Matthias Tarasiewicz

Matthias Tarasiewicz is a project developer and technology theorist, currently located in Vienna, Austria. He founded the Coded Cultures initiative (media arts festival and research platform) and is active as curator and researcher since the last millennium. He researches in the fields of artistic technologies, open hardware and cryptocurrencies. He is involved in a number of projects, such as the AXIOM Gamma Open Hardware Cinema camera (funded by the European Union), where he was the project coordinator at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. He currently is board chair of the Research Institute for Arts and Technology and runs an international programme for the exchange of researchers on the intersection of arts+technology. He works as advocate for open hardware and publishes texts and books on the topics of art, technology and open culture.