My name is Christoph Steinlehner. I'm currently studying Interface Design at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. I'm also freelancing as an interaction and information designer. I am experienced working with Creative Suite by Adobe as well as programming in Java/Processing, C++/openFrameworks, Microcontrollers/ Arduino and web applications like AS3/Flash, HTML/CSS/JavaScript.
Following are examples of my work
This project, also called »an odyssey to euphobia« is an interactive TUIO table installation to explore European data-sets regarding the topic of fear. The main interface between the table and the user is a custom-built robot called KATER (driven by Arduino). The java application running on the table is analyzing sets of data for given patterns and guides the robots over the map.
I produced this interactive infographic for the web service of Bayrischer Rundfunk, the public broadcast of Bavaria, in collaboration with Lino Teuteberg and Simon Wimmer. This flash based web application consists of two main sections. One section shows real-time data from the world’s largest fair composing weather forecasts, beer hall temperature and webcams. The other section details prominent numbers and time-based statistics. Each black on white number reveals an entertaining comparison visualized by colorful graphics.
A computer generated installation at the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin. A 40 m² media facade reflects on the Collegium’s daily experiences and speaks via a text-based projection to the audience. The custom-built java application is a system which queries a database containing terms collected from work flows, menus, website info and library indexes and forms with computer linguistic approaches grammatically correct sentences, consisting of nouns, verbs, pronouns, articles and prepositions. With a trickle of artificial intelligence the building is able to form stories about its inner life but doesn't know if there is a deeper meaning in its projected words.
The Buchstabenmuseum Berlin asked the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam to give a course on possible exhibition concepts for their new premises. Since the location for the new exhibition was unknown and the exhibits, three dimensional letters in various forms and sizes, are unsuitable to be sorted by categories, the approach was to design a variable system that equally presents each object. As a solution the voronoi diagram was implemented. The undefined room could be divided to get each object enough space to shine as well as the created shapes generate an involving architecture.
In support of Sabine Kacunko, a berlin based artist, Lino Teuteberg and I had the opportunity to create a interactive installation at the Platform China gallery in Bejing. For the installation the artist produced microscope photographic pictures of experimental desert patina. One picture of these was projected on a large screen. The visitors of this installation dissolved the projection of this patina very slowly by only their presence. The setup consists of projectors and cameras to track the people and a C++/openFrameworks application, exclusively produced for this installation.
As a short project in After Effects I produced an unofficial logo animation for Sixpack France. The idea was to create a logo by introducing the six sixes, followed by communicating their basic material (cloth) by folding the background of the logo.
This project is an attempt to understand the additive color model by communicating the idea via a tangible lamp. Three light spheres represent a color channel, by moving them up and down the light changes color. The arduino microcontroller and a number of RGB-LEDs were used to prototype the real object. A 3D animation was build to communicate and document the project.
Christoph Steinlehner
Möllendorffstr. 108–109
10367 Berlin
Germany
mobile: +49 157 88480204
christoph@cube2.de
