert)
2002 Oval “Rough Trade Shops – Electronic 01 Compilation” (with Frank Metzger, Markus Popp)
2015 Mark Richardson, Pitchfork “How Oval’s 1995 Ambient Masterpiece Predicted Our Digital Present”