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Hi. I am no media but an interface artist.

Since the rounded buttons of Windows were replaced by cornered ones during the redesign in 1995, I try to keep a wary eye on the more and more baroque graphical user interfaces. My “Submit Button” (2003) memorialized the web’s first user generation. For “Aqua” (2005 till 2007) I painted images that consisted exclusively of elements from the colorful Apple operating system. “Aero” (2007) encapsulated Windows Vista’s iconic overpopulation and the “Defence Project” (since 2008) Vista’s mania for security.

My projects were exhibited in Berlin, Moscow, New York and Seoul. I live in Berlin and lecture “Text and Interaction” at Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule and “Interface Design” at Merz Akademie in Stuttgart. Recently I am not so much into Interface Art anymore, because I am stuck on Desktop Island (since 2009).