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Profile
Head of Woodwork Arts/Lumber Technologies Department at the University of Applied Arts Vienna
Supervisor of five Senior Artists
Authorized signatory of the Department
Cooperation Partner for third-party funds
Experience
| teaching | since 1994 | Lecturer |
| since 1994 | Project Work | |
| since1995 | Experimental Wood Technology | |
| since 2001 | Material laboratory for Industrial Design | |
| 2002- 2010 | Modell making for Landscape Design | |
| since 2003 | Applied Wood Technology | |
| since 2004 | Production Engineering for Installations | |
| administrative | since 1994 | Head of the Wood Technology Department |
| Project assistance for final year presentations | ||
| professional | 1984-88 | Practice as carpenter, joiner and furniture restorer |
| 1990-94 | Planner in the architecture office D.I. Micheller/ Vienna From design to detailed interior design planning, furniture and building construction. Also worked on casino projects, restaurants, shops, fair booths, doctors’ practices, offices, apartments in Kopenhagen, Budapest, Szeged, Vienna, Danzig, Breslau, Wels, Stettin, Moscow, Lima, Halifax, Sydney, Colorado, Hurghada, Bratislava and on ships. |
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| since 1994 | Manager of third-party funds projects in woodart technology | |
| since 1984 | Various activities in the fields of interior design, sculpture, building construction, furniture construction, furniture restoration and model, construction |
Education
| techn. college education | 1988-90 | Master Class for Joinery and Interior Design, HTL- Ortwein/Graz |
| 1990 | Degree in Interior Design, Master of Craftsman’s diploma for carpentry and joinery , teacher examination, entrepreneur examination, ÖPWZ- Refaprüfung (examination for company organisation) | |
| secondary | 1979-83 | Vocational school for joinery and interior design education HTL-Mödling, Lower Austria |
| 1983 | Journeyman´s examination for carpentry (with distinction) |
Teaching
| university | since 1996 | Experimental Wood Technology Lectures/ exercises Production Engineering for Installations Seminar for Transmedia Art Applied Wood Technology Lectures/ exercises Material laboratory for Industrial Design Seminar Project Work Wood Technology |
| Interdisciplinary Project-oriented Instruction |
2006 | Interconnect |
| 2007 | Pre-production studies | |
| 2008 | To cover to uncover | |
| 2010 | Talking tools | |
| 2012 | The Upturned Space, In collaboration with the Department of Transmedia Art/Prof. Brigitte Kowanz, and Assistant Prof. Willi Kopf | |
| since 1994 | Artistic-technical private tutorial |
Events
| exhibitions | 2017 | robot made furniture & robot performance by Robotic Woodcraft exhibited at‚ MHC innovation fair stand‘, fair „Handwerk“ Wels, Messe Wels, Austria Kreative Robotik, ARS Electronica Center Linz |
| 2016 | Am Ende: Architektur, AZW – Participant project | |
| 2015 | Randomized Identities, Team Roboticwoodcraft Program partner Vienna- Design- Week 2015 Contemporary Code: Artistic Research Hongkong Curated by Gerald Bast, Alexander Damianisch, Romana Schuller Robotic Woodcraft – Performative Producers in Architecture and Design |
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| 2014 | Addition Pavilion AZW, in cooperation with ITI TU- Vienna Prof. Winter Baris Cokcan, Johannes Braumann, AZW | |
| since 2005 | Project assistance for final year presentations, Vienna University of Applied Arts | |
| conferences | 2016 | WCTE World Timber Conference TU- Wien, Poster RobArch 2016 Sydney, Participant |
| 2007 | CNC- Milling Technology in Architecture, Art and Design Vienna, participant | |
| workshops | 2015 | Robotic Mass Customization, in cooperation with Fa. Becker/Germany eCAADe Workshop, in cooperation with the team of robotic woodcraft |
| since 2014 | Wood bending for Industrial Design | |
| since 2007 | Light weight construction for Industrial Design | |
| 2006 | Digital furniture manufacturing with Jakob Illera, MA, and the company Klar/Vienna |
Projects
| 2016 | UNIDO- chair projectwith Arch. Philipp Reinsberger |
| 2015 | Woodboat- sculptures for the artist Roman Pfeffer |
| 2014 | Head- and Furnituresculptures for the artist Gilo Moroder |
| 2013 | Magracktables Series FFG- Project for Zone Arch. Popoviv http://www.magracktables.com/mag-impulse.html |
| 2009 | Competition for German Embassy Kindergarten, member of the jury with Technical University Vienna Arch. Sigrid Brell, and partially responsible for the implementation… |
| 2007 | Art objects for the artist Erwin Wurm |
| 2006-2014 | Table objects, furniture for the artist Franz West |
| 2005 | Frame-project for Prof. Wolfgang Herzig Presbytery design, Liechtenthal Wien 9 with Arch. Johannes Traupmann |
| 2004 | Exhibition objects for the designers Lucy D |
| 2003 | Expo competition entry for Arch. Ortlos Graz, Tina Lehner, MFA, Curvatura Friulana www.tina-design-objects.net/compwood.htm |
Publications
| Catalogue | robotic woodcraft towards the craftmanship of the future, 2017, self- publishing |
| robot made furniture & robot performance by Robotic Woodcraft exhibited at MHC innovation fair stand, fair „Handwerk“ Wels, Messe Wels, Austria, di:angewandte Bast (March 2015) S88-89 Edition Angewandte | |
| di:angewandte, Bast (Nov.2011) S85 Vienna:Imprint | |
| Meisterstücke (Masterpieces) (1990) HTL/Ortweinschule Graz: self- publishing | |
| Posters | WCTE 2016, with Baris Cocan |
| Robotic Mass Customization, 2015 with Johannes Braumann | |
| Introducing the 6 Axix Robotic Arm, 2014 with Johannes Braumann, Experimental Woodtechnologie 2013 | |
| Turned Around Space/ Inside Out Space, 2012 | |
| Newspapers | Holzkunst fräsen statt Fliesbandarbeit, Der Standard 05.01.2016, Alois Pumhösl, online 9.1.2016, http://derstandard.at/2000028483646/Holzkunst-fraesen-statt-Fliessbandarbeit |
| Randomized Identities, Vienna-Journal, Matthias Wieser 30.09.201, http://www.vienna-journal.at/randomized-identities-universitaet-fuer-angewandte-kunst/, W24 City- TV 10/2015 |
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